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Jeremy Scott and Edward Lane—as well as material for unpublished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 Also present is material for unpublished book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

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"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

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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

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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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