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Printed publications and extracts relating to Samuel Butler, his works and acquaintances.

Autograph correspondence of Samuel Butler and others relating to him. Offprints and extracts from printed papers.

Files and items relating to Cedric Price's office filing system, records keeping and records dispersal. Title based on Price's classification scheme.

2 scrapbooks containing various press cuttings and other miscellaneous papers, covering a period both of his time at St John's College and his later career.

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.

Fourteen handwritten letters to RHY, plus a press-cutting relating to St John's examination results, with RHY's name underlined, and a handwritten list of herbarium curators, on which Yapp appears 1899-. There is a mix of personal and official correspondence.