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141. Add MS 89002/4/1

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Title:
Edward Upward: Notebook ('Mortmere')
Scope & Content:
A hard-covered notebook from which many pages have been removed. The first page announces 'Mortmere / A Romance / By Hynd and Starn', but the only 'Mortmere' text that remains in the notebook is the poem that begins: 'Morning, a garish half-light filtering down / Through interminable fog, wakens...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1924-1925]
Extent:
1 folder

142. Add MS 89002/4/2

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Title:
Edward Upward: Notebook ('Substance for novel')
Scope & Content:
Notebook containing detailed working plans for a novel, including a cast of characters and a 'Map of the Club'. Chapter 1 is set in a 'golf club'. It is evident that the notebook relates to an abandoned novel, referred to in the entry for Upward (by Peter Parker, 2013) in the Oxford Dictionary o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928
Extent:
1 folder

143. Add MS 89002/4/3

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Title:
Edward Upward: 'The Railway Accident' by Allen Chalmers
Scope & Content:
A complete copy of New Directions in Prose and Poetry, Number Eleven (New York 1949), including (pp. 84-116) 'The Railway Accident' by Allen Chalmers [Edward Upward]. The story is published with a 'Foreword' by Christopher Isherwood (pp. 84-5), who refers the reader for background and context to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1949
Extent:
1 volume

144. Add MS 89002/4/4

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Title:
Edward Upward: Outlines for Various Talks
Scope & Content:
Notes and texts for talks given by Upward, as follows: 1. 'Modern Poetry' (10 sheets autograph numbered 1-9, with a sheet 7a). The paper has been annotated at the head of the first page by Upward at a later date: 'Read to the Masters' Discussion Society at Alleyn's in 1933 after a drink with J ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1977
Extent:
1 folder

145. Add MS 89002/4/5

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Title:
Edward Upward: Various Texts
Scope & Content:
1. Five texts (without date), as follows: 'The System' (8 sheets autograph, incomplete); untitled fragment (2 sheets autograph); 'The Recruit' (4 sheets autograph); 'Policy' (3 sheets typescript); 'Women and Children' (4 sheets typescript). 2. Proofs for 'The Falling Tower', New Writing (1941). ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1920s]-[1987]
Extent:
1 folder

146. Add MS 89002/4/6

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Title:
Edward Upward: Transcript of a broadcast for the Open University ('Can imaginative literature be politically propagandist without damaging itself as imaginative literature?')
Scope & Content:
1. Transcript of a broadcast for the Open University (15 sheets, duplicated). Part of the 'Beliefs and Society' series. 2. Related correspondence, including contract (1972-73).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1972-1973
Extent:
1 folder

147. Add Ms 89002/4/7

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Title:
Edward Upward: Papers relating to the private printing of No Home but the Struggle
Scope & Content:
After Heinemann Ltd. declined to publish No Home But the Struggle, the third volume of The Spiral Ascent, Upward explored privately printing an edition, using the services of Vectis Lithographics Ltd. This folder contains the following related papers: 1. Original folder front, with Upward's des...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1975
Extent:
1 folder

148. Add MS 89002/4/8

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Title:
Edward Upward: 'The Sister Who Survived' (transcript of BBC radio broadcast)
Scope & Content:
Transcript of a broadcast by BBC Radio 3 of a short story by Upward, entitled 'The Sister Who Survived'. (The story is an abridgement and adaptation of 'The White-Pinafored Black Cat'.) Transmitted: 5 August 1985.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1985
Extent:
1 folder

149. Add MS 89002/4/9

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Title:
Edward Upward: Three stories in autograph manuscript
Scope & Content:
Three stories in autograph draft in a folder entitled: 'Handwritten MSS of stories written after the publication of The Night Walk & Other Stories'. The three stories are: 'The Scenic Railway'; 'The Theft'; 'Investigation after Midnight' With a single sheet listing projected contents for Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1990]
Extent:
1 folder

150. Add MS 89002/4/10

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Title:
Edward Upward: Collection of stories submitted to the publishers Serif
Scope & Content:
A collection of stories submitted to the publishers Serif, under the title 'The Scenic Railway and Other Selected Stories 1933-1993'. With a letter (26 January 1994) from Stephen Hayward, Serif, expressing the view that 'we just can't afford to take the risk of publishing ... in the current clim...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1994
Extent:
1 folder