J.E. Morpurgo Papers, 1742, 1937-2000, 1950-1970

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Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
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Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

J.E. Morpurgo Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Creator:
Morpurgo, J. E.; Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974; Adair, Virginia, 1913-; Forte, Charles, 1908-; Nye, Russel Blaine, 1913-.
Abstract:
Papers, 1937-2000, bulk 1950-1970, of Jack Morpurgo, writer, educator, and editor. Includes correspondence; speeches; lectures; radio scripts; published and unpublished essays, articles, and novels; certificates and awards; photographs; and framed prints.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

J.E. Morpurgo Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Papers, 1937-2000, bulk 1950-1970, of Jack Morpurgo, writer, educator, and editor. Includes correspondence, speeches, lectures, radio scripts, published and unpublished essays, articles, and novels, books from his personal library, certificates and awards, photographs, and framed prints. Most of the collection consists of Morpurgo's personal writings and business correspondence related to his work as a professor, editor, and director of the National Book League. Morpurgo was a British citizen and graduate of Christ's Hospital school. During his career, he wrote extensively on the subject of Christ's Hospital school. The school was founded in 1552 as a charity to benefit needy children with shelter, food, clothing, and an education. By the eighteenth century, Christ's Hospital was known as one of England's great public schools. It continues to educate British children in the twenty-first century. The papers include correspondence with Edmund Blunden, Virginia Hamilton Adair, Charles Forte, and Russel B. Nye.

Resume, curriculum vitae, lists of publications, talks, and speeches.

Sources include The New Yorker, The Observer, The William and Mary Alumni Gazette, and others. Also includes a complete December 1952 issue of Thirty-One Four, the staff publication of the Continental Bank and Trust Company of Salt Lake City, Utah. J.E.M. had visited their offices in November 1952. N.B. article on page 5.

Greetings from Frances and Gilbert Chesterton. Each card contains a poem by Frances Chesterton.

Journal of Principia College, St. Louis, Missouri. Contains an interview with J.E.M. conducted by Principia student, Neil Soderstrom (pp. 4-7).

Album presented to J.E.M. who was commencement speaker. Includes honorary doctorate, programs, press clippings, and photographs.

Canadian newspaper. Includes interview with J.E.M.

Correspondence between J.E.M. and Rosalind Young of the British Council Specialist Tours Department, regarding J.E.M.'s trip to Mexico, Venezuela, and Chile.

Program from A Service of Thanksgiving for the Life and Work of Sir Barnes Wallis. Held at St. Paul's Cathedral. The Address was delivered by J.E.M.

Correspondence with Dawn Muirhead and information concerning the Washington Project, a memorialization of George Washington.

Items related to J.E.M.'s time as scholar in residence at the College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho. Includes honorary doctorate.

Correspondence regarding republication of part of J.E.M.'s autobiography in a memorial volume about Arthur B. (Tim) Hanson, a friend and fellow alumnus of William and Mary. Includes the extract to be used and a biographical sketch of Hanson.

Christmas letters to J.E.M. One signed "Kay" of East Lansing; the other in German.

Correspondence by and about Virginia Hamilton Adair. Includes copies of some of her poems.

Bulletin from "Service of Thanksgiving for the life and love of Catherine Noel Kippe Morpurgo, 1918-1993." The Church of the Holy Innocents, London.

Includes one photocopied letter from Blunden to J.E.M. dated 19 April 1945. Also includes correspondence from 23 January 1974 to 25 July 1983 concerning the death of Edmund Blunden and the publishing of his poetry, his memorial, and correspondence with his widow, Claire.

J.E.M.'s correspondence with William and Mary alumna, Nan Hodges.

Short story by J.E.M., later published in his autobiography, "Master of None". Includes both versions.

Essay by Carman Barnes, in which the author writes of J.E.M.'s views on the English and Americans. Contains direct quotes from a conversation between the author and J.E.M.

Published in Quadrant, pages 43-49. Adapted from his autobiography, Master of None.

Correspondence from Lorin or Louis[?] of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, dealing with Anglo-American relations. Signed only with first name. The writer was probably a Professor at the College.

Opening of Boys and Girls House of the Toronto Public Library; memorabilia. Includes drawing of the building, order of proceedings, and J.E.M. commemorative card.

Letter concerning the Bicentennial program.

Includes criticism of the exhibit from The Journal of Education.

Includes a review of Hortense Calisher's The New Yorkers from the Times Literary Supplement.

Deals with J.E.M.'s contribution to an anthology edited by King. Includes unsigned copy of agreement with publisher, Routledge and Kegan Paul and a letter from J.E.M to Sally Spiller, of Routledge, disputing contract terms. Eventually King found someone else to write J.E.M.'s section, as he was too busy.

Includes copies of the stories.

Includes suggestion list.

Letters deal with writer Eric Linklater, an acquaintance of J.E.M.

Includes a draft of J.E.M. contribution.

Correspondence regards questions after reading Barnes Wallis: A Biography. She hoped J.E.M. could give her information about her father.

Christ's Hospital School was founded in the City of London by King Edward VI in 1552, with the purpose to provide needy children with shelter and education that would enable them to be selfsufficient after their release. From the 17th to the mid-18th century, pupils educated in penmanship, bookkeeping and accounting were apprentised to merchants, lawyers, and other professionals in overseas colonies.

Included are photocopies of a 1694 and a 1697 list of children released from Christ's Hospital between 1675-1697, and "put forth to the Practice of Navigation". The records list the dates of indenture and the names of the masters. Also included are typed and ms. transcriptions of various detail of Christ's Hospital records, listing information on children discharged between 1784-1821: the name of the colony they were bound to serve in, length of indenture, date of birth and admission, name of parents, and name of the masters.

Includes photocopies of a printed list, 1769, of apprentices, released between 1675-1767, photocopies of a ms. list of apprentices released 1767-1887, a letter dated 3 March 1998 written to J.E.M. from Christ's Hospital regarding the microfilming and copying of the above records, and an article on Christ's Hospital apprentices from Colonial Williamsburg Magazine, 1988.

Includes "An Essay on Drink, Drinking and Drinkers, Borrowed from most Authors, Ancient and Modern, Sacred and Profane," credited to J.E.M.

In: The West Country Magazine, pp. 280-283.

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Published essay.

Published essay.

Articles: Autumn 1988: A Thing Without Parallel - Christ's Hospital and America, (pp. 7-14); December 1999/January 2000: untitled essay related to Summer 1995 article, Journey With Ghosts, (pp. 6-7). Includes note from Dennis Montgomery, Colonial Williamsburg Journal Office, about J.E.M. contribution, dated 15 June 2000.

Correspondence re contribution to British-American alumni magazine, Griffin. Wade was chairman of British-American alumni and Christ's Hospital. Mentioning of Christ's Hospital.

In: Contemporary Review, pp. 192-198.

From: All I Did Was This - Chapters of an Autobiography by Youngman Carter. Nashville: Sexton Press. (pp. 88-90).

Introduction to the Autobiography of Leigh Hunt. London: Cresset. (pp. vii-xxiv).

In: The Illustrated London News (p. 980). Review of The Christ's Hospital Book, published to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the school.

Issues of The Blue mentioning J.E.M. Also programs from Old Blues' and Parent's Day from 21 June 1998 and 22 June 1997.

Notebook from class in American Social History at William and Mary.

Essay, read in Contemporary Philosophy Seminar at William and Mary.

The Middleville Sun and Caledonia News. Written by a friend of J.E.M. after reading American Excursion (1949). Includes observations on William and Mary.

In: Alumni Gazette of the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

Deals with J.E.M. as author of a college history.

Published by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.

Certificate and various letters and documents relating to founding of United Kingdom Chapter of William and Mary Alumni Society.

Re: conferral of Degree of Doctor of Human Letters, Honoris Causa. Charter Day Program, 7 February 1970.

Griffin: The Journal of the British American Alumni and the British American Educational Foundation, Inc. Article on page 11. TMS of article. Letter from J.E.M. to Griffin Editor regarding a printer's mistake in his essay.

Notes and correspondence concerning publication of Their Majesties' Royall Colledge, a history of the College of William and Mary. Includes correspondence with the President of the College, Thomas R. Graves, Jr. Includes a copy of Graves's Inaugural Address, 5 February 1972.

Press release about the U.K. Alumni of William and Mary dinner, 17 May 1973. TMS. Press release about a dinner at the House of Commons to honor William and Mary President, Dr. Thomas A. Graves. 15 March 1973. TMS.

Also included are newspaper clippings, a promotional leaflet for J.E.M., Their Majesties' Royall Colledge-William and Mary in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.

Article on the President's House at William and Mary, in: Americana (pp. 50-57).

Note from Robert Lowell to J.E.M. regarding J.E.M. as Lowell's presenter for degree at Leeds.

Includes correspondence with the Editor.

Lecture delivered to a Tutor's course at Oxford University.

Untitled.

1. The Continuing Use of English (1961; 4 pp.); 2. The Printed Word in Britain (1959; 5 pp.);3. Commencement Address (June 1961, 14 pp.); 4. Untitled, British-American relations (June 1966, 16 pp.); 5. Richer in Esteem: A Reappraisal of John Burgoyne (n.d., published, pp. 151-167);6. Untitled-English poetry (n.d., 25 pp.); 7. Forty Years On (n.d., 17 pp.); 8. Literature and Chauvinism: A Reconnaissance of Poetry of Canada and Australia (n.d., published essay, pp. 58-77).

1. The Irate St. Charles (n.d., 20 pp.); 2. Leigh Hunt (n.d., 14 pp.); 3. James Henry Leigh Hunt (n.d., 11 pp.).

Outline for lecture.

Includes introduction to lecture.

Includes Anglo-Israeli Project (20 pp.) and Speech at the Vienna Congress (8 pp.).

Based on The Second Book of Samuel, delivered at Church Road Methodist Church, St. Annes-On-Sea (10 pp.). Includes bulletins.

Draft and 2 published copies: Khaki and Blue, 1945; and News Bulletin, 1 May 1946.

In: Scotland's Magazine (pp. 41-42).

In: Blackwood's Magazine (pp. 294-298). Includes letter to J.E.M. from David Fletcher regarding publication and payment.

Notebook with commentary and observations from World War II experiences. Written on the reverse of what appears to be an Italian account book. AMS. Also includes a draft of "Loot", by Seagull Minor, seemingly based on the notes (6 pp.).

The First of Foot -The Royal Scots: Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard (9 pp.); The Lovat Scouts (6 pp.); The Dorset Regiment (4 pp.).

From Brigadier. Inscribed: This may interest you. It is one of my lesser literary efforts-but the easiest to get published. Signature illegible (1 p.).

Published in Manchester Guardian, draft (4 pp.). Includes correspondence regarding a 1993 reunion of 46th Division officers.

Published by Blackwood (pp. 495-497).

Re: British military service.

The certificate is signed on front and back by other members.

All articles in this sub-series have been written by J.E.M. unless otherwise mentioned.

Deals with the relationship between British and Americans in late 1930s-early 1940s. No publication title visible.

Published in: The English Speaking World (Pp. 738-743). Includes proofs.

Published in: Transatlantic (pp. 25-31). Includes draft.

Published in Scots Review (p. 10).

Published in: The West Country Magazine (pp. 19-21). Includes draft.

Published in: The New York Times Magazine (pp. 22-29).

Published in: The Listener (pp. 8-9). Includes draft.

Published in: The Listener (pp. 93-95).

Sent by R.B. Nye to J.E.M.

Essay discussed the following poems: Allen Tate's Ode to the Confederate Dead and Robert Lowell's Ode to the Union Dead. Includes copies of both poems.

Published in: John O. London.

Published in: The Times Literary Supplement. No page number visible.

Published in: The Tatler and Bystander (pp. 364-365). Includes draft. Written to highlight Jamestown's 350th anniversary.

Section of an essay on British impressions of small-town America.

Published in: Quadrant (pp. 29-31). Includes version: God's Own Railroad.

Regards the subject of the 200th anniversary of the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia.

Deals with England, America, and the Falkland Crisis.

Published in: Colonial Williamsburg Magazine (pp. 35-39).

Published essay, no publication title visible (pp. 16-24).

Introduction to the Times Memorial volume to the Americans.

Observations on British-American relations.

Observations on British-American relations (6 pp.). Includes AMS version (7 pp.)

Published in: Penguin Parade (pp. 112-124).

Deals with Jamestown, Yorktown, Williamsburg.

Drafts and notes.

All articles by J.E.M. unless otherwise noted.

Includes: Note on Britain - Second Class Power or Third Force (6 pp.); and an untitled essay on healthcare (9 pp.).

Essay on Richard Brothers.

Published in: The Compleat Imbiber (pp. 17-19).

Deals with the lives of young British royalty. Focus on Queen Victoria and twentieth-century Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret.

Essay draft.

Published in: Public Opinion (pp. 2-3).

Published in: The Tatler and Bystander (pp.166, 170).

Published in: Mayfair (3 pp.).

Published in: Mayfair.

Published in: The Tatler and Bystander (pp. 16-17).

2 versions.

Was to be published in Books, January/February 1964.

A tribute to Russel Nye publihsed by Michigan State University Press (pp. 151-167).

Published in: London Calling (p. 16).

Prepared for the UNESCO regional meeting on the Production of Reading Material for New Literates, held in Pakistan.

Published in: The Unesco Courier (p. 26).

Published in: English Language Teaching.

Reprinted from: The Penrose Annual (Vol. 56., pp. 41-46).

Includes: Children Reading in the Age of Television (10 p.); Osborne Library (9 pp.); and untitled (2 pp.).

Includes correspondence with the Journal of Documentation regarding publication.

Paper presented at 34th Session of the IFLA General Trust; published in IFLA-Communications-FIAB (pp. 223-229). Includes draft (13 pp.).

Includes excerpt on Hazelhurst's work. Published in the Quadrant (pp. 4-5).

Published in: Quadrant (pp. 18-21).

Published in: Review 46 (pp. 39-43).

Draft essay, includes bibliographic notes.

Includes correspondence with authors, acceptance and rejection letters, and proposals for histories of Rome, Russia, Scotland, Spain, and Portugal.

Essay on Pelican chief-of-staff Allen Lane, Blackwood's (pp. 480-487).

Article from Australian newspaper on the subject of Penguin books, Townsville Bulletin.

Penguin Progress 13, (pp. 33-37). Includes TMS of article, (6 pp.).

All essays by J.E.M., unless otherwise mentioned.

Essay on Walt Whitman, in The Times Literary Supplement (p. 492).

In: The Month (pp. 180-186). Includes TMS draft (14 pp.)

Introduction to Trelawny's last Days of Shelley and Byron. London: Folio Society (pp. iii-xvii).

Nonsense and the English (7 pp.); and The Continuing Use of English (4 pp.).

Inaugural lecture at University of Leeds. Published in University of Leeds Review (pp. 69-87). Includes TMS draft (36 pp.).

1. Robertson Davies; 2. Robert (Ranke) Graves; 3. A(lfred) B(ertram) Guthrie, Jr.; 4. Eric (Robert Russell) Linklater; 5. (John) Hugh MacLennan.

Essay on Rudyard Kipling published in Quadrant (pp. 54-56). Includes TMS draft (8 pp).

Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement Six (no place; pp. 461-462).

Relates to work on Barnes Wallis published in 1981.

Given at Guy's Hospital for the Royal College of Surgeons, Guy's Hospital, and the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries.

Incomplete essay.

Untitled.

Untitled.

Untitled.

Draft essay.

Essay on William Godwin.

Published essay.

Untitled.

Entries on literary figures for unidentified reference work: Blunden, Lamb, MacLennan, Burgoyne, and Davies. Also includes a draft essay on Leigh Hunt.

Published essay.

All reviews by J.E.M., unless otherwise mentioned.

Also includes letter from Literary Editor of Yorkshire Post requesting a copy of the review as well as a letter from Cooper thanking J.E.M. for the review.

Places of publication include: The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Month, Tribune, Time and Tide, Birmingham Post, and others.

Places of publication include: The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Month, Tribune, and others. Some are identified as written by J.E.M., others are not. Includes some reviews written by Jonathan More.

Titles and authors of books reviewed are listed on the front of the folder.

Includes letter from Linklater to J.E.M.

Includes correspondence between managing editor of J.E.M., Dent and Sons Publishers and J.E.M. regarding his review of the book. Dent was considering a British edition of the work, but J.E.M. advised against it.

Includes correspondence between editors at The Times Literary Supplement and J.E.M. Deals with J.E.M.'s review and his response to criticism from one reader.

Authors and titles of works reviewed are listed on the front of the folder.

Published in New Statesman under the title "King of the Castle." Includes acknowledgment from journal and proofs.

Includes correspondence between J.E.M. and Irving regarding Irving's his claim that "Hitler did not order killing of Jews."

Published in the Yorkshire Post. Includes letter from the literary editor regarding the reviews.

Published in Yorkshire Arts under the title Book of the Year.

Authors and titles of books reviewed are listed on the front of the folder.

Authors and titles of the books reviewed are listed on the front of the folder.

Authors and titles of the books reviewed are listed on the front of the folder.

Authors and titles of the books reviewed are listed on the front of the folder.

Draft.

Includes reviews on: "At Your Service," "Arsenic and Old Lace," and "Ladies in Waiting."

Draft.

Includes letters regarding a Japanese edition.

Some of the material may have been Forte's own writing-no indication of authorship was made.

Includes correspondence between Centaur and J.E.M. regarding publication.

An expanded introduction to Cobbett's America. London: Folio Society (pp. xi-xxxi). Includes draft.

Two drafts. One labelled: Cobbett Introduction.

Correspondence, reviews, and proofs.

Includes maps, charts, and J.E.M.'s essay Modern Greece.

Correspondence, reviews, and proofs. Includes unsigned copy of agreement with Oxford University Press, 1963.

New York: Mason/Charter (169 pp.). Also includes a copy of the poem The Ballad of Major Andre, and J.E.M.'s outline.

Includes photographs of reception introducing the book.

A previous edition was published by Penguin in 1948. Includes Part 1: Mr. Charles Lamb and the introduction to the original edition.

Cresset Press. Includes front part of an original dustjacket.

Penguin Press.

Cresset Press. Includes front part of an original dustjacket.

In: The New York Times. Review of Bertrand Russell, John Lehman, Sean O'Faolain, J.E.Morpurgo, Martin Cooper, and Perry Miller: The Impact of America on European Culture. Boston, The Beacon Press, 1951.

The Folio Society, 1952.

Penguin Books, 1953.

Envelope with review clippings, including newspapers from England, France, and Australia.

In his list of publications, J.E.M. notes that a publisher accepted the manuscript, but went bankrupt prior to publication. Includes: title page, contents, and pp. 1-109.

Pp. 110-207.

Pp. 208-260.

Includes J.E.M.'s notes.

Different version.

pp. 1-100.

pp. 101-200.

pp. 201-300.

pp. 301-400.

pp. 401-476.

Synopsis.

Draft manuscript for historical novel, based on real and fictional characters in eighteenth-century Virginia. Notes and chapters 1 and 2.

Chapter 3.

Chapter 4.

Chapter 5 and 6.

Chapter 7.

Chapter 8.

Chapter 9.

Chapter 10.

Chapters 11 and 12.

Chapters 13 and 14.

Chapter 15.

Brief synopsis, chapter 16 to beginning of final chapter,and final chapter.

J.E.M. was student director.

Radio script. Also includes John Andre's The Frantik Lover, a reprint of a poem written by the Major; and a note to J.E.M. from History Today, regarding a manuscript submission.

Radio address. Also includes part of an undated essay on Hollywood and Europeans.

BBC Home Service (Schools).

Includes a note from Secretary to General Programme Assistant at the BBC regarding script revisions, dated 4 July 1950.

Radio script, BBC Home Service (Schools).

Radio script.

Draft and transcript of the broadcast, written in a review essay-format covering Philip Carman, John Gerard: The Autobiography of an Elizabethan; Jack Simmons, ed.: Journeys in England; Margery Bailey, ed.: Boswell's Column; Hector Bolitho: A Century of British Monarchy; and Hesketh Pearson: Dizzy, (2 drafts, 7 and 9 pp.).

Radio script on poet Goronwy Owen, (2 drafts, 3 and 9 pp.).

Radio script (8 pp.).

Draft and final version (13 pp. each).

Radio scripts (4 and 8 pp.).

Play lists and radio scripts. Includes J.E.M. commentaries. Also includes a booklet of music and lyrics, Kentucky Mountain Ballads Sung By Cousin Emmy (Decca Records, 1948).

Draft essay and notes with a focus on Smith College and the Eisenhower campaign (13 pp.). Also includes a radio script for Transatlantic Mirror - Northampton, Massachusetts and Northampton, England. (Midland Home Service, 10 March 1953). 14 pages. TMS.

Radio script, Midland Home Service (8 pp). Also includes untitled observations on Hereford, Texas (4 pp.).

3 versions of BBC Home Service (Schools) broadcast. Includes letter from Enid Love, Assistant Head of School Broadcasting, regarding the script and her suggested changes and additions. Final version included.

BBC Home Service (Schools), 2 copies with notes (11 and 14 pp.).

Midland Home Service (8 pp.).

Midland Home Service (8 pp.).

BBC Home Service (Schools) (10 pp.).

Drafts of scripts for children's radio program The House on the Hill. Also includes a note from the secretary Peggy Bacon to Miss Anderson, secretary to the Director of the National Book League regarding the scripts, dated 10 August 1955.

Preview article on the children's radio show in Radio Times (p. 21). Entire issue included.

2 versions

Includes 3 scripts and interview between J.E.M. and Cary.

Also a note from the BBC regarding the script.

Includes 4 interviews: 29 November 1965 with J.E.M.; 6 December 1965 with Rosemary Cobham; 11 December 1965 with Walter Allen; 14 December 1965 with John Boynton Priestly.

Radio transcript, including a review from The Times.

2 versions.

For radio broadcast, includes introduction.

2 transcripts, one on war poems and the other on light verse. No indication is made, but C.N.K.M. was probably J.E.M's wife, Catherine.

Transcript.

5 versions of essay on observations of East Lansing, Michigan, written during the Truman presidential campaign.

Transcript (16 pp.), includes notes for a travel essay on seaport town of Yarmouth (7 pp.).

Untitled.

Transcript, Midland Home Service.

Proposal for "Transatlantic Mirror" series with potential topics and cities.

Concerns programming that J.E.M. contributed to or participated in.

Includes resume of his work in radio and television.

In: Tribune (p. 15), entire issue included.

In: Second Eighteen (pp.31-32).

Includes handwritten and typed poems. Of particular interest are the poems written during J.E.M.'s service in World War II.

Includes published and unpublished poems.

Published in Poetry of To-Day: Two Killed in Action, Three Loves, and Blood on Our Tracks (pp. 61-63).

Incomplete draft, includes notes for story.

Includes: Stare Upon the Ash; Self Inflicted; The Middle East; Substantial Authority; The Brave Man With A Sword - A Short Story By Jonathan More; Advance Party.

Incomplete draft with notes.

2 different drafts.

Introductory essay, including 2 drafts and final published version. No publication listed.

For publication in Chicago magazine. Includes letter with editor's suggestions.

Includes Princeton Men, in: Times Literary Supplement, 8 March 1947; and Letter to the Editor, in: Transatlantic, Summer 1947.

Published in: The Times, 19 November 1971; and The Sunday Times, 20 May 1972.

Includes are obituaries for the followig individuals: W.H. Portwood, n.d.; C. Worth Howard, 1971; Sam Stewart, 1975; Nansi Pugh, 1970; Douglas Grant, 1969; Professor William Walsh, 1981; Hugh MacLennan, 1990; A.J.M. Smith, 1980; Philip Youngman Carter, n.d.

Includes genealogical material for family of Robert Thomas Challenor (1775/6-1840). Challenor was a student at Christ's Hospital.

In: Long Island Forum (p. 129).

Later published in Spectator?

Unknown author: As You Like it?, and What They Are Saying: Broadcast Comments on Far Eastern Events.

Entire issue included.

No publication name visible.

School was attended by Sir Allen Lane. Includes brief article about Lane's role in dedicating a new building and an "Honours List" from 1977-1978.

A paper written for class on "America and Europe" taught by J.E.M.

Items of uncertain origin-unmatched pages and fragments.

Left to right: Tanya Kent, Jack Morpurgo, Richard Lane, Allen Lane, Bill Williams, Eunice Frost, Alan Glover.

People shown the photo include: J.E.M., Helen Wood Walker, Frances Jenkins Taylor, Virginia Betts Chapman, Anna Roper Bruechert, Jane Speakman Hauge, Bert Sheeran, C.R. Mirmelstein, Doris Froehner, Charlotte Johnson Able, Ella Manning, Elizabeth R. Weber, Frances Schaaf Shepherd, Sally Robbins Carmalt, Bill Anderson, Margaret Brett Honn, Martha "Pete" Moreland Thomas, Mollie Waters Christie, Bob Sheeran, E. Thomas Crowston, and William A. Reynolds.

Framed reproduction.

Framed color print.

Framed color print.

Framed reproduction.

Framed color print.

Framed reproduction.

Framed reproduction.

Framed.

Framed color print.

Framed drawing.

Issues included: June/July 1999, Aug. Sept. 1999, October/November 1999 and Spring 2000.

The books of J.E.M.'s personal library have been transferred to Swem Library's general collection. The titels of all books originally included in this collection are listed below (see LION catalog for call numbers).

Revised by J.E. Morpurgo.

Vol. 1, 1554-1599.

N.B. Marginalia by J.E.M.?

Collected by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Joseph Bryan Branch, Gloucester.

Vol. 1-2.

Biographical / historical:

Jack Morpurgo (1918-2000) graduated from Christ's Hospital School in England. He was the first British graduate of the College of William and Mary in Virginia after the American Revolution. He served in the British military during World War II. In his professional life, he was an editor and author of fiction and non-fiction. He was a frequent contributor of articles and book reviews to magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers. He wrote and participated in numerous radio and television broadcasts in Britain, the United States, Canada, and Australia. A significant portion of his career was spent under the tutelage of Alan Lane, founder of Penguin Books.

Acquisition information:
Acc. No. 2001-4; Gift: ca. 3,700 items, 01/2001.
Arrangement:

This Collection has been organized into 20 series: Series 1. Correspondence and biographical material; Series 2. Correspondence relating to writing projets; Series 3. Records relating to Christ's Hospital; Series 4. Papers relating to the College of William & Mary Series; 5. Papers relating to the University of Leeds Series; 6. Teaching materials Series; 7. Speeches; Series 8. Papers relating to WW II and the military; Series 9. Articles; Series 10. Papers related to the History of the Book-Readers, Writers, Publishers; Series 11. Papers related to Penguin Publishing; Series 12. Essays on Literature; Series 13. Book reviews; Series 14. Papers relating to books by J.E.M.; Series 15. Writings; Series 16. Genealogical information; Series 17. Miscellaneous Non-J.E.M.; Series 18. Photographs; Series 19. Artifacts, prints, awards; Series 20: Audio materials; Series 21. Library.

Physical description:
ca. 3,700 items.