Ben Duncan and Dick Chapman papers, 1939-2000

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Series I: Correspondence and Personal Materials, 1939-1995



Box 1 Chapman to Duncan, 1956-1957, 10 folders


Box 1 Duncan to Chapman, 1956-1957, 8 folders



Box 5 Folder 26-27 Correspondence, 1946-1995



Box 1 Business-related correspondence, 1 folders


Box 1 General correspondence



Box 5 Folder 23 School Grade Report for Ben Duncan, 1939


Box 5 Folder 24 Newspaper clipping re: Ben Duncan, 1950 February 19

Series II: Manuscripts and Publications, 1954-1973



Box 2 Angels' Faces


Box 2 The Family


Box 2 Little Friends



Box 3 Other Ways of Living



Box 5 Folder 25 List of previous submissions of his autobiography


Box 5 Folder 22 "My Antonia," a play in one act. 15 pages


Box 5 Folder 19 Jolly Journal


Box 5 Folder 20 Truly Yours. Play scenario, 5 pages



Box 3 Printed materials:


Box 3 Reviews of Little Friends


Box 3 Reviews of The Same Language


Box 3 Printed materials, miscellaneous


Box 3 Little Friends, , (1 bound volume)


Box 3 The Same Language, , (1 bound volume)



Box 4 Short Cuts: Using Texts to Explore English by Mel Calman and Ben Duncan


Box 4 Late Starter by Ben Duncan. Bound Mss of his autobiography, 226 pages



Box 5 Folder 26 The Thunderbird and The Sunday Journal Trends, 2000 October 29, November 5


BBC Writings:



Box 4 Folder 1 The Last Yank at Oxford by Ben Duncan in The Listener Volume LI, No. 1315, 1954 May 13


Box 4 Folder 2 The Last Yank at Oxford by Ben Duncan. Mss of playscript, 17 pages


Box 4 Folder 3 A Yank Among the Debs by Ben Duncan. Mss of radio-script, 8 pages, 1955


Box 4 Folder 4 Essay on post-WWII writers by Ben Duncan. Mss, 7 pages (with German printed version), 1955


Box 4 Folder 5 Drawn From Life by Ben Duncan. Mss of radio-script, 8 pages, 1956


Box 4 Folder 6 An Innocent in Greece by Ben Duncan. Mss of radio-script, 9 pages, 1961


Box 4 Folder 7 Woman's Hour From Cambridge No. 30, 8 pages and 6 pages, 27 November 1973


Box 4 Folder 8 Woman's Hour. Quote from In Cap and Gown, 3 pages (2 copies)


Box 4 Folder 9 Woman's Hour: Poetry on a Theme: Home, 8 pages


Box 4 Folder 10 Woman's Hour , 9 May 1973

Series III: Essays, 1948, undated


Box 4 Folder 11 "As I See It: a good word for Puritans," 4 pages


Box 4 Folder 12 "A Visit Home," 5 pages


Box 4 Folder 13 "Alone," 4 pages


Box 4 Folder 14 "A Man In The House," 4 pages


Box 4 Folder 15 "Doing It Yourself," 4 pages


Box 4 Folder 16 "Tea Time," 2 pages


Box 4 Folder 17 "E.M. Forster," 5 pages


Box 4 Folder 18 "Age," 3 pages


Box 4 Folder 19 "Acting," 4 pages


Box 4 Folder 20 "Ely Cathedral," 3 pages


Box 4 Folder 21 "Elections," 3 pages


Box 4 Folder 22 "Spices," 3 pages


Box 4 Folder 23 "St George's Hospital," 3 pages


Box 4 Folder 24 "Conferences," 3 pages


Box 4 Folder 25 "Army and Business," 3 pages


Box 4 Folder 26 "Vivien Leigh," 3 pages


Box 4 Folder 27 "Teaching," 6 pages


Box 4 Folder 28 "Chinese Exhibition," 4 pages


Box 4 Folder 29 "Horticulture," 3 pages


Box 4 Folder 30 "Non-Smokers," 4 pages


Box 4 Folder 31 "The Speed Limit," 4 pages


Box 4 Folder 32 "Magistrate's Court," 4 pages


Box 4 Folder 33 "Protest," 4 pages



Box 5 Folder 1 "Mary Quant Exhibition," 3 pages


Box 5 Folder 2 "Obscenity Legislation," 3 pages


Box 5 Folder 3 "Male Midwife," 3 pages


Box 5 Folder 4 "My Part of England," 5 pages


Box 5 Folder 5 "Education," 4 pages


Box 5 Folder 6 "British Style and Dress," 4 pages


Box 5 Folder 7 "Private and Public Language," 3 pages


Box 5 Folder 8 "British and American Language," 6 pages


Box 5 Folder 9 "Thomas Wolfe," 27 pages


Box 5 Folder 10 "The South," 22 pages


Box 5 Folder 11 "Return to Birmingham, Alabama," 13 pages


Box 5 Folder 12 "Mr. Forster," 10 pages


Box 5 Folder 13 "The Novels of E.M. Forster," 5 pages


Box 5 Folder 14 "E.M. Forster," 14 pages


Box 5 Folder 15 "The Warrior," 4 pages


Box 5 Folder 16 "Hamlet and Death," 8 pages, 1948 December 3


Box 5 Folder 17 "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways," 2 pages


Box 5 Folder 18 "Education in Birmingham, Alabama," 11 pages


Box 5 Folder 21 "Features of Verse and Evidences of Miltonic Characteristics in Lines 220-240 of Paradise Lost," 4 pages