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Gabriel Fielding fonds. First and second accruals.
First accrual:
Manuscripts - Novels
Box 1:
Brotherly Love (1954)
F.1 The Light Thickens (Early draft of Brotherly Love)
Holograph manuscript. Typed summary 1 p.; Notes, holograph 2 p.
F.2 Typescript, with holograph corrections 112 p.
F.3 Unidentified portions of typescript
F.4 Holograph manuscript 77 p.
F.5 Holograph manuscript 128 p.
F.6 Holograph manuscript 127 p.
F.7 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Chapters 1 to 4.
F.8 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Chapters 5 to 8.
F.9 Typescript, incomplete.
F.10 Galley proofs, with holograph corrections. p. 1-58, 72-107, 123-154.
Dust jacket.
Box 2:
In the Time of Greenbloom (1956)
F.1 Holograph manuscript of "L'Apres Midi" and "The first wedding". Incomplete.
F.2 Holograph manuscript. "In Danbey Dale", "Rookers Close" and "Summer".
Incomplete.
F.3 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Chapter 1 "L'Apres Midi".
Chapter 2 "The First Wedding"
F.4 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Chapter 3 "In Danbey Dale".
F.5 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Chapter 4.
F.6 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Chapter 5 "Rookers Close".
F.7 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Chapter 6 "Island summer".
F.8 Dust jacket (original) and typescript of title pages.
Box 3:
Eight Days (1958)
F.1 Outline of novel and time scheme. Incomplete. Holograph.
Changes, in names, etc. Carbon typescript.
F.2 Holograph manuscript. Incomplete.
F.3 Holograph manuscript. Incomplete.
F.4 Holograph manuscript. Incomplete.
F.5 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Incomplete.
F.6 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Wednesday - incomplete. Thursday
- not paged. Friday - not paged.
F.7 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Saturday- incomplete. Sunday-
incomplete. Unidentified typescript.
Box 4:
Through Streets Broad and Narrow (1960)
F.1 Holograph manuscript, incomplete. First draft. Holograph manuscript.
16 quarto notebooks.
F.2 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Chapters 1 and 2.
F.3 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Chapters 3 and 4.
F.4 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Chapter 5.
Box 5:
The Birthday King (1962)
Envelope 1 Holograph manuscript. Abandoned first draft, later turned into
short story "A Daughter of the Germans".
Holograph manuscript, started 12 February 1960. Quarto notebooks I to
XIII. Also 4 notebooks containing rewrites of some chapters.
Envelope 2 Holograph manuscript. Second draft, dated January 1961. Quarto
notebooks I to IV.
Envelope 3 Holograph manuscript, second draft, dated January 1961. Quarto
notebooks V to VIII and one notebook unidentified.
Box 6:
F.1 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Chapters 1 to 3.
F.2 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Chapters 4 to 8.
F.3 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Chapters 9 to 12.
F.4 Two holograph manuscript notebooks of material collected in Germany.
F.5 [Introduction] to the text. Discarded pages from Chapter 2 and other
unidentified material, typescript and manuscript.
Box 7:
Gentlemen in Their Season (1966)
Manuscript of Hotchkis Night, later to be called Gentlemen
in Their Season. Holograph manuscript. Notebooks I to IX. Also three
unidentified notebooks.
F.1 Notes on prison slang as used in Gentlemen in Their Season
written for the author by prisoners in his care.
F.2 Hotchkis Night 1 tape reel - typed draft of the novel.
Box 8:
F.1 Original typescript, with holograph corrections. Chapters I to XI.
F.2 Original typescript, with holograph corrections. Chapters XII to XXI.
F.3 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Final draft. Chapters I to
XIII
F.4 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Final draft. Chapters XIV
to XXI
F.5 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Incomplete. Parts of first
and second typescripts.
Box 9:
Queen Nefertiti
Holograph manuscript. Four quarto notebooks, dated August to October 1964.
Also three unidentified notebooks with manuscript notes on the same topic.
F.1 Typescript, with holograph corrections. Film notes.
F.2 Carbon typescript, uncorrected, of final draft, dated 10 December
1964. 160 p.
Box 10:
Short prose pieces, plays, novels, miscellaneous
F.1 Radio talk on Graham Greene. BBC Third programme. April-May 1962.
Holograph manuscript.
F.2 Radio talk on Evelyn Waugh. BBC Third Programme, May and June 1964.
Holograph manuscript, and part of typescript.
F.3 Prison article for Queen magazine, March 1964 (?). Holograph
manuscript, and typescript with holograph corrections.
F.4 Autumn for Cecilia. Holograph manuscript of play.
F.5 Autumn for Cecilia. Typescript, with holograph corrections.
F.6 The Broken Journey. Holograph manuscript, incomplete.
F.7 Brotherly Love (short story). Carbon typescript and original
typescript, incomplete.
F.8 Figs in Spring (short story). Holograph manuscript in notebook.
First draft.
F.9 The King's Dinner (short story). Carbon typescript, incomplete.
F.10 No Man's Land (short story). Carbon typescript, with holograph
corrections.
F.11 The Other Half. Typescript, incomplete.
F.12 The Third Wedding (novel). Holograph manuscript, incomplete.
(Sequel to Brotherly Love, In the Time of Greenbloom,
and Through Streets Broad and Narrow)
F.13 Miscellaneous prose, manuscript and typescript
F.14 Criticisms of Fielding's work. Includes "Gabriel Fielding and the
Catholic Novel"
Report on The Birthday King by Walter Allen. Report on Eight
Days.
F.15 Miscellaneous unidentified material, both manuscript and typescript.
Box 11:
Poetry
F.1 Holograph manuscript. Extensive file of manuscript poems, complete
and incomplete.
F.2 Holograph manuscript. Extensive file of manuscript poems, complete
and incomplete.
F.3 Typescript and carbon typescript. Arranged alphabetically by title,
A to L.
F.4 Typescript and carbon typescript. Arranged alphabetically by title,
M to Z.
F.5 Typescript and carbon typescript. Incomplete.
F.6 "The Ends of Origin". Manuscript and typescript, along with a prose
synopsis of the poem.
Box 12:
Correspondence and press clippings
F.1 Incoming correspondence by name of correspondent. Some letters are
addressed to Gabriel Fielding (G.F.), others to Alan Barnsley (A.B.)
Arthella Anderson to G.F., 3 November 1958, A.L.S.
B.B.C. to A.B., 7 December 1961, T.L.S.
Father Brocard to A.B., 2 July 1956, A.L.S.
Curtis Brown Ltd. to G.F., 21 May 1964, T.L.S.
DeHaviland Aircraft Co. Ltd. to G.F., 15 June 1955, T.L.S.
Faber and Faber Ltd. (T.S. Eliot) to A.B., 27 June 1952, 31 July 1952,
T.L.S.
Family Doctor to A.B., 18 June 1957, T.L.S.
Daniel George to A.B., 25 October 1954, T.L.S.
Graham Greene to A.B., 27 October 1952, 10 November 1952, 5 December 1952,
5 January 1953, 3 February 1953, 7 April 1953, 28 September 1953, 30 September
1953 , 8 July 1954, 19 July 1954, T.L.S.
Harper's Magazine to G.F., 18 August 1961, 21 September 1961,
T.L.S.
Anthony Havelock-Allan to G.F., 26 March 1959, 8 May 1959, 4 June 1959,
T.L.S.
David Higham Associates to A.B., 14 November 1958, 6 December 1958, 5
March 1959, 10 March 1959, 12 March 1959, 30 September 1959, T.L.S.
Hutchinson Publishing Group to G.F., 6 November 1958, 5 January 1959,
21 February 1962, 10 April 1962, 7 May 1962, 8 May 1962, T.L.S.
G.S. Lewis to A.B., 23 September 1952, 21 October 1952, 18 August 1954,
A.L.S.
Robert Lusty to G.F., 3 December 1956, T.L.S.
William Morrow and Co. to G.F., 14 March 1958, 11 December 1958, 26 February
1959, 31 March 1959, 5 May 1959, 18 September 1961, 27 September 1961,
19 February 1961, T.L.S.
Arthur Morse to A.B., 3 March 1959, A.L.S.
Peter Russell to A.B., 6 March 1953, T.L.S.
C.P. Snow to A.B., 26 June 1954, 28 September 1954, A.L.S.
Muriel Spark to A.B., 24 June 1956, T.L.S.
Derek Stanford to A.B. 2 letters, A.L.S., not dated
Sunday Times to G.F., 11 July 1956, T.L.S.
Sister Veronica to A.B., 17 March 1957, 14 August 1957, T.L.S.
Evelyn Waugh to A.B., 15 July 1954, 5 October 1954, A.L.S.; Pc. pmk. 23
September 1954
F.2 Miscellaneous incoming correspondence, correspondent unidentified,
incomplete, or addressed to Mrs. Barnsley
F.3 Correspondence, outgoing.
Arranged chronologically, 1958 to 1965. Includes correspondence which
is undated, incomplete, or written by Mrs. Barnsley.
Press clippings
Scrapbook of cuttings for Eight Days
Scrapbook of cuttings, Brotherly Love and others
Box 13:
Press clippings
F.1 Press cuttings for Brotherly Love
Scrapbook- Press cuttings for In the Time of Greenbloom
Scrapbook- Press cuttings for In the Time of Greenbloom
Scrapbook- Press cuttings for In the Time of Greenbloom
Scrapbook- Press cuttings for poetry and prose works
F.2 Press cuttings for The Birthday King
F.3 Press cuttings - various articles about Fielding
Box 14:
Second accrual:
Manuscripts
New Queens for Old (1972)
F.1 Ms. of first draft of novella, titled The Bodkin's Eye, in
2 blue notebooks. Corrected ts. p. 1-51, p. 1-28, p. 41-93.
F.2 After the Parrot. Ms. of short story from New Queens
for Old in spiral notebook (partial)
Kentish Triptych
F.3 1st ts. (dictated) with author's corrections. 46 pp.
F.4 2d. ts. with author's corrections. 46 pp.
F.5 "Trial in Dublin". Ms. of incomplete, unpublished short story in spiral
notebook.
F.6 Besides the Sea. Ts. (dictated) annotated by author (original
idea for the novel Pretty Doll Houses, but never completed).
88 pp.
Pretty Doll Houses (1979)
F.7 Ms. of first few pages of novel, entitled Years of Discretion.
9 pp.
F.8 HMS. Book I, p. 1-83 and insert of 19 pp. from first version (later
revised)
F.9 HMS. Book II, p. 94-176 and typed insert of 10 pp.
F.10 HMS. Book III, p. 177-274
F.11 HMS. Book IV, p. 275-283
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