Non-Publishing: Invitations, Requests, Engagements, and Other (General, Chronological)
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Invitations to various events and activities, as well as requests for interviews (including one from Hermione Lee, 2 Feb 1997) and for information about Penelope Fitzgerald's works, organised chronologically. Undated communications appear at the back of the folder.
The book contains notes on various subjects and in more than one hand; contents include pages of plant names, recollections [E V Knox's], family trees, commentary touching on topics such as politics and society, often fragmentary in nature. The envelope which originally housed the notebook bears ...
Includes page proofs of the preliminaries and end matter of Penelope Fitzgerald: A House of Air - Selected Writings, ed. Terence Dooley (London: Harper Perennial, 2005). Dooley was Fitzgerald’s son-in-law.
Notebooks '21' and 'Fleet St.: in 1920s, 30s, 40s; inc: Maurice Baring'
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Fleet St. etc: includes notes on Fleet Street newspapers (1920s-1940s); W L Knox and religion; and R A Knox's Let Dons Delight. Also mentions Punch briefly. Book 21: subjects include Dilly [A D Knox]; English Humour (a talk); Punch; Oxford in the Great War; and Folk Tales (includes a small ill...
The Knox Brothers: Research (Photocopies of Ronald Knox Letters)
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Photocopies of Ronald Knox's letters, mostly to Lady Peck [Winifred, his sister] gathered by Fitzgerald (some also annotated by her), whilst researching for The Knox Brothers. Many are undated. The original envelope housing the letters was labelled "PREHEN" in Fitzgerald's handwriting and also co...
The Knox Brothers: Proof and Corrections (Counterpoint, 2000)
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1 proof of The Knox Brothers (dated 2000 but published in July 2001) and two annotated sets of corrections sent to Fitzgerald by Chris Carduff (Counterpoint publishers), from March 2000.
Research: Maps Relating to an Article on Milton Abbot
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Three A3 photocopied maps, one with orange highlighting. The maps are undated so the derived date for this record comes from the published article (which appeared in The Independent). For photograph negatives for the article see Add MS 89289/1/19.
Correspondence of E V Knox and some letters to Mary Knox, interspersed throughout (these appear to relate to research she was conducting about her husband's life and also approaches to archival repositories about letters relating to Evoe's time as editor of Punch). Also includes a letter from Eve...