Special Collections Department
Julian Symons Papers
Manuscript Collection Number: 204
Accessioned: Purchases, 1990-1999.
Extent: 3 linear ft.
Content: Letters, books, essays, poems, book reviews, short
stories, and addresses.
Access: The collection is open for research.
Processed: July 1999 by Anita A. Wellner.
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Table of Contents
Series I.7: Book Reviews, M-Z
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Contents List
F316 MacBeth, George. A Child of War (London: Cape, 1987). 5p. F317 MacDonald, John D. Free Fall in Crimson (New York: Harper & Row, 1981). Reviewed with Janwillem Van de Wetering's Mind-Murders (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981). 5p. F318 MacInnes, Colin. Out of the Way (London: M. Brian & O'Keefe, 1979). Autograph and typescript (carbon) drafts. 6p. F319 MacKenzie, Norman Ian. The Escape from Elba: the fall and flight of Napoleon, 1814-1815 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982). 3p. F320 Madsen, David. Black Plume: the suppressed memoirs of Edgar Allan Poe (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980). Reviewed with Andrew Sinclair's The Facts in the Case of E. A. Poe (New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1979). 5p. F321 Malcolm, Janet. The Journalist and the Murderer (London: Bloomsbury, 1990). Reviewed for The Times Literary Supplement (1990 Dec). 4p. F322 Mandel, Ernest. Delightful Murder: a social history of the crime story (London: Pluto Press, 1984). 4p. F323 Mankowitz, Wolf. The Extraordinary Mr. Poe (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, n.d.). Typescript (carbon) draft. 2p. Mann, Jessica. Deadlier Than the Male. See F178. F324 Manning, Frederic. The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916 (London: Peter Davies, 1977). Typescript (carbon) and autograph drafts of a review for The Times Literary Supplement. 10p. F325 Manning, Olivia. The Balkan Trilogy ([Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1981]). 9p. F326 Manso, Peter. Mailer: his life and times (New York: Viking, 1985). Reviewed for The Sunday Times. 4p. F327 Martin, Stoddard. Orthodox Heresy: the rise of "magic" as religion and its relation to literature (London: Macmillan Press, n.d.). 3p. F328 Mason, Philip. Kipling: the glass, the shadow and the fire (London: J. Cape, 1975). Reviewed for The Sunday Times. 3p. Mather, William D. Muckydonia 1917-1919. See F172. F329 McAleer, John. Rex Stout: a biography (Boston: Little, Brown, 1977). Reviewed for The New York Times (1977 Nov 13). Includes Symons's autograph and typescript (carbon) response to various letters to the editor regarding his review, plus photocopies of some of the letters to the editor. 6p. F330 McBain, Ed. Calypso (New York: Viking Press, 1979). Typescript (carbon) draft. 2p. McBain, Ed. Lullaby. See F179. F331 McCabe, Cameron. The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor ([London: Gollancz, 1974]). 3p. F332 McCarthy, Mary. The Company She Keeps ([London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982]). Galley proof. Removed to oversize section. 1p. F333 McFadden, Cyra. Rain or Shine: a family memoir (London: Secker & Warburg, n.d.). 2p. McFadden, Roy. Versifications. See F116. 2 Series I. Material written by Julian Symons (cont'd) Series I.7. Book reviews (cont'd) F334 McGinniss, Joe. Fatal Vision (London: Deutsch, 1984). 3p. Meyer, Nicolas. Confessions of a Homing Pigeon. See F236. Meyers, Jeffrey. D. H. Lawrence. See F201. F335 Meyers, Jeffrey. The Enemy: a biography of Wyndham Lewis (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980) and Wyndham Lewis: a revaluation (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1980). 6p. Meyers, Jeffrey. Hemingway. See F249. F336 Miles, Barry. Ginsberg: a biography (New York: Viking, n.d.). 6p. Miller, Joan. One Girl's War. See F159. F337 Miller, John Carl. Building Poe Biography (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1977). Typescript (carbon) draft. 9p. Mitchell, Elma. The Human Cage. See F177. F338 Mitchell, Elma. The Poor Man in the Flesh (Stockport: H. Chambers and Peterloo Poets, 1976). 2p. F339 Mitford, Jessica. A Fine Old Conflict (London: Joseph, 1977). Reviewed for The Sunday Times. 4p. Mole, John. Our Ship. See F165. Montague, John. Poisoned Lands and Other Poems. See F116. Moody, Susan Penny Pinching. See F207. F340 Morgan, Ted. An Uncertain Hour (London: Bodley Head, n.d.). 3p. F341 Morrison, Blake. The Movement: English poetry and fiction of the 1950s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980). 4p. F342 Mortimer, John. Paradise Postponed (Harmondsworth: Viking Press, 1985). 4p. Motion, Andrew The Pleasure Steamers. See F218 F343 Moynihan, Michael. Greater Love: letters home, 1914-1918 (London: W.H. Allen, 1980). Autograph and typescript (carbon) drafts of a review with E. S. Turner's Dear Old Blighty (London: Joseph, 1980). 3p. F344 Moynihan, Michael. A Place Called Armageddon: letters from the Great War (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1974). 3p. Muldoon, Paul. Mules. See F116. Muldoon, Paul. Selected Poems. See F274. F345 New Criterion (New York: Foundation for Cultural Review, 1982-). 3p. F346 Nolan, William F. Hammett: a life at the edge (New York: Congdon & Weed, 1983). 4p. F347 Norse, Harold. Memoirs of a Bastard Angel (London: Bloomsbury, [1989]). Reviewed for The Sunday Times (1990 Jun). 3p. Nye, Robert. Divisions on a Ground. See F198. F348 O'Connor, Ulick. A Terrible Beauty Is Born: the Irish troubles, 1912-1922 (London: Hamilton, 1975). Reviewed for The Sunday Times. 2p. F349 Orwell, George. Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell (London: Secker & Warburg, 1968). Printed review in London Magazine (1968 Oct). 6p. F350 Orwell, George. Orwell: the war commentaries (London: Duckworth/British Broadcasting Corporation, 1985). Reviewed for The Times Literary Supplement with Ian Slater's Orwell: the road to airstrip one (New York: Norton, 1985). 5p. Osborne, Charles. New Poetry 1. See F222. 2 Series I. Material written by Julian Symons (cont'd) Series I.7. Book reviews (cont'd) F351 Ousby, Ian. Bloodhounds of Heaven: the detective in English fiction from Godwin to Doyle (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976). Reviewed for the Washington Post and signed. 3p. F352 Pakenham, Thomas. The Boer War (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979). Autograph and typescript (carbon) drafts. 9p. Paulin, Tom. A State of Justice. See F165. F353 Pearsall, Ronald. Conan Doyle (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977). Reviewed for The Sunday Times and signed. 3p. F354 Pincher, Chapman. The Private World of Sir John Terrapin ([London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1982]). Reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement. 3p. F355 Poe, Edgar Allan. The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (Hamondsworth: Penguin, 1976). Reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement and signed. 5p. Poetry Introduction. See F115. Poetry: introduction 5. See F220. F356 Pople, Kenneth. Stanley Spencer (London: Collins, 1991). 5p. Porter, Dorothy. I Can Sing, Dance, Rollerskate. See F242. Porter, Peter. The Cost of Seriousness. See F125. F357 Potter, Dennis. Blackeyes (London: Faber & Faber, [1987]). 2p. Pound, Ezra. Collected Early Poems. See F116. F358 Priestley, J.B. Instead of the Trees (London: Heinemann, 1977). Reviewed for the New Statesman and signed. 4p. F359 Pritchard, William H. Lives of the Modern Poets (London: Farber & Farber, 1980). 4p. F360 Pritchett, V. S. The Complete Short Stories (London: Chatto & Windus, n.d.) and Lasting Impressions (London: Chatto & Windus, 1990). Reviewed for London Review of Books (1990 Nov). 8p. F361 Pryce-Jones, Alan. The Bonus of Laughter (London: Hamilton, 1987). Reviewed for the Guardian (1986 Dec). 2p. F362 Pryce-Jones, David. Cyril Connolly (London: Collins, 1983). 6p. F363 Pryce-Jones, David. Unity Mitford (New York: Dial Press, 1977). Reviewed for The Sunday Times. 7p. F364 Puckler-Muskau, Hermann, Furst von. Puckler's Progress: the adventures of Prince Puckler-Muskau in England, Wales and Ireland as told in letters to his former wife, 1826-9 (London: Collins, 1987). Reviewed for the Guardian (1987 Mar). 4p. F365 Quail, John. The Slow Burning Fuse (London: Paladin, 1978). Typescript (carbon) draft. 3p. F366 Quinault, R. and John Stevenson. Popular Protest and Public Order: six studies in British history 1790-1920 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1974). 3p. Rabkin, Eric S. Fantastic Worlds. See F307. Raine, Craig. The Onion, Memory. See F275. Ramke, Bin. The Difference between Night and Day. See F275. Ranelagh, John. The Agency. See F159. Ransmayr, Christoph. The Last World. See F188. 3 F367 Ransome, Arthur. The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome (London: J. Cape, 1976). Reviewed for The Sunday Times. 3p. F368 Raven, Simon. The Survivors (London: Panther, 1977). Reviewed for the New Statesman and signed. 6p. Ray, Gordon Norton. H.G. Wells and Rebecca West. See F187. F369 Ray, Martin (ed.) Joseph Conrad: interviews and recollections (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989). 3p. F370 Read, Piers Paul. The Train Robbers (London: W. H. Allen/Secker & Warburg, [n.d.]). Carbon typescript. 3p. Reading, Peter. C. See F252. Reading, Peter. Stet and Essential Reading. See F274. Reid, Alastair. Weathering. See F272. F371 Reid, B.L. The Lives of Roger Casement (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976). Reviewed for The Sunday Times. 3p. Reynolds, Michael. The Young Hemingway. See F249. F372 Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893-. Selected Letters of I.A. Richards (Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press, 1990). Reviewed for the Independent (1990 Jul). 3p. Rickword, Edgell. Behind the Eyes. See F134. F373 Roberts, Michael (ed.) Farber Book of Modern Verse (London: Farber & Farber, 1982). 4p. Robertson, Martin. A Hot Bath at Bedtime. See F156. F374 Rodden, John. The Politics of Literary Reputation: the making and claiming of "St. George" Orwell (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989). Reviewed for The New York Times, February 1989. 3p. 3 Series I. Material written by Julian Symons (cont'd) Series I.7. Book reviews (cont'd) F375 Rolph, C.H. London Particulars (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980). Reviewed with Tom Wakefield's Forties Child (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980). 4p. Roome, Annette. A Real Shot in the Arm. See F179. F376 Ross, Alan. Coastwise Lights (London: Collins Harvill, 1988). Reviewed in the Sunday Times, May 1988. 3p. Ross, Jonathan. A Time for Dying. See F179. Roth, Philip. Deception. See F168. F377 Rubens, Bernice. Sunday Best (New York: Summit Books, 1980). Reviewed with Georges Simenon's The White Horse Inn (New York: Harcourt, Brace, & Jovanovich, 1980). Includes both autograph and typescript (carbon) drafts. 7p. F378 Rude, George. Ideology and Popular Protest (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1980). Reviewed with A. J. P. Taylor's Revolutions and Revolutionaries (London: Hamilton, 1980). Includes autograph and typescript (carbon) drafts. 7p. F379 Russell, Dora Winifred Black. The Tamarisk Tree 2 (London: Virago, 1980). Includes both autograph and typescript drafts. 5p. F380 Russo, John Paul. I.A. Richards: his life and work (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press), c1989. Reviewed for the Sunday Times (1989 May). 3p. F381 Sakharov, Andrei. Sakharov Speaks (London: Collins, Harvill Press, 1974). 2p. Scannell, Vernon. The Loving Game. See F148. F382 Schom, Alan. Emile Zola: a biography (London: Macdonald, 1987). 4p Schwartz, Delmore. What Is To Be Given. See F134. F383 Schwieger, Peter. The Bird Has No Wings: letters of Peter Schwieger (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976). Reviewed for the Washington Post. 4p. Seidel, Frederick. Men and Women. See F252. Sexton, Anne. The Awful Rowing Toward God. See F165. Shaw, Robert B. Comforting the Wilderness. See F227. Shawcross, William. Crime and Compromise. See F143. F384 Shelden, Michael. Friends of promise: Cyril Connolly and the world of Horizon (New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, c1989). Reviewed for the Sunday Times, January 1989. 4p. F385 Shi, David E. Matthew Josephson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981). Reviewed with Andrew Sinclair's Corsair: the life of J. Pierpont Morgan (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981). 6p. Sillitoe, Alan. Last Loves. See F188. Simenon, Georges. The White Horse Inn. See F377. Simenon, Georges. The Lodger. See F163. Simpson, Dorothy. Dead by Morning. See F179. Simpson, Louis. Searching for the Ox. See F134. F386 Simpson, Louis. Studies of Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell (London: Macmillan, 1979). Includes both autograph and typescript (carbon) drafts. 8p. Sinclair, Andrew. Corsair. See F385. Sinclair, Andrew. The Facts in the Case of E. A. Poe. See F320. F387 Sissman, L. E. Hello, Darkness: the collected poems of L. E. Sissman (London: Alan Secker & Warburg, 1978). 5p. 3 Series I. Material written by Julian Symons (cont'd) Series I.7. Book reviews (cont'd) F388 Sisson, C. H. In Two Minds: guesses at other writers (Manchester: Carcanet, 1990). Reviewed for the Sunday Times (1990 Sep). 3p. F389 Sisson, C. H. On the Look-out: a partial autobiography (Manchester: Carcanet, 1989). 4p. Skvorecky, Josef. The End of Lieutenant Boruvka. See F188. Slater, Ian. Orwell: the road to airstrip one. See F350. Smart, Elizabeth. A Bonus. See F165. Smith, A.C.H. Paper Voices. See F256. F390 Smith, Martin Cruz. Gorky Park (New York: Random House, 1981). 5p. F391 Snow, C. P. In Their Wisdom (London: Macmillan, 1974). 3p. The Sound of Voices (London: Hutchinson, 1968). Contained in a notebook with other material. See F85. Spencer, Bernard. Collected Poems. See F213. Spender, Stephen. W.H. Auden. See F169. F392 Sprott, Duncan. The Clopton Hercules (London; Boston: Faber and Faber, 1991). Reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement (1990 Dec). 2p. F393 Spurling, Hilary. Paul Scott: a life (London: Hutchinson, 1990). Reviewed for the London Review of Books (1990 Sep). 6p. Stallworthy, Jon. A Familiar Tree. See F227. F394 Stannard, Martin. Evelyn Waugh (London: J.M. Dent, 1986-1992). Review of volume I, The Early Years, 1903-1939 for the Guardian (1988 Oct). 3p. F395 Stern, James. The Hidden Damage (s.l.: Chelsea Press, n.d.). 2p. F396 Stewart, R. F. And Always a Detective (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1980). 3p. F397 Stokes, John. In the Nineties (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989). 2p. F398 Styron, William. Sophie's Choice (London: Cape, c1979). Typescript (carbon). 3p. F399 Summers, Anthony. Conspiracy (London: Gollancz, 1980). 4p. F400 Sutherland, John. Offensive Literature: decensorship in Britain 1960-1982 (London: Junction Books, 1982). On the verso of Ts (photocopy) pages from "Profile on Orwell." 10p. Sylvester, Martin. A Lethal Vintage. See F121. Taylor, A. J. P. Revolutions and Revolutionaries. See F378. F401 Taylor, Anne. Laurence Oliphant, 1829-1888 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982). 5p. F402 Taylor, Bernard. Cruelly Murdered: Constance Kent and the killing at Road Hill House (s.l.: Souvenir Press, n.d.). Typescript (carbon) draft. 3p. F403 Thomas, Caitlin. Caitlin: a warring absence (London: Secker & Warburg, 1986). Reviewed for the Guardian (1986 Oct). 2p. F404 Thomas, Donald. Belladonna: a Lewis Carroll nightmare (London: Macmillan, 1984). 2p. F405 Thomas, Donald. Cardigan (New York: Viking Press, 1974). 3p. F406 Thomas, Dylan. The Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas (London: Dent, 1985). Reviewed for the Guardian. 3p. 3 Series I. Material written by Julian Symons (cont'd) Series I.7. Book reviews (cont'd) F407 Thomas, Gordon and Max Morgan Witts. The Day Guernica Died (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1975). Reviewed for The Sunday Times. 2p. F408 Thurley, Geoffrey. The American Moment: American poetry in the mid-century (London: Edward Arnold, 1977). Typescript (carbon) draft. 4p. F409 Todd, Ruthven. Untitled autobiography by Ruthven Todd, as edited by Robert Latona. 1p. F410 Tolley, A. T. The Poetry of the Thirties (New York: St Martin's Press [1976, c1975]). Review for London Magazine. 5p. Tomlinson, Charles. Selected Poems 1951-1974. See F275. Tomlinson, Charles. The Flood. See F220. F411 Trilling, Lionel. Middle of the Journey; Of This Time, of That Place; Prefaces to the Experience of Literature; and The Liberal Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981). 4p. Tripp, Miles. The Cost of Vanity. See F179. Turner, E. S. Dear Old Blighty. See F343. Upward, Edward. The Spiral Agent. See F268. Valentine, Deborah. Unorthodox Methods. See F179. F412 Van de Wetering, Janwillem. The Maine Massacre and Two Other Great Mysteries (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979). Typescript (carbon) draft. 3p. Van de Wetering, Janwillem. Mind-Murders. See F317. F413 Van der Post, Laurens. A Far-off Place (London: Hogarth Press, 1974). 3p. F414 Van der Post, Laurens. Yet Being Someone Other (London: Hogarth Press, 1982). 3p. F415 Van Wyk Smith, Malvern. Drummer Hodge: the poetry of the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978). Typescript (carbon) draft. 3p. F416 Vidal, Gore. Kalki: a novel (New York: Random House, 1978). Typescript (carbon) draft. 2p. F417 Vidal, Gore. Matters of Fact and of Fiction: essays 1973-1976 (New York: Random House, 1977). Reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement and signed. 6p. F418 Vidal, Gore. Pink Triangle and Yellow Star and other essays, 1976-1982 (London: Heinemann, 1982). 4p. Wainwright, Jeffrey. Heart's Desire. See F125. Wakefield, Tom. Forties Child. See F375. Walcott, Derek. Midsummer. See F252. Walcott, Derek. The Fortunate Traveller. See F220. F419 Warner, Rex. The Aerodrome (London: Bodley Head, 1982). 6p. F420 Wasserstein, Bernard. The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988). Reviewed for The New York Times. 7p. Waterman, Andrew. From the Other Country. See F116. Waterman, Andrew. Out for the Elements. See F213. Watson, Colin. Snobbery with Violence. See F158. F421 Waugh, Auberon. The Last Word: an eyewitness account of the trial of Jeremy Thorpe (Boston: Little, Brown, 1980). 5p. F422 Weber, Nancy. The Life Swap (London: Quartet Books, 1975). Autograph and typescript (carbon) drafts of a review for the Times Literary Supplement. 8p. 3 Series I. Material written by Julian Symons (cont'd) Series I.7. Book reviews (cont'd) F423 Wells, H. G. H. G. Wells in Love (London: Farber & Farber, 1984) and Experiment in Autobiography (London: Farber & Farber, 1984). 4p. F424 West, Rebecca. The Young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-1917 (London: Macmillan, 1982). 3p. Westlake, Donald. Trust Me On This. See F207. F425 Wexler, Joyce Piell. Laura Riding's Pursuit of Truth (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1979). 14p. F426 Wheen, Francis. Tom Driberg: his life and indiscretions (London: Chatto & Windus, 1990). 3p. F427 Whittington-Egan, Richard. The Riddle of Birdhurst (London: Harrap, 1975). Reviewed for The Sunday Times and signed. 3p. F428 Wilkes, Roger. Wallace: the final verdict (London: Bodley Head, 1984). 4p. Williams, Derra. Holy Treasure. See F179. F429 Wilson, Edmund. The Bit Between My Teeth: a literary chronicle of 1950-1965 (London: W. H. Allen, 1965). Typescript (carbon) draft. 3p. F430 Wilson, Edmund. The Fifties: from notebooks and diaries of the period (London: Macmillan, 1986). Reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement (1986 Nov). 4p. F431 Wilson, Edmund. A Piece of My Mind: reflections at sixty (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956). Includes Ts (carbon) and galley proof. Galley proof removed to oversize section. 11p. Winters, Yvor. The Collected Poems of Yvor Winters. See F218. Woddis, Roger. The Woddis Collection and The Big Red Songbook. See F218. Woodcock, George. The Kestrel. See F272. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. The Sickle Side of the Moon. See F182. Wright, Edmund Leo. Unidentified title. See F134. F432 Wright, William. The Von Bulow Affair (s.l.: Arlington Books, 1983). 5p. F433 Wyndham, Francis. The Theatre of Embarrassment (London: Chatto & Windus, 1991). 3p.
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