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. 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. xxiv-xxviii. Papers relating to Under Pressure. The Writer in Society: Eastern Europe and the U.S.A.; 1961-1965, n.d. Published as a collection Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965. Chapter 1 first published in Commentary (March 1965), Chapters 2 to 7 commissioned as features narrated by Alvarez for the B.B.C. Third Programme (broadcast 1962-1964), parts of Chapter 6 published in Mademoiselle (Summer 1964), and Chapter 8 in Encounter (June 1965). For notes and drafts for t...
Alvarez Papers. Vols. xxix-xxxiv. Papers relating to The Savage God. A Study of Suicide; 1954-1986, n.d. Published London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971. Sections of the book were previously published in New American Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Partisan Review, The Listener, and Handbook for the Study of Suicide. Six volumes.
Alvarez Papers. Vols. xxxv-xli. Papers relating to Life after Marriage. Scenes from Divorce; 1976-1981, n.d. Published London: Macmillan, 1982. Seven volumes.
Alvarez Papers. Vols. xlviii-lii. Papers relating to Offshore. A North Sea Journey; 1983-1985, n.d. First published 'in a slightly different form' in The New Yorker, 1985. Published in book form London: Hodder and Stoughton; 1986. Five volumes.
Alvarez Papers. Vols. liii-lv. Papers relating to Feeding the Rat. Profile of a Climber [Mo Antoine]; [1964?]-1988. Published London: Bloomsbury, 1988. Parts originally appeared in The New Yorker 'Profiles' entitled 'A Degree of Commitment', 1988. Three volumes.