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E.H. Visiak MS 5096
The following book and 2 files are not in boxes. In slip case. The Mask of Comus John Milton, edited by E. H. Visiak, The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, 1937.
File 1 (green)
1 File containing typescript of story The Queen of Beauty by E.H. Visiak and letter written on behalf of Visiak to David Bolt, of Bolt and Watson, Authors’ Agents, concerning various publications.
2 Paste up of cover of Life’s Morning Hour.
3 Photograph of Visiak, bedridden, with a young woman sitting beside him.
4 Photograph of Visiak smoking a pipe.
5 Typescript of The Battle Fiends by Visiak.
6 Copy of John Milton’s Epitaphium Damonis in memory of Israel Gollancz. Cambridge University Press, 1933.
7 The Grasshopper Broadsheets, The Treasures of the Castaway. 2 copies: January 1943.
8 Death certificate, Edward Harold Physick, otherwise Visiak: 4 September 1972.
9 Typescript of Homage to E.H. Visiak by Colin Wilson.
10 Title page from The Iron Pirate by Max Pemberton, page signed by Max Pemberton to Harold [Visiak] 12 April 1906, title page from The Garden of Swords signed by Max Pemberton: 27 September 1899.
11 Handwritten story Evening at the Estuary by W.H.H. [W.H. Helm].
12 Page 319 from Notes and Queries, 6 May 1939, letter from Visiak. Page 389 from Notes and Queries, 25 November 1939, letter from Visiak about Sequah sensation.
13-22 The following documents are contained in a plastic wallet:
13 Letter from Hugh Cecil, son of Lord David Cecil, to Visiak: 27 November,1967.
14 Typescript of The Amorous Telegraph-Line Tapper, signed Visiak.
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15 Typescript of The Queen of Beauty.
16 Typescript of Resume.
17 Pages 3-8 of typescript of possibly Milton’s Lament for Damon, signed E.H. Visiak.
18- Pages of unidentifiable typescript. 19
20 Part of questionnaire filled in and signed by Visiak: 18 November 1952.
21 Five letters addressed to Frank Physick concerning the publication of the poem ‘The skeleton at the feast’ and the story ‘Medusan madness’ in an anthology of macabre tales to be published by W.H. Allen. 1974.
22 Four royalty statements 1971-1973.
23 Typescript of review of Medusa: A story of Mystery, and Ecstacy, and Strange Horror, unsigned but possibly by Colin Wilson.
24 Typescript of poem ‘The House of Doom’ by Visiak.
25 Printed page from the Sussex Times, with poem ‘The Old Roof-Tree’ by Visiak: July 1991.
26 Page of The Spectator with review by Kate O’Brien of Medusa by Visiak: 21 March 1947.
27 Handwritten page of poetry, [Visiak].
28 Letter from Alice Gachet de la Fourniere to ‘Dear Sir’: 16 November 1955.
29 Typed poem ‘Portrait of a Paladin’.
30 Three letters from Visiak to his brother Frank Physick: 13 July 1963, 8 October 1968 and 15 October 1968.
31 Six press cuttings referring to Visiak’s published works.
32 Seven press cuttings referring to the publication of Franz Kafka by Max Brod, Secker and Warburg 1947.
33 Silk and paper valentine (damaged).
File 2 (brown)
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1 Typescript of A Note on E.H. Visiak written, and signed, by Colin Wilson: September 1964.
2 Letter from (illegible signature) of Ashtead, Surrey to Visiak, suggesting corrections for Visiak’s article on Emerson: 29 September 1968.
3 Letter from H.W. [Helen Waddell] to Visiak: 6 September 1943.
4 Cutting from Sussex Life ‘ A Birthday Epigram’ by Visiak: October 1971.
5 Essay Perverted Humour, [Visiak] unsigned and undated.
6 Seven separate handwritten sheets of work intended to be included in a published work, none have details of publication.
7 Letter from Jack at ‘Firholm’, Surrey, to Visiak: 25 October.
8 Two pages of typescript entitled The Supraconscious Height.
9 Letter (illegible signature) to Visiak re. his book on Conrad. (no date).
10 Note from R. Buse.
11 Note accompanying payment by cheque for royalties on unspecified book: 4 October 1937.
12 Page of unidentified typescript written by Visiak.
13 Copy of John Bull. Includes poem ‘The Youthful Buccaneer’ by Visiak on page 707: 26 December 1908.
14 List of Visiak’s published works.
15 Typescript of We Old Victorians by Visiak.
BOX 1
1 Notebook containing pasted in notices, reviews etc.
2 Life’s Morning Hour E.H. Visiak, John Baker, 1968. Obituary from The Times, 1 September 1972, pasted in .
3 The strange genius of David Lindsay J.B. Pick, Colin Wilson & E.H. Visiak, John Baker, 1970.
4 Poems Written during the Great War 1914-1918 an anthology edited by Bertram Lloyd, George Allen & Unwin, 1918. Contains two poems written by
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Visiak,’ Blind Man’s Battle’ and ‘The Pacifist’, and is signed on the flyleaf by him. On title page handwritten quote from Euripides’ Helen.
5 Milton: Complete poetry and selected prose, edited by E.H. Visiak, The Nonesuch Press, 1948.
6 Memories of W.H. Helm with a preface by E.H. Visiak, Richards, 1937. With bookplate E.H. Visiak EX AQUA IGNIS.
7 E.H. Visiak Richards’ Shilling Selections from Edwardian Poets, London 1936. (2 copies).
8 The animus against Milton E.H. Visiak, The Grasshopper Press, Derby, 1945.
9 The Battle Fiends E.H. Visiak, The Satchell Series, Elkin Mathews, 1956.
10 Photocopy (x5) of Medusan Madness E.H. Visiak, taken from New Tales of Horror by eminent authors, Hutchinson, 1934.
11 Royal Society of Literature Reports for 1971-72 and 1972-73. Includes obituary for Visiak written by Kenneth Hopkins. Note pinned to front from Helen Johnson, 10 January 1974.
12 The Aylesford Review, subtitled ‘Homage to E.H. Visiak’, Summer 1967.
13 ADAM International Review, 1971. Includes article ‘ Letters to E.H. Visiak from David Lindsay and Victor Gollancz’. Letter inside from Helen Johnson to Doris.
14 History of Hitchin Grammar School, Reginald L. Hine, Paternoster & Hales, Hitchin, 1931. Inside is newspaper cutting, The Sunday Times, 2 May 1948, drawing of the Church of St. Mary, Hitchin. Also publisher’s pamphlet advertising The History of Hitchin Vol. ll by Reginald Hine.
15 The Nineteenth Century and After, July 1936. Article ‘ The Significance of Horror-Fiction’ by E.H. Visiak.
16 The Nineteenth Century and After, September 1938. Article ‘The Island Symbol’ by E.H. Visiak.
BOX 2
1 Our Magazine, May-Nov. 1904, edited by E.H.Visiak. It is ‘a miscellany of Incredible Facts and Credible Fiction’. Magazine written by boys for boys and duplicated, this collection hard bound. Inside in envelope containing draft of story ‘The Fire Ship’, a photograph of a young boy, a newspaper cutting describing ‘an entertainment’ and a postcard of the ship H.M.S. Worcester.
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2 Sussex Authors Today editor Geoffrey Handley-Taylor, Eddison Press, London 1973. Contains entry for E.H. Visiak. Letter from Helen Johnson to ‘Frank’.
3 Medusa: A story of Mystery and Ecstasy, & Strange Horror, E.H. Visiak, Victor Gollancz, London 1929.
4 Poems Ralph Waldo Emerson, Macmillan & Co., London, 1890. Inside is letter, a cutting of ‘Love the linkboy’ signed AJH, a poem signed by Hughes and two small slips of paper with quotes.
5 Hitchin Grammar School Chronicle, Summer 1913. Includes story ‘The Phantom Ship’ by E.H. Visiak.
6 Milton’s Lament for Damon and his other Latin Poems, rendered into English by Walter Skeat with preface and introductions by E.H. Visiak. Oxford University Press, 1935.
7 Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Oxford University Press, 1912.
8 Milton Agonistes: a metaphysical criticism. E.H. Visiak. A.M. Philpot, London, 1922. Includes 5 newspaper cuttings referring to Sir Arthur Quiller- Couch, a publisher’s blurb on Milton Agonistes, 3 postcards from Eden Phillpotts, a letter from D. Saurat, a note from A.J. Hughes, 6 small cuttings and notes.
9 Memories of W.H. Helm with a preface by E.H. Visiak, Richards 1937.
The following are with Belinda Physick (September 2000)
1 Scrapbook by W.H. Helm, 1883-5.
2 Book containing poems, narratives etc. 1845-57.
BOX 3
Physick family tree
File 1 Miscellaneous letters
1 J. Bruce Wallen, Mansfield House University settlement: 16 February 1905.
2 Frank Physick, Penang: 26 April 1906.
3 Reverend Dr. Bonavia-Hunt, Sussex: 28 July 1910.
4 A. Goldner, Earls Court Square, London: 16 January 1915.
5 W. Charles Piggott, Tottenham Court Road: 15 May 1912.
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6 Sylvia Pankhurst, Workers’ Suffrage Federation: 7 July 1916.
7 Illegible signature, 20 Pitt St., Tottenham Court Road: 26 January 1916.
8 Illegible signature, Scilly Isles: 6 March 1917.
9 J.W. Shalford Andrews, London: 7 May 1917.
10 R. Spalding, Pangbourne: 2 October 1918.
11 Zabelle C. Boyajian, St. John’s Wood: 12 January 1919.
12 Barbara Shaud, Kandy: 29 March.
13 W. St. White, Trinity College Dublin.
14 S.C.B. 137 Harley St,: 7 January 1926.
15 J. Conrad, Bishopsbourne, Kent: 1 February 1924.
16 E.H. Visiak to Mr. Conrad: 7 August 1924.
17 Charles Morgan, 6 More’s Garden, 20 July. Also copy of letter sent by Morgan to Gollancz: 20 July 1929.
18 H.C.C., The Victoria, Davos-Platz, Switzerland: 26 November 1929.
19 Lt- Col Sworder, St. Keverne, Cornwall: 4 February 1930.
20 The Grosvenor Sanatorium, Kent: 31 January 1931.
21 Eden Phillpotts, Sidmouth: 9 September 1933.
22 E.P. [E. Phillpotts] Broadclyst, Exeter: 18 November 1933.
23 Harold Samuel. Hampstead: 25 October 1933.
24 Eden Phillpotts, Broadclyst, Exeter: 3 December 1933.
25 Page from The Trade Unionist, August 1936. Poem ‘Laughing Warrior’ by Alexander de Furst highlighted.
26 Jack King, Lowestoft: 23 November 1936.
27 Jack King, Lowestoft: 30 December 1936.
28 H.J. Macavoy, 19 Mowbray Road, Brondesbury, London: 26 October 1937.
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29 A-Smith, 158 Willesden Lane, Brondesbury, London: 27 September 1939.
30 Baroness Ibrackan, otherwise Jeanne Byron, Chelsea: 11 February 1940.
31 A-Smith, Challock, Nr. Ashford, Kent: 24 July 1940.
32 A-Smith, Challock, Nr. Ashford, Kent: 21 October,1940.
33 One page of letter from A-Smith: no date.
34 Assistant editor of journal Eighteenth Century: no date.
35 Frank [Physick] Northwood, Middlesex: 10 October 1943.
36 Part of letter, 21 Holland Road, Sussex: 10 February 1944. Unsigned.
37 A. Goldner, Newbury: 12 May 1944.
38 A. Goldner, Newbury: 17 May 1944.
39 To ‘My dear Granny’, unsigned but from same address as Frank Physick: 13 February 1948.
40 Eden Phillpotts, Broadclyst, Devon: 14 May 1948.
41 Eden Phillpotts, Broadclyst, Devon: 24 December, 1948.
42 Eden Phillpotts, Broadclyst, Devon: 24 April 1949.
43 Elmwood, Colyford, Devon: 16 January 1949. Unsigned, incomplete letter.
44 Eden Phillpotts, Broadclyst, Devon: 19 January 1950.
45 Sidney Physick, Albion Road, Ramsgate: 4 May 1953.
46 Sidney Physick, Albion Road, Ramsgate: 25 October 1953.
47 Sidney Physick, Albion Road, Ramsgate: 8 June 1954.
48 Sidney Physick, Albion Road, Ramsgate: 28 December 1954.
49 Sidney Physick, Albion Road, Ramsgate: 4 January 1955.
50 Sidney Physick, Albion Road, Ramsgate: 11 February 1955.
51 Sidney Physick, Langley Green, Crawley, Sussex: 31 August 1955.
52 Sidney Physick, Albion Road, Ramsgate: 10 November 1955.
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53 Sidney Physick, Albion Road, Ramsgate: 26 December 1955.
54 S.A. Gachet, London: 13 January 1956.
55 Sidney Physick, Albion Road, Ramsgate: 10 February 1956.
56 Sidney Physick, Albion Road, Ramsgate: 22 May 1956.
57 H.Healin, 5 Adelaide Court, Hove: 27 May 1957.
58 Sidney Physick, Albion Road, Ramsgate: 21 April 1959.
59 Professor M.D. Mehta, Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India:13 October 1959.
60 A. Goldner, Earls Court Square, London: Saturday 29 March.
61 R. Phillpotts, Broadclyst, Devon:11 January.
62 Martha Physick, Albion Road, Ramsgate: no date.
63 A. Lightfoot, 260 Fulham Road, London: no date.
64 Lyceum Club, Picadilly, London, illegible signature: no date.
65 Fragment of poem written in French.
66 Page of typescript.
67 Page torn out of book, wood engraving of shipwrecked sailor with caption ON THE TORTUGAS - See page 356.
File 2 David Lindsay
1 Typescript of criticism written by Visiak of David Lindsay’s A Voyage to Arcturus, 28 pages.
2 Typescript of criticism of the work of David Lindsay, probably by Colin Wilson, 103 pages.
File 3
1 Typescript of 27 pages of text, with many corrections by hand. Part One The Subconscious Deep, pages 1-12. Part Two Subconscious Inspiration, pages 13-21. Medusan Madness, pages 22-27.
File 4
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1 Typescript, with corrections, of The Subconscious Medium, pages 1-12. The Subconscious Inspiration, pages 13-22.
File 5
1 Typescript numbered pages 54a- 88 of untitled text, probably his criticism of the work of David Lindsay, corrected by Visiak.
File 6
1 Typescript numbered pages 90-180 of untitled text, probably a continuation of the above. Pages 157-180 are titled Lindsay in his own humour.
File 7
1 Typescript of Part One Missions Relieved, pages 60-65, Part Two The Vision, pages 65-70, Part Three Further Strange Experiences, pages 71-81.
File 8
1 Typescript of Appendix 1, pages l-XXVl, Appendix 2, pages l-lll.
File 9
1 Typescipt of The Arcturan Shadow a review of David Lindsay’s A Voyage to Arcturus by E.H. Visiak.
File 10
1 Typescript of a review written by Visiak of David Lindsay’s Sphinx. 2 copies.
File 11
1 Typescript of short story The Monster, corrected by hand.
File 12
1 Letter from periodical The Nineteenth Century and After, 10 October 1941.
2 Letter as above, 16 October 1941.
3 Typescript of poem ‘The Castaway’ signed by E.H.Visiak.
4 Typescript of poem ‘Treasure Trove’ signed by E.H.Visiak.
5 Envelope addressed to E.H. Visiak .
File 13
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All letters are from Storm Jameson to E.H.Visiak.
1 6 Meadway, Liverpool: 8 November 1916.
2 6 Meadway, Liverpool: 21 November 1916.
3 6 Meadway, Liverpool: 1 January 1917.
4 Ryedale, Whitby: 16 June 1917.
5 Ryedale, Whitby: 24 September 1917.
6 Church Farm, Nr. Stockbridge, Hants.: 17 October 1917.
7 Ryedale, Whitby: 30 September 1917.
8 Ryedale, Whitby: 17 January 1924.
9 Ryedale, Whitby: 23 January 1924.
10 Thurlestane Hotel, Tunbridge Wells: 9 July 1929.
11 Rydale, Whitby: 22 November 1936.
12 Envelope with name Storm Jameson written on front.
File 14
Envelope of press cuttings.
File 15
Proof copy of The Aylesford Review, Summer 1967, contains ‘A Homage to E.H. Visiak’.
BOX 4
1 Typescript of Autobiography by E.H. Visiak, 252 pages.
2 Typescript of Autobiography by E.H. Visiak, 290 pages with 9 pages of Resume at the end. Unamended copy.
3 Typescript of The Shadow by E.H. Visiak, ‘New Version 1967-68’ on cover, 316 pages.
4 Typescript, pages 42-255, of The Shadow by E.H. Visiak.
BOX 5
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File 1
All letters in this file are from Colin Wilson in Cornwall to E.H. Visiak unless otherwise stated.
1 17 August 1964.
2 6 September 1964.
3 13 December 1964.
4 26 January 1965.
5 15 June 1967.
6 14 August 1967.
7 20 August 1967.
8 Seattle, Washington: 26 September 1967.
9 Seattle, Washington: 17 October 1967.
10 Seattle, Washington: 21 October 1967. Includes air mail letter sent from David Higham, agent, to Colin Wilson: 16 October 1967.
11 Seattle, Washington: 1 November 1967.
12 Seattle, Washington: 20 November 1967.
13 Seattle, Washington: 24 November 1967.
14 Seattle, Washington: 10 December 1967.
15 Seattle, Washington: 28 December 1967.
16 Seattle, Washington: 9 January 1968.
17 18 April 1968. Includes cutting from the Daily Mail 16 April 1968 about Colin Wilson.
18 22 May 1968.
19 From J.B. Pick, Leicester, to Colin Wilson: 5 June 1968.
20 7 June 1968.
21 11 June 1968.
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22 24 June 1968.
23 17 July 1968.
24 19 August 1968.
25 10 September 1968.
26 6 October 1968.
27 8 October 1968.
28 11 October 1968.
29 22 October 1968.
30 31 October 1968.
31 3 November 1968.
32 13 November 1968.
33 21 November 1968.
34 4 December 1968.
35 10 December 1968.
36 23 December 1968.
37 6 January 1969.
38 16 January 1969.
39 11 February 1969.
40 26 March 1969.
41 12 April 1969.
42 15 May 1969.
43 10 June 1969.
44 6 July 1969.
45 24 August 1969.
46 22 November 1969.
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47 17 May 1970.
File 2
1 Typescript of Nemesis, by James B. Fell: a 13 page poem written in 25 stanzas of the history of England from 1913 to 1963.
2 Page of typescript with 2 Sussex poems by James B. Fell - ‘Cloth of Gold’ and ‘Downland Shadows’.
3 Handwritten fragment, appears to be from Saturday Evening Post 3 July 1915.
File 3
1 Postcard from Helen Johnson to Frank Physick in memory of Harold.
2 Card from Helen Johnson.
3 From A & C Black, publishers, London: 26 January 1972.
4 Royalty statement from Victor Gollancz to E.H. Visiak: 20 April 1972.
5 Helen Johnson, Hove, to Frank Physick: 7 September 1972.
6 Helen Johnson, Hove, to Frank Physick: 8 September 1972.
7 Anthony Harrison-Barbet, The Verulam Institute: 7 October 1972.
8 Helen Johnson, Hove, to Frank Physick: 7 October 1972.
9 Helen Johnson, Hove, to Frank Physick: 11 October 1972.
10 Helen Johnson, Hove, to Frank Physick: 30 October 1972.
11 Helen Johnson, Hove, to Frank Physick: 28 March 1973.
12 Bolt and Watson to Frank Physick: 3 April 1973.
13 - 39 Letters are from Helen Johnson to Frank Physick unless otherwise stated.
13 3 April 1973.
14 6 April 1973.
15 16 April 1973.
16 24 April 1973.
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17 20 April 1973.
18 26 April 1973.
19 1 May 1973.
20 3 May 1973.
21 Obituary from The Times for Lady Ruth Gollancz: 5 May 1973.
22 17 September 1974.
23 24 September 1974.
24 10 December 1974.
25 19 February 1975.
26 Richard Dalby, South Holmwood, Surrey, to Helen Johnson, 22 February 1975.
27 Copy of letter from Helen Johnson to Richard Dalby: 24 February 1975.
28 25 February 1975.
29 3 March 1975.
30 5 March 1975.
31 13 March 1975.
32 25 March 1975.
33 4 April 1975.
34 12 April 1975.
35 29 January 1976.
36 15 March 1976.
37 27 April 1976.
38 Bolt and Watson to Frank Physick, royalty advice: 26 April 1976.
39 1 May 1976.
File 4 Miscellaneous poems.
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The following poems are all typewritten except for 17, 18 and 20: it is probable that they are by Visiak.
1 ‘Couleurs’
2 ‘Colours’ translation.
3 ‘Calvaire’
4 ‘Calvary’ translation.
5 ‘Desires’
6 ‘Desires’ translation.
7 ‘At Eventide it shall be light’ and ‘The First Violet’.
8 ‘The Horseman’
9 ‘To the Clock-House, Sevenoaks’
10 ‘The Magpie’
11 ‘Farmyard Geese’
12 ‘The Geenwoodpecker’
13 ‘Moonrise’
14 ‘The Heron’
15 ‘November’
16 ‘To a sower’
17 ‘November Spring’ signed G.O. Physick 2 June 1940.
18 Fragment, untitled, unsigned.
19 Fragment signed E.H. Visiak.
20 ‘Souvenir verses to the English war nurse by a wounded German soldier’.
File 5 Newspaper cuttings
1 Notes and Queries 15 June 1940.
2 From The Times.
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3 From The Observer.
4 From The Daily Telegraph.
5 From The Manchester Guardian.
6 From The Guardian.
7 From The Daily News.
8 From The Sunday Times.
9 From The Daily Sketch.
10 From The Westminster Gazette, The Star, The News Chronicle and Books and Bookmakers.
File 6 Poems written by E.H. Visiak’s mother.
1 ‘Birthday Greeting’
2 ‘A happy birthday’
3 ‘Birthday Wish’
4 ‘Birthday Wishes’
5 ‘Wedding Anniversary Greetings’
6 ‘Card of sympathy’ 6 versions.
7 ‘Christmas Greeting’
8 ‘Christmas Day’
9 4 fragments of poetry.
File 7 Poems by E.H. Visiak’s mother
1 ‘Easter Greeting’
2 ‘Greetings’
3 ‘New Year Greeting’
4 ‘Spring Greeting’
5 ‘The Proposal’ and ‘The Answer’
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6 ‘The man and the maid’
7 ‘The little brown teapot’
8 ‘The Bishop’s way to peace’
9 ‘Lost and found’
10 ‘The Sea The Sea’
11 ‘A Transport of Dandelions’
12 ‘Love the Conqueror’
13 ‘To a discarded lover’
14 ‘Burnham Beeches- Autumn and Spring’
15 ‘Shadows’
16 ‘Those were the days!’
17 ‘Fiendship’
18 ‘My Lady’
19 ‘The Merry Month of May’
20 ‘Autumn Leaves’
21 ‘Frienship Birthday’
22 ‘A Fable’
23 6 untitled poems.
File 8 Sir Arnold Wilson
The following letters are from Sir Arnold Wilson to E. H. Visiak, except for no. 11.
1 The Nineteenth Century and After: 4 May 1936.
2 The Nineteenth Century and After: 4 June 1936.
3 Much Hadham, Hertfordshire: 3 September 1936.
4 The Nineteenth Century and After: 9 September 1936.
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5 The Nineteenth Century and After: 15 september 1936.
6 Much Hadham, Hertfordshire: 1 November 1936.
7 Much Hadham, Herfordshire: 18 April 1937.
8 House of Commons Library: 3 May 1937.
9 The Athenaeum, Pall Mall: 9 May 1937.
10 The Athenaeum, Pall Mall: 11 May 1937.
11 E.H. Visiak, Rutland Park Mansions, London, to Sir Arthur Wilson: 12 May 1937.
12 House of Commons Library: 22 July 1937.
13 Pixies’ Holt, Lyme Regis: 28 October 1937.
14 Air Armament School, Lincolnshire: 17 November 1939.
15 Air Armament School, Lincolnshire: 24 November 1939.
16 RAF Station, Feltwell, Norfolk: 8 April 1940.
17 5 letters, dated between 29 September 1964 and 26 November 1964, from John Marlowe of Denham, Bucks, to E.H. Visiak.
18 Typewritten script of Visiak’s preface to his Milton: Complete poetry and selected prose, The Nonesuch Press, 1948.
File 9 E.H. Coleridge
1 Derwent Coleridge, Hanwell Rectory, Middlesex, to H. Cholmondely Pennell: 1 August 1865.
The following letters 2 - 5 are from Ernest Hartley Coleridge to E.H. Visiak.
2 Little Langdale: 24 September 1900.
3 Rickfords Hill, Aylesbury: 29 March 1916. Includes typescript of letter.
4 Rickfords Hill, Aylesbury: 1 April 1916.
5 Rickfords Hill, Aylesbury: 28 November 1916. Includes typescript of letter.
File 10
V.J. Wainwright Sonnet for 1939.
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File 11 Letters regarding E.H. Visiak’s civil list pension.
1 E.H. Visiak, Rutland Park Mansions, London, to J.Ramsay Mac Donald: June 1934.
2 H.G. Vincent, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall: 18 June 1934.
3 H.G. Vincent, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall: 22 June 1934.
4 H.G. Vincent, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall: 26 June 1934.
5 E.H. Visiak, Hove, to Winston Churchill: 17 December 1943.
6 Anthony Bevin, 10 Downing Street, to E.H. Visiak: 15 January 1944.
7 E.H. Visiak, Hove, to Winston Churchill, letter and list of personal particulars:19 January 1944.
8 Anthony Bevin, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to E.H. Visiak: 28 January 1944.
9 H.J.C. Marshall, Royal Literary Fund, Stationers’ Hall, London, to E.H. Visiak:10 February 1944.
10 Anthony Bevin, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to E.H. Visiak: 4 March 1944.
11 E.H. Visiak, letter signed E.H. Physick, Hove, to H.M. Paymaster General: 31 March 1944.
12 Anthony Bevin, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to E.H. Visiak: 3 January 1945.
13 Anthony Bevin, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to E.H. Visiak: 31 December 1945.
14 Anthony Bevin, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to E.H. Visiak: 5 March 1946.
15 Anthony Bevin, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to E.H. Visiak: 11 November 1947.
16 The Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to E.H. Physick: 24 November 1947.
17 E.C. Cass, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to E.H. Physick: 1 March 1951.
18 Paymaster General’s Office, London, to E.H. Physick: 16 March 1951.
19 E.C. Cass, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to E.H. Physick: 29 February 1952.
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20 Paymaster General’s Office, London, to E.H. Physick: 21 March 1952.
21 E.H. Physick, Hove, to Anthony Bevin (copy): 15 May 1963.
22 John Hewitt, Admiralty House, Whitehall, to E.H. Physick: 17 May 1963.
23 E.H. Physick, Hove, to John Hewitt (copy): 7 November 1963.
24 John Hewitt, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to E.H. Physick: 11 November 1963.
25 E.H. Physick, Hove, to John Hewitt (copy): 18 November 1963.
26 Miss A.L. Selby, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to E.H. Physick: 15 January 1968.
27 Miss A.L. Selby, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to E.H. Physick: 25 January 1968.
28 John Hewitt, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to E.H. Physick: 26 February 1968.
29 John Hewitt, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to Frank Physick: 29 April 1969.
30 Frank Physick, Northwood, Middlesex, to John Hewitt: 3 May 1969.
31 John Hewitt, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to Frank Physick: 5 May 1969.
32 Frank Physick, Northwood, Middlesex, to John Hewitt (copy): 11 July 1970.
33 John Hewitt, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to Frank Physick: 14 July 1970.
34 John Hewitt, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to E.H. Physick: 18 February 1971.
35 Victor Bonham-Carter, The Royal Literary Fund, to Frank Physick: 16 March 1971.
36 Victor Bonham-Carter, The Royal Literary Fund, to Frank Physick: 2 April 1971.
37 Frank Physick, Northwood, Middlesex, to John Hewitt (copy): 9 April 1971.
38 Miss A.L. Selby, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to Frank Physick: 21 May 1971.
39 R. W. Simmonds, HM Treasury Accounts, Surbiton, to Frank Physick: 27 September 1972.
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File 12 W.H. Helm
1 Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings.
2 Printed list of books by W.H. Helm.
Letters 3 - 8 are from W.H. Helm to E.H. Visiak.
3 Brondesbury Park: 11 March 1911.
4 Northanger, Felixstowe: 3 January 1924.
5 Northanger, Felixstowe: 7 May 1930.
6 Northanger, Felixstowe: 19 July 1932.
7 Northanger, Felixstowe: 10 May 1933.
8 Felixstowe: 28 September 1933.
9 The Richards Press, Paternoster Square, London, to E.H. Visiak: 4 May 1937.
10 Edna Helm, Northanger, Felixstowe, to E.H. Visiak: 1 October 1937.
11 Violet Helm, Northanger, Felixstowe, to E.H. Visiak:13 October 1937.
12 Unsigned letter from Trebetherick, Wadebridge, Cornwall, to Mrs Helm: 31 December 1963.
File 13 John Masefield
All letters in this file are from John Masefield to E.H. Visiak.
1 Maida Hill West: 5 November 1901.
2 County Antrim: 5 August 1901.
3 Maida Hill West: 20 March 1909.
4 Great Hampden, Bucks: 5 June 1909.
5 Maida Hill West: 8 July 1909.
6 Maida Hill West: 10 July 1909.
7 Maida Hill West: 25 September 1909.
8 Maida Hill West: 22 November 1909.
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9 Maida Hill West: 1 March 1910.
10 Maida Hill West: 18 March 1911.
11 Maida Hill West: 20 April 1911.
12 Great Hampden, Bucks.: 15 June 1911.
13 Great Hampden, Bucks.: 17 June 1911.
14 Undated postcard.
15 2 undated letters.
File 14 Photographs
4 Black and white photographs of E.H. Visiak.
Envelope containing set of colour photographs of a family group, one photograph of W.H. Helm cut from a periodical, one unidentified black and white studio portrait and one photograph of Joseph Conrad with his youngest son John, dated 1914.