1 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. 2 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) 3 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 4 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. 5 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. 6 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.