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Box 2

 Container

Contains 74 Results:

Correspondence, 1840-2000

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The original contents of this collection arrived in various different packages labeled “A” through “Y.” A 48pp. inventory, prepared by Grevel Lindop, described the materials in detail in their original ordering. The contents were re-ordered by the Wade Center according to the system described below, but the original contents listings have been retained and can be accessed upon request. The original containers the materials arrived in were discarded when deemed that they were unsuitable for...
Dates: Created: 1840-2000

Documents, 1894-1953

 Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents

3 folders

Dates: Created: 1894-1953

Alice Wall Documents, 1894-1953

 Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

3 folders

Dates: Created: 1894-1953

Alice Wall cards, undated, with the exception of an envelope dated 1953

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 35
Identifier: Folder 35
Scope and Contents

Personally-designed cards for holidays, birthdays, etc. containing original art and verse. 8pp.

Dates: Created: undated, with the exception of an envelope dated 1953

Alice Wall cards continued, 1894-1897

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 36
Identifier: Folder 36
Scope and Contents

Includes envelope of Frank H Emdin, Picture Frame Maker, Fleet Street, containing three small rectangles of ivory-coloured translucent material (celluloid?), one blank, one with diagonal white line, one with similar line which is evidently start of hand-painting of a fern leaf. Grevel Lindop states: "Evidently elements of an unfinished decorative project, no doubt by AFW." 7pp.

Dates: Created: 1894-1897

Edith Williams Documents, 1904-1972

 Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

1 folder, see also: folder 22 in the Grevel Lindop Collection archive.

Dates: Created: 1904-1972

Copy of Edith Williams’s will, dated January 12, 1972..., 1904-1972

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 38
Identifier: Folder 38
Scope and Contents

first communion card, handwritten poem by R.W.S. Williams on her birthday (1910), and copies of the hymn “Jesus, So Lowly” with words by Edith Williams, 10pp.

Dates: Created: 1904-1972

General correspondence, 1919-1940

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 23
Identifier: Folder 23
Scope and Contents

Includes letters with: Richard Walter Stansby Williams (father), Alice Wall (aunt), Oxford University Press, Roger Lloyd, Margaret Douglas, and others. 20pp.

Dates: Created: 1919-1940

General Correspondence, 1840-2000

 Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Dates: Created: 1840-2000

Correspondence with various Williams relatives, Vivian and Anne Ridler, Terry Drummond, and others., 1840-2000

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 29
Identifier: Folder 29
Scope and Contents

Includes letter from Capt. J. Waller to Mr C. Williams, 17 White Lion Street, Pentonvile [sic] London, from HMS Snake, Malta, 14 July 1845, notifying him of death of his brother Richard, washed overboard in gale outside the Bay of Naples. Asks him to break news to their mother, along with an unmarked envelope, containing crown and anchor from naval uniform, stitched to card. Written on card: 'Richard Williams/drowned off Naples, Feb. 3. 1845.15pp.

Dates: Created: 1840-2000

Michal Williams Documents, 1910-1970

 Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

8 folders

Dates: Created: 1910-1970

Teaching Certificate, Board of Education, Florence Sarah Conway (aka Michal Williams) dated April 1, 1910 ..., 1910-1970

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 39
Identifier: Folder 39
Scope and Contents

and a bulletin from St. Saviour’s Church announcing Michal’s death dated March 19702pp.

Dates: Created: 1910-1970

Drafts of Michal's introduction to her selection of Charles Williams’s letters. , n.d.

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 40
Identifier: Folder 40
Scope and Contents

One typescript draft came separately from Glenn Sadler. 24pp.

Dates: Created: n.d.

Alice Wall documents, 1923-1946

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 37
Identifier: Folder 37
Scope and Contents including: empty envelope addressed to Westminster Bank in hand of Michal, along with a torn scrap of note in hand of Alice Wall concerning a cheque, 2 postcards 'The First Easter Morn', with poem on verso by AFW, short story titled “Ten Pound Note” (perhaps by Alice Wall), flier from The Literary Amateur (dated February 28, 1923) announcing Miss A.F.Wall as winner of a short story competition with “The Painting,” folded in with purple-duplicated typewritten text of story, “The Likeness,” by...
Dates: Created: 1923-1946

Publications, 1841-1987

 Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Series 4
Scope and Contents

Stored separately: Large brown volume, leather spine and corners, gold-stamped label on front: 'Magazine Contributions' – containing various articles by RWS Williams. See the detailed listing to this volume (prepared by Grevel Lindop) at the end of this finding aid.

Dates: Created: 1841-1987

General correspondence, 1941-1973

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 24
Identifier: Folder 24
Scope and Contents

Includes letters with: Oxford University Press, Roger Lloyd, Margaret Douglas, and others. 36pp.

Dates: Created: 1941-1973

Correspondence with Sister Dorothea CR and Sister Constance CR, St Peter's House, Grahamstown, South Africa, undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 25
Identifier: Folder 25
Scope and Contents

Includes a leaflet titled "Community of the Resurrection of Our Lord at Grahamstown." Includes photographs. 20pp.

Dates: Created: undated

Michal Williams Correspondence, 1945-1968

 Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Dates: Created: 1945-1968

Correspondence, 1945-1968

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 30
Identifier: Folder 30
Scope and Contents

with Alice Wall, Anne (Ridler?), Ruth Lewshenia, Janet Startt, Clyde S. Kilby (unsigned, incomplete letter), and others. 35pp.

Dates: Created: 1945-1968

Articles, 1891-1987

 Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

4 folders

Dates: Created: 1891-1987

Non-Williams related articles, n.d.

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 60
Identifier: Folder 60
Scope and Contents

5pp.

Dates: Created: n.d.

Non-Williams related articles, 1891-1977

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 61
Identifier: Folder 61
Scope and Contents

12pp.

Dates: Created: 1891-1977

St. Alban, 1907

 Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

1 folder

Dates: Created: 1907

Typed carbon draft material for "As I Remember" by Michal., 1965

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 41
Identifier: Folder 41
Scope and Contents

Includes three complete drafts and many fragmented pages. Also includes the poem titled “To Michal Williams” by Dorothy Hobson Fitzgerald, an extract from a letter from Charles to Michal Williams, a list of photographs, and an untitled poem beginning “Ah pardon!”55 pp.

Dates: Created: 1965

Typed draft of Letters to Michal (early title for the later book To Michal Williams from Serge: Letters from Charles Williams to His Wife, Florence, 1939-1945), 1968

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 42
Identifier: Folder 42
Scope and Contents

Includes an introduction by Clyde S. Kilby, and a letter from Kilby to Michal with a list of footnotes intended for the volume. 22pp.

Dates: Created: 1968

Small booklet outlining the area and outline of the pageant, script titled "The Acts of St. Alban" by E. Werge-Oram, , July 1907

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 47
Identifier: Folder 47
Scope and Contents

and a "Pageant Supplement" with printed photos and additional information. 3 booklets & 1p.

Dates: Created: July 1907

Vital Records, 1848-1889

 Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Sub-Series 5
Scope and Contents

2 folders, see also: folder 23 in the Grevel Lindop Collection archive.

Dates: Created: 1848-1889

Small book titled: "Heavenly Wisdom: A Book for Recording the Birthdays of Friends" by Mary Maitland Joy. , n.d.

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 49
Identifier: Folder 49
Scope and Contents

Inscription reads: "Edith Mary Williams from Father with best love and wishes, November 8, 1896". Contains various annotations by Edith Williams. 65pp.

Dates: Created: n.d.

Correspondence with Sister Dorothea, continued, 1925-1929

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 26
Identifier: Folder 26

Correspondence with Sister Dorothea et al, continued., April 1930-1932

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 27
Identifier: Folder 27
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs, 35pp.

Dates: Created: April 1930-1932

Booklets, Journals, and Pamphlets, 1897-1963

 Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

4 folders

Dates: Created: 1897-1963

Michael Williams Correspondence, 1946-1999

 Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Sub-Series 5
Scope and Contents

4 folders

Dates: Created: 1946-1999

Correspondence, undated, 1946-1966

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 31
Identifier: Folder 31
Scope and Contents

with Michal Williams, Edith Williams, and others. 28pp.

Dates: Created: undated, 1946-1966

Correspondence with Sister Dorothea et al, continued, 1941-1944

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 28
Identifier: Folder 28
Scope and Contents

Includes first report of The Bethlehem Home Grahamstown for Coloured Children. 16pp.

Dates: Created: 1941-1944

Williams related articles, 1899-1987

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 62
Identifier: Folder 62
Scope and Contents Including: 'My Cousin Dick', 'By a Young Writer,' Temperance Record 12/7/1899 (possibly by Charles Williams), an obituary for RWS Williams (ca. January 1929, an article on the honorary MA degree from Oxford University awarded to Charles Williams in February 1943, an article on the play Cranmer of Canterbury (ca. June 1936), an advertisement for the play Judgment at Chelmsford, a copy of “To Michal: After Marriage” by Williams, a few articles on Charles...
Dates: Created: 1899-1987

3 booklets, 1924-1955

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 64
Identifier: Folder 64
Scope and Contents

London Today British Empire Exhibition Guide (1924); Charles Williams by John Heath-Stubbs (Writers and their Work No. 63, 1955); Judgment at Chelmsford (1946 edition)

Dates: Created: 1924-1955

Journals, 1945

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 65
Identifier: Folder 65
Scope and Contents

4 copies of The Periodical from July 1945 (piece on Charles Williams, one copy removed and placed in the Wade Center Original Periodical collection). 3 copies.

Dates: Created: 1945

Book reviews on the works of Charles Williams, 1932-1983

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 63
Identifier: Folder 63
Scope and Contents

Including reviews on: Poetry at Present, Rochester, Seed of Adam, Bacon, Many Dimensions, The House of the Octopus, Judgment at Chelmsford, mention of his supernatural thriller novels, A Short Life of Shakespeare, Witchcraft, All Hallows’ Eve, and The Arthurian Poems. 22pp.

Dates: Created: 1932-1983

Typed draft of Letters to Michal continued., 1939

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 43
Identifier: Folder 43
Scope and Contents

letters. 64pp.

Dates: Created: 1939

Typed draft of Letters to Michal continued, 1940-1942

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 44
Identifier: Folder 44
Scope and Contents

letters. 49pp.

Dates: Created: 1940-1942

Vital Records, 1848-1889

 Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Sub-Series 6
Scope and Contents

2 folders, see also: folder 23 in the Grevel Lindop Collection archive.

Dates: Created: 1848-1889

Cemetery and burial records and receipts, undated, 1877-1937

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 51
Identifier: Folder 51
Scope and Contents

17pp.

Dates: Created: undated, 1877-1937

Condolences relating to the death of Michal Williams, February 1970

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 32
Identifier: Folder 32

Correspondence , 1970-1985

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 33
Identifier: Folder 33
Scope and Contents

with Oxford University Press, Edith Williams, the Bodleian Library, Clyde S. Kilby, Glen GoodKnight, and others. 15pp.

Dates: Created: 1970-1985

Richard Walter Stansby Williams Publications, 1841-1898

 Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

2 folders & 1 large book

Dates: Created: 1841-1898

Various pieces by RWS Williams, 1841-1991

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 68
Identifier: Folder 68
Scope and Contents

Including: poem titled 'Lines'; short story 'An Old Spirit Flask' in the Temperance Record (July 16, 1896); 'Unchanged Through Change. A Story of everyday Life' in Crystal Stories April 1884. Vol 4 No 38; Typescript of 'Our Household Skeleton'; and a letter, Kerryl Lynne Henderson to Michael, enclosing transcripts of some poems and a story from magazines by RWSW. 31pp

Dates: Created: 1841-1991

Journals, 1897-1953

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 66
Identifier: Folder 66
Scope and Contents Single leaf, perhaps back or front cover or flier, headed United Temperance Gazette with details of 4 March number and of 'Volume for 1897'; The Guardian ('the Church newspaper'), May 2, 1947 (page 187 has letter from Raymond Hunt); St Peter Coggeshall Parish Magazine with piece on CW by Horace Keast (February 1944); The Lantern April 1935 with caricature of CW; and ...
Dates: Created: 1897-1953

Various pieces by RWS Williams from the Temperance Mirror, 1887-1898

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 69
Identifier: Folder 69
Scope and Contents

Titles: 'As a Brand from the Burning,' 'Madge,' 'A Terrible Warning,' 'The Fate of James Ryan,' 'Those Few Glasses,' 'The Tree and its Fruits,' 'A Bitter Experience,' 'Ruth Falconer's Legacy,' and 'Stricken Down in his Prime.' 39pp.

Dates: Created: 1887-1898