Box 1
Container
Contains 8 Results:
Series 1
Series — Box: 1
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This archive contains manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, related correspondence, and other materials concerned with Aidan Mackey's book, Mr. Chesterton Comes to Tea. The book was written to accompany sixteen unpublished pencil drawings by G.K. Chesterton. These sixteen original pencil drawings, and a sketchbook of Elizabeth Marshall's with drawings by GKC, are also part of the Wade Collection holdings. See the Related Materials list. No further additions are...
Dates:
Created: 1974-1982; Other: Majority of material found in 1977-1979
Contains two exercise books of original mss as well as typescripts of preface, quotes and acknowledgements., 1978-1979
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
Also contains galley proof of the book, advertisements, letters, and 2 articles. 118pp.
Dates:
Created: 1978-1979
Items referring to Sotheby's auction, purchases by Mackey, and letters from Mrs. Potts and Mrs. Rix, who were two little girls featured in the book., 1977-1978
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 2
Scope and Contents
71pp.
Dates:
Created: 1977-1978
Correspondence between Richard Ingrams and Aidan Mackey about his writing of an introduction to the book, and also correspondence with Sebastian Carter of the Rampant Lions Press., 1974-1979
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 3
Scope and Contents
Includes Ingrams and Rampant Lions Press pamphlets, a drafted notice for Fine Print, July 1979, and an article on GKC by Ingrams titled
Dates:
Created: 1974-1979
Items relating to visits to Buckingham Palace, correspondence and copies of letters with the Palace, 1978-1979
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 4
Scope and Contents
First regarding permission to enter the private Palace Gardens, and then about the presenting of a copy of the book to the palace (also includes newspaper clipping and magazine article on the Buckingham Palace Gardens). 14pp.
Dates:
Created: 1978-1979
Correspondence with the National Deposit Libraries regarding the compulsory donating of copies to principal national libraries, 1978-1979
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 5
Scope and Contents
9pp.
Dates:
Created: 1978-1979
2 copies of THE QUEEN'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE (1981) containing a quote from Orthodoxy (by G.K. Chesterton) and a cover letter from Aidan Mackey to Marjorie Mead., 1981-1982
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 6
Scope and Contents
9pp.
Dates:
Created: 1981-1982
Mr. Chesterton Comes to Tea Archive
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Wade-A-10
Abstract
This archive contains manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, related correspondence, and other materials concerned with Aidan Mackey's book, Mr. Chesterton Comes to Tea.
Dates:
Created: 1974-1982; Other: Majority of material found in 1977-1979