Holroyd/Shaw Papers. Vols. ccxxxv, ccxxxvi. Correspondence and papers relating to 'The Genius of Shaw' edited by Michael Holroyd and published London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979; 1976-1986. The work includes essays on Shaw by Michael Holroyd, John O'Donovan, Terence de Vere White, Stanley Weintraub, Charles Osborne, Brigid Brophy, John Stewart Collis, Robert Skidelsky, Hilary Spurling, Irving Wardle, Margot Peters, Benny Green, Barbara Smoker and Colin Wilson, and all correspondence with thes...
Holroyd/Shaw Papers. Vols. ccxxxvii-ccxlviii. Special correspondence of Michael Holroyd relating to Bernard Shaw on particular subjects and with particular corporate bodies. With drafts and texts of associated publications, speeches, etc.; 1976-2003. Twelve volumes.
Holroyd/Shaw Papers. Vols. ccl-cclvii. General correspondence and papers of Michael Holroyd relating to requests for information, proposals and arrangements for seminars, addresses, articles, readings and general advice on Shaw; 1973-2004, n.d. For similar correspondence directly related to the publishing of and publicity for the biography of Shaw see Add. 85090-85118. Eight volumes.
Kingsmill Papers. Vols. iii-iv (ff. ). 'Samuel Johnson'; [1933?]. MS drafts. The volumes contain headings for chapters, discontinuous foliation by Kingsmill and some word counts.
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Samuel Johnson, LLD; lexicographer: Biography of Samuel Johnson: 1933?: Draft.
Kingsmill Papers. Vols. xii-xvi (ff. ). 'John Ferrar Holms: Letters and selected writings'; 1919-1935. Kingsmill met Holms while they were both prisoners of war in Karlsruhe in 1917.