The Williams Family Papers contain a variety of personal documents, vital records, publications, correspondence, and other materials relating to Charles Williams and his family.

3 folders

3 folders

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

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.

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

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.

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

5 folders

1 folder

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.

Includes: memorial card for Queen Victoria, birthday postcard, Elizabeth II and John Watkins postcard, and St. Cross Holywell, Oxford, and an envelope addressed to “Mrs. Williams” containing 12 unused sepia postcards of London scenes.

8 folders

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

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

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.

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

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

1 folder

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

4 folders

5pp.

including: poem titled “Affectionate Hints” by Alfred Williams (1840), undated poem “Upon Death” by R.W.S. Williams, MS 'Copied from the Illustrated London News 3 July 1847': speech of Sir Harry Smith, pages from diary (possibly Alice Wall), song lyrics, a poem, and page of notes in the hand of Michael Williams. 1840-1945, 10pp.

12pp.

including: text to a hymn, list of songs, carbon copy of title page only of Zion and Gomorrah: A Study of Good and Evil in the Novels of Charles Williams by Ann Elizabeth Gould, and a sheet titled “Self Examination.” 4pp.

1 folder

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.

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

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

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

10pp.

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

32pp.

Includes photographs, 35pp.

4 folders

2 bookmarks, pictorial card about Life of Christ and the Bible, pamphlet: Who Sings of Easter? (signed Easter 1932), flier advertising Dickens Inn, London, order of service from Memorial Service for Dorothy L Sayers, January 15, 1958, St Anne's House, Soho, program of guest nights, Summer 1955, includes 'After Ten Years: An Appreciation of the work of Charles Williams', Joy Davidman, chaired by Dorothy L. Sayers. 8pp.

circular decorative pierced card for 9th birthday of Henry Stansby Williams, April 27, 1836, empty stamped photograph envelope, 2 small illustrations by Richard Williams, card apparently for postcard design of views of St Albans Abbey by J.C. Wall, a blank invoice form for J. Wall Chair and Couch Manufacturer, and a photograph of a pencil drawing of Charles Williams by E. Pierce (1936, in envelope – also listed in Artwork collection as A-355). 9pp.

4 folders

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

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

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)

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.

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.

letters. 64pp.

letters. 49pp.

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

6pp.