Add MS 59620 C

WILFRED PARTINGTON PAPERS. Vol. I C (ff. 298). Papers, etc., chiefly comprising correspondence about T. J. Wise; circa 1944-1954. Partly copies, partly signed, partly printed. At ff. 235-247, are G. B. Shaw's autograph marginal corrections and additions to pp. 13, 14, 61, 71, 144 and 278 of Partington's Forging Ahead (New York, 1939), together with a prefatory note and postscripts; 1940. Photocopies. In the British edition of this work, published in London in 1946 under the title Thomas Wise in the Original Cloth, Shaw's comments are printed as an Appendix.

includes:

• ff. 1-2 James Bertrand de Vincheles Payen-Payne, Principal, Kensington Coaching School: Letters to Wilfred Partington from James Bertrand de Vincheles Payen-Payne: 1938-1944.
• ff. 14-17, 19-20 Sir Edgar John Forsdyke, KCB; Director of the British Museum: Correspondence with Wilfred Partington: 1944: Partly signed, partly copies.
• ff. 21-23, 51, 74, 82 Philip Gosse, MD; author; son of E W Gosse: Letters to Wilfred Partington: 1937-1947: Partly copies.
• f. 66 Eric George Millar, DLitt.; Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum: Letter to Wilfred Partington from Eric George Millar: 1947: Signed.
• ff. 75-76, 87 Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Director, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: Letters to Wilfred Partington from Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell: 1937-1948.
• f. 95, 105 Edward Henry Blakeney, poet: Letters to Wilfred Partington from Edward Henry Blakeney: 1948.
• ff. 157-162 Andreas Mayor, of the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Correspondence with Wilfred Partington from Andreas Mayor: 1949: Partly copies, partly signed.
• ff. 235-247, 250-255 Wilfred Partington, author: Correspondence with G. B. Shaw of Wilfred Partington: 1925-1947?: Partly copy.
• ff. 235-298, passim George Bernard Shaw, author: Correspondence and papers relating to: 1940-1945: Partly copies, partly printed.
• ff. 274-298 Dr Fritz Erwin Loewenstein, of the Shaw Society: Correspondence with Wilfred Partington: 1945-1949: Partly copies.