Guide to the Michael Alexander collection of David Jones material M2763

Gurudarshan Khalsa
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2022
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu


Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: The Michael Alexander collection of David Jones material
Creator: Jones, David, 1895-1974
Creator: Alexander, Michael, 1941-
source: Alexander, Michael, 1941-
Identifier/Call Number: M2763
Physical Description: .4 Linear Feet (one manuscript storage box)
Date (inclusive): 1976-2016

Scope and Contents

The collection consist of correspondence, newsletters, exhibition flyers, published works, catalogs, and other materials.

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual & born-digital materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

Conditions Governing Use

While Special Collections is the owner of the physical items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.

Preferred Citation

[identification of item], The Michael Alexander collection of David Jones material (M2763). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, California.

Paging:

Page from library catalog: PLACEHOLDER

Biographical / Historical

David Jones, November 1, 1895 - October 28, 1974, was an English painter and poet.
Michael Joseph Alexander is a British translator, poet, academic and broadcaster.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Alexander, Michael, 1941-

Box 1, Folder 1

David Jones Society Newsletter, Numbers 1–35, edited by David Blamires 1976-1983

Box 1, Folder 2

A List of letters by David Jones 1976

Scope and Contents

made by Tony Stoneburner, introduced by David Blamires (these include two letters to MJA, in 1965, of which he has photocopies.)
Box 1, Folder 3

Exhibition of David Jones watercolors and drawings, MacRobert Centre, University of Stirling 1976

Scope and Contents

Includes a catalog, 3 letters to and from Matilda Mitchell, with photocopies of a fragment of David Jones text and a drawing. Michael J. Alexander's introduction to this exhibition. Alos includes a review of the show by Michael J. Alexander.
Box 1, Folder 4

Flier for Painted Inscriptions of David Jones, edited by Nicolete Gray, Scolar Press Summer 1981

Box 1, Folder 5

Michael J. Alexander's agreement with Alan Bullock 1982

Scope and Contents

David Jones entry in the Biographical Dictionary of Modern Thought, Collins
Box 1, Folder 6

Invitation to private view of a David Jones exhibition at Tate Gallery, London, curated by Paul Hills 1981

Box 1, Folder 7

Postcards with David Jones artwork from William Cookson and Monica Clough

Box 1, Folder 8

Australian Broadcasting Commission: Paul Hills letter on David Jones in Australian collections 1978

Scope and Contents

Materials for a major David Jones radio program commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1978. The broadcast program lasted 2 hrs 30 minutes.
Box 1, Folder 9

Australian Broadcasting Commission: David Jones Times obituary 1974

Scope and Contents

Materials for a major David Jones radio program commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1978. The broadcast program lasted 2 hrs 30 minutes.
Box 1, Folder 10

Australian Broadcasting Commission: letters from William Cookson 1978

Scope and Contents

Materials for a major David Jones radio program commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1978. The broadcast program lasted 2 hrs 30 minutes. 10 letters from William Cookson, editor of the London poetry magazine, Agenda, who encouraged DJ to start writing again, about DJ; also about Michael J. Alexander's book Twelve Poems, published by Agenda Editions, 1978.
Box 1, Folder 11

Australian Broadcasting Commission: letters from David Clark, Douglas Cleverdon, David Blamires, Stan Pretty and others 1978

Scope and Contents

Materials for a major David Jones radio program commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1978. The broadcast program lasted 2 hrs 30 minutes. Includes: 5 letters from Kenneth Clark (Lord Clark 'of Civilisation'), 2 letters from Douglas Cleverdon at BBC, 1 letter from David Blamires, 1 note from Michael J. Alexander (about contributors) to Richard Connolly, director of Radio Drama & Features at ABC, the man who commissioned the programme. 4 letters from British Council on recorded interview with David Jones in 1964. 6 Letters to Stan Pretty, ABC stringer, 1978-1979, and notes for programme.
Box 1, Folder 12

Australian Broadcasting Commission: letters from René Hague 1978-1981

Scope and Contents

Materials for a major David Jones radio program commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1978. The broadcast program lasted 2 hrs 30 minutes. Large file of many letters, some lengthy, from David Jone's friend René Hague, on David Jones, on Father Desmond Chute (died 1962), Eric Gill, Teilhard de Chardin. A draft of Hague's contribution and the 21 page text of his commentary on David Jones. Hague died in 1981.
Box 1, Folder 13

Australian Broadcasting Commission: fan letter on program 1979

Scope and Contents

Materials for a major David Jones radio program commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1978. The broadcast program lasted 2 hrs 30 minutes.
Box 1, Folder 14

Australian Broadcasting Commission: Scripsi 1984-1985

Scope and Contents

Materials for a major David Jones radio program commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1978. The broadcast program lasted 2 hrs 30 minuntes. SCRIPSI magazine, published by the University of Melbourne English department. Photocopy of the printed text of ABC programme, 40 pages.
Box 1, Folder 15

Scripsi 1983-1984

Scope and Contents

Scripsi, a literary magazine from Melbourne University, printed the full text of the two and a half hour Australian Broadcast Commission David Jones radio program. Fifty or so pages of correspondence 1983-1984 with the editors, Peter Craven and Michael Hayward, including texts mostly typed by Michael J. Alexander and corrected by hand, but some substantial handwritten letters. The contributors were Saunders Lewis, Rene Hague, William Cookson and Dr Ieuan Williams, a philosopher at Swansea. Lord Clark 'said to have been converted by experience of preparing Civilisation' (Michael J. Alexander letter of 7 December 1983). The sequence of letters begins with regrets that Michael J. Alexander was not coming to the chair of English at Melbourne. Also includes a letter from Chris Wallace-Crabbe, and a review by Professor Russell.
Box 1, Folder 16

Offprint of Michael J. Alexander's talk The Poetry of David Jones 1990

Scope and Contents

The lecture was given at the Jagiellonian University at Cracow, 1990. There are two copies of the lecture as well as a typescript version. Also includes two copies of David Jones handouts for the talk, 4 pages each.
Box 1, Folder 17

Michael J. Alexander's David Jones and Christian Heroism

Scope and Contents

This is a photocopy of 13 pages, of part 4 of Dimensions: Literary and Theological, edited by D. W. D. Shaw, University of St Andrews.
Box 1, Folder 17

Letter from Andrew Carter on Michael J. Alexander's talk at Ampleforth, on David Jones and Dream of the Rood 1992

Box 1, Folder 19

David Jones exhibition, Manchester Cathedral 1976

Box 1, Folder 20

David Jones, from In parenthesis

Box 1, Folder 21

Letter and other materials from Percy Wheens 1978-2016