Book 12: R A Knox Bible Translations and Chaplaincy Sermons; Dillwyn’s translations of Herodas and Notes on Bishop French
Scope & Content:
R A Knox Bible Translations and Chaplaincy Sermons; A D Knox’s translations of Herodas and notes on Bishop French. Includes a note on humour from E V Knox and a piece of correspondence addressed to Fitzgerald from the Department of Manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland, 9 Jul 1974.
Includes some correspondence to A D Knox (a mixture of originals and copies) including a letter from Walter Headlam from 1891. Part way through the notebook are some poems by Fitzgerald's daughter Christina, from the 1960s.
This bundle of assorted papers was with the notebooks when the archive entered the British Library, hence its appearance here rather than with Series 1: Works. As well as research notes and some drafting for The Knox Brothers, the bundle contains a letter from Mary Knox and a photocopy of the pla...
Contains cuttings collected by Penelope Fitzgerald: Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 'Gladstone on Homer', Times Literary Supplement 3 Jan 1975, extracted from Add MS 89289/2/14. Graham Stanton, 'A Supreme Fiction?', review of G A Wells, Did Jesus Exist?, Times Literary Supplement 29 Aug 1975, extracted from A...
'P M Fitzgerald' notebook: contains notes from Penelope Fitzgerald's reading about contemporary English novelists, identity and characterisation in fiction writing and various authors, including Austen, Dickens, Tolstoy, Greene, Beckett, Orwell, Thackeray, Twain, Huxley and many more. Coverles...
My China Diary: the front of the notebook contains diary entries from Penelope Fitzgerald's trip to China [Dec 1977] and at the back there are plans and draft work for The Bookshop. Small memo book: various subjects with much of the book relating to research and notes for The Beginning of Spri...