Sir Edward Marsh: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center. Sir Edward Marsh Collection

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1 Sir Edward Marsh: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Descriptive Summary Creator: Title: Dates: Extent: Abstract: Call Number: Language: Sir Edward Marsh Collection 3 record center cartons, 1 document box (3.42 linear feet), 1 oversize folder (osf) Sir Edward Howard Marsh was a British literary editor, poet, patron of the arts, and translator. This collection holds handwritten manuscripts, diaries and notebooks, correspondence and miscellaneous items, such as autograph books. English Access: Open for research. Part or all of this collection is housed off-site and may require up to three business days' notice for access in the Ransom Center's Reading and Viewing Room. Please contact the Center before requesting this material: reference@hrc.utexas.edu. Administrative Information Acquisition: Processed by: Repository: Purchases, (R3052) Hagan Barber, Jack Boettcher, Betsy Nitsch, and Jamie Kirkham, 2012 Note: This finding aid replicates some information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions. The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center

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4 Works: [Unidentified article], Ams/ fragment [lp], nd. 1.1 [Untitled article on Churchill s feelings for France], TccmsS (8pp). [Untitled poem], "Wordsworth, beware!...," Ams with A emendations [1p], 1937 September 9. [Untitled work on dreams], Ams with A revisions [5pp], nd. [Account of trip to France], Ams with A revisions [13pp], 1917 September [Acrostics], 12 Amss with A emendations [19pp], 1 Tccms [1p], nd. Argentine Widow: Lyrics, Ams with A emendations [16pp], 1919 September. 1.2 Any Naval Secretary to any First Lord, AmsI [1p], nd. 1.1 [Articles on Churchill s visit to Cyprus and Africa for Manchester Guardian], 6 Tms/ copies [32pp], Col. Lawrence, Ams with A emendations [1p], nd. 1.1 Desciude cael by Horace (5 stanzas), Ams/ drafts with A revisions [8pp], nd. [Diaries], 31 Ams/ diaries [approx pp], , Years missing; , 1924, 1940, 1941, 1944, , Dream poem, Ams [2pp on Le], nd. 1.1 Escopist epigram, AmsI [1p], nd. [Eulogy] The late Earl of Lytton, Tccms with A emendations (2pp), 1947 November 12. Georgian poetry, : preface, AmsS/ one sentence/ copy [1 p.], 1914 May 3. Hasty suggestion for opening speech, Tms/ notes [1p], [1942 April]. 1.4 Horace and his odes, Mimeo/ radio script (15pp), 1945 December 26. Horace Odes I xxxiv Parcusdeorum, Tccms with A emendations [1p], nd. Horace, Odes II xvi Otium divos [Extract], AmsS [1p], nd. 4

5 The hostess complaint, Ams [1p], nd. In France and Belgium, Ams with A emendations (14pp), 1918 October La vie d Aesope (continuation) [by unidentified author], Ams with A revisions [24pp in notebook], nd. 1.7 Notes on recent plays, TmsS [14pp], [1934]. 1.5 [Note re printed Boswell postcard legend], AmsI [lp], nd. 1.4 [Preface] Written for The Gate, a school paper edited by my godson Michael Asquith, Ams with A revisions [3pp], nd. Prefatory note [to annual anthology of poetry], Tms [lp], 1919 September. [Review of] The Maitlands by Ronald Mackenzie, Ams with A revisions [2pp], 1934 July 4. Some notes on the text of Miss Austen s novels, Ams/ drafts with A revisions [14pp], nd. 1.6 Sonnet on May 16, AmsI [1p], ---May Speech at the Horatian Society dinner, Ams [3pp], nd. [Speech in memoriam Ivor Novello], Ams with A revisions [2pp], 1952 January 28. [Speech of reply at dinner in his honor upon his retirement], Ams/ draft with A revisions [5pp], [1937 March 17]. [Speech opening exhibition of still life painting], Ams with A emendations [3pp], nd. Speeches by the chairman of The Contemporary Art Society, 2 mimeo (2pp, 3pp), 1939 May 18 [1940]. [Summaries of poems], 10 Amss [1p each], nd. 5

6 Letters: AL/ draft to [unidentified editor], nd, To a disgruntled reader. 2.7 Al/ draft to [unidentified recipient], nd, Criticism of translation of poem from the French. ALS to [unidentified recipient], 1923 June 4. ALS to [unidentified recipient] Naomi, ----December 18. AL/ draft to [unidentified recipient] Richmond, nd. ALS to [unidentified recipient] "Stem daughter of the Duke of Leeds", 1916 January 31. ALS "Eddie" to [unidentified recipient] Venetia, 1935 June 12. ALI to [Abercrombie], Lascelles, 1915 September 22. TL/ copy, TL/ copy/ inc to Asquith, Lady Cynthia [Mary Evelyn (Charteris)], 1907 August 12, 1909 February 26. ALS "Eddie" to [Asquith], Violet, ---March 30. AL/ draft I to [Barnes], Jim, nd. 31 ALS, 11, ALI, 2 APCI to Blunden, Edmund [Charles], 1 nd, 3 inc d, 1919-[1936]. 5 ALS/ copies to Bridges, Robert, 1912 December 16, 1913 February 7, 1918 July 29, 1922 December 27, 1924 November 19. ALS "Eddie" to [Cornford], Frances [(Darwin)], 1942 December ALS to Doggart, [James H.], [1933] May ALS, 1 ALS/ inc, 2 ALI, 1 AL/ inc to Gladstone, [Dorothy (Glynne)], viscountess, 1 nd, 1 inc d, ALS, 3 APCS, 2 APCI to Graham, W. H., 2 nd, 4 inc d, 1945-[1947] AL to Grisewood, [Frederick Henry], 1949 July ALS, 1 ALI to [Horner], Edward,

7 ALS to [Kelley (?)], Gerald, nd TL/ copies to Langley, Noel, ALS, 3 ALI to Lytton, Victor [Alexander George Robert Bulever-Lytton], 2nd earl of, 7 nd, 7 inc d, ANI to [Russell], Conrad, nd ALS to [Sadleir], Michael, 2 nd, 1 inc d, Tcc L to The Editor, The Daily Express, 1931 March 18. Tccl to the Editor, The London Mercury, nd. ALS/ draft to The Editor, The London Mercury, nd. 2 ALS/ drafts to The Editor, The New Statesman, 1928 January 15, 1928 January 27. ALS/ draft to The Editor, The New Statesman, 1948 April 4. ALS/ draft to The Editor, The Times Literary Supplement, 1947 May 31. ALS "Eddie" to [Tree}, Viola, nd. 7

8 Recipients: [Anonymous], AL to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh], nd. 3.2 [Unidentified author], APCI to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1946 April 26 [postmark]. [Unidentified author], ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh], 1945 April 17. [Unidentified author], ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", 1933 March 27. [Unidentified author], ALS "Bibs" to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, [1937] May 6. [Unidentified author], ALS Ettie to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", nd. [Unidentified author], ALS Jean to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", nd. [Unidentified author], ALS Pamela to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", [1937] May 3. [Unidentified author], ALS Peter to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", nd. [Unidentified author], ALS "Tommy" to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", 1934 January 16. A[bercrombie], L[ascelles], , ALI to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", ----September 23. Arthur, Sir George [Compton Archibald], bart., , ALS to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1939 April 9 [postmark]. [Asquith, Lady] Cynthia [Mary Evelyn (Charteris), , 2 ALS, 1 Telegram to [Sir Edward Howard] Marsh, 1924 November 23, 1937 May 3, 1939 March 27. [Asquith], Violet, TLS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", 1951 September 10. Atkinson, T[homas] D[inham], , TLS to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1939 April 24. Baldwin, Edward C[hauncey], 1870-ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh], 1939 January [Baring, Hon Maurice], , 1 TLS, 6 TL to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie",

9 Barton, [Samuel] Saxon, 1892-ALS to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1940 April 11. Bond, L. V., ALS to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, ---- February 19. The British Broadcasting Corporation, TLS to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1934 June 7. Burgess, Francis H., ALS to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1939 December 22. Butler, H[enry] Montague, , ALS to [Sir Edward Howard] Marsh, 1895 June 12. Chapman, R[alph] W., ALS, TLS, APCS to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1924 March 17, 1939 March 16, 1947 June 28 [postmark]. Childers, Sibyl-Rose, ALS to Sir Edward [Howard Marsh], 1940 August 19. Clogstoun, N.S., ALS to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1939 April 5. Conybeare, [William] James, , ALS to [Sir Edward Howard] Marsh, 1939 October 19. [Cooper] Diana [(Manners)], Viscountess Norwich, 1892-, ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", nd. Conford, Frances [(Darwin)], , ALS to Sir E[dward Howard] Marsh, 1915 July 15. The Cresset Press Limited, TLS Dennis M. Cohen (Director) to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1947 June 13. Curle, Richard, TLS to Sir Edward [Howard Marsh], 1944 March 24. The Daily Herald, TLS H. T. Macdonald to [Sir Edward Howard] Marsh, 1919 October 9. Dobson, Alban, ALS to Sir Edward [Howard Marsh], 1939 April 3. [Dudley], Rachel [(Gurney)] Ward], countess of ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", nd. Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Limited TLS to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1946 November 8. Gardner, A. G., 2 ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh], 1939 March 18, 1939 March Given-Wilson, F. G., APCS to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1939 January 29. 9

10 Granby [?], Violet, ALS to [Sir Edward Howard] Marsh, [1905 December 13]. Graves, Robert. ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", 1929 June 16. Hardie, Martin, , 2 ALS to [Sir Edward Howard] Marsh, 1939 November 20, 1939 November 23. Herbert, Mary, ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", nd. [Lindsay], Norah, ALS to [Sir Edward Howard] Marsh, 1910 August 13 [postmark]. The Listener, TLS "Joe" to [Sir Edward Howard] Marsh, 1935 August 26. [Lytton], Neville [Stephen Lytton], 3rd earl of, , 2 ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", 1911 December 17, 1947 November 30. [MacDonald], Malcolm, TLS to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1937 April [MacDonald], Malcolm, TLS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", 1937 May 10. Madar, Geoffrey, ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie," 1939 March 28. Martyr, R[ichard] E[dward], , ALS to Sir E[dward] H[oward] Marsh, 1939 July 27. Maurice, Sir F[rederick Barton], 5 ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", 1908 July 8. M[ontgomery], Betty, ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", Mortimer, Raymond, ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", 1939 March 22. Munnings, Alfred, ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddy", 1945 January 7. Murray, Sir John, ALS to Sir Edward [Howard Marsh], nd. Nicolson, Sir Harold [George], 1 ALS, 3 TLS to [Sir Edward Howard] Marsh, 1922 December 29, 1952 October 8, 1952 November 13, 1952 November 21. Osborne, Gwendolyn Godolphin, ALS to [Sir Edward Howard] Marsh, nd. [Oxford and Asquith], Margot Asquith, countess of, ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddy," 1924 November

11 Oxford University Press, TLS Geoffrey Cumberlege to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1947 October 7. Pleadwell, Frank Lester, TLS to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1949 June 29. [Pope-Hennessy], James, ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", ----Februrary 9. Potter, John W., ALS to [Sir Edward Howard] Marsh, 1939 September 13. Read & Brigstock, TLS to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1919 December Reid (Alex) & Lefevre, Ltd., TLS Duncan M. Macdonald (Director) to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1933 October 5. R[othenstein, Sir] John [Knewstub Maurice], 2 TLS to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1944 March 20, 1946 August 21. The Royal Victorian Order, FLS F. Morgan Bryant (Registrar) to E[dward] H[oward] Marsh, 1922 February 2. Russell, Claud, ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", 1939 May 22. R[ussell], Conrad, 2 ALs, 1 ALI to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", 1904 October 10, 1908 November 28, 1910 March 1. Russell, Diana, ALS to [Sir Edward Howard] Marsh, 1904 Boxing Day. Russell, F[lora], ALS to Sir E[dward] H[oward] Marsh, [1892] October 4. Rutherford, W[illiam] G[union], ALS to [Sir Edward Howard] Marsh, 1896 October 1. Sadler, Sir M[ichael] E[rnest], ALS to [Sir Edward Howard] Marsh, 1913 November 4. Sandon-Davis, S.H., TLS to [Sir Edward Howard] Marsh, 1930 June 23. Sidgwick, Frank, TLS to [Sir Edward Howard] Marsh, 1939 March 21. The Sunday Times, TLS to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1949 January 22. Swanwick, H[Elena] M[aria (Sickert)], ALS to Sir Edward [Howard Marsh], 1937 March 30. Waterfield, F. TLS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh], [1939 (?)] Easter 11

12 Wigger, Arnold, ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", nd. Williams, Wayland Wells, ALS to Sir Edward [Howard] Marsh, 1940 February 5. Wyndham, Horace, ALS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh], 1939 April 1. 12

13 Miscellaneous: [Unidentified author], [Untitled anecdote], Tccms/ copy [1p], nd. 3.8 [Untitled poem] "I had a place at every hearth ", Ams [1p], nd. [Unidentified author], The Australian poem, Ams/ copy in hand of Edward Marsh A note [2 pp on Ll], Tms/ copy [1p], nd. [Unidentified author] Howlers extracted from letters received at The P.A.C. Offices, Tccms/ copy [1p], nd. [Unidentified author], TccL/ copy of imaginary letter to imaginary recipient, nd. [Unidentified author], List of donors [for presentation and dinner upon Sir Edward Marsh s retirement], Tms [2pp], [1937 March]. [Unidentified author], Menu (after J.M. Synge), Ams [2pp], 1922 May 30. [Unidentified author], Menu (after W.B. Yeats), Ams [1p], 30 May [Unidentified author], Nonsense, Tms/ copy [1p], nd. [Unidentified author], [Parody on Nicene Creed], Ams [1p], Tms/ copy [1p], nd. [Unidentified author], the unquiet grave, Ams/ copy in unidentified hand [2pp on Ll}, nd. [Abercrombie, Lascelles], Public house kitchen, ALS with A revisions [48pp], Asquith, Raymond, The Horace Club Meeting, Tuesday, May 7, 1901, Ams in hand of Edward Marsh [2pp on Ll], 1901 April. 3.8 A[squith], R[aymond], ALI to Russell, Conrad, 1903 November 11. B[aring, Hon.] M[aurice], Improvised speech at birthday dinner at Buck s Club, AmsI [2pp], 1923 April 27. [Baring, Hon. Maurice], comp. Gepäck, Ams/ copies [86pp in notebook], nd. Beerbohm, Sir Max, TLS to Churchill, Sir Winston [Leonard Spencer], 1937 March Birkenhead, [Freferick Winston Furneaux Smith], 2nd earl of, TLS to Hassall, [Christopher], 1954 February

14 Brooke, Rupert, 1914 and other poems, Page proofs with A printer s notes and ANI Edward Marsh to printer [62pp], 1915 May 18. [Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer], [Aphorism], Ams with A note by Edward Marsh [1p], nd Flecker, James Elroy, Hassan: Scenario, Tms/ copy [15pp], nd. George V, King of Great Britain, [Appointment of Edward Marsh as Commander of the Royal Victorian Order], Printed DS [2pp], 1922 January 2. George V, King of Great Britain, [Appointment of Edward Marsh as Companion of the Order of the Bath], Printed DS [2pp], 1918 June 3. George V, King of Great Britain, License [for Edward Marsh] to wear the cross of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Printed DS [3pp], 1921 January 8. George V, King of Great Britain, License [for Edward Marsh] to wear the Cross of Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy, Printed DS [3pp], 1920 June 17. George V, King of Great Britain, Telegram by secretary to Novello, Ivor, 1935 May 7. George V, King of Great Britain, [Appointment of Edward Marsh as Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order], Printed DS [1p], 1937 February 1. [Gibbs, V. F.], [Speech upon Marsh s crossing of the Equator], Ams [1p], [1908 April 8]. osf [Hassall, Christopher Vernon], Blurb for Minima by Edward Marsh, Ams/ draft [1p], nd. H[assall], C[hristopher] V[ernon], The visitation, Tms [1p], nd. H[assall], C[hristopher] V[ernon], ALS to Young, G.M. re Marsh letters, 1954 August 5. [MacDonald, Malcolm], [Presentation speech for retirement gift to Edward Marsh], Tms with A emendations (3pp), [1937] [MacDonald], Malcolm, TLS to [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] "Eddie", 1937 May 10. [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], Ancestral tablets, 2 books of printed forms with A entries of pedigrees [20pp], nd

15 Marsh, Sir Edward [Howard], [Appointment book], Ams/ notebook S [176pp], Marsh, Sir Edward [Howard], [Appointment book], Ams/ notebook S [63pp], [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], [Appointment by King Neptune of Edward Marsh as midshipman], TDS [1p], 1908 April 8. [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], [Autograph collection], Approximately 130 autographs, nd. [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], [Autographed menu from dinner in his honor], Printed with autographs [1 folder], 1937 April [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], [Autographed menu from 80th birthday dinner], Printed with autographs and A note by Marsh, 1952 November 18. [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], Books read, Ams/ notebook [53pp], Marsh, Sir Edward [Howard], Books read, Ams/ notebooks [57pp], Marsh, Sir Edward [Howard], [Books read], Ams/ notebooks [70pp], [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], [Books read], Ams/ notebook [5pp], Marsh, Sir Edward [Howard], Books read, Ams/ notebooks [42pp], [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], [Commonplace Book], Ams/ notebook with table of contents loosely laid in (100pp), nd. Marsh, Sir Edward Howard, [Elizabethan-Jacobean notebook], AmsS [45pp], nd [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], [Expense list for Georgian poetry], Ams/ list [1p], nd [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], [Identification of newspaper clipping], A note [1p], nd. [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], comp. The lectern, Ams/ copies of literary selections [289pp],

16 [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], [List of his pictures], Ams/ list [4pp], nd [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], [Material for NBL exhibition], 7 photostats [7pp], nd. 4.2 Marsh, Sir Edward [Howard], Memorandum of agreement with Macmillan and Company, Limited for his translation of The Odes of Horace, Printed DS [3pp], 1940 November [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], My Special letters (complements, etc.), Ams/ list on empty envelope [1p], nd. [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], A note on post card (facetious), nd. [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], [Notes on the prices and sizes of works by several artists], Ams/ notes [1p.], nd. [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], A number of people: Corrections for second edition, Tccms [1p], nd. M[arsh], Sir E[dward] H[oward], comp., The paradise of dainty devices, Ams/ copies [27pp in notebook], [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], comp., [Poems], Ams/ copies of poems of various authors [13pp], nd. M[arsh], Sir E[dward] H[oward], comp., [Prose and poetry selections], Ams/ copies I [101 pp in notebook], 1903 September [at beginning]. M[arsh], Sir E[dward] H[oward], [Quotation book] Ams/ copies [30pp in notebook], nd. [Marsh, Sir Edward Howard], [Signatures of those at retirement dinner] Signatures on vellum in folder [10pp], 1937 March 17. Mortimer, Raymond, Dewdrop from Raymond Mortimer s speech at Contemporary Art Society party, Ams/ extract in hand of Edward Marsh [1p], 1952 September M[urry], J[ohn] M[iddleton], [Review of] Georgian poetry, , edited by E[dward] M[arsh[; Wheels, Fourth Cycle, Tms/ copy (10pp), 1919 December 5. Other Club, List of acceptances, A and Tms/ list [lp], 1947 November 6. [Other Club], Trial runs with mechanical pen by members], Ams/ phrases with A note by Marsh [1p], 1947 November 6. Palser (I.) & Son, Receipted bill for E. Marsh, 1905 April 3. 16

17 The Poetry Bookshop, Royalty account for E. Marsh, 1921 June 30. R[ussell], C[onrad], ALI to Lyttleton, Alfred, nd. Shanks, Edward, [Unidentified article on post W.W.I. poetry], Tms/ fragment [1p], nd. The Stage Photo Company, TLS to Novello, Ivor, 1935 May 10. Watson, W., To John Churton Collins, Ams/ copy in hand of Edward Marsh [1p], nd. Yeats, [William Butler], [Untitled poem] "How shall I name you ", Ams/ copy in hand of Edward Marsh [1p], nd. 17

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19 Explanatory Note Concerning Manuscript Collections Cataloged in the Card Catalog Prior to 1990 when archival cataloging procedures were adopted at the Ransom Center, all manuscript collections were described in a card catalog. Organization of Collections: Manuscripts for each author collection were organized into four categories: Works: manuscripts by the author, arranged alphabetically by title; Letters: the author s outgoing correspondence, arranged alphabetically by recipient name; Recipient: the author s incoming correspondence, arranged alphabetically by the author of the letter; and Miscellaneous: all other manuscripts and correspondence, arranged alphabetically by creator. Materials that did not fit into these categories, such as art, photographs, books, and near-print materials such as newspaper clippings, were dispersed to other Ransom Center collections for cataloging and storage. Abbreviations Used in Descriptions: The symbols below were used in combinations. For example ALS means autograph letter signed; Tccms means typed carbon copy manuscript, etc. A = autograph (i.e., handwritten) T = typed S = signed I = initialed Ms = manuscript Mss = manuscripts L = letter FL = form letter N = note D = document C = card PC = post card cc = carbon copy p = page pp = pages l = leaf ll = leaves nd = no date inc d = incomplete date 19