Box 1
Contains 40 Results:
Notebook in Anne Ridler's handwriting titled "Notes from the Writings of Charles Williams" and other short pieces, 1937-1969
77pp.
Book: Key to the Tarot, 1920
The Key to the Tarot: Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition under the Veil of Divination by Arthur Edward Waite. New Edition. London: Rider and Co. Inscription in front of book reads “Anne Ridler from C.W. [Charles Williams] via M.D.! [Margaret Douglas] 1963.” Call no.: BF1879.T2 W35 1920. See additional description on p. 194 of Charles Williams: The Third Inkling by Grevel Lindop.
Artwork, 1942-1995
2 folders. Lamb, Lynton. Artwork for the cover of Three Plays by Charles Williams. Includes a folded piece of paper with the inscription "Lynton Lamb / artist - often commissioned by OUP" in Anne Ridler's writing; also includes a photocopied photograph of Lamb, and a biographical article about him from Amen House; originally included on the cover of the 1931 edition of Three Plays published by Oxford University Press. 11"x16"
Charles Williams Society, 1980-2002
2 folders
Documents relating to the Society, 1980-2002
Including: information on the 1997 conference, newsletter drafts and excerpts, obituary for Charles Hadfield, newsletters 61-70 index, December 1993 membership list, issue 101 of the Newsletter (Winter 2001) with accompanying correspondence to Vivian Ridler from Stephen Medcalf. 27pp.
Anne Spalding artwork cards, 1976-1995
Five cards with one descriptive notecard in Anne Ridler's handwriting. 6pp.
Correspondence, 1938-2000
4 folders
Michal Williams (wife of Charles Williams) letters to Anne Ridler, 1957
7pp.
Issues of the Charles Williams Society Newsletter, 1990-1999
Includes nos. 58, 78, 90-92. A full run of this periodical is stored in the Wade Center's bound periodical collection (PR6045.I5 Z4583 1976), 5 issues.
Miscellanea, 1920-2001
3 folders
Sketch of Charles Williams by Anne Spalding, "with best Christmas wishes to Anne Ridler, 1945", 1942-1945
"9.5" x 12", 1p.
Notes, 1937-1969
2 folders
Correspondence, including letters with Stephen Medcalf, Raymond Hunt, Vivian Ridler, Alice Mary Hadfield, Oxford University Press, Phillida, and others, undated, 1938-1958
28pp.
Miscellaneous published pieces: “After Ronsard” poem, photocopied excerpts from The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter, and book chapter titled “The Arthurian Legend”, n.d.
9pp.
Correspondence, including letters with Alice Mary Hadfield, the Charles Williams Society, Humphrey Carpenter, Brian Horne, Martin Moynihan, and others, 1976-1989
39pp.
Correspondence, including letters with the Charles Williams Society, Charles Hadfield, Roma A. King, Gavin Ashenden, Georgette Versinger, and others, 1990-2001
The letter dated July 26, 2001 was enclosed in the proof copy of To Michal from Serge now in the Wade Center’s book collection (see end of finding aid). 32pp.
Notebook belonging to Anne Ridler in which she has recorded what she describes as "Charles Williams loquitur' [his obiter dicta], n.d.
Also includes brief photocopied articles on Anne Ridler. 8 handwritten pp. + 1p. article.
Publications, 1943-2011
5 folders
Miscellaneous items and unpublished pieces, 1959-2001
28pp.
Original envelopes which held items in this collection, some with handwritten notes and addresses on the front, 1945-2001
All pertinent information from the envelopes was noted on the pieces removed from them. 4 envelopes.
Articles, 1945-2011
21pp.
Unpublished Materials, 1951-2000
12 folders
Henderson, Kate. "Charles Williams: The Early Poetry" paper, 1991-1992
(February 22, 1992, Oxford University). Also includes a typed outline titled "Charles Williams and the Dominions of Love: A Critical Analysis and Critical Edition of The Silver Stair, Poems of Conformity, Divorce, and Windows of Night (December 17, 1991, New College). 24pp.
Jones, Rufus M. "The Affirmative and Negative Ways in the Pseudo-Dionysius," typed transcript from Studies in Mystical Religion, ca. 1951
pp. 105-108 (Macmillan, 1909). Includes envelope address to Ridler. 7pp.
Mecalf, Stephen. "The Dance Along the Artery: T.S. Eliot and Charles Williams," handwritten paper, ca. 2000
Includes a letter to Ridler from Medcalf and a large envelope. 67pp.
Ridler, Anne. "Charles Williams: Intelligence of Love", ca. 1993
Various drafts and related notes. 70pp.
Ridler, Anne. "Charles Williams and T.S. Eliot: Affirmation and the Quality of Disbelief", n.d.
Various drafts. 28pp.
Ridler, Anne. Introduction to "The House by the Stable" by Charles Williams, January 3, 1960
BBC Radio broadcast transcript. 6pp.
Articles, 1943-2001
22pp.
Ridler, Anne. "The Poetry of Charles Williams", ca. 1993
Various drafts and related notes, and 2 envelopes. 32pp.
Ridler, Anne et al. Various notes on the Taliessin poems by Charles Williams, including a mailer dated October 11, 1990, ca. 1990
51pp.
Ridler, Anne et al. Various notes on the Taliessin poems by Charles Williams, continued, 1980
Includes a folder titled "Alice Mary's [Hadfield] Taliessin" containing notes and some correspondence. 38pp.
Ridler, Anne et al. Various notes the Taliessin poems by Charles Williams, continued, 1990
Includes an envelope titled "Vivian Ridler's file: Charles Williams books production notes, etc." Also includes map of Europe with overlaid female body. 18pp.
"The Commonplace Book: Charles Williams's Early Approach to the Arthurian Poetry" by Georgette Versinger, 1999-2000
Mythlore vol. 22, no. 3. Winter 1999. Includes an envelope and letter dated March 21, 2000. 11pp.
Ridler, Anne. Various short works, 1957-1979
23pp.
Introduction by Charles Williams to The English Poems of John Milton
(London: Oxford UP, 1940). Stapled inside a paper cover with an inscription by Williams which reads: "for Anne / C.W. / Dec. / 40." In envelope with annotations by Anne Ridler. Pages numbered ix-xxii. 1 pamphlet and 1 envelope.
Large excerpt from Witchcraft by Charles Williams, 1940-1941
(London: Faber & Faber, 1941). Includes pages: 13-16, 209-311, with a stamp dated December 20, 1940 and another set of pages 305-316 with a stamp dated February 3, 1941. 64pp.
Versinger, Georgette. "Charles Williams's Imagination of the Fall and Redemption in The Advent of Galahad", 2000
Talk given to the CW Society and published in the Newsletter (February 5, 2000). Includes a letter dated February 21, 2000, an envelope, and a sheet headed "Queries about CW's Plays." 26pp.
Two photo albums featuring a couple photos of Williams, Michal, Michael, and vairous photos of friends in the circle of Williams admirers, including Alice Mary Hadfield
Also include photos of Ridler's trips to Italy, and British landscape photos. 2 albums (at end of archive), original prints stored in the Williams Photograph Collection. Copies of the photos are in this folder. 21pp.
Tarot Cards, n.d.
Metal Three Nuns tobacco tin containing a set of tarot cards (the 1760 Nicolas Conver Tarot de Marseille deck, the most traditional tarot generally available) once belonging to Charles Williams. Incomplete deck of 59 cards. See additional description on p. 194 of Charles Williams: The Third Inkling by Grevel Lindop.