Finding Aid
Ruth Nichols fonds. – [196?]-[199-]. – 94 cm of textual records.
BOX 1
F.1 Correspondence:
A.L.S. C.S. Lewis to Ruth Nichols. 17 June 1963.
A.L.S. C.S. Lewis to Ruth Nichols. 23 July 1963. (In another hand, but signed by C.S. Lewis)
F.2 The Cavern Princess. 3 notebooks. Holograph manuscript. Dated 18 October 1970 to 5 January 1971.
F.3 The Cavern Princess. 2 notebooks. Typescript, with some autograph corrections. Dated 18 October 1970 to 5 January 1971.
F.4 The Marrow of the World (published 1972). Plot outline. 1 exercise book. Holograph manuscript.
F.5 The Marrow of the World. Rough draft. 2 notebooks. Holograph manuscript. Begun 21 August 1971.
F.6 The Marrow of the World. First galley proof. 52 pulls, with 1 sheet of corrections in author’s hand. Dated 14 April 1972.
F.7 Build No House (alternate title Song of the Pearl). 202 leaves. Holograph manuscript, with holograph corrections by the author.
F.8 Build No House. 169 leaves. Typescript, with holograph corrections by the author.
BOX 2
F.1 Beginnings. Typescript manuscript. 33 pages. [n.d.]
F.2 False Morning. Typescript manuscript. 83 pages. Dated 1962 or 1963.
F.3 Deux Anges. Holograph manuscript. 134 pages. Dated June 1965.
F.4 The Unremembered Season. Typescript manuscript. 102 pages. Dated July 1966.
F.5 On reading “Markings”. Typescript manuscript. 4 pages. Dated Oct. 6, 1966.
F.6 The Narrow House. Typescript manuscript. 11 pages. Dated January 1967.
F.7 The Narrow House. Typescript manuscript. 12 pages. Dated March-June 1967.
F.8 The Gate of Horn (Ultimate title: A Walk Out of the World). Holograph manuscript. 160 pages. Dated December 1966.
F.9 Child of the Borgia. Holograph manuscript. 125 pages. Dated September 15. Author’s notes - “Proofed by me several times. September 15. Mommy promised. In sixteen chapters, 123 pages.”
F.10 Summer’s Lease. Typescript manuscript, 94 pages. [ n .d .]
F.11 Miscellaneous notes, etc.
F.12 The Left-Handed Spirit. Photocopy of typescript, (275 p.)
F.13-4 The Haunting of Stonebow. Photocopy of annotated t.s., 381 pages.
Copy of The Burning of the Rose. 1989 St Martin’s Press.
EMBARGOED
I Arise novel, typescript, unpublished (May 1988).
“What Dangers Deep”(autobiography). 333 pages. Typescript.
“What Dangers Deep. A Story of Philip Sidney”. 369 p. Photocopy of typescript.
Knife-Grinder's Bell
Essay "Silence Must Speak" (accession 09-1998)
"Ghosts: The Evolution of a Psychic", 348 pages, typescript: revised autobiography, 2 files. (Accession 30-1999)
Note: Some of these files are contained in Box 3, others are in the vault
Box 4 (Accession 44-2007)
I Arise: The Death and Life of Shelley. A Novel. Photocopy of computer print. N.d. 368 pages.
The Haunting of Stonebow. Photocopy of computer print. 25 February 1997. 380 pages, historical note.
