Kay Dick:
A Preliminary Inventory of an Addition to Her Papers at the Harry RansomHumanities Research Center
Descriptive Summary
Creator: Dick, Kay, 1915-2001
Title: Kay Dick Addition to Her Papers
Dates: 1915-2001
Extent: 46 boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 galley folder (21 linear feet)
Abstract: This collection contains notes, research, typescript drafts, contracts,
correspondence, clippings, and reviews of Dick's published fiction
and non-fiction—including works written under the pseudonyms
Jeremy Scott and Edward Lane—as well as material for unpublished
book projects. Other material includes scripts, story outlines, and
coorespondence related to plays for stage, radio, and television;
articles, BBC scripts, biographical writings, editorial work, poems,
book reviews, and short stories; literary and personal correspondence;
and financial papers, address books, autograph books, clippings, art
and publishers catalogs, daybooks and diaries, photographs, travel
materials, and other personal and career related materials, including
correspondence and documents relating to Dick's residence at 9
Arundel Terrace.
RLIN Record #: None
Language: Most material in English .
Access: Open for research
Administrative Information
Acquisition: Purchase, 2003 (Reg. no. 15143)
Processed by: Melody Fisher and Liz Murray, 2004
Repository: The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities
Research Center
Scope and Contents
This accretion to the Kay Dick Papers consists of literary works, correspondence,
personal, and career-related material, spanning her lifetime from 1915 to her death in
2001. The papers are arranged in three Series: I. Works, 1934-1994; II. Correspondence,
1941-2001; and III. Personal and Career-Related Material, 1915-2001.
The Works series is arranged in three Subseries: A. Books, 1943-1991; B. Plays, 1943
and nd; and C. Short Works, 1934-1994. Works are arranged alphabetically by title in
each subseries. This series contains material written under Dick's pseudonyms Jeremy
Scott and Edward Lane. Represented in Subseries A. Books, are published fiction
including An Affair of Love, By the Lake, The Shelf, Solitaire, Sunday, They, and Young
Man, as well as non-fiction works Friends and Friendship: Conversations and
Reflections, Ivy and Stevie: Ivy Compton-Burnett and Stevie Smith, and Pierrot: An
Investigation into the Commedia dell'arte. Also present is material for unpublished book
projects, "The Carlyle Marriage," "Colette and Her World," notes for a memoir "The
Fiction of My Life," "The Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle," "Six Great Diarists," and
"Venus." Often included for these works are notes, research, typescript drafts, contracts,
correspondence, clippings, and reviews.
Plays for stage, radio, and television are present in Subseries B. Short Works Subseries C
includes articles, BBC scripts, biographical writings, editorial work, poems, book
reviews, and short stories.
Arranged alphabetically, the correspondence in Series II dates from 1941-2001 and is
arranged in Subseries A. Literary Correspondence and Subseries B. Personal
Correspondence. While the correspondence is predominately incoming, typed carbons of
Dick's outgoing correspondence are found throughout the series. The literary
correspondence includes communications with publishers, agents, literary societies and
organizations, and newspapers. Also present is a folder for the publication The Windmill
which Dick edited under the Edward Lane pseudonym. Frequent correspondents in
Subseries B. Personal Correspondence include Sidney Blackmore, June and Neville
Braybrooke, Brigid Brophy, Maurice Cranston, Gillian Freeman, Roddy Friend,
Nathaniel and Beverley Gee, Penny Hoare, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Francis Henry
King, Shena Mackay, and Michael Ratcliffe. Several boxes of correspondence and
related material are present for Dick's longtime companion Kathleen Farrell. An
alphabetical run of general personal correspondence follows the folders for individuals.
Series III. Personal and Career-Related Material includes items ranging from Dick's birth
certificate in 1915 to bank statements from 2001. Included in this series are address
books, articles and information about Dick, autograph books, art and publishers
catalogs, clippings, daybooks and diaries, family papers, financial and personal papers,
numerous photographs, and travel material. Also present is lengthy correspondence and
documents relating to Dick's residence at 9 Arundel Terrace.
Several personal items, including assorted wallets, were transferred to the Ransom
Center's Personal Effects.
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Series I. Works, 1934-1994
Subseries A. Books, 1943-1991
An Affair of Love ( 1953)
Congratulatory letters, 1953 Box 1 Folder 1
Correspondence from Heinemann, 1952-1955
Folder 2
Reviews, see clippings scrapbook in Oversize Box 47
Folder *
By the Lake ( 1949)
Related correspondence, 1946-1952 Box 1 Folder
3
Reviews, see clippings scrapbook in Oversize Box 47
Folder *
'The Carlyle Marriage'
Publishers' contracts and correspondence
Cassell Ltd., 1974-1981 Box 1 Folder 4
Coward-McCann Inc., 1962-1973 Folder
5
Michael Joseph Ltd., 1962-1974 Folder
6
Publishers' rejection letters, 1974 Folder
7
Research material, handwritten notes on trip to Scotland, Oct. 1974
Folder 8
'Colette and Her World'
Handwritten notes in notebook Box 1 Folder 9
Research correspondence, 1976-1980 Folder
10
4
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Research materials, including Brigid Brophy correspondence
Folder
11
Illustrations; description and photocopies
Folder 12
Thames & Hudson Ltd. contract and correspondence, 1976-1985 Box 2
Folder 1
Correspondence related to publishing, 1985- 1990
Folder 2
'The Fiction of My Life,' notes for memoir, 1967- 1970
Folder 3
Friends and Friendship: Conversations and Reflections ( 1974 )
Handwritten drafts in notebooks Box 2 Folder
4-5
Corrected transcripts of conversations with Brigid Brophy, Maureen Duffy,
Gillian Freeman, Isobel English, Francis King, Pamela Hansford Johnson, and
Olivia Manning
Folder
6-7
Corrected typescript Folder 8-9
Setting copy Box 3 Folder 1-2
Publisher correspondence and contract, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1971-1976
Folder
3
Reviews, congratulatory correspondence, publication materials, and publicity
Folder
4
Ivy and Stevie: Ivy Compton-Burnett and Stevie Smith, Conversations and Reflections ( 1971
and 1983)
Publishers' correspondence
Allison & Busby Ltd., 1981-1986 Box 3 Folder
5
Duckworth, 1971-1977 Folder 6
Reviews and correspondence, 1971-1991
Folder 7
5
Dick, Kay, 1915-2001
"Stevie," play by Hugh Whitmore Folder
8
'The Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle,' by Edward Lane; introduction, contract and
correspondence with Charles Wrey Gardiner, 1943-1961 [*galleys removed to
galley files]
Folder
9*
Pierrot: An Investigation into the Commedia dell'arte ( 1960)
Research notes Box 4 Folder 1
Illustration notes and related correspondence
Folder 2
Publishers' correspondence, 1960-1973
Folder 3-4
Reviews and congratulatory correspondence, 1959-1981
Folder 5
The Shelf ( 1984)
Handwritten draft, 1982 Box 4 Folder 6-7
Corrected typescript Folder 8-9
Corrected typescript, cont'd Box 5 Folder 1
Setting copy Folder 2-3
Corrected page proofs [*removed to Oversize Box 48]
Folder *
Reviews and congratulatory correspondence, 1982-1989
Folder
4-5
Responses to invitations for publication party, 1984
Folder 6
'Six Great Diarists,' correspondence and contract, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1959-1962,
with notes and typescript
Folder
7
Solitaire ( 1958)
Correspondence, 1958-1959 Box 5 Folder 8
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Press reviews, 1958-1959 Folder 9
Sunday ( 1962)
Handwritten notes Box 6 Folder 1
Correspondence related to publishing, 1959- 1982
Folder 2
Reviews and congratulatory correspondence, 1962
Folder 3
They ( 1977)
Corrected typescript Box 6 Folder 4
Corrected bound typescript Folder 5
Penguin correspondence, 1975-1978 Folder
6-7
Publishers' correspondence, general Folder
8
Reviews and congratulatory correspondence
Folder 9
Reviews and congratulatory correspondence, cont'd Box 7
Folder 1
Screenplay and related correspondence, 1988
Folder 2
'Venus,' book project, 1961 Folder 3
Young Man (1951), see clippings scrapbook in Oversize Box 47
Folder *
Notes for various works
'The Fiction of My Life,' 'Cass,' 'Risk,' 'Counterpoint,' and 'The Carlyle
Marriage'
Box 7
Folder
4
'Suicide,' drafts of letters, correspondence, typescript related to planned series of
novels
Folder
5
Untitled typescript Folder 6
7
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Subseries B. Plays, 1943, nd
"The Dinner Party," teleplay, typescript Box 7 Folder
7
"The Experts," storyline for a television satirical social comedy
Folder 8
"Find Your True Partner," story outline for television play
Folder 9
"The First Day of Christmas," radio play, typescript
Folder 10
"The Gamblers, Zero," teleplay Folder 11
Katherine's Room, A Play in Three Acts," bound playscript, with critique
Folder
12
"Mad, Bad, and Dangerous"
Playscript, typescript Box 7 Folder 13
Playscript with music cues Box 8 Folder 1
Correspondence and publicity, 1943 Folder
2
"The Pink Flamingoes," playscripts, television play
Folder 3
"Portrait of Mrs. Gaskell," play for radio, script with notes and correspondence
Folder
4
"The Provincial"
Playscripts Box 8 Folder 5-9
Reviews and correspondence Folder 10
"The Sea is Therapeutic," storyline for three-act television play
Folder
11
"The Undisturbed," idea for series of television plays
Folder 12
8
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Subseries C. Short Works, 1934-1994
Articles, miscellaneous typescripts, 1943-1984 [*Edward Lane articles, 1943,
removed to Oversize Box 47]
Box 9
Folder
1*
BBC scripts
1947-1950 Box 9 Folder 2
1951-1952 Folder 3
1953-1954 Folder 4
1955 Folder 5
1956-1957 Folder 6
1958-1960 Folder 7
1961-1968 Folder 8
Undated Folder 9
Biographical writings
Ashford, Daisy Box 10 Folder 1
Beardsley, Aubrey Folder 2
Compton-Burnett, Ivy [*photograph removed to Oversize Box 48]
Folder 3*
Dictionary of National Biography , contributions on Olivia Manning and Stevie
Smith
Folder
4
Dowson, Ernest Folder 5
Fournier, Alain Folder 6
Gerhardie, William Folder 7
Johnson, Lionel Folder 8
Liddell, Robert Folder 9
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Mayor, Flora M. Folder 10
Richardson, Dorothy Folder 11-12
Smith, Stevie Box 11 Folder 1
Waugh, Evelyn [*collection of articles on Waugh, removed to Oversize Box 48]
Folder
*
White, Antonia Folder 2
Wilde, Oscar Folder 3
Wilson, Angus Folder 4
Editorial work
"All Rome Trembled," by Melton S. Davies, correspondence, outlines, and KD's
editorial notes
Box 11
Folder
5
Jeremy Scott anthologies Folder 6
"Nineties: Period and Personalities," notes
Folder 7
Reader's report on Baker's "Our Three Selves"
Folder 8
Poems
1934-1943 Box 11 Folder 9
1968-1976 Folder 10
Reviews
Books and Bookmen, British Book News, 1957-1982 Box 11
Folder 11
Gay News, 1978-1979 Folder 12
Literary Review Folder 13
Punch, 1983-1985 Box 12 Folder 1
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Illustration and page proofs for Pierre Schneider's Matisse , material supplied
for KD review, Feb. 6, 1985 [*oversize illustrations removed to Box 48]
Folder
2-7*
Queen Harper's , 1970-1971 Box 13 Folder 1
Radio Times , 1958 Folder 2
The Scotsman , 1972-1975 Folder 3
The Spectator
1964-1967 Box 13 Folder 4
1973-1985 Folder 5
The Standard , 1981-1985 and nd Folder 6
The Sunday Times , 1965-1984 Folder 7
The Times , 1957-1987 Folder 8
Various publications, 1957-1988 Folder 9
Short stories
"The Musk Rose and the Little Girl," story for children, typescripts
Box 13
Folder
10
"Personal Approach," Purpose and Personality Series, notes
Folder 11
"The Rocking Horse," handwritten notes, 1994
Folder 12
"Souvenir du Jura," typescript Folder 13
"When the Wind is Southerly," 1942-1943
Folder 14
Untitled story and idea for children's story
Folder 15
Notes [for works?], handwritten and typed, various subjects
Folder 16
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Scrapbook containing short works by KD under pseudonyms Edward Lane and
Jeremy Scott [*removed to Oversize Box 47]
Folder
*
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Series II. Correspondence, 1941-2001
Subseries A. Literary Correspondence
General literary correspondence
A-L Box 14 Folder 1
M-Z Folder 2
Aldus Books, "The White Horse" project, 1964-1965
Folder 3
The Arts Council of Great Britain (Charles Osborne), 1966-1985
Folder 4
Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society Ltd.
Folder 5
B. T. Batsford Ltd., "Switzerland" project, 1967-1971
Folder 6
Bertram Rota Ltd., re. Olivia Manning and "Friends and Friendship" material
Folder 7
Biographical publishers Folder 8
British Broadcasting Corporation, 1967-1987
Folder 9
The Daily Telegraph , 1970-1971, includes typescript of article on Stevie Smith
Folder
10
David Higham Associates/Bolt & Watson Ltd. Author's Agents, 1957-1974
Folder
11
Deborah Rogers Ltd., 1982-1987 Folder 12
The Folio Society Folder 13
GMP Publishers Ltd., 1985-1992 Folder 14
Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1984-1986 Folder
15
13
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Hutchinson and Co., Publishers (John Hadfield), re. The Saturday Book ,
1957-1964
Folder
16
Panther Books, 1966-1972 Box 15 Folder 1
Penguin Books, 1968-1988 Folder 2
Royal Literary Fund
1963-2001 Box 15 Folder 3
1986-1999 (Fiona Clark) Folder 4
The Society of Authors and The Phoenix Trust
Folder 5
Staples Press Ltd., employment and resignation, correspondence, 1941-1943
Folder 6
The Times and The Sunday Times Folder 7
Trafalgar Perry Ltd. (John Perry), 1972 Folder
8
The University of Texas at Austin, 1973-1991
Folder 9
William Heinemann Ltd., 1949-1962 Folder
10
The Windmill , KD editor under pseudonym Edward Lane, 1968-1969 [*clippings
scrapbook for 1944-1948 removed to Oversize Box 47]
Folder
11*
The Writers' Guild of Great Britain Folder
12
Subseries B. Personal Correspondence
Allan, Nick Box 16 Folder 1
Baker, Frank Folder 2
Baldick, Robert Folder 3
Beacham, Hans Folder 4
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Bell, Anne Graham Folder 5
Blackmore, Sidney Folder 6-8
Blumer, Rodney Folder 9
Blumer, Rodney, cont.'d Box 17 Folder 1
Boyes, Tony Folder 2
Braybrooke, June and Neville Folder 3-5
Breon, John Folder 6
Brooke-Rose, Christine Box 18 Folder 1
Brophy, Brigid Folder 2-6
Brophy, Brigid, cont.'d Box 19 Folder 1-2
Brophy, Brigid and Levey, Michael Folder
3-7
Buckley, Geoffrey Box 20 Folder 1
Bush, Sheila and John Folder 2
Cooke, Robert Folder 3
Cosman, Milein Folder 4
Craig, Helen Folder 5
Cranston, Maurice Folder 6-7
Davies, Rhys Folder 8
De-la-Noy, Michael Folder 9
Duffy, Maureen Folder 10
Farrell, Kathleen
1941-1949 Box 21 Folder 1-2
1950-1952 Folder 3-5
1953-1954 Folder 6
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1955-1959 Folder 7-11
1960-1962 Box 22 Folder 1-3
1963-1967 Folder 4
"Since coming to Brighton, June 1, 1968"
Folder 5-7
Undated correspondence Box 23 Folder 1-2
Undated postcards Folder 3
Condolences on the death of KF Folder 4
Greeting cards Folder 5
Notes and mementos (theater programs, hotel receipts, etc.)
Folder 6-7
Obituaries, book inventories, last will, and estate statements
Folder 8
Relationship with Kay Dick, including correspondence with others regarding
dissolution of relationship
Box 24
Folder
1-4
Fort, Elizabeth Folder 5
Freeman, Gillian and Thorpe, Ted Folder
6-7
Fricker, Laurie Box 25 Folder 1
Friend, Roddy Folder 2-4
Gee, Nathaniel and Beverley Folder 5-6
Grant, Michael Box 26 Folder 1
Greacen, Robert Folder 2
Green, Peter Folder 3
Hoare, Penny Folder 4-5
Horder, John Folder 6
Hughes-Stanton, Ida Folder 7
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Humphreys, Emyr Folder 8
Jenkins, Elizabeth Folder 9
Johnson, Pamela Hansford, including Johnson's "Albertine Regained," BBC radio
play, February 1, 1954 [*photograph of Johnson removed to Oversize Box 48]
Folder
10-12*
King, Francis Henry
1976-1978 Box 27 Folder 1
1979-1980 Folder 2
1981-1985 Folder 3
1986-1988 Folder 4
1989-1990 Folder 5
1991-1999 Folder 6
Undated correspondence Box 28 Folder 1
Postcards, all dates Folder 2-3
King, Louise Folder 4
Kirkup, James Folder 5
Lahey, Daniel Folder 6
Lancaster, Patricia Folder 7
Lofts, Norah Folder 8
Mackay, Shena Folder 9-10
Mann, Liza Box 29 Folder 1
Marnau, Fred and Senta Folder 2
Meyer, Michael Folder 3
Moore, James Folder 4
Newby, P. H. Folder 5
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Newley, Patrick Folder 6
Pargeter, Edith Folder 7
Pearsh, Kevin Folder 8
Ratcliffe, Michael Folder 9-11
Rees, David Folder 12
Reva, Jim and Mark Folder 13
Robinson, Jan Box 30 Folder 1
Rose, Bill Folder 2
Rubens, Robert Folder 3
Sewell, Rev. Brocard Folder 4
Shue, Jim and Starke, Roland Folder 5
Sibley, John Folder 6
Snow, C. P. Folder 7
Spark, Muriel Folder 8
Swan, Anna Box 31 Folder 1
Swinglehurst, Edmund and Pamela Folder 2
Trevelyan, Raleigh Folder 3
Vansittart, Peter Folder 4
Verster, Andrew Folder 5
Viotti, Sergio and Lima, Paula Folder 6
Whipple, Dorothy Folder 7
Wilson, Andrew Folder 8
General personal correspondence
A-B Box 32 Folder 1
C Folder 2
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D Folder 3
E-G Folder 4
H-J Folder 5
K-L Folder 6
M Folder 7
N Folder 8
O-R Folder 9
S-T Folder 10
U-V Folder 11
W Folder 12
Unidentified correspondence [*cardboard sign, "Success, Love, Health, Money--Kay
1968," removed to Oversize Box 48]
Box 33
Folder
1*
Unidentified postcards Folder 2
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Series III. Personal and Career-Related Material, 1915-2001
Address books Box 33 Folder 3
Articles and information about KD Folder 4
Autograph books
1929-1930 Box 33 Folder 5
1930-1932, Lycée Français de Londres [*related class photograph removed to
Oversize Box 48]
Folder
6*
Catalogs
Art Box 33 Folder 7
Publishers Folder 8
Clippings, obituaries, and memorial services
Folder 9
Dane House nursing home Folder 10
Daybooks and diaries, 44 items, 1939-2000 Box 34
Diaries/notebooks
1943-1951 and nd, includes literary notes Box 35
Folder 1
1959, trip to Italy Folder 2
1961-1962 Folder 3
1963-1964 Folder 4
1965-1969 Folder 5
1966, trip to Malta Folder 6
1976-1978, includes trip to Venice Folder 7
1978-1981, includes last letter received from Pamela Hansford Johnson
Folder 8
1983 Box 36 Folder 1
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1984 Folder 2
1984-1985 Folder 3
1985 Folder 4
1986-1988 Folder 5
1988-1997 Folder 6
1993 Folder 7
Dogs, "Tim," "Sonny," and others Box 37 Folder
1
Family papers, KD's parents [*death notice in The Times , for KD's mother, Kate Dick,
removed to Oversize Box 48]
Folder
2-4*
Financial papers
Bank books
June 1980-Dec. 1981 Box 37 Folder 5
Dec. 1981-May 1983 Folder 6
May 1983-Oct. 1984 Folder 7
Nov. 1984-Oct. 1986 Folder 8
Oct. 1986-Dec. 1990 Box 38 Folder 1
Barclays
Correspondence Box 38 Folder 2-4
Bank statements, 1985-2001 Folder 5
Home insurance Folder 6
Bills
Gas bills and correspondence (British Gas), 1985-1999 Box 38
Folder 7
Electricity bills and correspondence (Seeboard), 1986-1991
Folder 8
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Telephone bills (British Telecom), 1986-1991 Box 39
Folder 1
Miscellaneous bills and household expenses, 1964-1992
Folder 2
Borough of Brighton, housing benefit and water
Folder 3
Civil List Pension, receipts and correspondence, 1979-2000
Folder 4
John A. Tuffin & Co., accountant, correspondence
Folder 5-6
Payment statements for newspaper articles and other works
Folder 7
Personal loans Folder 8
Household papers and catalogs; organization memberships (non-literary)
Folder 9
Invitations, literary and personal Folder 10
Medical documents Box 40 Folder 1
National insurance and Royal Insurance Ltd.
Folder 2
Personal papers and documents, including passports, finger prints, birth certificate, and
contents of wallets [*copy of The Times for July 29, 1915, KD's birthdate, removed to
Oversize Box 48]
Folder
3-4*
Photograph albums
ca. 1925 Box 40 Folder 5
"From my camera," nd Folder 6
1947, loose album pages, trip to Italy and France Box 41
Folder 1
1947-1950, mother's album and loose pages
Folder 2-3
Photographs, KD and friends
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Dick, Kay, portraits [*oversize removed to Box 48]
Box 41
Folder
4-5*
Family, friends, pets Folder 6
Farrell, Kathleen Box 42 Folder 1
Parties Folder 2
Various locations and subjects [*oversize removed to Box 48]
Folder
3-8*
Play programs, various productions Box 43 Folder
1
Print material, miscellaneous [*oversize removed to Box 48]
Folder 2*
Public Lending Right statements Folder 3
Rubinstein, Nash & Co., solicitors Folder
4-5
Social security, 1974-1990 Folder 6
Stationery, Arundel Terrace Folder 7
Talk given at the opening of the Regency Exhibition, Brighton, 1951?
Folder 8
Tenancy, 9 Arundel Terrace, Brighton
1967-1975 Box 43 Folder 9
1976-1979 Folder 10
1980-1981 Folder 11-12
1982 Box 44 Folder 1
1983-1984 Folder 2
1985-1988 Folder 3
1989-1991 Folder 4-6
1992-1993 Folder 7
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1999-2001 Folder 8
Travel
Diary, KD and Kathleen Farrell, 1941 Box 45 Folder
1
Notes, handwritten, 1947 Folder 2
Pamphlets and postcards (blank)
England Box 45 Folder 3-5
France Folder 6
Italy Folder 7-8
Malta Box 46 Folder 1
Switzerland Folder 2-3
Postcards from KD and Farrell to Farrell family, 1948-1952
Folder 4
Will documents and correspondence Folder 5
Writers' Action Group (WAG) Folder 6-8
WAG party, June 1, 1979 Folder 9-10
Oversize material Box 47-48
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