Box 1
Contains 58 Results:
Correspondence with Lois Lang-Sims, 2010-2013
18 hand-written letters from Lois Lang-Sims to Grevel Lindop discussing the Williams biography chapter by chapter as she read it in course of composition. (Item #11 on original inventory listing.) 44pp.
Interview Transcripts, 1992-2013
The Wade owns digital versions of all interview transcripts. The recorded interviews are in the Wade Center's Sound Recording collection (see call numbers: CW-Y / SR-22-41).
Last names B-G, 2002-2006
Transcripts of interviews with: Brenda Boughton, Jane Dowling, Anne Dreydel, Christopher Fry, and Mary Guillemard. (Item #3 on original inventory listing.) 74pp.
Last names H-M, 1992-2013
Transcripts of interviews with: John Heath-Stubbs, Helen King, Lois Lang-Sims, and Phyllis MacDougall (Jones). (Item #3 on original inventory listing.) 101pp.
Last names R-S, 1998-2006
Transcripts of interviews with: Anne Ridler (2), Margaret Routley, Johanne Schuller, and Anne Spalding. (Item #3 on original inventory listing.) 95pp.
Emails from Oxfordshire Health Archives and The Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 2006-2008
Information on Williams's death, and relatives Richard Walter Stansby Williams and James Charles Wall. (Item #39 on original inventory listing.) 2pp.
Bodleian Library Notes Part 1, 2006
Extensive typescript notes from Lindop's research work with the Bodleian Library's Williams-related materials. (Item #12 on original inventory listing.) The Wade owns a digital copy of this document. 69pp.
Personal reminiscences of Williams from people who knew him Part 1, 1995-2006
In order by last name of correspondent. Included names: Abrams, Arkell, Barber, Binfield, Butts, Caldwell, Chapman, Davies, Dearden, Flint, Fraser, Grimwade, Good, Haley, Harvey, King, Leech, Lewis, and Light. (Item #20 on original inventory listing.) 31pp.
Charles Williams Family and Biographical Records, 1848-1921
Williams's student records, St. Albans & University College, London, 1899-1903
(Item #10 on original inventory listing.) 4pp.
St. Albans School photo with Charles Williams, 1902
Photocopy only, original photo at St. Albans School. Williams is 5th from the right in the back row. (Item #22 on original inventory listing.) 2pp.
St. Albans Street postcards, 1921
5 postcards (Item #35a on original inventory listing.)
Last names S-W, 1992-2005
Transcripts of interviews with: Ruth Spalding, Joy Stephenson, Joan Wallis (2), and Kate Welbourne. (Item #3 on original inventory listing.) 93pp.
Bodleian Library Notes Part 2, 2006
Extensive typescript notes from Lindop's research work with the Bodleian Library's Williams-related materials. (Item #12 on original inventory listing.) The Wade owns a digital copy of this document. 62pp.
Bodleian Library Notes Part 3, 2006
Handwritten notes on Williams's letters to Anne Renwick, John Pellow's diary, and Williams's letters to Bruce Mongomery and Alice Meynell. From Lindop's research work with the Bodleian Library's Williams-related materials. 20pp.
Personal reminiscences of Williams from people who knew him Part 2, 2001-2011
In order by last name of correspondent. Includes some memorabilia items from the Spalding family, and the following last names: Maw, Ralphs, Routley, Saklatvala, Schuller, Sheen, Sr. Stella Francis, Stephenson, Wallis, Wallis-Hadrill, Welch, Wheeler, Williamson, Wolf. (Item #20 on original inventory listing.) 42pp.
"Memories of Early Days at Home" by Edith Williams, n.d.
Handwritten memoir. (Item #31b on original inventory listing.) 9pp.
Williams family records with the Royal Historical Society, 1905-1921
(Item #39 on original inventory listing.) 7pp.
Marion E. Wade Center Notes Part 1, 2008
Extensive typescript notes from Lindop's research work with the Wade Center's Williams-related materials. (Item #14 on original inventory listing.) The Wade owns a digital copy of this document. 51pp.
Marion E. Wade Center Notes Part 2, 2008
Extensive typescript notes from Lindop's research work with the Wade Center's Williams-related materials. (Item #14 on original inventory listing.) The Wade owns a digital copy of this document. 56pp.
Publications by Charles Williams, 1926-1941
17pp.
Materials relating to Edith and Michael Williams, 1946-2006
(Item #29 on original inventory listing.) 21pp.
Charles Williams Notes in Chronological Order Part 1, n.d.
Typescript compiled by Grevel Lindop from his research notes, spans 1836-1951. 51pp.
"The Massacre of Seisyllt" and "Arthurian Pageants in Twentieth-Century Britain", 1913-2007
(Item #6 on original inventory listing.) 27pp.
Vital records for the Williams family and close associates, 1848-2002
Amen House architectural plans, 1922
Oxford University Press, London. (Item #21 on original inventory listing.) 6pp.
Miscellaneous pieces from Anne Ridler, 1919-1958
Items formerly in the possession of Anne Ridler. (Item #15 on original inventory listing.) 10pp.
Charles Williams Notes in Chronological Order Part 2, n.d.
Typescript compiled by Grevel Lindop from his research notes, spans 1836-1951. 52pp.
Charles Williams Notes in Chronological Order Part 3, n.d.
Typescript compiled by Grevel Lindop from his research notes, spans 1836-1951. 51pp.
Articles By and About Charles Williams from Anne Ridler, 1913-1939
Items (mostly book reviews) formerly in the possession of Anne Ridler. (Item #15 on original inventory listing.) 57pp.
Articles and other Publications ABOUT Charles Williams, 1936-1993
(Items #39 and 33c on original inventory listing.) 21pp.
Williams-related articles from Downe House Archives, 1930-2011
Includes a letter from Downe House Archivist Jennifer Kingsland to Grevel Lindop dated April 5, 2011, and several articles and excerpts. (Items #30a-b on original inventory listing.) Myth of Bacon manuscript removed and placed in the Charles Williams Manuscript collection. 21pp.
"Charles Williams" article draft, November 27, 1950
Typescript with revisions by Christopher Fry, published in The Adelphi. Published version included. (Item #33d on original inventory listing.) 6pp.
"Beer and Beowulf" article and letter, October-November 1978
Press cutting and carbon: Kingsley Amis: "Beer and Beowulf," review (cut from New Statesman, October 20, 1978) of Humphrey Carpenter's The Inklings; together with carbon copy of typed letter, Brenda Boughton to Editor of the New Statesman, defending Williams against disparaging comments in Amis’s review. (Item #33e on original inventory listing.) 2pp.
A Time to be Born and Canterbury Cathedral by Lois Lang-Sims, 1971-1979
Excerpts by Lois Lang-Sims referencing Charles Williams in Canterbury Cathedral: Mother Church of Holy Trinity (London: Cassell, 1979): 148-150; and A Time to be Born: Volume One of an Autobiography (Andre Deutsch, 1971): 192-219, 232-233. (Items #33a-b on original inventory listing.) 20pp.
Articles relating to performances of Williams’s plays by the Pilgrim Players and to his talks at Pleshey, 1937-1941
"The Wet Grass of Bookishness: Hubert J. Foss as Book Designer", Winter 1994
By Peter Foden and Paul W. Nash in Matrix 14, pp. 139-147. (Item #37a on original inventory listing.) 11pp.
Obituary for E.K. Bennett (Francis), ca. 1958?
Early friend of Williams at the Working Men's College ca. 1907-1914. Bennett's dates: 1887-1958. Obituary by E.M. Forster in The Caian, journal of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, pp. 123-127. (Item #37b on original inventory listing.) 3pp.
Content from Principle in Art, Religio Poetae and Other Essays by Coventry Patmore, 1913
Chapters on "Love and Poetry" and "The Precursor" from Principle in Art, Religio Poetae and Other Essays by Coventry Patmore (revised edition, London: Duckworth & Co.) pp. 226-232, 334-339. (Item #39a on original inventory listing.) 8pp.
Articles relating to Oxford University Press in Williams's time, 1940-1950
(Item #7 on original inventory listing.) 5pp.
Material relating to Fellowship of the Rosy Cross, 1917-1926
Item #19 on original inventory listing. 70pp.
Extracts from esoteric works by A.H.E. Lee, D.H.S. Nicholson, and others, 1912-1939
Item #32 on original inventory listing. 41pp.
First draft of biography, chapters 1-8
Original title: Charles Williams: The Last Magician by Grevel Lindop. 104pp.
First draft of biography, chapters 9-14
Original title: Charles Williams: The Last Magician by Grevel Lindop. 110pp.
First draft of biography, chapters 15-18
Original title: Charles Williams: The Last Magician by Grevel Lindop. 66pp.
First draft of biography, chapters 19-end
Original title: Charles Williams: The Last Magician by Grevel Lindop. 54pp.
First proof of Charles Williams: The Third Inkling, chapters 1-4, June 2015
With author’s holograph corrections. Item #38 on original inventory listing. 73pp.