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This subseries contains various documents pertaining to the Unservile State Group and associated groups and projects, including minutes, publication information and cuttings. A small group of other political documents has been appended. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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COLLECTION INFORMATION

Description by 'J.B.' of the contents of an earlier version of the papers
'Manuscript Collection': George Watson's description of the papers (25 May 1978)
Leaflet describing the Archives of Stanford University's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace (presumably considered as a potential depository)

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'UNSERVILE STATE, 1953-1991'

Retrospective article by George Watson, in typescript and published form (22 February 1991)

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MEMBERSHIP AND CONTACTS

Membership lists
List of Liberal peers (January 1966)
Contact details of European liberal figures
List of academic libraries in Eastern Europe

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POLICY STATEMENTS

Unservile State Group
National Campaign on Behalf of the Low-income Groups
The Acton Society Trust

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AGENDAS AND MINUTES

10 February 1956 minutes
22-23 June 1956 minutes
27 July 1956 minutes

17 May 1957 agenda
17 May 1957 minutes
28 August 1957 minutes

10 May 1968 minutes

18 May 1970 minutes

4 March 1971 minutes
19 May 1971 minutes

7 December 1972 agenda

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Memorandum: 'The Liberal Party and Co-ownership' (April 1954)

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PUBLICATIONS

'The projected Liberal "Yellow Book"' (circa July 1953)
'Memorandum on a Projected Book on British Liberalism in the Mid-century' (July 1954)
Arthur Holt, pamphlet suggestions (undated)
Memorandum of pamphlet suggestions (undated)
'Liberty in the Welfare State' comments (1956)

'The Unservile State' copyright agreements (1956)
'The Unservile State' contributor information (book published 25 July 1957)

'Radical Alternative' progress report (30 August 1961)
'Radical Alternative' preface (May 1962)
'Radical Alternative' revised prelims
'Radical Alternative' notes on contributors

Notes pertaining to Edwin George West, perhaps the second edition (1970) of his 'Education and the State' (1965)

University of Leeds press release about The Elliott Dodds Lecture (24 January 1972)

Richard Moore and Christine Morgan, 'The Liberals in Europe' pamphlet (1974)

Samuel Brittan and Barry Riley, 'A People's Stake in North Sea Oil' pamphlet (1980)

Photocopy of Christopher Mayhew's 'Liberals, Social Democrats and Defence' pamphlet (1984)

Michael Meadowcroft, 'Dear David, Thanks, Yours Neil' (20 May 1990)

Report by 'Nick' on an unknown pamphlet or article

List of the Unservile State Papers pamphlets

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Three sheets of Unservile State Group stationery

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CUTTINGS

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Folder labelled 'USG Agendas Addresses etc'

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OTHER POLITICAL DOCUMENTS

'Co-ownership in Industry' (April 1952)
'Co-ownership at Work' (October 1952)

'Books for Poland: A report to the Secretary of the Writers and Publishers Committee for European Cooperation', to which is attached a list of pertinent Polish addresses (1957)

Copied pages from Frank O'Gorman's 'Voters, Patrons and Parties' (1989)

Derek Beales, 'The Electorate before and after 1832' (14 October 1991)

Vote count for the 2005 Parliamentary Council Election in Cambridge

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

This subseries contains preparatory documents relating to 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION

‘List of Contributors and Revisers’ for the 1959 CBEL Supplement
‘Proposals Submitted by Mr George Watson’ (16 February 1963)
‘Proposals submitted by Professor Phillip Harth’ (23 April 1963)
‘Some Comments by F.W. Bateson’ (28 May 1963)
Peter Meade, ‘Notes on Proposed Revision of the CBEL’ (undated)
‘Reflections stimulated by the existing reports…’ (5 June 1963)
‘Points made for the attention of the General Editor’ (8 June 1963)
‘Reviews of the Bateson edition’ (focusing on the Index) (undated)
‘New CBEL Index Volume’ (undated)
Suggestions about the index, compiled by Peter Burbidge (4 May 1971)

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MEMORANDA OF AGREEMENT

Between George Watson and Cambridge University Press (23 September 1964)
Between JP Pickles (compiler of the Index) and Cambridge University Press (1971)

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GUIDELINES

Abbreviations
‘New CBEL: Periodical Articles / October 1966’
Notes for Contributors draft with MS corrections
Seven copies of Notes for Contributors
‘Minor Poetry’ sample pages
‘The Novel’ annotated sample page
‘Notes for the Printer’
‘Volume 5: Index – Draft headnote’

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LETTERS TO ALL CONTRIBUTORS FROM GEORGE WATSON

20 July 1967
May 1969
June 1971
8 May 1972

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Dust jacket

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.

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.

First published 1973. This subseries contains research material, a typescript, cover-design material, correspondence and reviews. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Photocopied research material

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Typescript with manuscript corrections

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Cover-design template on translucent paper
Draft of back-cover description with manuscript corrections
Image of final cover

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CORRESPONDENCE

BARKER, Rodney
BAYLEY, John
BEICHMAN, Arnold

CARSON, Peter
CHALONER, W H
COLLINS, Philip A W

DODDS, Elliott

GALLAGHER, Jack
GILMOUR, Robin
GLEESON, Dermot
GORDON, Eleo

HARVEY, Heather
HENNOCK, Ernest Peter
HOLLOWAY, John

JENNINGS, Bernard
JONES, Emrys

KOSELLECK, R

MacDONAGH, Oliver
MILLER, Karl Fergus Connor
MIRFIN, Derick
MONOD, Sylvere

PELLING, Henry
PRICE, James

ROBSON, John M

SCOTT, Peter
SEEAR, Nancy
SELDON, Arthur
SISSONS, Michael
SKINNER, Quentin
STEINBERG, Jonathan

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REVIEWS

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Envelope labelled '"The English Ideology" (Allen Lane, Feb. 1973)'

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

First published 1977. This subseries contains research material, typescripts, proofs, correspondence and reviews; the reviews section includes some printed correspondence in which George Watson receives and responds to criticism, and there is also a selection of other writing by Watson that he evidently considered of an intellectual piece with the book.

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RESEARCH MATERIAL

Photocopied pages from 'Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation?' by Sidney and Beatrice Webb (1935)
Cutting of a David Leigh article about Geronwy Rees, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt ('Guardian', 14 January 1980)
Cutting of a review by Neil Ascherson of 'The Climate of Treason' by Andrew Boyle ('London Review of Books', 7 February 1980)

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Composite typescript of the book under its earlier title 'The Literature of Politics in Modern England', with manuscript corrections
Composite typescript with manuscript corrections
Proofs with manuscript corrections

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RELATED WRITING

Notes on Hewlett Johnson, perhaps towards a review
'More on the Odd Man among Spies' (which would be reversioned as a letter published in 'The London Review of Books' on 20 March 1980)
'The Higher Cosiness', review of Richard Hoggart's 'An English Temper' ('Times Literary Supplement', 26 March 1982)
'All sons of Adam', review of Nancy Stepan's 'The Idea of Race in Science' ('Financial Times', 8 January 1983) (N.B. a typescript draft of this review appears in the 'Genocide' subseries)

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CORRESPONDENCE

BATTESTIN, Ruthe & Martin
BOOTH, Wayne
BOOTMAN, Bram
BOYLE, Andrew
BRACHER, Karl Dietrich
BURDEN, Dennis
BURNS, T F

CAREY, John
CONRAD, Ruth
COWEN, Zelman

DEWITTE, Jacques

FARMILOE, T M
FLEW, Antony

GAY, Peter
GERMER, Rudolf
GÖMÖRI, George
GORDON, Michael
GROSS, John

HOMBERGER, Eric
HOWARTH, T E B

JAROSZYŃSKI, Andrzej
JEFFREYS, Harold
JOSEPH, A N

KEMP, Harry
KERMODE, Frank

LABEDZ, Leopold
LASKY, Melvin Jonah
LEE, Arthur Guy

MALHOTRA, Rajiv
MENDELSON, Edward
MIDGLEY, Mary
MILLER, Karl
MIRFIN, Derick
MOORE, Richard
MOORE, Steven

NORTH, Maurice

OLSON, Betsy

PALMER, John E
PELLING, Henry Mathison
POOLE, Roger

REYNOLDS, Barbara
RICKS, Christopher Bruce
ROBSON, William Wallace
ROSE, E J B

SCHMIDT, Michael
SEEAR, Beatrice Nancy
SELDON, Arthur
SITESH, Aruna
SMITH, Jonathan
STEEL, David
STOREY, Graham
SWANN, Charles

TYRRELL, R Emmett

WELBOURN, D B
WILES, Peter
WINAND-JACQUEMIN, Marie-Antoinette

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REVIEWS

First published 1978. This subseries contains one royalties statement from Macmillan.

First published 1978. This subseries contains one review.