Alvarez Papers. Vols. xiv-xvii. Papers relating to The School of Donne; circa 1952-1961. Alvarez began the original research at Oxford for a doctoral thesis entitled 'The Decline of Metaphysical Poetry', although the eventual publication was derived substantially from the text of six lectures delivered for the Christian Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton University in spring 1958. Published London: Chatto and Windus, 1961. Four volumes.
Alvarez Papers. Vols. xviii-xx. Papers relating to Beyond All This Fiddle. Essays 1955-1967; 1955-[1968]. Published London: Allen Lane, 1968. Three volumes.
Alvarez Papers. Vols. xi-xiii. Papers relating to The Shaping Spirit; 1953-1958, n.d. Published London: Chatto and Windus, 1958. Reissued New York: Gordian Press, 1971 under the title Stewards of Excellence. Three volumes.
Alvarez Papers. Vol. xvi. Typewritten drafts / fair copies of separate chapters differing from the published version, some with end notes; n.d. Including Chapter 1 (cancelled draft and two annotated fair copies), Chapter 2 (two fair copies), Chapter 5 (two fair copies).
Alvarez Papers. Vol. xix. Preliminaries and essays assembled in order as published; 1967. Partly photocopies of the essays as previously published and partly typewritten, with amendments and mark-up. Wanting one essay, but including five not found in the published version.
Alvarez Papers. Vol. xviii. Essays collected for the publication; 1955-1867, n.d. 1. Typewritten copies of three essays, with two leaves of autograph notes; 1955-1967, n.d. 2. Original press-cuttings, etc., of printed essays; 1957-1967. Followed by a letter from David Thomson of Allen Lane r...
Alvarez Papers. Vol. xx. Galley proofs; [1968]. With autograph corrections. Two copies of the title essay (one imperfect), but without the penultimate essay ('Shiprock').
Alvarez Papers. Vol. xxi. 1. Research materials including three printed pamphlets (1961-1973), the BBC script of Beckett's 'Play' (1966), press cuttings (1971), correspondence (1971-1972), and a lecture by Alvarez on Beckett (n.d.). 2. Autograph draft; n.d.