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Contains 84 Results:

Eileen Duggan, "Ballade of Home Coming", undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 212
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-212
Scope and Contents

Item appears to be a poetic tribute to Chesterton.

Dates: undated

Letter, Cecil Chesterton to Unknown, 1916 October 12

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 213
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-213
Scope and Contents

Addressee of the letter written on New Witness stationery is unknown. Letter deals with Cecil Chesterton's induction into the service and with G.K. Chesterton's assumption of editorial responsibilities.

Dates: 1916 October 12

Letter, G.K. Chesterton to Unknown, 1923 August 16

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 214
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-214
Scope and Contents

Addressee of this letter written on G.K.'s Weekly stationery is unidentified. Letter deals with the prospects of the new publication.

Dates: 1923 August 16

Flyers, Frances Chesterton's Piers Plowman's Pilgrimage and G.K. Chesterton's "League of Little People", 1925-1926

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 215
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-215
Scope and Contents

Promoting Frances Chesterton's morality play and G.K. Chesterton's address.

Dates: 1925-1926

W.R. Titterton, "G.K. Chesterton: The Portrait of a Child", 1936

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 216
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-216
Scope and Contents

Advertisement and subscription form for Titterton's book on Chesterton.

Dates: 1936

Photograph, G.K. Chesterton, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 217
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-217
Scope and Contents

Photograph was taken by Scottish photographer, J. Craig Annan (1864-1946).

Dates: undated

Card, Pat Lawlor to John Bennett Shaw, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 218
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-218
Scope and Contents

Belated Christmas greeting to John Bennett Shaw from a book dealer in New Zealand.

Dates: undated

G.K. Chesterton, Letter and magazine prospectus, 1924 November

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 219
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-219
Scope and Contents

Letter to potential investor plus prospectus for G.K.'s Weekly Limited.

Dates: 1924 November

G.K. Chesterton, Galleys and Typescript, 1930-1931

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 220
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-220
Scope and Contents

Galleys for three articles: "The Greek Mask," "Marriage and the Modern Mind," and "The True Sin of Bolshevism." Also typescript for "The Green Mask."

Dates: 1930-1931

G.K. Chesterton, "The So-Called Belgium Bargain", 1915

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 221
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-221
Scope and Contents

Reprinted from the Illustrated London News.

Dates: 1915

Letters, Frances Chesterton and C.N. de Reyes to R.N. Green Armytage, 1926 November-December

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 222
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-222
Scope and Contents

From the R.N. Green Armytage collection.

Dates: 1926 November-December

Eileen Duggan, "Chesterton, The Man", undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 223
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-223
Scope and Contents

Article by Eileen Duggan (1894-1972) was published in The Evening Star (Dunedin, New Zealand). Folder contains a letter from Pat Lawlor to John Bennet Shaw.

Dates: undated

Letter, John Sullivan to John Bennett Shaw, 1948 June 18

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 224
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-224
Scope and Contents

John Sullivan's letter to Shaw concerns G.K. Chesterton: A Bibliography, which was about to be published. Sullivan's bibliography is a highly regarded Chesterton source.

Dates: 1948 June 18

Lord Elton, "Books That Have Influenced Me: G.K. Chesterton", 1944 May 15

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 225
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-225
Scope and Contents

Manuscript consists of a transcript of a BBC radio broadcast.

Dates: 1944 May 15

John Bennett Shaw, paper on G.K. Chesterton, 1937

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 226
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-226
Scope and Contents

Shaw's undergraduate paper touches upon the following novels: The Napoleon of Notting Hill, Man Alive, the Man Who Was Thursday, The Flying Inn, The Ball and the Cross, and The Return of Don Quixote. Paper includes notes and commentary by Professor John T. Frederick.

Dates: 1937

Christmas Cards, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 227
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-227
Scope and Contents

Blank Christmas cards with verses by G.K. Chesterton on the "Christ Child."

Dates: undated

G.K. Chesterton, Poems "To Father O'Connor", undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 228
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-228
Scope and Contents

Poems were inscribed on the fly-leaves of Chesterton titles owned by Father John O'Connor, the prototype for the Father Brown character.

Dates: undated

G.K. Chesterton, "Folk Song", undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 229
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-229
Scope and Contents

Inscribed on the fly-leaf of Father John O'Connor's copy of The Secret of Father Brown.

Dates: undated

National Broadcasting Company, "England Revisited: G.K. Chesterton", 1961 August 20

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 230
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-230
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an episode of The Catholic Hour dealing with G.K Chesterton.

Dates: 1961 August 20

Aleister Crowley, Order Form for "Why Jesus Wept", undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 231
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-231
Scope and Contents

Crowley (1875-1947), controversial poet of the occult and founder of the philosophy and religion of Thelema, was an opponent of Chesterton's.

Dates: undated

Letter, G.K. Chesterton to Stuart P.B. Mais, circa 1925 August 29

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 232
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-232
Scope and Contents

In his letter of appreciation to Stuart Mais, a writer of travel books, Chesterton refers to one of his own publications, William Cobbett.

Dates: circa 1925 August 29

Photographs, Father Kevin Scannell, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 233
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-233
Scope and Contents

Father Kevin Scannell was a collector of G.K. Chesterton materials and a friend of John Bennett Shaw.

Dates: undated

Collection Cards, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 234
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-234
Scope and Contents

From the Robert John Bayer Collection of Chestertoniana. Folder also includes a postcard of the James Gunn painting of Chesterton, Baring, and Belloc, the original of which hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Dates: undated

Phonograph Record (78 rpm), "The Donkey," , undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 202a
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-202a
Scope and Contents

“The Donkey” is a poem composed by Chesterton, referring to Palm Sunday.

Dates: undated