Guide to the Ford Madox Ford Collection,
[ca. 1850]-1973

Collection Number: 4605

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Ford Madox Ford collection, [ca. 1850]-1973 (bulk 1850-1939).
Collection Number:
4605
Creator:
Ford Madox Ford 1873-1939.
Quantity:
37.8 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, broadsides, bound manuscripts, photographs, and clippings.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, broadsides, bound manuscripts, photographs, and clippings, mainly spanning the period from the maturity of Ford's grandfather, Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown, to the death of Ford himself. Material from Ford's career ranges from unpublished novels and short stories of the 1890's and early 1900's to journal articles, literary reviews, lectures, addresses, and radio talks he wrote or delivered in the last 20 years of his life, including complete manuscripts of many published and unpublished novels, nonfiction books, stories, poems, plays, essays, and musical compositions.


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

English novelist and influential editor of literary journals; also biographer, art critic, and poet. Born Ford Madox Hueffer; changed last name to Ford in 1919.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, broadsides, bound manuscripts, photographs, and clippings, mainly spanning the period from the maturity of Ford's grandfather, Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown, to the death of Ford himself. Material from Ford's career ranges from unpublished novels and short stories of the 1890's and early 1900's to journal articles, literary reviews, lectures, addresses, and radio talks he wrote or delivered in the last 20 years of his life, including complete manuscripts of many published and unpublished novels, nonfiction books, stories, poems, plays, essays, and musical compositions. Included are the manuscript of "Seraphina," the basis of the novel Romance which Ford wrote with Joseph Conrad; manuscripts of Ford's novels The Fifth Queen, The Privy Seal, The Heart of the Country, The Young Lovell, and Women and Men; a complete version and a "printer's copy" of The Good Soldier; manuscripts of a number of Ford's nonfiction works, including his biography of Ford Madox Brown; and some issues of the literary magazines he edited, the English Review and the Transatlantic Review. The collection also contains galley proofs (9 leaves) with James Joyce's corrections of his Work in Progress, a fragment of Finnegan's Wake that appeared in the Transatlantic Review.
Also included are postcards from Ford depicting scenes from Germany before World War I; letters and articles documenting Ford's increasing concern about Nazi expansionism, and his efforts to help Jewish refugees, in the 1930's; Arthur Mizener's manuscript material and correspondence for his biography of Ford, The Saddest Story; and David Dow Harvey's manuscripts for his bibliography of Ford.
Correspondence includes Ford's letters to his wife Elsie Martindale, daughters Katharine Hueffer Lamb and Julia Madox Loewe, and lovers Violet Hunt and Stella Bowen; Ford's army correspondence notebook from World War I, and letters to Joseph Conrad from the front; and much additional correspondence with Conrad and other writers, literary agents, and publishers. Correspondents include, in addition to those named above, Henry James, H.G. Wells, Ezra Pound, Jean Stafford, W.H. Auden, Gertrude Stein, Allen Tate, Theodore Dreiser, T.S. Eliot, John Ruskin, Ford Madox Brown, and publishers including Greenslet, Gollancz, Munson, Lippincott, and Allen and Unwin. Also included is correspondence of Ford's biographer Arthur Mizener with Janice Biala, Rebecca West, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, and others.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Ford, Ford Madox,1873-1939.
Auden, W. H.(Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.
Bowen, Stella.
Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945.
Eliot, T. S.(Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
Harvey, David Dow.
Hueffer, Elsie Martindale.
Hueffer, Katharine Lamb.
Hunt, Violet, 1862-1942.
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Loewe, Julia Madox.
Mizener, Arthur.
Mizener, Arthur.
Munson.
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Stafford, Jean, 1915-
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.
Tate, Allen, 1899-
Wells, H. G.(Herbert George), 1866-1946.
Welty, Eudora, 1909-
West, Rebecca, 1892-
George Allen & Unwin.
Greenslet.
J.B. Lippincott Company.
Victor Gollancz Ltd.

Titles:
English review.
Transatlantic review.

Subjects:
English literature--20th century.
English fiction--20th century.
Modernism (Literature).
Authors and publishers--England.
Publishers and publishing--England.
Authors, English--Relations with women.
Pre-Raphaelites--England.
Refugees, Jewish.
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives.

Places:
England--Intellectual life--20th century.
Great Britain--Armed Forces--History.

Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Portraits.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Ford Madox Ford collection, #4605. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT

Organized into the following series: Manuscripts by Ford; Ford memorabilia and documents; letters from Ford; manuscripts and correspondence of others; photographs; bound manuscripts by Ford; clippings; Stella Bowen papers.
Manuscripts arranged alphabetically by title; Ford's letters, alphabetically by recipient; others' manuscripts and letters, alphabetically by author; photographs, alphabetically by subject or (when subject is unknown) photographer; clippings, in chronological order.


SERIES LIST

Date
Description
Container
A - Ak
Box 1
Al - Az
Box 2
B - D
Box 3
E - Gq
Box 4
Biography of Ford Madox Brown
Box 5
Biography of Ford Madox Brown
Box 6
The Fifth QueenThe Fifth Queen Shewn
Box 7
Gf - Gz
Box 8
H - J
Box 9
A History of Our Times
Box 10
K- Ln
Box 11
Lo - M
Box 12
The March of Literature TM Draft, p. 1-400
Box 13
The March of Literature TM Draft, p. 401-
Box 14
N - P
Box 15
No Enemy (English Country)
Box 16
Professor's Progress
Box 17
Provence
Box 18
Q - Re
Box 19
Rf- Rz
Box 20
S - Sd
Box 21
Se - Tn
Box 22
The Same Poor Man
Box 23
The Same Poor Man Facsimile
Box 24
To - Tz
Box 25
U - W
Box 26
When the Wicked Man
Box 27
X - Z Fordiana, Memorabilia, Documents
Box 28
A - Bo
Box 29
Stella Bowen
1917-May 1919
Box 29a
May 1919-Jan. 1927
Box 29b
Jan. 1927-1938
Box 29c
1917-1920
Transcripts
Box 29d
1923-1928
Transcripts
Box 29e
Bp - Bz
Box 30
C - Gr
Box 31
Gs - J
Box 32
Elsie Martindale Hueffer
1892-1896
Box 33
1897-Aug. 1904
Box 34
Sept. 1904-Dec. 1904
Box 35
1905-Mar. 1906
Box 36
Apr. 1906-1909
Box 37
K - L
Box 38
Esther Julia Madox Loewe
Box 38a
M - Pim
Box 39
Pin - Pz
Box 40
Q - Th
Box 41
Ti - Z
Box 42
A - Am
Box 43
An - Bi
Box 44
Janice Biala A - H
Box 45
Janice Biala I - Z
Box 46
Stella Bowen to Ford and Others
Box 47
Stella Bowen to Ford with transcripts ca. 1919-1928
Box 47a
William A. Bradley
Box 48
Bj - Brown, E.
Box 49
Brown, F. - Bz
Box 50
C - Cl
Box 51
Cm - Cz (except Conrad)
Box 52
Joseph Conrad
Box 53
D
Box 54
E - F
Box 55
G - Goq
Box 56
Gor - Gz
Box 57
David Dow Harvey Ford Madox Ford ... Bibliography
Box 58
Ha - Hot
Box 59
Hou - Huns (except Hueffer)
Box 60
Heuffer
Box 61
Hunt, Amy - Hunt, U.
Box 62
Violet Hunt manuscripts
A - B
Box 63
1888
C - Diary
Box 64
1889
Diary - Hov
Box 65
Howell Biography
Box 66
Howell Materials
Box 67
N - Z, Documents
Box 68
1879-1936
Violet Hunt
Box 69
Hunt, W - Kd
Box 70
Ke - Lip
Box 71
Liq - Lz
Box 72
Katherine Hueffer Lamb
Box 73
Roland and Julie (Hueffer) Loewe
Box 74
M - Mar
Box 75
Mas - Mz
Box 76
Arthur Mizener
Box 77
Arthur Mizener The Saddest Story
"Earliest Version"
Box 78
Photocopy
Box 79
Photocopy
Box 80
Final draft
Box 81
Final draft
Box 82
Page proofs
Box 83
Final typing draft
Box 84
Typescript
Box 85
Typescript
Box 86
N - O
Box 87
Pa- Pn
Box 88
Po - Rh (except Pound)
Box 89
Ezra Pound
Box 90
Ri - Sg
Box 91
Sh - Sto
Box 92
Stp - Wa
Box 93
Wb - Z
Box 94
A - F (except Ford)
Box 95
G - H
Box 96
Ford Madox Ford
Box 97
I-Z
Box 98
Julia Loewe
Box 99
Ford and Stella Bowen
Box 100
(Photocopies) Ford and Stella Bowen
Box 101
Literary Portraits (photocopies)
Box 102
(Facsimile)
Box 103

CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Sept.4, 1916
AM: "A solis ortus cardine"
Box 1 Folder 1
1 leaf
Poem, written in the trenches during WWI in a battle along the Somme River .
1901-1906
AMS Account book of funds in the London and County Banking Co., Ltd.
Box 1 Folder 2
60 leaves
Accounts Oct. 1, 1901-Jan. 24, 1906, in monogrammed pigskin notebook.
1906-1907
AMS Account book of funds in the London City and Midland Bank, Ltd.
Box 1 Folder 3
28 leaves
Accounts Jan. 1, 1906-Apr. 2, 1907, in monogrammed pigskin notebook.
1908-1909
AMS Account book of funds in the London City & Midland Bank, Ltd.
Box 1 Folder 4
20 leaves
Accounts Apr. 30, 1908-Jan. 11, 1909, in monogrammed pigskin notebooks.
1909-1910
AMS Account book of funds in the London City & Midland Bank, Ltd
Box 1 Folder 5
72 leaves
Accounts Jan. 18, 1909-June 14, 1910, in brown leather notebook.
1910-1915
AMS Account book of funds with Messrs. Barclay & Co., Ltd.
Box 1 Folder 6
43 leaves
Accounts Aug. 8, 1910-Aug. 19, 1915, in brown leather notebook.
[1939?]
TM "Adeline and Oscar"
Box 1 Folder 7
18 leaves
[Fragment, draft]Written in New York, a possible early version or variant of "Memories of Oscar Wilde". (Harvey D412)
[1891-1893?]
TM "Adversity' and "Birthday -song"
Box 1 Folder 8
1 leaf
Written in London, two poems written under pseudonym "Fenil Haig".
[Summer, 1930]
AM "Albade"
Box 2 Folder 1
1 leaf
Not the "Albade" of the "Poems Written on Active Service". Written in Ballancourt, which the poem references twice, and dates from the biginning of Ford's liaison with Janice Biala.
Mar. 1919
TM "The Alcestis of Euripides" freely adadpted for the modern stage.
Box 2 Folder 2
79 leaves
Two versions; complete manuscript in paper wrapper, 52 leaves, and alternate adaption of the last half, 27 leaves. Commissioned by Nigel Playfair, but unpublished. (Harvey Cv[5])
[[193-?]
TM "The American Scene"
Box 2 Folder 3
8 leaves, carbon
Possibly written in New York, this apparently unpublished manuscript contains a witty comparison of the New York and London literary scenes.
[192-?-193-?]
TM "And even in Paradise devised ..."
Box 2 Folder 4
4 leaves+1 leaf graph paper
Possibly written in New York, a "play" in which the names of the characters and snippets of dialogue are to be found by referencing a crossword puzzle at the top of the page. The dramatic personae are all characters from Old Testament mythology (Adam, Lillith, Satan). With some corrections.
[1890-1894?]
AM "And [of] halved agels with golden wings ..."
Box 2 Folder 5
1 leaf
Fragment of two drafts of a short poem, written on the reverse side of a copy of "April Weather" by Mathilde Blind, in the hand of Ford.
Dec. 1980
"Arms and the mind"
Box 2 Folder 6
4 leaves
Printed facsimile of Ford's work of 1916 under the nom de plume "Miles Ignotus" and originally entitled "A Day of Battle", this essay is here published for the first time by "Esquire", v. 94, no.6, Dec. 1980, pp. 78-80.
Aug.-Sept. 1916
Army correspondence notebook.
Box 2 Folder 7
50 leaves
Cardboard covered army issue notebook containing Ford's records of the regimental mess of which he was in carge, carbons of letter to his Commanding Officer and to C.F.G. Masterman. Also a carbon of the poem "Clair de lune" which was published in "On Heaven and Other Poems," 1918.
[n.d.]
TM [Article on the young American mid-western writers]
Box 2 Folder 8
1 leaf
Carbon fragment, third page of a draft of an article or book on the subject of the crop of American writers coming out of the mid-west, specifically Chicago. With some corrections.
[n.d.]
TM [Article on wine]
Box 2 Folder 9
3 leaves
Carbon fragment of pages 9-11 of one of Ford's many articles on wine. Probably one of the first articles which was published. With some corrections.
July 23, 1892
AM "As a wounded hart ..."]
Box 2 Folder 10
7 leaves
An early meditation on youthful love and a description of a summer excursior with the then Elsie Martindale. A 16 line poem is on the last page: "On Taplow lock the sun shines down ..."
Box 2 Folder
[1934]
TM "As Thy Day"
Box 2 Folder 11
331 leaves
Title when published became "Henry for Hugh". A few holograph corrections.
[1931-1936]
TM "At the Caveau Roughe"
Box 2 Folder 12
4 leaves
Draft. Title variant: "L'Interprete - au Caveau Rouge." Includes original and carbon copy of poem, with variant versions of subsection "Sonnet de Ronssard" and "Plaisir d'Amour." See Harvey A76 for notes on the textual changes occurring between this poem's publication in the 1931 "New English Poems" and as the V poem in "Buckshee" of the 1936 "Collected Poems."
[pre-1904]
A & TM "At the Fairing"
Box 2 Folder 13
3 leaves
Poem. Three versions: 2 typescript, one of which is titled "The Humble Chapman cries his wares at a Fairing" a third in Ford's hand. Apparently unpublished.
[1937-1938?]
TM "The Athens of the South"
Box 2 Folder 14
10 leaves
Carbon copy of article on Nashville, Tenn. Identified by a note in Janice Biala's hand as having been published in "Vogue"; not in Harvey.
[1936]
TM [Autobiographical entry for includion in Georges Schrieber's "Portraits and Self Portraits"]
Box 2 Folder 15
2 leaves
Carbon copy of a brief and witty summation of the author's life; written in Paris.
[193-?]
TM [Autobiographical information]
Box 2 Folder 16
3 leaves
Carbon copy of draft [?] of a summary of Ford's literary life, written in the third-person. Includes sreferences to Ford Madox Brown and Joseph Conrad as well as the publication history and reception of the author's writings.
[1933]
TM [Autocriticism concerning "The Rash Act"]
Box 2 Folder 17
4 leaves
Draft of an article by Ford commenting upon his novel "The Rash Act", with holograph corrections in the author's hand. Published in "Week-end Review", Sept. 9, 1933.
[after 1927]
TM "Auto-plagiarism"
Box 2 Folder 17.5
11 leaves
An article, detailing a minor scandal concerning two works by Conrad: "The Sisters, and Unfinished Story" and "The Arrow of Gold". Includes a synopsis of "The English Novel" for Lippincott's "The One Hour Series", which was published in 1929, and a list of books of collected poems by Ford.
[1894-1896]
A & TM "Autumn"
Box 2 Folder 18
3 leaves
A musical composition, the lyrics of which are typed in full on the first page.
[1891-1895]
AM ["Bodurdoe and Gunter"]
Box 3 Folder 1
39 leaves
Fragment. Possibly written in London, short story or part of a novel, probably unpublished. Not found in Harvey.
[after 1899]
AM "Books for Exchange II"
Box 3 Folder 2
3 leaves
Fragment [?] of short esssay on Turgenev's [Turgeniev] "Sportsman's sketches".
[n.d.]
[Book on travel and authors}
Box 3 Folder 3
2 leaves
Beginning pages of book. Dedication (to Olivia Shakespear) and Table of Contents ICh. II - Italy, Ch. IV - J.M. Whistler, Ch. VII - Burne Jones, Ch. IX - D.M. Rossetti) of an unpublished book.
[1931?]
TM "Buckshee"
Box 3 Folder 4
1 leaf
Fragment. Poem I. ("Aitchka") of the "Buckshee" sequence.
[after 1927]
TM "Cambridge on the Caboodle"
Box 3 Folder 4.1
9 leaves
Carbon of a review of E.M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel", with revisions apparently in Ford's hand.
[n.d.]
TM "The Case of Elizabeth Canning"
Box 3 Folder 4.2
32 leaves
Written in Sussex, a retelling of an important eighteenth-century court case. The particulars of the story are taken from "The Trial of Elizabeth Canning, Spinster for Wilful & Corrupt Perjury...Monday the 29th of April to Wednesday the 8th of May 1754" from "The 1766 Edition of State Trials". With revisions in Ford's hand.
[n.d.]
AM "The Castle in Spain"
Box 3 Folder 5
1 leaf
Poem, which appeared in different forms as "Castles in the Fog" in the "Daily Mail Books suppl.", Jan. 19, 1907, and as "Finchley Road" in "Songs from London", 1910. Harvey Ciii (4a)
[1931-1936]
TM [Champetre] "Aichka Apificata
Box 3 Folder 6
1 leaf
Draft of variant text of Poem VI of the "Buckshee" sequence.
[1901-1904?]
TM "Children's Song"
Box 3 Folder 7
1 leaf
Incomplete poem. Harvey CIII (3)k; published in "The Face of Night" Removed and filed in box 15, folder 29, with "Poems and Little Plays"
[1894-1896]
AMS "Chinese Music"
Box 3 Folder 8
16 leaves
Written in Kent, two versions of an essay on Chinese music, one in Ford's hand (7 leaves), and one in Elsie Martindale Hueffer's hand (12 leaves + folder) Apparently unpublished.
[n.d.]
TM "Citizen or Subject"
Box 3 Folder 8.3
12 leaves + folder
Article on American and British notions of citizenry and justice. Enclosed in a folder from the Article Department, Brandt & Brandt, New York, and with revisions apparently in Ford's hand.
[[1927?]
TM "Citizen or subject: Why I shall never become an American citizen"
Box 3 Folder 9
3 leaves
Carbon of an incomplete typescript, possibly a variant of Ford's published article of the same title.
[1924?-1927?]
Clippings concerning personal life
Box 3 Folder 10
6 leaves
Press clippings from the "Chicago Tribune" 91924, 1927), the "New York Herald" (1926, the "New York World" (192-?), and anoter unspecified New York publication (1930?) concerning Ford.
[n.d.]
AM ["Club Night"]
Box 3 Folder 11
2 leaves
Poem, which appeared in a slightly different form in "Songs from London", 1910.
[1931?]
AM/TM "Coda"
Box 3 Folder 12
13 leaves
Fragments and drafts of "Coda" from the "Buckshee" sequence. Page 23 is written on verso of TLS to Ford from Theodor Bosanquet [?] ("Time and Tide"), April 14, 1936.
[1931-1936]
TM "Coda"
Box 3 Folder 13
14 leaves
Fragments and drafts of "Coda" of the "Buckshee" sequence.
[1936?]
TM "Coda"
Box 3 Folder 14
7 leaves
Clean typescript of the text as published.
1936
"Collected Poems" galley proofs
Box 3 Folder 15
109 leaves
Printed proofs of Ford's "Collected Poems", published by Oxford University Press, New York.
[after 1917?]
TM "The Colonel's Shoes"
Box 3 Folder 16
16 leaves
Carbon of the short story. Title page marked: The Northern Newspaper Syndicate, Kendal. No. ""U" 29 Short Story.
[Jan. 11, 1920?]
"The Colonel's Shoes" news clipping.
Box 3 Folder 17
1 leaf + 2 photocopies
Newspaper clipping of short story. Published in "Reynold's Illustrated Newspaper"
[1931-1936?]
TM {Compagnie Transatlantique] "Anitchka Anadyomene"
Box 3 Folder 18
1 leaf
Variant text of Poem II of the "Buckshee" sequence.
[1893]
AMS "Conceits"
Box 3 Folder 19
1 leaf
Poem, later published in "The Questions at the Well", part II, in 1893. Signed with Ford's initials.
[after 1903]
TM "Creative History and Historical Sense"
Box 3 Folder 19.5
20 leaves
Apparently unpublished article on critical debate sparked by A.F. Pollard's book "Henry VIII". Includes references to Professor Goldwin Smith's review of the book. With revisions by Ford.
[1894?-1900?]
AMS ["Critique of a writing by Miss Black"]
Box 3 Folder 20
1 leaf
Fragment of a critique of a book by Miss Black.
[1911?]
AM "The Dark Forest. Part II"
Box 3 Folder 21
173 leaves
Writtenn perhaps in collaboration with Violet Hunt, the manuscript is a part of the later published "The New Humpty-Dumpty", 1912. It is mostly writtne in unidentified hand and some pages are typed. Pages 192-205 are in Hunt's hand, and pages 205-206 are in Ford's. The exterior folder has "Ford Madox Hueffer, 17th February, 1911, Geissen" written on it. Title page of manuscript reads: "in the property of F. B. Pinker, Talbot House, Arundel Street, London W.C." Harvey Civ (5)
Sept. 15, 1916
AM "A Day of Battle"
Box 3 Folder 22
11 leaves
Perhaps meant to be part of a larger work, the sub-heading includes the numeral I and the subtitle "Arms and the Mind". Top right corner of title page scribed: "Written on the Ypres Salient: 15th Sep., 1916". Signature at the bottom of the last page reads "Miles Ignotus". See also Ford's essay "War--the Mind."
Sept. 9, 1938
TM "Death with Dishonour"
Box 3 Folder 23
9 leaves
Fragment draft recording Ford's reaction to the Munich conference, especially the role of Britain. With holographic changes; unpublished.
Aug. 30, 1908
AM "Death with Disbonour"
Box 3 Folder 24
3 leaves
Earlier fragment draft of Ford's thoughts about the Munich conference.
[n.d.]
TM "Demigods"
Box 3 Folder 24.5
6 leaves
Original title "Beau Sabreur" crossed out and new title penciled in, this document is a synopsis of Ford's novel "A Little Less than Gods", written in 1928.
[Jan. 1935]
AM/TM ["Destiny's Role Given Koehler"]
Box 3 Folder 25
4 leaves
Report from the Hauptmann-Lindbergh kidnapping trial, later published in the "New York World-Telegram" onJanuary 20, 1935.
[1939]
TM ["Dinner with Turbot"] "The Pensive Epicurean"
Box 3 Folder 26
22 leaves
Later published in "Vogue", September 15, 1939, the original title is "The Pensive Epicurean". Some holograph corrections made to draft, with a page of dictated copy by hand of Janice Biala.
[193-?]
TM & AM [Draft of chain letter...peace...sketch]
Box 3 Folder 27
5 leaves
Carbon drafts of a chain letter intended as a protest against the effect of war on "intellectual worksers," with an accompanying sketch signed by Ford.
[n.d.]
AMS "The Dream Hunt"
Box 3 Folder 28
1 leaf