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Auction catalogue

Dominic Winter Auctioneers catalogue for 'Printed Books, Maps & Documents: Antiquarian and Modern Literature', 15 June 2016, accompanied by correspondence with St John's College Library pertaining to the sale of four items from George Watson's collection.

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

'Biographia Literaria'

George Watson's edition, first published 1956, of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's book. This subseries contains corrections, and a note about the corrections, for the 1965 edition.

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

'Castle Rackrent'

George Watson's edition, first published 1964, of Maria Edgeworth's novel. This subseries contains a proposal and specimen page for the Oxford English Novels series of editions.

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

'Chomsky: What Has It to Do with Literature?'

First published in the 'Times Literary Supplement', 14 February 1975. This subseries contains the published article, and correspondence. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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'Times Literary Supplement', 14 February 1975

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BARNET, Sylvan

DEITCH, P L

ROSE, Gillian

SEUREN, Pieter A M

WILLIAMS, Ian M

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

College and Faculty matters

This subseries collects documents pertaining to George Watson's role as a Fellow of St John's and a lecturer and examiner in the Cambridge English Faculty. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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CAMBRIDGE KEEPSAKES

Heffers bookmark
Rickards ‘Welcome to Great Britain’ brochure, with an image of the Bridge of Sighs, 1970

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TEACHING

MHRA Style Book flyers
University Microfilms International booklet about dissertation research

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FACULTY OF ENGLISH

John Holloway, ‘Chairman’s Report’, November 1971, plus response from Leo Salingar
Hugh Sykes Davies, ‘Working Party on University and College Teaching in English’, 23 February 1983

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ST JOHN'S COLLEGE

Letter from Francis Puryer White to Reinhold Regensburger, 20 July 1942
Note apologising for Hugh Sykes Davies’s unavailability to students, 14 January (1964/1969/1975)
Council minutes, 11 January 1979
‘List of Noted Johnians’, June 1982
Malcolm Underwood, ‘Some Historical Notes for the Three Thousandth Meeting of the College Council’, 11 November 1991
College Calendar, 2012-2013

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COLLEAGUES

John Renford Bambrough’s curriculum vitae
Photograph of Herbert Butterfield
Hugh Sykes Davies, ‘The Scales of Disaster: Elegy for an endangered species’
Robert Aubrey Hinde’s curriculum vitae
Research material on Philip Kermode, whom Watson suspected to be a relative of Frank Kermode
Richard Luckett's curriculum vitae
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on Hugh Trevor-Roper

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REPORTS

BAGCHI, J, ‘Walter Pater’s Criticism and Its Contemporary Relations’ (doctoral dissertation)

DALE, Peter A, ‘Poetics & Historical Thought in England 1830-80: Carlyle, Arnold & Pater’ (doctoral dissertation), 21 October 1974

GUTTERIDGE, J D, application for Junior Research Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge, 10 May 1975

HERTZ, A L, ‘“Macmillan’s Magazine” under David Masson 1859-67’ (doctoral dissertation), circa April 1982
HOLLOWAY, John, application for Litt.D. degree, 1969

KEARNEY, C J, ‘The Writings of B.R. Haydon’ (doctoral dissertation)

LARSEN, Kenneth J, 'The Religious Sources of Crashaw's Poetry' (doctoral dissertation; reports by Muriel Bradbrook and Elsie Duncan-Jones)

O’SULLIVAN, K P D M, ‘The Rise of the Irish Novel’ (doctoral dissertation), 15 March 1969

PAGE, A, ‘Coleridge’s Philosophy of Language’ (doctoral dissertation), August 1981
PHILLIPS, C L, ‘A Critical Study of Robert Bridges’ “Testament of Beauty” and Its Relation to His Intellectual Development’ (doctoral dissertation), February 1983

SKILTON, D J, ‘Anthony Trollope and His Contemporary Critics’ (doctoral dissertation), 25 August 1969 and 6 March 1971 (resubmission)
SPENCE, G W, ‘John Stuart Mill on Sociology and the Art of Life’ (doctoral dissertation), 1968

THOMAS, William David Aitken, ‘A Variorum Edition of the Poetry of Robert Graves’ (research proposal), circa 1975

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

Correspondence

This subseries contains correspondents with and/or concerning (potential or actual) contributors to, and other parties involved in, 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list of correspondents/subjects follows.

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ABRAMS, Philip
AITKEN, A J
ALLOTT, Miriam
ALSTON, Robin C
ALTICK, Richard D
ANDERSON, C
ARNOTT, James F
AVERY, Emmett L

BARBER, Giles
BARKER, Nicholas J
BARNARD, John
BARR, C Bernard L
BATESON, F W
BATTESTIN, Martin
BAWCUTT, Priscilla
BEER, Gillian
BELANGER, Terry
BENNETT, Jack A W
BENTLEY, Gerry E
BILL, E G W
BISHOP, Terence Alan Martyn
BLAKE, Norman
BLANCK, Jacob
BLAND, D S
BLISS, Alan J
BLUNDEN, Edmund
BOLGAR, Robert
BOND, Donald F
BOOTH, Bradford A
BREEM, W W S
BRETT, Philip
BRETT, R L
BROOKS, Harold F
BROOKS, Kenneth R
BROWN, T Julian
BURBIDGE, Peter G
BURTON, Anthony
BUTLER, Marilyn
BUTT, John

CAMERON, Kenneth
CAMPBELL, A
CAMPOS, Christophe
CANNEY, M B C
CAREY, John
CARROLL, John
CARNALL, Geoffrey
CARTER, John
CAWLEY, A C
CEADEL, Eric B
CHADWICK, Owen
CHAPPLE, John A V
CIGMAN, Gloria
CLEMOES, Peter and GODDEN, M R
CLIFFORD, James L
COCKCROFT, Robert
COLLINS, Philip
COLLINS, Rowland L
COLLINSON, Patrick
COLVER, A Wayne
COLVIN, Christina
CORSON, James C
CRAIGIE, James
CRAIK, Tom W
CRAWFORD, Thomas
CRAWFORD, William R
CROSS, James E
CRUM, Margaret C
CURTIS, Stanley J

DAHL, Folke and Kristin
DAVID, R W
DAVIES, Reg
DAVIES, William
DAVIS, Herbert
DAVIS, Norman
DAVISON, Peter
DAY, Robert A
DEARING, Vinton A
DE BEER, Esmond
DEDEYAN, Charles
DE VANE, William
DICK, Hugh G
DODSWORTH, Martin
DONNER, H W
DORSCH, T S ‘Ted’
DOYLE, A I
DUNN, Robert D

ECCLESHARE, C F
EDWARDS, Philip
EHRENPREIS, Irvin
ENDICOTT, Norman
ERSKINE-HILL, Howard
ESPLIN, David G

FAYEN, George S
FERGUSON, Oliver W
FIELDING, K J
FLEEMAN, J David
FOWLER, Alistair D S
FOXON, David
FRANCIS, Frank
FRANKIS, P John
FREDEMAN, William E
FRIEDMAN, Arthur
FULLER, John

GARDNER, W H
GASKELL, Philip
GOLLIN, Richard M
GREEN, Roger Lancelyn
GREENE, David H
GREENFIELD, Stanley B
GREENSLADE, Basil
GREER, David
GRIMSDITCH, Herbert B
GULL, C D

HALL, A Rupert
HALSBAND, Robert
HAMILTON, A C ‘Bert’
HARGREAVES, Henry
HARRIS, Bernard
HARRISON, John
HART, R W
HARVEY, Henry
HARVEY, W John
HAYWARD, John
HAZEN, Allen T
HEMLOW, Joyce
HERBERT, Arthur S
HEYWORTH, Peter L
HIBBARD, George R
HOAD, T F
HOENIGER, F David
HONIGMANN, E A J
HORDEN, John
HOUGHTON, Walter
HOUSE, Madeline Edith
HOWSE, A P
HOY, Cyrus
HUDSON, Anne
HUGHES, K
HUNTER-BLAIR, Peter

ISLES, Duncan

JACKSON, William A
JOHNSTON, Arthur
JONES, Emrys L
JONES, H W
JORDAN, John E

KENNEY, Edward J
KER, Neil
KEYNES, Geoffrey
KINSLEY, James
KNAPP, Lewis
KOLB, Gwin
KUNA, Franz

LANG, Cecil
LATHAM, Agnes
LATHAM, Robert C
LAURENCE, Dan H
LeFANU, W R
LEWIS, W S
LONSDALE, Roger
LORIMER, Joyce
LOUGH, J
LOW, Donald A

MacGILLIVRAY, James
MACK, Maynard
MADDISON, Raymond E
MATTHEWS, Geoffrey
MATTHEWS, William
MAURER, Oscar
MAXWELL, James
McCONICA, James
McKEOWN, Elizabeth
McNAMEE, Lawrence F
MIDDENDORF, John H
MILLS, David
MITCHELL, Bruce
MORGAN, Paul
MORRIS, Brian
MOSLEY, James
MUIRHEAD, Arnold
MUNBY, Tim

NEILL, Desmond
NEWTON, J
NICHOLES, Eleanor
NICKALLS, John L
NICOLL, A
NISBIT, Ada
NORTON-SMITH, John
NOSWORTHY, J M
NOVAK, Maximillian E
NOWELL-SMITH, Simon
NUTTALL, Geoffrey

OATES, John C T
OPIE, Peter
OSBORN, James M
OWEN, Dorothy
OWEN, W J B

PADEN, W D
PAGE, Raymond I
PALMER, Bernard
PANTZER, Katharine F
PARK, Ray
PARKES, Malcolm B
PARKS, George B
PARREAUX, Andre
PATRIDES, C A
PEARL, M L
PEARSALL, Derek
PEARSALL, R B
PECKHAM, Morse
PENDRY, Eric D
PÉNIGAULT-DUHET, Paule
PETTIT, Henry
PHILLIPS, M M
PIMLOTT, J
POLLARD, Arthur
POLLARD, Graham
POLLARD, H G
PORTER, H C
POTTLE, Frederick A
POWELL, Lawrence Clark
PRICHARD, M J
PURDY, Richard L

QUAYLE, E S

RATTANSI, P M
RAW, Barbara
RAY, Gordon N
REES, Joan
RICKARD, Peter
RINGLER, W
ROBERTS, Julian
ROBINSON, John
ROBSON, J M
ROGERS, Pat
ROSENBERG, Henry & Sheila
ROY, G Ross
RUSSELL, Norma
RUSSELL-SMITH, Joy

SALMON, Vivian
SANDERS, Charles Richard
SCARLES, Christopher
SCATTERGOOD, V John
SCHOENBAUM, S
SCOTT, A B
SCOUTEN, A H
SEZNEC, Jean
SHARROCK, Roger
SHERBO, Arthur
SIMON, Irene
SIMON, Joan
SKINNER, Quentin
SMALLEY, Donald
SMITH, Albert H
SOUTHAM, B C
SPARROW, John
STANDLEY, Fred L
STANLEY, E G
STANWOOD, Paul G
STATHAM, M H
STEINER, W
STERNFELD, F W
STEVENSON, Lionel
STONE, George Winchester
STOREY, Graham
SUPER, R H
SUTHERLAND, James R
SYFRET, Rosemary
SYLVESTER, Richard S

TAYLOR, Donald S
TAYLOR, Samuel S B
THOMSON, Patricia
TILLOTSON, G
TILLOTSON, Kathleen
TODD, William B
TOWNSEND, Francis G
TRAINER, James

VIETH, David M

WAAL, Esther de
WALL, Stephen
WATSON, Joanna
WEBSTER, Charles
WELCHER, J K
WELLS, Stanley
WHALLEY, George
WHITE, William
WHITELOCK, Dorothy
WHITEMAN, Anne
WILDERS, John
WILES, R M
WILLISON, Ian
WILSON, Edmund
WOODINGS, Robert
WOOF, R S
WOOLF, Cecil
WRIGHT, C E

YOLTON, John W
YONGE, Theodore

ZIMANSKY, Curt A

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

Correspondence

This subseries contains Watson's correspondence with members of the Unservile State Group as well as associated figures; on occasion files contain, per Watson's grouping, correspondence about, as well as to or from, the person named. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list of correspondents follows.

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ALLEN, George
ARON, Raymond
ASHDOWN, Paddy

BARNES, Rosie
BEITH, Alan
BONHAM-CARTER, Mark
BRIGGS, Asa
BRITTAN, Samuel
BRUNNER, John
BUCHAN, Alistair
BUSH, Ian E
BUTLER, David

CAMERON, J M
CARR, Edward Hallett
CHILVER, Sylvia
CLARK, William
CLARKE, Norman
CONQUEST, Robert
COWIE, Harry
CRANSTON, Maurice
CROOME, Honor
CROUCH, Colin
CURLE, Adam C T W

DAHRENDORF, Ralf
DAY, Robin
DEIGHTON, Herbert Stanley
DENNISON, S R
DODDS, Elliott
DUNCAN, Dennis H

ELTIS, Walter

FOGARTY, Michael P
FOOT, Michael
FORBES, Bryan
FURTH, C A

GOODHART, A L
GRENSTED, L W
GRIGG, John Edward Poynder, Lord Altrincham
GRIMOND, Jo

HAGUE, Douglas
HAMSON, C J
HARVEY, Heather
HARTLEY, Anthony
HERBERT, S Mervyn
HIBBS, John
HILL, Evelyn
HOLFORD, William
HOLLINGWORTH, Clare
HOLLIS, Christopher
HONORÉ, Tony
HOOSER, H Emlyn
HUGH JONES, E M
HUTTON, Graham
HYDE, H Montgomery

JAMES, Walter
JEBB, Hubert Miles Gladwyn, Lord Gladwyn
JEFFREYS, Harold
JENKINS, Roy
JENNINGS, Bernard
JEWKES, John
JOHNSON, Paul

KASER, Michael
KEITH-LUCAS, Brian
KENNEDY, Ludovic

LAMB, Richard
LASKY, Melvin J
LE FOE, Dominic
LEVIN, Bernard
LEYLAND, Norman Harrison
LIDDELL HART, Basil Henry
LORT-PHILLIPS, Patrick

MacCALLUM SCOTT, John
MacDONALD, John
MACKAY, Simon Brooke, Baron Tanlaw
MacKENZIE, Norman
MACKIE, George Yull
MADARIAGA, Salvador de
MADDEN, Freddie
MAITLAND, Patrick
MARTIN, David
McCALLUM, Ronald Buchanan
MEADE, J S
MEADOWCROFT, Michael
MICKLEM, Nathaniel
MIRFIN, Derick
MOORE, Richard
MORGAN, Christine
MORGAN, E
MORPURGO, Jack
MORRELL, William B
MOSER, Claus Adolf
MOUGHTON, Barry
MURDOCH, Iris

NAIRN, Ian
NEWBY, Donald
NICHOLAS, H G
NICOLSON, Nigel

PAIGE, Duncan
PAISH, F W
PATON, Alan
PEACOCK, Alan T
PETERSON, A D C
POLANYI, Michael
POLLITT, Brian
POWELL, Dilys
PRESTON, Phyllis
PRYCE-JONES, Alan

RICE, Valerie
ROSE, Richard
ROWNTREE, B Philip
RUSSELL, Conrad Sebastian Robert, Lord Russell

SADLEIR, Michael
SALTER, Frank R
SAMUEL, Godfrey
SANDFORD, Cedric
SEEAR, Nancy
SELDON, Arthur
SELF, Peter
SHONFIELD, Andrew
SKELSEY, Philip
SLOMAN, Peter
SMITH, Trevor
SPARROW, John
SPRECKLEY, David R A
STEEL, David M S

TAVERNE, Dick
TEMPLE SMITH, Maurice
THOMAS, W Harford
THOMSON, David
THOMSON, John
THORPE, Jeremy
TRILLING, Lionel

USBORNE, Henry

VINCENT, John R

WADE, Henry William Rawson
WADE, William Oulton, Lord Wade
WAINWRIGHT, Richard
WARD PERKINS, Neville
WATKINS, Philip
WAYNE, Francis
WEST, E G
WHEATCROFT, G S A
WILES, Peter
WILLIAMS, Raymond
WINT, Guy
WISEMAN, Jack

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

Correspondence of Bernard Jennings

Bernard Jennings served as Secretary of the Unservile State Group, and his collection of relevant correspondence, presumably passed to George Watson, is represented here. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list of correspondents follows.

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(N.B. These files representing individual correspondents are preceded in the sequence by a file containing event invitations and groups of replies from various people.)

AIREDALE, Oliver
ARMITAGE, John
ARNOLD, Ron

BEAUMONT, Timothy Wentworth
BELOFF, Max
BRITTAN, Samuel

CRANSTON, Maurice

DALE, Tom
DAVIDSON, James
DAWES, Margaret
DEIGHTON, H S
DODDS, Elliott
DÛCHENE, François

GRIMOND, Jo

HARVEY, Heather
HUTTON, Graham

JOHNSTON, Russell

MEADOWCROFT, Michael
MICKLEM, Nathaniel
MIRFIN, Derick
MOORE, Richard

RAVETZ, Jerome
ROWNTREE, B Philip

SUMERLING, B

THOMPSON, John

WADE, William Oulton, Lord Wade
WAINWRIGHT, Richard
WATSON, George
WEST, Edwin
WHITELEY, Kath
WILES, Peter
WISEMAN, Jack
WOLFERS, John

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

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