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Henry Cecil. Third accrual. 1921-1975; 1950-1975 predominant. - 1 m of textual records.

Series 1:
Novels, plays, scripts (manuscripts and typescripts). - 1954-1975. - 40 cm of textual records. - Title based on content of series.

Box 74:
F.1-3 According to the Evidence (1954)
F.4-6 Alibi for a Judge (1960), includes programme
F.7 "The Blood Tie" written with C.E. Webber; a play based on the novel Fathers in Law
F.8 Brief to Counsel (1958; 1972), notes for proofs
F.9-10 "Brief Tales from the Bench"
F.11-2 Brothers in Law (1957)

Box 75:
F.1-2 Brothers in Law (1957)
F.3-4 "The Chances Are Not"; "The Chances Aren't"
F.5 "Hugo" written with C.E. Webber; a play based on the novel Fathers in Law
F.6 "Misleading Cases"
F.7 "Motoring Law for the Layman"
F.8-11 No Fear or Favour (1968), novel and play
F.12-5 "Raffles"

Box 76:
F.1-6 Settled Out of Court (1959)
F.7-9 "Woman Unknown"
F.10 "Your Verdict", includes correspondence from 1975
F.11 Various titles, 4 notebooks

Series 2:
Articles, short stories, book reviews, extracts from novels (manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, tear-sheets, offprints, and news clippings). - 1950-1975. - 38 cm of textual records. - Title based on content of series.

Box 77:
F.1 "Abuse of Power"
F.2 "According to the Evidence", 1955
F.3 Addressing Judges"
F.4 "The Adjutant Who Knew Too Much"
F.5 "The Air Raid"
F.6 "The Appealing Mr. Tinker"
F.7 "The Application", 1951
F.8 "Be Quiet, Bogg!", 1970
F.9 "Beginning at the End", 1950
F.10 Book review of The Boston Strangler, 1967
F.11 Brief to Counsel extracts, 1958
F.12 "Breaking the Law"
F.13 "Bright's Betting System"
F.14 "The Broadcast"
F.15 Brothers in Law, article about, "How True Can Funny Be?"
F.16 "Chef's Special", 1968
F.17 Book reviews of Confessions of a Country Magistrate and Farewell to the Assizes, 1973
F.18 "Copyright in the Public Interest" / "Extension of the Term of Copyright", 1973-1974
F.19 "Crime in the Black-Out"
F.20 Book by Celia Dane, foreword to
F.21 "Day-Dream"
F.22 "The Devil"
F.23 "Doctors in Law", 1961
F.24 The Disagreeable Man", 1951
F.25 "During Dinner"
F.26 "The English Way of Law"
F.27 "Expense Account Story"
F.28 "The Fact Finders"
F.29 "The Factory"
F.30 Flying Horse"
F.31 "Flattery in the Law", 1969
F.32 "Free for All"
F.33 "Freedom of the Press", 1974
F.34 "Germany Still Calling"
F.35 "The Good Turn", 1961
F.36 "The Good-in-Man", 1953
F.37 "Great Reputations", 1975
F.38 "The Gropists"
F.39 Book review of Handbook for Judges
F.40 "Happiness in [?]"
F.41 "How I Made My First ...", 1966
F.42 "Here Lies a Tell-Tale"
F.43 "How to Keep Well and Out of Prison"
F.44 "Humbug"
F.45 "I Didn't Know What I Liked"
F.46 "I Forget the Name", 1964
F.47 "I Haven't Changed Since I Was Eight", 1958
F.48 "I Killed Gordon McNaghten", 1959
F.49 "I'm Afraid", 1963
F.50 "Imprisonment for Debt"
F.51 "In Broad Daylight"
F.52 "'In Defence of Damages and Juries'", 1961
F.53 "In Praise of Crime", 1971
F.54 "Independent Witness", 1963
F.55 "It Was Fun While It Lasted", 1969
F.56 "A Judge Looks At Grendon"
F.57 "Judge and Witness"
F.58 "Judgement Reserved"
F.59 Just Within the Law, extracts from, 1975
F.60 "Law", 1974
F.61 "Larceny", 1951
F.62 "The Last Ten Years"
F.63 "Legal Aid"

Box 78:
F.1 "The Lesson", 1958
F.2 "Let's Hope It Won't Happen Tomorrow", 1957
F.3 "The Limit"
F.4 "London's Old Bailey"
F.5 "The Long Jump"
F.6 Book review of May It Please Your Lordship, 1971
F.7 Book review of Making People Pay
F.8 "Minds Over Modes"
F.9 "Mock Trial", 1955
F.10 "Moment of Success"
F.11 "Murder Before Meals"
F.12 "My Tribes Right or Wrong"
F.13 "The Name", 1952
F.14 "Near Miss", 1961; also one p.c.
F.15 "New Ways with Crime", 1971
F.16 "Newspapers' Privilege", 1973
F.17 "No Expectations"
F.18 "Not on the Menu", 1952
F.19 Not Such an Ass, extracts from, 1961
F.20 "Nothing But the Truth?"
F.21 "Novel and Play"
F.22 "The Oath", "Meaningless Oaths", 1969
F.23 "Obligations of Publishers and Authors", 1973
F.24 "The Old Bailey"
F.25 "The Only Way to Fight Crime"
F.26 "The Optimists", 1974
F.27 "Party of One", 1963
F.28 "The Patient"
F.29 "Penal Reform"
F.30 "Perjury"
F.31 "Police! Police!"
F.32 "The Policeman and the Judge" published as "Bewigged, Bothered and Bewildered", 1971
F.33 "Portrait of a Judge", 1951
F.34 "Privacy"
F.35 "Prize Story"
F.36 "Proof"
F.37 Book reviews of The Punitive Obsession, 1971
F.38 "The Reasonable Judge", 1955
F.39 "The Right of Silence", 1973
F.40 "R.S.V.P."
F.41 "Say Who Cheated"
F.42 "Seeds of Suspicion", 1972
F.43 Settled Out of Court, serialization, 1959
F.44 Book review of Sex and the Singular English
F.45 Book review of Shakespeare and the Lawyers
F.46 "The Simple Truth"
F.47 Book review of The Sleep of Life
F.48 "So Sorry" published as "I'm So Sorry", 1974
F.49 "The Story Teller"
F.50 "Strictly Private and Confidential", 1974
F.51 "Striking the Balance"
F.52 "Stupidities in the Law" published as "Stupidities in the Legal System", 1965
F.53 "The System", 1951
F.54 "Table Talk"
F.55 "There Were Many Moments", 1957
F.56 "To Whom It May Concern", 1959
F.57 "... Two Guineas" published as "My First Two Guineas", 1966
F.58 "Unkind Cut"
F.59 "Virgil as a Poet of Nature"
F.60 "The Wanted Man"
F.61 "What Is a Lie?"
F.62 "What's Wrong with Judges", 1970
F.63 "The Wife in the Train" published as "Wife in Court", 1964
F.64 "The World of Colonel Brain"

Series 3:
Speeches, untitled and fragmentary writings, news clippings. - 1921-1972. - 2 cm of textual records. - Title based on content of series.

F.65 Speech, speech extract
F.66 Untitled and fragmentary writings
F.67 News clippings, not signed, 1953-1971
F.68 News clippings about Henry Cecil and his father?, 1921-1972
F.69 Foreign news clippings containing translated writings by Cecil, 1964-1965, n.d.

 

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