Box 1
Contains 21 Results:
World War II Materials from Dorothy L. Sayers
This archive contains materials relating to Dorothy L. Sayers's work during World War II, including her advisory role in the Author's Planning Committee, and correspondence regarding knitting clothes for trawlermen.
Series 1
This archive contains 19 folders of materials, and one book was removed and is now stored in the book collection. Contents are arranged in the following order: Author’s Planning Committee materials, unidentified typescripts, correspondence, knitting notes, and crossword puzzles.
Author’s Planning Committee, related correspondence, July-August 1939
31pp.
Author’s Planning Committee meeting minutes, July-August 1939
15pp.
Author’s Planning Committee notes, August 1939
Includes: lists of pamphlets written and authors, diagrams drawn by Sayers on how the committee should function, and a memorandum on the scope of the Committee on Scripts. 13 pp.
Author’s Planning Committee drafts: “Why we are Fighting Germany” by D.A. Routh, August 28, 1939
46pp.
Author’s Planning Committee drafts: “The Economic Position of Germany” by A.T.K. Grant, August 29, 1939
31pp.
Author’s Planning Committee drafts: “Britian’s War Aims” by R.H.S. Crossman and “Nazi Lies” by D.A. Routh, September 5, 1939
32pp.
Author’s Planning Committee drafts: “Germany’s Living Space” by D. O’Donovan, September 30, 1939
16pp.
“Religion and the War” by unknown author, 1940
2pp. (The Rev. John A. Thurmer was consulted about this document in May 2010. He believes it to be a submission to the Authors’ Planning Committee, probably not by someone with a clerical background.)
Untitled typescript with extensive handwritten notes and sketches by an unknown author, n.d.
25pp.
Original folder for the following correspondence, titled: “Knitting during the war: Trawlers” , n.d.
1p.
Correspondence relating to Sayers’s clothes knitting for trawlers, 1940
Includes a descriptive note in the front of the folder by Anthony Fleming. 34pp.
Correspondence relating to Sayers’s clothes knitting for trawlers, January-May 1941
25pp.
Correspondence relating to Sayers’s clothes knitting for trawlers, June-December 1941
38pp.
Correspondence relating to Sayers’s clothes knitting for trawlers, 1942-1943
20pp.
Knitting notes, n.d.
Miscellaneous handwritten notes, and 2 issues of the publication Wool and Water: Official Journal of the Civil-&-Services Comforts Association, edited by Dorothy L. Sayers, 14pp.
Knitting notes, n.d.
Handwritten and typed notes titled: “Slippers in Rug Wool” and “Two or More Colors," 14pp.
Knitting notes titled: “Appledore Jersey” , n.d.
Both handwritten and typed, 31pp.
Crossword puzzles and handwritten clues; One titled: “Curse for Torquemada”, n.d.
26pp.
Photocopies of the dust jacket and title page of Begin Here: A War-Time Essay by Dorothy L. Sayers. London: Victor Gollancz, 1940
(book now stored in the Wade Center book collection)