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Charles Wrey Gardiner papers, 1918-1981

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Call No.: MS#0470
Bib ID 4079716 View CLIO record
Creator(s) Gardiner, Charles Wrey, 1901-1981
Title Charles Wrey Gardiner papers, 1918-1981
Physical Description 2.52 linear feet (6 boxes)
Language(s) English .
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Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.

Description

Summary

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and printed materials. The correspondence includes 42 letters to Derek Stanford. There are also ten volumes of his diaries covering the years from 1918 to 1981 and his autobiographical manuscripts: THE OCTOPUS OF LOVE; THE ANSWER TO LIFE IS NO; BLACK SAHARA; COFFEE FOR LAURA; PRINTERS' PIE; THE FRAIL SCREEN; and NO MONEY FOR DREAMS, as well as many unpublished poems in manuscript. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Dannie Abse, Edwin Brock, Alexander Comfort, Denise Levertov, Kenneth Patchen, and Sydney Tremayne

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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Charles Wrey Gardiner papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Miriam J. Benkovitz, 1984.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Benkovitz, M.J. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1984. Accession number--M-1984.

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Processed HR 02/--/85.

Revision Description

2020-04-07 EAD document created by CCR.

2020-05-21 Created Series II: Cataloged Manuscripts box and folder list containing edited and enhanced description. cml/kws

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"Portal"		 "CUL Collections:"
"CLIO"		 "Nat'l / Int'l Archives:"
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Autobiographies (literary works) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Diaries Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Manuscripts (documents) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Photographs Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Poems Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID

Subject

Heading "CUL Archives:"
"Portal"		 "CUL Collections:"
"CLIO"		 "Nat'l / Int'l Archives:"
"ArchivedGRID"
Abse, Dannie Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Authors, English Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Autobiographical fiction, English Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Brock, Edwin Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Comfort, Alex, 1920-2000 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
English literature Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Grey Walls Press Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Poets, English Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Private presses -- Great Britain Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Publishers and publishing Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Stanford, Derek Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Tremayne, Sydney, 1890- Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID

History / Biographical Note

Biographical / Historical

Charles Francis Wrey Gardiner, British author, poet, and publisher; d. 1981.

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Series I: Correspondence

Subseries I.1: Cataloged Correspondence


Box 1 Abse, Dannie

Box 1 Brock, Edwin H.

Box 1 Comfort, Alexander

Box 1 Gardiner, Cynthia Lorna Kortright (Mrs Wrey)

Box 1 Gardiner, Wrey

Box 1 Gawsworth, John

Box 1 Hamnett, Nina

Box 1 Laughlin, James

Box 1 Levertov, Denise

Box 1 Patchen, Kenneth

Box 1 Tremayne, Sydney D.

Box 1 Waller, Sir John Stanier

Subseries I.2: Uncataloged Correspondence

Box 1 Uncataloged Correspondence

Series II: Cataloged Manuscripts by Gardiner


Box 2 Account book, n.p., a.ms., 1942-1945

1 volume

Box 2 Address books, London, undated

2 volumes

Box 2 The answer to life is no, n.p., a.ms. (Chapters 1--III of last published [1960] autobiography), undated

1 volume

Box 2 Poems in manuscript include, n.p., a.ms. (same volume as above), undated

1 volume

Box 2 Only the dead

Box 2 Count d'Orgel opens the ball (review)

Box 2 Editorial

Box 2 The glittering truth

Box 2 When you become

Box 2 The rustic seat

Box 2 The ultimate truth

Box 2 Poem they do no care to print

Box 2 Garden poem

Box 2 African time

Box 2 Prayer for all

Box 2 A certain kind of truth

Box 2 Dead . . .

Box 2 Structure fault

Box 2 The answer to life is no, n.p., a.ms. (Chapters IV-XII of last published [1960] autobiography), undated

1 volume

Box 2 Appointment book [London], a.ms. 1 volume, 1951

1 volume

Box 2 Appointment book, London, a.ms. (few entries), 1955

1 volume

Box 2 Appointment book London, a.ms. (few entries), 1957

1 volume

Box 2 Black Sahara, Chapters 1-32 (unpublished travel book), n.p., a.ms., undated

1 volune

Box 2 Black Sahara, Chapters 33—36 (unpublished travel book), n.p., a.ms., undated

1 volume

Box 2 The answer to life is no, n.p., a.ms. (last published autobiography, 1960; in the same vol. as the above), undated

1 volume

Box 2 Black Sahara, n.p., t.ms., 159 p. (unpublished travel book; with corrections in his hand), undated


Box 3 Coffee for Laura; an autobiography, n.p., t.ms., 193 p. (with corrections in his hand) (Laura is Laura del Rive, novelist), undated

Box 3 Diary, v.p., a.ms., 1918-1920

1 volume

Box 3 Diary, n.p., a.ms., 6 p., [192-]

Box 3 Diary v.p., a.ms.s., 1920-1922

1 volume

Box 3 Diary, v.p., a.ms.s., 1922-1923

1 volume

Box 3 Diary, v.p., a.ms.s., 1924-1926

1 volume

Box 3 Diary, v.p., a.ms., 1928-1981

1 volume


Box 4 Diary, v.p., a.ms., 1937-1963

1 volume

Box 4 Diary, v.p., a.ms., 1950-1952

1 volume

Box 4 Journal [Diary], v.p., t.ms., 209 p. 1950-1953, 1950-1953

Box 4 Diary, v.p., a.ms., 1952 March-September

1 volume

Box 4 Epilogue 1976-1981, [London], t.ms., 6 p. (autobiographical essay), [1981]

Box 4 The frail screen, n.p., t.ms., 252 p. (unpublished novel with corrections in his hand), undated

Box 4 The invisible man, n.p., a.ms., 3 p. (autobiographical essay; unpublished), undated


Box 5 List of books in the collection of C. Wrey Gardiner, Billericay [UK], a.ms. (chronologically listed from 1516 to 1943), [1943]

1 volume

Box 5 No money for dreams, Henley [UK], a.ms.s. (unpublished novel; pages loose), 1961 August 29

1 volume

Box 5 The octopus of love, n.p., t.ms. [347 p.] (his last and longest autobiography; with corrections in his hand), 1972-1975

3 volumes


Box 6 Poems in manuscript include, v.p., a.ms.s., 136 p. (loose pages in a folder), 1938-1980, undated

Box 6 I shall sleep on

Box 6 Suddenly the light

Box 6 Holes in the sand

Box 6 Written on copy of a will

Box 6 Far freedom files

Box 6 Pilrock

Box 6 Since love has come (not by C.W.G.)

Box 6 Wanderer in time

Box 6 New songs for old

Box 6 Day and night

Box 6 Birthday poem for Kay

Box 6 Apostle of doom

Box 6 One egg for breakfast

Box 6 Every day

Box 6 Poem written in the Alma . . .

Box 6 Waiting for a 72 bus

Box 6 [Poems in manuscript] include, n.p., a.ms.s., 17 p. (with 23 pages of Xerox copies of his poems in ms.), 1965 May 16, undated

Box 6 Poem in a cold mirror

Box 6 A Spring day

Box 6 The tramp

Box 6 Rye

Box 6 The hour glass

Box 6 The disposal of human remains

Box 6 The question

Box 6 Solitude

Box 6 Sonnet

Box 6 Even Song

Box 6 Vicisti Galilaee

Box 6 To sleep

Box 6 What the bird told

Box 6 Poem written in the Alma . . .

Box 6 (Xerox copies)

Box 6 Only the dead

Box 6 Wanderer in time

Box 6 I shall sleep on

Box 6 When you become

Box 6 The ultimate truth

Box 6 Garden poem

Box 6 Poem they do not care to print

Box 6 African time

Box 6 Prayer for all

Box 6 A certain kind of truth

Box 6 Dead . . .

Box 6 Structural fault

Box 6 [Poems in typescript] include, [London] and n.p., t.ms.s., 20 p. (20 typescript poems), 1965, undated

Box 6 The beginning and the end

Box 6 Carol

Box 6 Continence is the chastity

Box 6 Every day

Box 6 Elegy for an epoch

Box 6 Faces in a room (2 copies)

Box 6 The high towers of poverty

Box 6 Holes in the sand

Box 6 I am one who dies

Box 6 In this our time

Box 6 Memory of Africa

Box 6 Objects in a dull light

Box 6 Picture in wool

Box 6 Poem for a rainbow

Box 6 Poem written in the Alma . . .

Box 6 Suddenly the light

Box 6 Turning the land

Box 6 Waiting

Box 6 Printers' Pie; an autobiography, n.p., t.ms., 1 vol. [158 p.] (extracted from the uncut manuscript of his "The octopus of love"; with corrections in his hand), [1973?]

Box 6 The unspeakable forties, n.p., t.ms., 7 p. (essay, carbon copy in his hand), undated

Series III: Photographs and Printed Materials