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box 1

Correspondence, mainly from Gordon G. Wordsworth to Arthur Christopher Benson, but with 2 letters from other people, and also copies of 3 letters from various people to Gordon Wordsworth. v.p. September 1924-February 1925.

General Physical Description note: 24 pieces.

Scope and Contents note

These letters concern the purchase of Mount Scawfell by Benson and Wordsworth for the purpose of giving it to the National Trust.
box 1

Le Cahier Jaune; poems. Eton: Privately printed. 1892.

General Physical Description note: 99pp. 22.5cm.
  • Presentation copy from the author to Sir Walter Durnford, Provost of King's College, Cambridge.
  • With this is bound: His, The Myrtle Bough, a Vale. Eton, Spottiswoode, 1903. 70pp., and his, The Olive Bough. Eton: Spottiswoode, 1904. 31pp.

General note

Ex libris: C.K. Ogden.
box 1

The Art of the Biographer. Cambridge. 1917.

General Physical Description note: 49 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections, bound.

Scope and Contents note

Published in Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, London. Essays by diverse hands, being transactions. London, 1926. 22cm. New [i.e. 3rd] series, vol.6, pp. [139]-164.
Read April 29th, 1925.
box 1

Biographical studies: Issak Walton, Edward Ernest Bowen, William Collins, Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, Henry James, The Angel [fiction?], Matthew Arnold, Crevasse [fiction?]. Cambridge. v.d.

General Physical Description note: 8 typescripts with holograph corrections, bound in 1 vol.

General note

Apparently all unpublished.
box 1

Letters to various persons. v.p. v.d.

General Physical Description note: 2 items. Typescript, holograph.

Scope and Contents note

With these: 1 letter of July 26, 1926 (typescript copy) from R.M. Welsford to Lord Charnwood, and 1 letter of August 2, 1926 (typescript copy) from Charnwood to Welsford, both regarding Arthur Christopher Benson's estate.
box 1

Loopholes. Cambridge. 1916.

General Physical Description note: Typescript with holograph corrections, bound.
  • These were... made into a little book called Loopholes [unpublished]...
  • Title on backstrip reads Fragments 1917 (omitted from Loopholes).
box 2

[Manuscript without title. n.p.,] n.d.

General Physical Description note: 190 leaves. 23cm. Holograph marked in pencil.

General note

A novel, apparently unpublished.
box 2

Memoir of Mary Benson. Cambridge. 1925.

General Physical Description note: Typescript (carbon), bound.

Scope and Contents note

A life of the author's mother.

General note

Ex libris: E.F. Benson.
Unpublished.
box 2

Poems. [A volume of miscellaneous pieces, both poetry and prose. n.p.] v.d.

General Physical Description note: 24 typescripts, some with holograph corrections.

Scope and Contents note

The dates, 1904, 1909, and 1916 appear on several items.
One item dated December 13, 1903, is printed. Poems. A.C.B. appears on the spine. Bound in boards.
Ex libris: C.K. Ogden.
box 2

The War 1914. Cambridge. n.d.

General Physical Description note: Typescript with holograph corrections, bound.

General note

Apparently unpublished.
box 2

Bibliography of Arthur Christopher Benson. n.p. n.d.

General Physical Description note: 25pp. 26cm. Typescript with corrections in ink.
  • Compiler unknown.
  • Included are several biographical quotations from various sources.