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'Writing a Thesis'

First published 1987. This subseries contains typescripts, photocopied material pertaining to the Chinese edition, correspondence and one review. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Introductory notes for a course on 'Dissertations: Or How to Write' (13 October 1986)

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Typescript with manuscript corrections
Contents page
Typescript with additional manuscript corrections

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Sample cover

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Two photocopies of the Chinese edition's opening chapter, with a printed AbeBooks.co.uk catalogue page for same

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Correspondence with Andrew McLennan and Mark Anderson of Longman. As this is a short correspondence with two figures from the same company, it has been considered one chronologically arranged file, and not sequenced alphabetically by correspondent as elsewhere in George Watson's papers.

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One review, from the Spring 1987 issue of an unidentified history magazine

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Folder labelled 'Watson: "Writing a Thesis" 4-12-85'

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

'Volunteer for Buchenwald: The Story of Janot Blum'

First published in 'The Sewanee Review', 107:3, 1999. This subseries contains research material, a copied portion of the published article, and correspondence. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Photocopies of research material

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One photocopied page representing the final two pages of the published article

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CORRESPONDENCE

CORE, George

LE SAINT, Monique

PIRZIO-BIROLI, Fey von Hassell

ROSENBERG, Beatrice

TORRES, Dominique
TORRES-LEVIN, Tereska

VERDIER, Robert

WELLS, John

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

Typescripts of articles

This subseries gathers typescripts of articles by George Watson not represented earlier in the series. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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‘Coleridge’s Notebooks’, review of ‘The Notebooks of S.T. Coleridge’, edited by Kathleen Coburn (circa 1957)

'English by Radio: Talk for Teachers – English at Oxford' (circa 1950-1960)

‘The Identity of Europe’ (circa 1961-1964)

‘Joseph Butler and the Ethic of Self’ (circa 1964)

‘Kubla Khan’ (for ‘Studies in Romanticism’) (circa 1967)

'Dinner with the Duke', a dramatic dialogue between the Duke of Wellington and Earl Stanhope (unknown date; estimated 1969, the centenary of Wellington's death)

One page from 'The Reader in Clarendon's "History of the Rebellion"' (for 'The Review of English Studies') (1974)

‘The Voice of Gray’ (‘Critical Quarterly’ 19) (1977)
'Scourge for the Sixties', review of Diana Trilling's 'We Must March My Darlings: A Critical Decade' (circa 1977)

Review of Brian Fothergill’s ‘Beckford of Fonthill’ (circa 1979)

‘Viewpoint’ and ‘An End to Evaluation?’ (‘Times Literary Supplement’) (1980)

‘Hawk or Airman?’, review of Edward Mendelson’s ‘Early Auden’ (circa 1981)
‘One Donne’, review of John Carey’s ‘John Donne: Life, Mind and Art’ (circa 1981)

‘The Chambers of Memory’, review of Michael Millgate’s ‘Thomas Hardy: a biography’ (1982)
‘Far Other Worlds’, review of T A Shippey’s ‘The Road to Middle-earth’ (circa 1982)

‘Book of the Year’, discussing Paul Joannides’s ‘Drawings of Raphael’ (1983)
‘The Cult of Revolution’, review of Ronald Paulson’s ‘Representations of Revolution 1789-1820’ (circa 1983)
‘Remembering the Trenches’, review of ‘Siegfried Sassoon Diaries 1915-1918’, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis, ‘The War Poems of Sassoon’ arranged and introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis, Sassoon’s ‘Sherston’s Progress’ and Stephen MacDonald’s ‘Not about Heroes’ (circa 1983)
Review of J B Yeats’s ‘Letters to His Son W.B. Yeats and Others 1869-1922’ (circa 1983)

‘Staircase Wit’, review of Laurence and Helen Fowler’s ‘Cambridge Commemorated: An Anthology of University Life’ (circa 1984)

‘Book of the Year’, discussing Douglas Dunn’s ‘Elegies’ and Robert Latham’s ‘Shorter Pepys’ (1985)
‘The Cambridge Phenomenon’, review of A J Ayer’s ‘Wittgenstein’ and Norman Malcolm’s ‘Wittgenstein: A Memoir’ (circa 1985)
‘Sigmund and Anna’, review of ‘The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess’, edited by J M Masson, and Uwe Henrik Peters’s ‘Anna Freud: A Life Dedicated to Children’ (circa 1985)

‘Cuckoo in the Nest’, review of ‘The Notebooks of Samuel Butler’, edited by Henry Festing Jones (‘The Eagle’) (1986)
‘The Great Survivor’, review of R.P. Graves’s ‘Robert Graves: The Assault Heroic 1895-1926’ (1986)
‘The Wright Darwin’ (‘The Eagle’) (1986)
‘Ending up in London’, review of Christopher Hope’s ‘The Hottentot Room’ (circa 1986)

‘Marvellous Middle Age’, review of Peter Ackroyd’s ‘Chatterton: A Novel’ (circa 1987)
Review of ‘The Poems of Tennyson’, edited by Christopher Ricks (circa 1987)
‘Unmarxist Fictions’, review of Franco Moretti’s ‘The Way of the World’ (circa 1987)

Review of Alexander Robertson’s ‘Atkinson Grimshaw’ (circa 1988)
‘The New from New York’, review of Fred Kaplan’s ‘Dickens: A Biography’ (circa 1988)

‘A Yank at Oxford’, review of ‘Logan Pearsall Smith: An Anthology’, edited by Edward Burman (1989)

Peter Stern obituary (‘The Eagle’) (1992)

‘The Story of C.S. Lewis’ (post-1998)

Review of Roland Hill’s ‘Lord Acton’ (circa 2000)

‘The Sphinx That Talked’, review of Isaiah Berlin’s ‘The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism’ (circa 2004)

A page of 'Deathless and Birthless' on one side, and a page of 'The Trope: Hugh Trevor-Roper' on the other (circa 2010)

'The Three Ages', a poem 'after Goethe' (undated)

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

'The Study of Literature'

First published 1968. This subseries contains a typescript of the book, correspondence and reviews. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Typescript with manuscript corrections and accompanying envelope fragment.

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CORRESPONDENCE

BARISH, Jonas

CAREY, John

DALESKI, Bill

GARDNER, Helen

HEATH, Stephen
HULL, Morton D

JACQUOT, Jean

KNIGHTS, Lionel Charles

RAMASWAMY, S
REYNOLDS, Barbara

SISSONS, Michael
STERN, Peter & Sheila

WELLEK, René
WIMSATT, William Kurtz
WRIGHT, Andy

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REVIEWS

'Times Literary Supplement' (2 October 1969)
Barry Sullivan, unknown publication

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Envelope labelled '"Study of Literature" / May 1969'

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

'The Story of the Novel'

First published 1979. This subseries contains a memorandum of agreement for, and an image of the cover of, the 2008 edition.

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

'The Lost Literature of Socialism'

First published 1998. This subseries contains research material, readers' reports, correspondence and reviews. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Photocopies and cuttings of research material

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Reports from two readers

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Mock-up of the book's back cover, with manuscript corrections

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CORRESPONDENCE

BERLIN, Isaiah
BOUCÉ, Paul-Gabriel
BRINK, Adrian
BROWN, L Neville

CALINESCU, Bogdan
CANTOR, Paul A
CORE, George
CROOK, John

DASGUPTA, Partha
DE GIORGIS, Hugues

FAVIER, A
FLEW, Antony Garrard Newton

HITCHIN, Neil

KERRIGAN, John

LAFFITTE-LARNAUDIE, Anne-Marie
LATTÈS, Nicole

MALIK, Teresa
McMILLAN, James A
MELANDRI, Pierre
MOLLOY, Molly
MONOD, Sylvère
MÜLLER, Hans-Harald
MYLNE, Vivienne

OZANAM, Yves

PEARLSTINE, Maggie
POO, Nicoletta

REVEL, Jean-François
REYNOLDS, Barbara
RUSBRIDGER, Alan Charles

SAVILLE, Amanda
SEN, Amartya

TOMBS, Robert

WOLTON, Thierry
WRIGLEY, Tony

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REVIEWS

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

'The Literary Thesis'

First published 1970. This subseries contains corrections for the 1981 edition, one piece of correspondence (from George Watson to the editors of 'Modern Language Review'), and reviews. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually.

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

'The Literary Critics'

First published 1962. This subseries contains draft material, correspondence and reviews. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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DRAFT MATERIAL

'Preface to an Enlarged Edition (1986)'
'Chapter 11: Theory and Practice since 1960' (for the aforementioned Enlarged Edition)
'Chapter 11: Criticism since 1960' (full draft of the above, with manuscript corrections, and accompanied by a note quoting T.S. Eliot writing to I.A. Richards about the earlier edition)

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CORRESPONDENCE

ADEN, John M

BARTON, Anne
BATESON, Frederick Noel Wilse
BEZZANT, James Stanley
BLACKBURN, Alex
BROWN, Hunt
BRUNNER, Hugo

CALVOCORESSI, Peter
CARSWELL, Christine
CLARK, Charles

DAVIS, Herbert
DONAGAN, Alan

EDWARDS, Philip
EHRENPREIS, Irvin

FOWLER, Alastair

HACHETTE, Jean-Paul-Marie
HART-DAVIS, Rupert
HOLLOWAY, John

INGLESFIELD, Robert

JOHNSON, R V

KINSLEY, James

LANE, Allen
LEWIS, Clive Staples

MARKS, Emerson R
MAXWELL, James
MEASHAM, D C
MINDLIN, Murray
MOIR, Duncan W
MONK, S H
MOTION, Andrew

NEWTON, J M

PADEN, W D
PHILIPPS, Robert

REEVES, Sonia
RUOTOLO, Lucia

SCHINCKLER, C
SEATON, Mary Ethel
SEWARD, Anthony W R
SHARMA, Lila Prasad
SOUTHAM, Brian
STEINER, George

TRICKETT, Rachel
TYLER, I J

WARNER, Oliver
WEAVER, Michael
WEIDENFELD, George
WENDER, Dorothea S
WINDTHORST, Rolf E
WOZNIAKOWSKI, Jacek

ZÁNTHÓ, Robert I

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REVIEWS

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Envelope labelled '"The Literary Critics" / pbd 24 May 1962'

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

'The English Petrarchans'

First published 1967. This subseries contains research material, correspondence and reviews. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Photocopies and offprints of research material

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CORRESPONDENCE

BARTON, Anne
BUXTON, John

KLEIN, Holger M

LONSDALE, Roger

MEYER, Anne-Marie

STERNFELD, Fred W

THOMSON, Patricia
TRAPP, Joseph Burney

WIND, Edgar

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REVIEWS

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