Guide to the Wyndham Lewis collection,
1877-1975

Collection Number: 4612

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Cornell University
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Date completed:
November 1997
EAD encoding:
Mireille Lee, July 2000; Lucy Burgess, January-August 2008,

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Wyndham Lewis collection, 1877-1975
Collection Number:
4612
Creator:
Wyndham Lewis, 1882-1957.
Quantity:
44 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, printed material, graphics.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, printed material, graphics, and bound manuscripts by, to, or about Wyndham Lewis, covering all aspects of his career and life. Includes one of two known proof copies of his novel The Roaring Queen, which was withdrawn before publication; unpublished novels, short stories, essays, and notebooks; and manuscripts and notes for several of Lewis's published books. Also included are diaries of Lewis's wife, G. Anne Hoskyns Lewis, from 1953-1967, and Civil War reminiscences of his father, Charles Edward Lewis.


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Wyndham Lewis was an artist, novelist, and critic, who was born in Canada but lived for many years in England. He was a leader of the Vorticist movement.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, printed material, graphics, and bound manuscripts by, to, or about Wyndham Lewis, covering all aspects of his career and life. Includes one of two known proof copies of his novel The Roaring Queen, which was withdrawn before publication; unpublished novels, short stories, essays, and notebooks; and manuscripts and notes for Lewis's published books The Apes of God, Self Condemned, The Human Age (including Childermass, Malign Fiesta, Monstre Gai, and a synopsis of the projected fourth volume which Lewis never wrote), Mrs. Duke's Millions, The Red Priest, Rotting Hill, Rude Assignment, and The Writer and the Absolute. Also included are diaries of Lewis's wife, G. Anne Hoskyns Lewis, from 1953-1967, and Civil War reminiscences of his father, Charles Edward Lewis.
Letters include correspondence with Ezra Pound, and transcriptions of letters between Lewis and his mother while he was at the front during World War I; letters from members of his father Charles Edward Lewis's family, dating back to the 1870's, which describe life in upstate New York and Ontario; and many letters between Wyndham Lewis and other writers and publishers. Correspondents include Richard Aldington, Michael Ayrton, Lewis's lover Iris Barry, Clive Bell, Roy Campbell, Lord Kenneth Clark, T.S. Eliot, Roger Fry, Stuart Gilbert, Geoffrey Grigson, Ernest Hemingway, R.D. Jameson, Augustus John, Hugh Kenner, Charles Edward Lewis, Wyndham Lewis's mother Anne Stuart Lewis, his wife G. Anne Hoskyns Lewis, Archibald MacLeish, Marshall McLuhan, Naomi Mitchison, T. Sturge Moore (photocopies), Frederick Morgan, Dorothy Pound, Ezra Pound, C.H. Prentice, I.A. Richards, Sir John Rothenstein; Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell; Stephen Spender, Julian Symons, Tambimuttu, Allen Tate, H.G. Wells, and W.B. Yeats. The collection also includes two letters from Lewis to James Joyce.

PROVENANCE

The core of the collection was purchased in 1959 with funds provided by William G. Mennen; more material was purchased from Lewis's widow in 1975.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957.
Lewis, Anne Stuart.
Lewis, Charles Edward.
Lewis, G. Anne Hoskyns.
Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
Dismorr, Jessica.
Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962.
Ayrton, Michael, 1921-1975.
Barry, Iris, 1895-
Bell, Clive, 1881-1964.
Campbell, Roy, 1901-1957.
Clark, Kenneth, 1903-
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
Fry, Roger Eliot, 1866-1934.
Gilbert, Stuart.
Grigson, Geoffrey, 1905-
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
Jameson, R. D. (Raymond De Loy), 1896-1959.
John, Augustus, 1878-1961.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Kenner, Hugh.
Lewis, Anne Stuart.
Lewis, Charles Edward.
Lewis, G. Anne Hoskyns, 1900-1979.
MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-
McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-
Mitchison, Naomi, 1897-
Moore, T. Sturge (Thomas Sturge), 1870-1944.
Morgan, Frederick, 1922-
Pound, Dorothy.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Prentice, C. H.
Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893-
Rothenstein, John, Sir, 1901-
Sitwell, Edith, Dame, 1887-1964.
Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969.
Sitwell, Sacheverell, 1897-
Spender, Stephen, 1909-
Symons, Julian, 1912-
Tambimuttu, 1915-
Tate, Allen, 1899-
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.

Subjects:
English literature--20th century.
American literature--20th century.
Modernism (Literature).
Graphic arts--England--History.
Graphic arts--United States--History.
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives.
Authors, English--Relations with women.
Authors, American--Relations with women.
Authors, Canadian--Relations with women.
Authorship.
Authors and publishers--England.
Domestic relations--England.
Women--Diaries.

Places:
England--Intellectual life--20th century.
United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
New York (State)--Social conditions--History.
Ontario (Canada)--Social conditions--History.
New York (State)--Description and travel.
Ontario (Canada)--Description and travel.

Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Portraits.
Diaries.

Occupations:
Authors, English.
Authors, American.
Authors, Canadian.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Wyndham Lewis collection, #4612. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Link to a copy of the published card catalogue. (9MB PDF)

RELATED MATERIAL

The collection is described in: Mary F. Daniels, Wyndham Lewis: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscript Material in the Department of Rare Books, Cornell University Library. Ithaca, NY: The Library, 1972 (Rare Ref. Z8504.389 C81)
Also described in: W.K. Rose, Wyndham Lewis at Cornell: A Review of the Lewis Papers Presented to the University by William G. Mennen. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Library, 1961 (Rare Ref. Z8504.389 R79+)
A large collection of books by and about Lewis is also held in the repository, including all lifetime editions of his works and many volumes from his personal library. A large collection of Lewis's drawings are held in the Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University.
Originals of Lewis's letters to T. Sturge Moore in: University of London Library.

COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT

Manuscripts by Lewis are arranged alphabetically by title; G. Anne Hoskyns Lewis's letters alphabetically by correspondent; documents, alphabetically by the person concerned; letters by Lewis, chronologically; letters by others, alphabetically by writer; photographs of others, alphabetically by name of photograph's subject.


SERIES LIST

Series I. Manuscripts
Manuscripts by Wyndham Lewis
Boxes 1-50
Manuscripts by Others
Boxes 51-55 Series II. Documents Boxes 56-60 Series III. Correspondence
Wyndham Lewis Outgoing Correspondence
Boxes 61-84
Wyndham Lewis Incoming Correspondence
Boxes 85-147
G. Anne (Hoskyns) Lewis, Outgoing Correspondence
Boxes 148-155 Series IV. Photographs Boxes 157-158 Series V. Graphic Material and Printed Items
Graphic Material
Box 156
Printed Items by Lewis
Boxes 159-162
Printed Items by Others
Boxes 163-165 Series VI. Miscellaneous Boxes 166-168
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
[1944]
Lewis AM[drafts, notes] About Myself
Box 1 Folder 1
32 leaves
[St. Louis] [Appears to be prepared for a talk at the "Wednesday Club" on February 18, 1944]
Aug., 1943
Lewis. AM[draft, fragment] & TM[draft] Abstract Art
Box 1 Folder 2
4 leaves + 3 leaves
[Windsor] Written for a lecture delivered at the summer school of Assumption College. Annotated heavily in written draft; only slightly in typed draft.
[194-?]
Lewis.AM[draft, notes] Address to French Canada
Box 1 Folder 3
10 leaves
[Toronto?] Written in French, this radio address emphasizes the unity of western culture as an encouragement to French Canadians to join in the war effort.
[Jul., 1940]
Lewis. TM After Abstract Art
Box 1 Folder 4
10 leaves + 4 leaves
[n.p.] A slightly revised version of this article was publiched in "The New Republic," July 8, 1940. One TM[copy] has corrections by Lewis.
[1945?]
Lewis. AM & TM America & Cosmic Man. Section I
Box 1 Folder 5
[250?] leaves
[London] Heavily corrected and amended.
[1945?]
Lewis AM & TM America & Cosmic Man. Section II
Box 2 Folder 1
[350-500? leaves]
[n.p.] [With annotations and corrections]
[1945?]
Lewis.AM & TM America & Cosmic Man. Section III
Box 2 Folder 2
[30 leaves?]
[n.p.] [With dustjacket proof sheet]
[1945?]
Lewis AM America & Cosmic Man. Notes
Box 2 Folder 3
11 leaves
[Ottawa] [First notes for his "political book".]
[1947]
Lewis AM America & Cosmic Man. Corrections.
Box 2 Folder 4
5 leaves
[London] [4 leaves listings of correction to manuscript; and 1 leaf regarding publisher disagreement]
[1947?]
Lewis AM America & Cosmic Man. Fragment
Box 2 Folder 5
5 leaves
[n.p.] [With additions and corrections in hand]
[1939-1940]
Lewis AM America, I Presume
Box 2 Folder 6
28 leaves
[n.p.] [A parody of Lewis' visit to Geoffrey Stone's Connecticut farm at this period. Two chapters both marked "Extra chapter, not used"]
[1949?]
Lewis AM America, I Presume. Notes
Box 2 Folder 7
1 leaf
[n.p.] [Concerning expansion and re-issue of book]
[1940?]
Lewis AM America, I Presume. Notes
Box 2 Folder 8
1 leaf
[n.p.] [Handwritten notes on both sides of an envelope]
[194-?]
Lewis TM[copy] An Ancient and Dirty Game
Box 2 Folder 9
9 leaves
[Toronto?] Synopsis of "Self-Condemned".
[1940-41?]
Lewis AM Anglosaxony
Box 2 Folder 10
11 leaves
[Toronto] Follow-up material and a prospectus for a pamphlet tentatively titled "How Will Democracy Evolve? With corrections.
[n.d.]
Lewis AM Annotations from T.S. Elliot Books
Box 2 Folder 11
8 leaves
[n.p.] [From J. Carter's books. Copied into a notebook by Anne Lewis.]
[1945?]
Lewis TM[fragment, copy] Anti-Semitism in America
Box 2 Folder 12
1 leaf
[n.p.] [Could be from "America, I Presume"]
[192-?]
Lewis AM The Apes of God. Notes
Box 3 Folder 1
ca. 70 leaves
[London] [Small note pad with 5 leaves used; remainder of pad is blank. Many miscellaneous leaves of various sized with both notes and sketches. Printed 4 page article by Lieut.-Col. E. F. Strange, "The Design of English Chairs"; and two clippings, one a review of Godfrey Winn's, "Squirrels' Cage" (The Star, June 10, 1923) and the other on climbing Mount Kanchenjunga.
[195-?]
Lewis AM & TM The Apes of God. Prefatory Material
Box 3 Folder 2
ca. 70 leaves
London; Drafts and clean typescript of introductory material apparently written to preface the reprint edition. Varying texts in Lewis' and Anne Lewis.
[1923]
Lewis AM[fragment] Apes of God [Split Man]
Box 3 Folder 3
2 leaves
[London]
[Mar., 1924?]
Lewis M[printed] The Apes of God. Galley Proof
Box 3 Folder 4
4 leaves
[London] "Extract from Encyclical Addressed to Daniel Boleyn by Mr. Zagreus". With minor corrections in Lewis' hand. Published in "Criterion", II, No. 7, April, 1924.
[193-?]
Lewis AM The Aristocrat
Box 3 Folder 5
27 leaves
[London?.] Notes, synopsis, philosophical thesis, and partial draft of a proposed novel. Has some relation to "Revenge for Love" and "Snooty Baronet."
[n.d.]
Lewis AM & TM L'Arlesienne
Box 3 Folder 6
2 leaves
[n.p.] Discussion of Van Gogh's painting "L'Arlesienne". Published in "Wyndham Lewis on Art," p. 459.
[1926?]
Lewis TM Art of Being Ruled. Notices.
Box 3 Folder 6.5
3 leaves
[n.p.] Quotations from various sources concerning "The Art of Being Ruled".
[1926?]
Lewis TM Art of Being Ruled. Press Releases
Box 3 Folder 7
1 leaf
[n.p.] American press notices for "Art of Being Ruled"
[Oct., 1946
Lewis AM & TM[copy] The Art of Gwen John
Box 3 Folder 8
5 leaves + 3 leaves
[London] Holograph version heavily emended. Published in "The Listener", October 10, 1946, p. 484.
[n.d.]
Lewis TM[fragment] The Art Racket
Box 3 Folder 9
2 leaves
[n.p.]
[194-?]
Lewis AM Article on Canada
Box 3 Folder 10
10 leaves
[Toronto?] Notation by Lewis indicates this article was written for possible submission to "Time & Tide." Published in "Wyndham Lewis in Canada", 1971.
[194-?]
Lewis AM[drafts, notes] The Artist and Society
Box 3 Folder 11
23 leaves
[n.p.] Lecture probably delivered at Bryanston Music School, Blandford, Dorset on August 1, 1948. Deals with the social background of art, the question of a "collective" art, and the decline of oil "easel-painting.".
[1945?]
Lewis TM[carbon, fragment] Atomic Bombs and the Reordering of World Politics
Box 3 Folder 12
1 leaf
[n.p.]
Aug.17, 1908
Lewis AM Autobiographical fragment
Box 3 Folder 13
8 leaves
Quimperle; A description of a stay in Brittany with commentary of local customs and residents. Heavily corrected; with a map sketched on first leaf.
[1939?]
Lewis AM[fragments] Autobiographical fragments
Box 3 Folder 14
4 leaves
[n.p.] Mentions the Bolshevik revolution and the Spanish Civil War.
[1909?]
Lewis AM & TM Bestre
Box 3 Folder 15
22 leaves
[n.p.] Includes draft bersion and holograph portion of completed and published text. Published in "The English Review, 2 (June, 1909), p. 471-484. Reprinted in "The Wild Body."
[1939-40]
Lewis AM Biographical Data
Box 3 Folder 16
4 leaves
[New York] Chronological account of activities and publications, apparently written as press release material for a proposed lecture tour.
[1926]
Lewis TM Biographical details
Box 3 Folder 17
1 leaf
[London] For publicity purposes
[194-?]
Lewis AM[draft]S Biographial Information
Box 3 Folder 18
4 leaves
[New York?, Toronto?] 3 draft versionss containing basic biographical information, possibly for a press release.
[n.d.]
Lewis AN Biographical Note About His Father
Box 3 Folder 19
1 leaf
[n.p.] Regarding his father, Carles Edward Lewis.
[n.d.]
Lewis AM Biographical Note Concerning His Parentage
Box 3 Folder 20
1 leaf
[n.p.]
1938
Lewis AM Blast #2
Box 4 Folder 1
12 leaves
[London] [Notes and heavily corrected manuscript fragments.]
[n.d.]
Lewis TM[fragments] Blasting and Bombadiering
Box 4 Folder 2
3 leaves
[n.p.] [Draft of pages 286-287. Concerns T. S. Eliot and his relation to Ezra Pound.]
[n.d.]
Lewis TM[fragment, copy] Blasting and Bombadiering
Box 4 Folder 3
5 leaves
[n.p.] [See pp. 274-281 of 1967a "Blasting and Bombardiering. See Part V, ch. 5 of "Blasting and Bombardiering".]
[1934]
Lewis AM[draft], TM & TM[copy] The Bloomsburies
Box 4 Folder 4
8 leaves + 32 leaves + 43 leaves
[n.p.] [Alternate title: "Say It With Leaves". Corrected typescript of essay; holograph material essentially notations on Lytton Strachey.]
[n.d.]
Lewis TM[copy] The Bloomsburies
Box 4 Folder 5
33 leaves
[n.p.] [Photocopy done for patron which was returned.]
[n.d.]
Lewis AM The Boarding House
Box 4 Folder 6
1 leaf
[n.p.] [Poem.]
[1939?]
Lewis TM[copy] The Books of Mr. Wyndham Lewis
Box 4 Folder 7
5 leaves
[New York?] [Chronological listing with publication dates and precis of contents of books Lewis wrote.]
[1949]
Lewis AM Bread and Ballyhoo
Box 4 Folder 8
32 leaves
[London] Holograph drafts of this article appeared in "The Listener", September 8, 1949, p. 407. Lewis wrote to T.S. Eliot a year later about expanding it to book form.
[1949]
Lewis TM & TM[fragment] & TM[2 copies] & TM[fragment, copy] Bread and Ballyhoo
Box 4 Folder 9
7 leaves + 3 leaves + 6 leaves + 6 leaves + 3 leaves
[London] Holograph drafts of this article appeared in "The Listener", September 8, 1949, p. 407. Lewis wrote to T.S. Eliot a year later about expanding it to book form.
[Jan., 1926]
Lewis M[printed, copy] Britons Never Shall Be Bees
Box 4 Folder 10
2 leaves
[n.p.] Printed in "The Calendar of Modern Letters", January, 1926, p. 360-362. Xerox copy.
[1916-1917?]
Lewis AM[draft] & TM The Bull Gun
Box 4 Folder 11
3 leaves + 3 leaves + 3 leaves
[Lydd?] Reference to this is made in the chapter of "Blasting and Bombardiering" of the same name. Two copies of the typed manuscript, one containing corrections made by G. Anne (Hoskyns) Lewis' hand.
[Dec.12, 1940]
Lewis TM[copy] Can Democracy Be Defined
Box 4 Folder 12
1 leaf
[Toronto] Typescript copy of introductory and closing commentary referring to accompanying broadcast Lewis made on CBS on December 12, 1940. On CBC Continuity letterhead.
[Aug., 1946]
Lewis TM[fragment] Canadian Nature and Its Painters
Box 4 Folder 13
3 leaves
[n.p.] First published in "The Listener", Aug.29, 1946, later in "Wyndam Lewis on Art", p. 425-429.
[1917-1918]
Lewis AM[draft, fragments] & TM Cantelman
Box 4 Folder 14
6 leaves + 2 leaves + 8 leaves + 31 leaves
[n.p.] Narrative concerns Cantelman during World War I; public and private attitudes toward the war. The final leaves of the draft involve Cantelman's reading of the "Code." Portions of the manuscript are published as Chapter IV, "The War-Crowds, 1914", of Part II of "Blasting and Bombardiering".
[1917-1918]
Lewis TM[draft, fragment] & TM[copy, draft, fragment] Cantelman
Box 4 Folder 15
32 leaves + 5 leaves
[n.p.] Variant text of Cantelman. Typescript with changes and revisions in the hand of G. Anne Lewis.
1917
Lewis AMS[draft] Cantleman's Spring Mate
Box 4 Folder 16
8 leaves
[n.p.] Heavily amended draft, dated and signed by Lewis. This story first published in "The Little Review", vol. IV, no. 6 (October, 1917), p. 8-14. Issued in a privately printed edition with "The Ideal Giant" and "The Code of a Herdsnab" in 1917.
[n.d.]
Lewis TM Cantleman's Spring Mate
Box 4 Folder 17
6 leaves
[n.p.] Last paragraph states: "Cantleman's Spring-Mate and "War Baby" which fillows it were in included in the original edition of "Blasting and Bombadiering".
[Jan., 1949]
Lewis AM & TM[draft, copy] The Chantrey Collection at the Academy
Box 4 Folder 18
13 leaves + 11 leaves + 3 leaves
[London] Two draft versions and a copy of the final text, as printed in "The Listener", January 13, 1949, p. 65.
[1949]
Lewis AN[otes] & M[printed] The Chantrey Collection at the Academy
Box 4 Folder 19
1 folder
[London] Folder of notes, clippings and printed material related to the Chantrey bequest and envelope material came in, marked as such.
[1928; 1955]
Lewis AM The Childermass. Group I
Box 5 Folder 1
82 leaves
[London] Notes and portions of manuscript, heavily corrected and annotated. Material dates from the period of the first issue of the book in 1928 and from ca. 1955 when a reprint edition was prepared.
[1928; 1955]
Lewis AM The Childermass. Group II
Box 5 Folder 2
108 leaves
[London] Notes and portions of manuscript, heavily corrected and annotated. Material dates from the period of the first issue of the book in 1928 and from ca. 1955 when a reprint edition was prepared.
[1955?]
Lewis M The Childermass. Synopsis.
Box 5 Folder 3
3 leaves
[London] The text of this appears on the dust jacket of the 1955 reprint. In the hand of Anne Lewis
[Apr., 1956]
Lewis TM The Childremass. Synopsis
Box 5 Folder 4
3 leaves
[London] The text of this appears on the dust jacket of the 1955 reprint.
[195-?]
Lewis TM Children of the Great
Box 5 Folder 5
11 leaves
[London] Minor corrections in the hand of Anne Wyndham Lewis. Short story.
[Apr, 1950]
Lewis AM[draft] & TM[fragment] Contemporary Art at the Tate
Box 5 Folder 6
17 leaves
[London] Published in "The Listener", April 6, 1950.
[n.d.]
Lewis TM The Countryhouse Party, Scotland
Box 5 Folder 7
6 leaves
[n.p.] Satire of Ford Madox Ford. First published in "Unlucky for Pringle"/
[1943-1944]
Lewis AM[drafts, notes] Creative Literature
Box 5 Folder 8
[ca.110] leaves
[Windsor] Group I notes for a series of lectures delivered in Lewis' Philosophy of Literature course, taught in 1943-1944 at Assumption College, Worcester, Mass.
[1943-1944]
Lewis AM[drafts, notes] Creative Literature
Box 5 Folder 9
[ca. 110] leaves
[Windsor] Group II notes for a series of lectures delivered in Lewis' Philosophy of Literature course, taught in 1943-1944 at Assumption College, Worcester, Mass.
[1943-1944]
Lewis AM[drafts, notes] Creative Literature
Box 6 Folder 1
[ca.110] leaves
[Windsor] Group II notes for a series of lectures delivered in Lewis' Philosophy of Literature course, taught in 1943-1944 at Assumption College, Worcester, Mass.
[195-?]
Lewis TM Creativity. Short Story.
Box 6 Folder 2
[60+] leaves
[London] Typescript short story version. Has some thematic relation to "Self Condemned" and "The Red Priest".
[195-?]
Lewis AM[draft] & TM Creativity. Play.
Box 6 Folder 3
[100+] leaves
[London] Play format. Holograph and final typescript version of a dramatized version of the same entitled "The Right Way".
[195-?]
Lewis AM[drafts] Creativity. Play.
Box 6 Folder 4
[300+] leaves
[London] Play format. Holograph and final typescript version of a dramatized version of the same entitled "The Right Way"
[1947]
Lewis TMS A Crisis of Thought
Box 6 Folder 5
11 leaves
[London] Text of radio address, delivered on the BBC "Third Programme", March 16, 1947. A variant of this text forms a portion of the Foreword to "The Books -- A Pattern of Thinking", in "Rude Assignment". With annotations in Lewis's hand.
Oct.28, 1932
Lewis AM Dedication Inscribed to A. J. A.Symons
Box 7 Folder 1
1 leaves
[London] Lewis wrote this dedication in a book sent to Symons on Oct.28, 1932. [Written on the back of a "gummed luggage labels" envelope.]
[1953-1954]
Lewis AM The Demon of Progress in the Arts
Box 7 Folder 2
[125+] leaves
[London] Includes notes: portions of the manuscript are in the hand of Anne Lewis.
[1953-1954]
Lewis AM & TM The Demon of Progress in the Arts
Box 7 Folder 3
[125+] leaves
[London] Few hand written leaves.
[n.d.]
Lewis TM Description of Decorations for "The Apes of God"
Box 7 Folder 4
2 leaves
[n.p.] First leaf under heading "Specimen MARGINALIA"' secpmd jeaded "ROOM 59".
Jul., 1949
Lewis TMS[copy] Descriptive Note for Mr. Wyndham Lewis's 2 Pictures in Oxford.
Box 7 Folder 5
1 leaf
[n.p.] With holograph not by Lewis. Notes on "Arghol" and "The Cubist Museum."
[ca.1946]
Lewis AM[fragment] & Tm[fragment] DeToqueville and Democracy
Box 7 Folder 6
7 leaves + 5 leaves
[London] The complet text published in "The Sewanee Review", 54, no.4, Autumn, 1956, p. 555-575. Includes 5 leaves of article as printed.
[ca.1923]
Lewis AM Dialogue
Box 8 Folder 1
1 leaf
[London] Written on the back of an envelope addressed to Lewis at Adam & Eve Mews.
1923
Lewis AM Diary
Box 8 Folder 2
1 item
[London] Small booklet used mainly for engagements; only May 17 through July 28 used.
1940
Lewis AM Diary
Box 8 Folder 3
1 item
[New York] Only pages January 1 through April 9 in booklet; the rest have been torn out.
[194-?]
Lewis TM Do Intellectuals Exist?
Box 8 Folder 4
26 leaves
[London] In article form, the substance of this appeared as Chapter 6 "Intuition versus Intellect ..." in "Rude Assignment". Typescript with holograph corrections in Lewis' hand.
[1940?]
Lewis AMS[drafts], AM[copy], TM, TM[copy]. & TM[fragments] The Do-Nothing Mode
Box 8 Folder 5
49 leaves
[New York? Toronto?] Memoir dealing with Lewis' father, Charles Edward Lewis. Published in "Agenda", VII-VIII, nos.3-1, Autumn/Winter, p. 216-221.
[1932]
Lewis AM & TM Doom of Youth
Box 8 Folder 6
[ca. 30 leaves]
[London] Notes and instructions for lawyers; textual citations. Concerns the lawsuits intituted by Godfrey Winn and Alec Waugh and Lewis, as well as a summary by Lewis of it manuscript preparation.
[ca,1953]
Lewis AM[draft & draft] & TM The Doppelgänger
Box 8 Folder 7
103 leaves
[London] Two draft versions; one in Lewis' hand, with insertions in the hands of Anne Lewis and Agnes Bedford; the second in Anne Wyndham Lewis' hand. Published in "Encounter", 2, no.1, January, 1954, p. 23-33, and in "Unlucky for Pringle", 1973.
[195-?]
Lewis AM Dr. Henry Platenham ...
Box 8 Folder 8
13 leaves
[London] Short story, with insertions and corrections in the hand of Anne Lewis.
[1940?]
Lewis AM[fragment] Duality in Theory and Praxis
Box 8 Folder 9
1 leaf
[n.p.] Fragment from "The Do-Nothing Mode"
[Jun., 1949?]
Lewis, Wyndham TM[copy] Edward Wadsworth: 1889-1948
Box 8 Folder 9.5
3 leaves
London; Biography and memories of Wadsworth, a fellow "vorticist".
[1956?]
Lewis AM[2] & TM Elitemindedness; A Policy
Box 8 Folder 10
[ca.70 leaves]
[London] Two hand written manuscripts, one by Lewis, the second in the hand of Anne Lewis. Written for "Educational Review".
[1914?]
Lewis TM & TM[copy] Enemy of the Stars
Box 8 Folder 11
26 leaves
[London] First published in "Blast", 1, 1914.
[n.d.]
Lewis TM[carbon, fragment] Enemy of the Stars: Screenplay
Box 8 Folder 12
3 leaves
[n.p.] Appears to be a later rewriting of a piece first published in "Blast 1". There is a part ofr the blind Lewis.
[1933?]
Lewis AM Envoi
Box 8 Folder 13
2 leaves
[Loondon?] Holograph text of "Envoi" first published in 1933 in volume of verse entitled "Engine Fight-Talk ..."; reissued in 1960 with title-page of "One-Way Song".
[194-?]
Lewis TM Essay on Angle-American Relations
Box 8 Folder 14
7 leaves
[Toronto?] Unpublished?
[194-?]
Lewis AM[draft, notes, fragment] Essay on Societal Rights, Freedom, and Law
Box 8 Folder 15
12 leaves
[n.p.]
[n.d.]
Lewis TM Exhibition Catalogue. Forward
Box 8 Folder 15.5
5 leaves
[n.p.] Foreward to an art exhibition catalogue, annotations in Lewis' hand. Found with Arthur Press announcement for "Satire & Fiction," 1930.
[Dec., 1937]
Lewis TM[copy] Exhibition of Paintings by Wyndham Lewis. Foreward
Box 8 Folder 16
1 leaf
London; Foreword to his exhibition catalogue.
[1948?]
Lewis TM[fragment] Ezra Pound
Box 8 Folder 17
1 leaf
[n.p.] Appears to be a draft for Lewis' article in "An Examinationn of Ezra Pound, edited by Peter Russell.
Apr., 1948
Lewis TM Ezra Pound
Box 8 Folder 18
13 leaves
[London] With corrections in Lewis' hand. Published in "Ezra Pound: A Collection of Essays" edited by Peter Russell, London, Peter Nevill, 1950, p. 257-266.
[195-?]
Lewis AM[drafts, fragments] A Female Conversation
Box 9 Folder 1
46 leaves
[London] Varying texts 9apparently uncompleted) in two formats; dramatic and narrative. Title supplied in the hand of Anne Lewis
[1931-1932]
Lewis AM & TM Filibusters in Barbary
Box 9 Folder 2
82 leaves
[London] Lewis' first book on Morocco, which is continued with the unpublished "Kasbhs and Souks". Published in serial form in "Everyman". The notes inluded are in the hand of Cyril J. Fox, wirtten October, 1981.
[n.d.]
Lewis TM[copy] First Meeting with T. S. Eliot
Box 9 Folder 3
6 leaves
[n.p.] This appeared as Part V, Chapter VI (p. 282-289) of the 1967 revised version of "Blasting and Bombardiering".
[192-?]
Lewis AM[draft, fragment] For High-God and Political God
Box 9 Folder 4
1 leaf
[London?] Cutting and pasting of 3 leaves in the hand of Anne Lewis.
[1943?]
Lewis AM[drafts, notes] & TM The Frontiers of Art Or the Cultural Melting Pot?
Box 9 Folder 5
23 leaves
[Windsor?] Possibly part of "The Frontiers of Art ...", a lecture Lewis delivered at the Detroit Institute of Arts on November 30, 1943.
[1943]
Lewis AM[drafts, notes] & TM The Frontiers of Art Or the Cultural Melting Pot?
Box 9 Folder 6
46 leaves
[Windsor] Lecture Lewis delivered at the Detroit Institute of Arts on November 30, 1943. With an introductory biographical sketch written by Lewis.
[1956]
Lewis AM & TM[copy] Golden Sections. Foreward.
Box 9 Folder 7
11 leaves
[London] Foreward to Michael Ayrton's "Golden Section" published in 1957. Holograph manuscript in the hand of Anne Lewis.
[1893-1894?]
Lewis AMS Good Times
Box 9 Folder 8
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