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Photographs taken in Rhodes by Daniel Anderson and Branden Chan.

This subseries collects, in approximate chronological order, invitations, flyers, programmes et cetera for various lectures, events and publications. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Oxford University Liberal Club term card, Michaelmas 1946

Oxford University Liberal Club term card, Hilary Term 1947

Travellers cheque, 13 April 1951

Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (Victoria University, Toronto) leaflet, circa 1964

Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, ‘Thomas Gray, 1716-1771’, 7 May 1971

‘Current Research in French Studies’, circa 1972
‘The Harrowing of Hell’, 2 March 1972
Paul Turner, ed., ‘Browning: Men and Women 1855’, 27 July 1972
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, ‘The Rivals’, dir. Sue Limb and Roy Porter, 31 October-4 November 1972

‘Frankenstein’ adapted by Alexeij Sagerer, circa 14 February 1973
Robert Halsband, ‘Lord Hervey: Eighteenth-Century Courtier’, 24 October 1973
Roger Lonsdale, ‘The Poetry of Thomas Gray: Versions of the Self’, 21 February 1973
Arthur Johnston, ‘The Poetry of William Collins’, 21 November 1973

‘Lord Byron: 22 January 1978-19 April 1824’ catalogue, circa 1974
Robert Ellrodt, ‘Self-Consciousness in Montaigne and Shakespeare’, 5 September 1974
Stephen Heath, ‘The Sociality of Writing’, 5 November 1974
Seamus Heaney, ‘The Fire in the Flint: Reflections on the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins’, 11 December 1974

R.L. Brett, ed., ‘Writers and Their Background’, circa 1975
J.A.W. Bennett, ‘From Casaubon to Mr Casaubon: The Rise and Fall of the Renaissance Scholar’, 5 March 1975

John Heath-Stubbs, ‘Artorius’, 28 May 1976
Tom Stoppard, ‘Jumpers’, circa 21 September 1976
Donald Davie, ‘The Literature of Dissent, 1700-1930’, 27 October-1 December 1976
Kathleen Raine, ‘Waste Land, Holy Land’, 8 December 1976
Christopher Wood, ‘Victorian Panorama: Paintings of Victorian Life’, 1976

‘The Harrowing of Hell’, 27 February 1977
Robert Halsband and Isobel Grundy, eds, ‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Essays and Poems’, 10 March 1977
John Casey, ‘T.S. Eliot’, 19 May 1977

Claire Tomalin, ‘Katherine Mansfield and “The New Age”’, 25 February 1978

C.S. Lewis Estate, ‘Song of the Lion’, 15 January 1980
Helen Gardner, ‘Happy Endings’, 11 November 1980
Robert Halsband, ‘”The Rape of the Lock” and Its Illustrations’, 24 July 1980

J.A.W. Bennett Memorial Lectures, 17 February-7 April 1981
Geoffrey Keynes, ‘The Gates of Memory’, 22 October 1981

J.B. Yeats, ‘Letters to His Son W.B. Yeats and Others 1869-1922’, ed. Joseph Hone, 31 May 1983
30th anniversary of ‘Encounter’, 18 October 1983
J.K Galbraith, Roy Jenkins and Richard Wainwright, John Maynard Keynes Centenary Meeting, 1 December 1983

Readings in memory of William Empson, 25 May 1984
‘Critical Quarterly’ anniversary celebration, 30 May 1984
Endellion String Quartet recital for Robin Orr’s 75th birthday. 1 November 1984
William Holding, ‘Nobel Lecture’ publication, 1984

‘Cecil Beaton and Friends’ 28 May 1985
‘Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth’, 23 July 1985

Frank Kermode, ‘The Uses of Error’, 11 May 1986
'An Evening with Samuel Pepys' at Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1 October 1986

Opening of the Fisher Building, St John's, 16 June 1988
‘English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700’, September 1988
John Stevens, ‘Music & Poetry from the Trouvères to Purcell’, 6 November 1988

‘Cambridge English’ lectures, 23 January-6 March 1989
‘Forms and Attention: The Work of Frank Kermode’, 18-19 March 1989
T.S. Eliot Memorial Lecture drinks reception and supper, 6 November 1989

Introductory readings of ‘The Duino Elegies’, 17 January-7 March 1991
Party in honour of Douglas Adams on the presentation of his third Golden Pan Award and the publication of ‘Last Chance to See’, 25 November 1991

John Stuart Mill Institute introductory text, circa 1992

John Beer, ‘Against Finality’, 4 February 1993
Bernard Williams, ‘Three Models of Truthfulness’, 5-7 May 1993
Colin Tite, ‘The Manuscript Library of Sir Robert Cotton’ (24 November 1993)

Germaine Greer, J.H. Gray Lectures, 9-13 May 1994

Lord Acton Centenary Celebration Activities, 16 March 1995

Tiepolo exhibition, 5 July 1996-12 January 1997
Joseph Epstein, ‘Anglophilia, American Style’, 24 March 1997

Mervyn King, ‘The New Monetary Policy Committee’, 16 November 1998
C.S. Lewis centenary readings, 24 November 1998

NiL Éditions catalogue général 1999
R.D. Gray and N. Boyle, ‘An Evening with Goethe & Eckermann’, 10 March 1999

L'Assemblée générale annuelle de l'ALEPS, 14 March 2000
Jonathan Smith, ‘The Learning Game’, 6 April 2000

John Barton, Faculty of Classics Corbett Lecture, 17-18 November 2002

‘The(e)ories: Advanced Seminars for Queer Research 2003’ call for papers, 2003
Election of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 14-15 March 2003

Itinerary for George Watson’s visit to Loretto Senior School, Musselburgh, 17-19 May 2004

Noah Charney, ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’, 10-14 May 2005
Hugh Trevor-Roper centenary celebration, 11 January 2014

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 collects, alphabetically by surname of the deceased, death notices, funeral service booklets and obituaries of various people. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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ADAMS, Douglas Noël
ADRIAN, Richard Hume

BARRÈRE, Jean-Bertrand Marie
BARTHES, Roland
BENNETT, Jack Arthur Walter
BLACKFORD, Staige D
BROGAN, Denis William
BUTTERFIELD, Herbert

CHAMPERNOWNE, David Gawen
CLIFFORD, Gay
COWLING, Maurice John
CRAWLEY, Charles William
CROOK, John Anthony

DAVIES, Hugh Sykes
DUNCAN-JONES, Elsie Elizabeth

ELVIN, Lionel

FERDINAND, Richard
FORSTER, Leonard

GALLAGHER, John Andrew
GOODWIN, Richard Murphey

HOUGH, Graham

JACK, Ian
JEWELL, Peter Arundel
JOHN, Otto
JONES, Trevor David

KALDOR, Nicholas
KERMODE, Frank
KEYNES, John Maynard
KITSON CLARK, George Sidney Roberts
KNIGHTS, Lionel Charles
KNOWLES, Michael David

LASKY, Melvin Jonah
LASLETT, Thomas Peter Ruffell
LEE, Arthur Guy
LEWY, Casimir

MacKINNON, Donald MacKenzie
MANSERGH, Philip Nicholas Seton
MEADE, James Edward
MORGAN, Margaret Ruth

NICHOLAS, Tressilian Charles

OWEN, Gwilym Ellis Lane

PIGOU, Arthur Cecil
PINTER, Harold
POLACK, Kenneth
POSTAN, Michael Moïssey

ROBINSON, Edward Austin Gossage
ROBINSON, Joan Violet
ROBSON, Robert

SALTER, Elizabeth
SHILS, Edward A
STERN, Joseph Peter Maria
STONE, John Richard Nicholas
STOREY, Graham
STRAUMANN, Heinrich

WELSFORD, Enid Elder Hancock
WILLIAMS, Bernard Arthur Owen

This subseries gathers offprints 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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‘The Text of the “Biographia Literaria”’ (‘Notes and Queries’, 199) (1954)

Review of ‘The Poems of John Dryden’, ed. James Kingsley (‘The Journal of English and Germanic Philology’, 58:3) (1959)

'Scientists for export' (letter, 'The Spectator', 29 September 1961) (1961)

‘Dryden’s First Answer to Rymer’ (‘The Review of English Studies,’ 14:53) (1963)
‘Dryden and the Scientific Image’ (‘Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London’, 18:1) (1963)

‘The Triumph of T.S. Eliot’ (‘Critical Quarterly’, 7:4) (1965)

Review of ‘The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals: 1824-1900’, edited by Walter Houghton (‘The Cambridge Review’, October 22 1966) (1966)

‘Arnold and the Victorian Mind’ (‘A Review of English Literature’, 8:3) (1967)

Review of René Wellek's 'A History of Modern Criticism 1750-1950' ('The Review of English Studies', 73) (1968)

‘The Language of the Metaphysicals’ (‘Literary English Since Shakespeare’) (1970)

Review of Frank Kermode’s ‘Spenser, Donne: Renaissance Essays’ and Cleanth Brooks’s ‘A Shaping Joy: Studies in the Writer’s Craft’ (‘The Review of English Studies’, 90) (1972)

Review of Marilyn Butler’s ‘Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography’ (‘Journal of English and Germanic Philology’, 72:3) (1973)

‘The Greatest Johnian (so far)’, review of ‘The Prose Works of William Wordsworth’, edited by W J B Owen and Jane W Smyser (‘The Eagle’, 282) (1974)

‘The Accuracy of Lord Byron’ (‘Critical Quarterly’, 17:2) (1975)

‘Quest for a Frenchman’ (‘The Sewanee Review’, 84:3) (1976)
‘Machiavel and Machiavelli’ (‘The Hudson Review’, 84:4) (1976)

'Literary research: Thoughts for an agenda' ('Times Literary Supplement', 25 February 1977) (1977)

'Home truths for the intelligentsia', review of Diana Trilling's 'We Must March My Darlings' ('Times Literary Supplement', 24 February 1978) (1978)

Exchange with John Carey on the matter of 'evaluation' ('Times Literary Supplement', 22 February, 7 March and 11 April 1980) (1980)

'A liking for lucre', review of John McVeagh's 'Tradefull Merchants' ('Times Literary Supplement', 4 September 1981) (1981)

'The Higher Cosiness', review of Richard Hoggart's 'An English Temper' ('Times Literary Supplement', 26 March 1982) (1982)
‘La Nouvelle Critique: Portrait of a Dinosaur’ (‘The Sewanee Review’, 90:4) (1982)

'Cambridge English' (letter, 'London Review of Books', 1-14 September 1983) (1983)

'Plain English' (letter, 'London Review of Books', 21 February 1985)

‘Orwell’s Nazi Renegade’ (‘The Sewanee Review’, 94:3) (1986)
‘The First English “Vita nuova”’ (‘Huntington Library Quarterly’, 49:4) (1986)
‘Tory Alice’ (‘The American Scholar’, 55:4) (1986)

‘Educating the Prime Minister’ (‘The Hudson Review’, 40:2) (1987)

‘Cities of Light’ (‘The Hudson Review’, 40:4) (1988)
‘Larkin Ascending’ (‘The American Scholar’, 57:3) (1988)
‘The Sense of Unending’ (‘Studies in French Literature in Honour of Vivienne Mylne’) (1988)

‘The Americanness of American Poetry’ (‘Virginia Quarterly Review’, 65:1) (1989)
‘Letter from Cambridge: Britain and the Brain Gain’ (‘The Hudson Review’, 42:2) (1989)
‘The Singular Friendship: Yeats and Pound at Stone Cottage’ (‘The Hudson Review’, 42:3) (1989)

‘A Common European Home’ (‘The Hudson Review’, 43:3) (1990)
‘Shakespeare and the Norman Conquest: English in the Elizabethan Theatre’ (‘Virginia Quarterly Review’, 66:4) (1990)

‘The Art of Disagreement: C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)’ (‘The Hudson Review’, 48:2) (1995)

‘I Was Kingsley Amis’ (‘The Hudson Review’, 49:4) (1997)
Cutting from 'The Wilson Quarterly' (Autumn 1997) referring to 'The Messiah of Modernism: F.R. Leavis 1895-1978' ('The Hudson Review', 50:2) (1997)
‘The Death of the Avant-Garde’ (‘The Sewanee Review’, 105:4) (1997)
‘Thoughts on a Dead Elephant’ (‘The Hudson Review’, 50:3) (1997)

Letter about ‘The Death of the Avant-Garde’ ('PN Review', 122) (1998)

‘Americanophilia’ (‘The American Scholar’, 69:2) (2000)

‘Remembering Prufrock: Hugh Sykes Davies 1909-1984’ (‘The Sewanee Review’, 109:4) (2001)

‘The Future in Your Bones: C.P. Snow (1905-80)’ (‘The Hudson Review’, 54:4) (2002)

'Schwerins vergessener Dichter: Charles Hamilton Sorley aus Cambridge' ('Schweriner Volkszeitung', 12 January 2003) (2003)
‘The Curse of Fred’ (‘The Hudson Review’, 56:3) (2003)

‘The Empire of Lionel Trilling’ (‘The Sewanee Review’, 115:3) (2007)
‘Elegy for a Cold Warrior: Melvin Lasky 1920-2004’ (‘The Sewanee Review’, 115:4) (2007)

‘Dining with Allen Tate’ (‘The Sewanee Review’, 116:3) (2008)

‘The High Road to Narnia’ (‘The American Scholar’, 78:1) (2009)
‘The Q Factor’ (‘The Sewanee Review’, 117:2) (2009)

‘The Trope: Hugh Trevor-Roper’ (‘The Sewanee Review’, 118:4) (2010)

‘The Forgotten Churchill’ (‘The American Scholar’, 80:3) (2011)
‘The Rain in Spain’ (‘The Sewanee Review’, 119:3) (2011)

‘An Unquenchable Gaiety of Mind’ (‘The American Scholar’, 81:3) (2012)
‘Kermode on Kermode’ (‘The Sewanee Review’, 120:4) (2012)

‘Rhyme and Reason’ (‘The Sewanee Review’, 121:2) (2013)

This subseries contains cuttings, copies and notes connected to George Watson's research and not filed by him with papers pertaining to specific projects (such as those represented earlier in this series). This should not be taken to mean that the material is necessarily unrelated to said projects. Note that offprints of work by other authors are sequenced in Watson/6.

A few items of indeterminate topic have been grouped in the opening '[Miscellaneous]' folder; the rest have been grouped by the cataloguer according as appropriate to topic or author, some more approximately than others, as represented by the list below.

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[Miscellaneous]

C.S. Lewis (notebook)
Medieval English (notebook)

Aristotle
Matthew Arnold
W.H. Auden
Jane Austen

Honoré de Balzac
John Batchelor
F.W. Bateson
Saul Bellow
Lord Berners
Cyril Bibby
Donald F. Bond
J.S. Boys Smith
Robert Bridges
Broadside Ballads
Robert Browning
Edmund Burke
Kenneth Burke
Fanny Burney
Samuel Butler
Lord Byron

Lewis Carroll
Whittaker Chambers
Chapters
Cicero
J.C.D. Clark
Edward, Earl of Clarendon
Sybil, Lady Colefax
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Charles Dickens
John Donne
John Dryden

Ebner-Eschenbach, Goethe, Lichtenberg, Nietzsche
Maria Edgeworth
T.S. Eliot
William Empson
Clive Emsley
'Encounter'
Joseph Epstein

Robert Ferguson
Henry Fielding
French literature

Elizabeth Gaskell
John Gay
Ernest Gellner
Edward Gibbon
Jean Giraudoux
Germaine Greer
Andrea Guarna
Thom Gunn / Donald Davie

Thomas Hardy
Adolf Hitler
Graham Hough
The House of Commons
David Hume

Indices
Irony

Giles Jacob
Harold Jeffreys
James Joyce

Immanuel Kant
Elia Kazan
John Keats
Frank Kermode
Rudyard Kipling
Arthur Koestler
Karl Kraus

Henry Labouchere / William Gladstone
William Langland
Emmet Larkin
Philip Larkin
Thomas Leaver
F.R. Leavis
Giacomo Leopardi
Bernard Levin
C.S. Lewis
George Cornewall Lewis / Thomas Carlyle
Wyndham Lewis
Literary theory
John Llewellyn
Lucan

Thomas Babington Macaulay
Niccolò Machiavelli
Louise MacNeice
Herbert Marcuse
Pierre de Marivaux
P.J. Marshall
W. Somerset Maugham
Thomas May
Mary Midgley
John Stuart Mill
John Milton
Molière
Michel de Montaigne
Thomas More
Mottoes in novels
Edwin Muir
Tim Munby
Iris Murdoch

NiL Éditions

Parody & imitation
Mark Pattison
Samuel Pepys
Pierre Joseph Proudhon

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Repetition
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Edward Said
Jean-Paul Sartre
Inge Scholl
Walter Scott
William Shakespeare
Mary Shelley
Sichuan University Press
Quentin Skinner
Adam Smith
Ed Smith
John Smith
Jonathan Smith
Sydney Smith
George Sydney Smythe
Socialism
Edmund Spenser
Ewald Standop
George Steiner
Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de Sully
Algernon Charles Swinburne / Charles Baudelaire

Allen Tate
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dylan Thomas
Alexis de Tocqueville
Leo Tolstoy
Thomas Tomkis
Philip Toynbee
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Diana & Lionel Trilling
Ivan Turgenev

George Vertue
'Virginia Quarterly Review'

Richard Wagner
Abraham Moritz Warburg
William Whewell
T.H. White
Nathaniel Wibarn
William Wilberforce
Angus Wilson
Edgar Wind
Yvor Winters
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Virginia Woolf
William Wordsworth

W.B. Yeats

This subseries contains thirty-five photographs, mostly unlabelled and undated and grouped by the cataloguer as below.

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PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS

Thirteen black-and-white portrait photographs of George Watson, some of them duplicates

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GEORGE WATSON SOLO

One photograph of a lecture
Six holiday/travel photographs
Three poor printouts of a digital photograph taken in Watson’s rooms in St John’s

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GEORGE WATSON WITH OTHERS

Ten photographs (identified companions: Peter Beal, Patricia Coales, Francisca Cruz Rosa Fiorentino, David Hickey, Hilton Kelliher, Emma Manas, Steve May)

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OTHER PEOPLE

Two photographs from Australia, presumably of members of George Watson’s family there. One, signed by and featuring ‘M.L.W.’, was taken in Milton Park, Bowral, New South Wales on 10 October 1971; the other, taken at ‘the St Bart’s do to open the hostel for frail aged men’, and mentioning James Henry Richard Watson in its reverse inscription, was taken on 19 March 1995, and features ‘Ro’, ‘Fi’, ‘Jane’, ‘Elizabeth’, ‘Ann’ and ‘Mary’.

Material collected during the Samuel Butler Project. Includes copies of exhibition captions and publicity material, photographs and recordings relating to exhibitions, talks and other events held at St John's College during the Samuel Butler Project (July 2011 - June 2013).