Box: 8 Fold: 7 Rene Hague Manuscripts - Translation of Martelet: Corres. Box: 8 Fold: 8 Rene Hague Manuscripts - Translation of Martelet: MSS Box: 8 Fold: 9 Rene Hague Manuscripts - Navigational Techniques (essay) Box: 8 Fold: 10 Rene Hague Manuscripts - Notes re "PreSocratic Philosophers"
@ Also includes ACS from Walter Shewring to HG, 10/14/86.
Box: 8 Fold: 11 Barbara Wall: "Rene Hague: A Personal Memoir" Box: 8 Fold: 12 Christopher Skelton: "Rene Hague and the Press at Pigotts" Box: 8 Fold: 13 Blissett, William - Reviews re Teilhard de Chardin Box: 8 Fold: 14 Eric Gill - Correspondence/Notices About
@ 1 ALS from Christopher Skelton to HG 12/20/81(?) enclosing notices for a book by Skelton on the engravings of Eric Gill.
Box: 8 Fold: 15 Eric Gill - Appreciation by Harman Grisewood Box: 8 Fold: 16 Mary Gill - Card Box: 8 Fold: 17 Harman Grisewood - Miscellaneous Box: 8 Fold: 18 E.G.R. Taylor: "Old Nautical Instruments" Box: 8 Fold: 19 Photograph - Grave of David Jones Box: 8 Fold: 20 Photograph - Welsh National Lecture Attendees Box: 8 Fold: 21 Photographs - Prudence Pelham Box: 8 Fold: 22 Photographs - Hague Family Box: 9 Fold: 1 Correspondence: CS to HG
@ A typed note by Mrs. Bailey accompanies this series of correspondence from CS to HG:
@"6th February 1992 - The notes made on these letters are from conversations held between Harman Grisewood (HJG) and Sabina Bailey (SB) nee Grisewood and married first to Ronald Beevor and now to Adrian Bailey. It might be noted against your records that my parents were never divorced but separated. Christopher severed all contact with my father in 1973."
Box: 9 Fold: 2 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 3 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 4 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 5 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 6 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 7 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 8 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 9 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 10 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 11 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 12 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 13 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 14 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 15 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 16 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 17 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 18 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 19 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 20 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 21 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 22 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 23 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 24 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 25 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 26 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 27 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 28 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 29 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 30 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 31 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 32 Correspondence: CS to HG Box: 9 Fold: 33 Correspondence: CS to HG (Miscellaneous, undated) Box: 9 Fold: 34 Correspondence: CS to HG (from Hertfordshire) Box: 9 Fold: 35 Correspondence: CS to HG
Datespan: 1/9/74-6/22/75
DESCRIPTION: Contains correspondence from Helen Suggett who edited RH's work on the French Jesuit Gustave Martelet.
c. 1974-75
DESCRIPTION: Contains TMs of RH's translation work on Gustave Martelet, S.J.
No date
DESCRIPTION: Contains AMs of an essay drafted by RH on some navigational techniques. No title, undated. 7 pp.
1986
DESCRIPTION: Contains index cards with autograph notes by RH relating to a book entitled, "The PreSocratic Philosophers: A critical history with a selection of texts by G.S. Kirk and J.E. Raven," (Cambridge University explains: "Rene Hague's Index - These cards were found among Rene Hague's papers; & identified by his friend Walter Shewring as referring to a book which Walter says Rene often consulted - Kirk & Raven's: The PreSocratic Philosophers. 1957. CUP."
Published 1989
DESCRIPTION: Contains Barbara Wall's memoir of Rene Hague, published by The Aylesford Press, 1989. 59 pp.; includes dustjacket.
Date: 5/30/82
DESCRIPTION: Contains a reprint of an article by Skelton based on a talk given at the Eric Gill Centenary Celebration at the Spode Conference Centre on May 30, 1982, as an introduction to a showing of examples of the work of Hague and Gill.
1960; 1961
DESCRIPTION: Contains copies of two reviews of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, written by Blissett and published in "The Canadian Forum" November 1960 and 1961.
Datespan: 12/20/81 - 2/22/82
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS from Anthony d'Offay to HG 2/22/82 requesting that he write for an exhibition catalog of works by Eric Gill. Includes printed notices of the exhibition.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains an appreciation of Eric Gill by HG. 1 typed page + fragment.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains printed Christmas card signed by Mary Gill.
c.1960-present
DESCRIPTION: Contains miscellaneous items found among the papers of this acquisition. Includes TLS to HG dated 5/25/61 signed "R. Venables"; also a typed list of names and addresses of friends of DJ with autograph annotations in RH's hand. In addition, 1 ALS from Peter Campbell to HG with accompanying b/w photograph of a carving by Eric Gill. The group photograph referred to in the letter is currently in the possession of HG.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains carbon copy of a typescript entitled: "Old Nautical Instruments" by E.G.R. Taylor, a friend of Michael Richey's.
No date
DESCRIPTION: Contains color slide of the grave of David Jones, sculpted by John Skelton.
March 1966
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w group photograph taken after HG's Welsh National Lecture on DJ. Shown: Douglas Cleverdon, HG, Alun Oldfield Davies, Saunders Lewis, and DJ.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains 5 photographs of Prudence Pelham. One shows her with Isaiah Berlin.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains xerox copy of a photo of RH; 1 b/w photograph of Joan Hague and son Robin; 1 b/w photograph of Rosalind Hague.
c. 1928
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS, both incomplete. Includes yellow tabs with annotations by Sabina Grisewood Bailey.
c. 1936
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS and printed wedding invitation for the marraige of CS to Camilla Georgiana Russell.
c.1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains 1 ALS, 2 TLS, and cartoon. CS writes about contemporary politics, especially the situation with Hitler and Germany.
Datespan: 2/21/42-10/8/42
DESCRIPTION: Contains 1 TLS, 2 ALS. ALS 6/1/42 is addressed from the British Legation, Tehran.
1947
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS. ALS dated simply "Monday" includes several cartoons by CS.
Dates: 8/28/48; 8/19/49
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS written during his first years with the BBC. ALS 8/28/48 includes a cartoon.
Datespan: 5/24/50-9/1/50
DESCRIPTION: Contains 5 ALS, 1 ACS. CS expresses his anger at the 1950 encyclical of Pope Pius XII, "Humani Generis."
Dates: 1/1/51-3/6/51
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS. ALS 1/1/51 sends condolences on the death of HG's mother.
Dates: 6/8/52-6/11/52
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS.
Dates: 6/2/53-9/28/53
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS. ALS 9/28/53 includes long annotation by Sabina Bailey on the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC).
Date: 1/12/54
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS. The second, marked "To be used at death" is lengthy 16 pp. Gives an account of a dinner that included CS, Bernard Berenson, and "Harold," probably Sir Harold Acton, writer and friend of Evelyn Waugh.
Datespan: 2/27/54-3/29/54
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS, 1 TLS.
May 1954
DESCRIPTION: Contains 1 TLS, 1 ALS, 2 ACS.
September-November 1954
DESCRIPTION: Contains 1 TLS, 2 ALS, 2 ACS.
January-April 1955
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS.
January-June 1956
DESCRIPTION: 3 ALS. ALS 1/28/56 mentions Sykes' friend, the poet Derek Vershoyle.
1/1/57
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS New Year's greeting.
June-Oct.1959
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS.
Datespan: 3/7/60-8/8/67
DESCRIPTION: Contains 5 ALS. ALS 7/3/60 includes cartoon by CS.
April 1968
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS.
Dates: 9/20/68; 11/15/68
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS.
Datespan: 2/24/69-7/21/69
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ALS.
Datespan: 2/25/70-6/3/70
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ALS. CS comments on HG's new book, "The Painted Kipper: A Study of the Spurious in the Contemporary Scene," published 1970.
Dates: 3/17/71-4/18/71
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS.
Datespan: 6/12/71-9/30/71
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ALS.
Datespan: 10/11/71-12/30/71
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ALS.
Dates: 1/29/72; 2/12/72
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS.
Datespan: 3/10/72-4/2/72
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS.
Datespan: 9/12/72-11/1/72
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ALS, 1 ACS.
Datespan: February-April 1973
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS.
Datespan: 5/26/73-7/16/73
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS, 2 TLS. ALS 7/16/73 refers to the death of Nancy Mitford (1904-1973), and gives Sykes' impressions of her father, David Mitford.
August-September 1973
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS. ALS 8/23/73 refers to Sykes' work on the biography of Evelyn Waugh.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ALS, 2 TLS. The correspondence is undated.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ALS on stationery with franked address: St. Paul's Walden Bury., Hitchin., Herts."
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains ACS, 4 TLS, 2 ALS, 1 cartoon. These letters are written on letterhead for 10 Wilfred Street, London.
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