GILBERT K. CHESTERTON COLLECTION, 1900-1974, undated (bulk ca. 1922-1936)
A collection of items by and about the British author (1874-1936), including 6 literary manuscripts (5 in his hand), several letters, articles and pamphlets, and a run of G.K.'s Weekly.
Series | Box | Folder | Contents |
1 | 1 | - | Edited by GKC or short printed works by GKC |
1 | 1 | 1 |
"The So-called Belgium Bargain," Searchlights, no. 22 (London, W.H. Smith & Son), n.d. |
1 | 1 | 2 |
The Distributist, Volume 3: No. 1-12, May 1934-April 1935 |
1 | 1 | 3 |
Gloria in Profundis (New York: Willam Edwin Rudge, 1927) |
1 | 1 | - | Holographs by GKC |
1 | 1 | 4 |
"The Childish Talk about Children," n.d. |
1 | 1 | 5 |
"The Crime of Being Inefficient," (letter to the editor of Nation), published 15 June 1912 |
1 | 1 | 5 |
"The Danger in Female Labour," (letter to the editor of Nation), n.d. |
1 | 1 | 6 |
"Stop Press News," (verso note: G.K. Weekly, November 5, 1927) |
1 | 1 | 7 |
"To St. Michael in Time of Peace," first published in The Legion, 1929 |
1 | 1 | 8 |
"The New Power of the Police," n.d. |
1 | 1 | - | Letters |
1 | 1 | 9 |
GKC to R.M. Sherman, 1912 (holograph and typescript) |
1 | 1 | 9 |
Edward Chesterton to Grant Richards regarding The Wild Knight, 4 letters, 1900, 1903-1904, n.d. |
1 | 1 | 10 | "Mr. Chesterton at Holy Cross: His Lecture in Mechanics Hall, " commemorative program (Worcester: Holy Cross College, ca. 1931). (2 copies) |
1 | 1 | 11 | Newspaper and magazine clippings about GKC, 1922-1974 (bulk, 1936) |
1 | 1 | 12 | Half-tone images and sketches of GKC, 5 items. |
- | - | Shelf | G.K. Weekly, Volume 1: No. 1 (1925) - Volume 32 (1941). Missing volumes 9-14, 17. |