Series 3: Unbound Manuscripts and Proofs /repositories/5/archival_objects/953416 4 boxes 1899-1953 Scope and Contents

This series contains only unbound manuscripts and proofs, including works by Rudyard Kipling, W. Somerset Maugham, FND, and ND.

 Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by author and then by date.

 Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919) /repositories/5/archival_objects/953709 1 folder 1903 16 4 Scope and Contents

corrected galley proofs of a speech delivered in 1903 on election to presidency of Iron and Steel Institute, 19 pages, with holograph corrections and additions by Carnegie

 Doubleday, Frank Nelson (1862-1934) /repositories/5/archival_objects/953710 2 boxes 1917-1933 Red Crossing in the Orient /repositories/5/archival_objects/953823 1 folder 1917 16 5 Scope and Contents

TMs, 80 pp. and miscellaneous pp.

 Secret Memoirs of a Publisher /repositories/5/archival_objects/953824 2 folders 1926 16 6-7 Scope and Contents

TMs, pp. 1-306. This was not printed or published in FND's lifetime, but three typewritten copies, bound in blue levant, were presented to his children, Nelson and Dorothy, and to his wife Florence. Nelson Doubleday, Jr., published the autobiography in 1972 under the title Memoirs of a Publisher.

 Secret Memoirs of a Publisher /repositories/5/archival_objects/953825 2 folders 1926 17 1-2 Scope and Contents

TMs (carbon), pp. 1-306

 Secret Memoirs of a Publisher /repositories/5/archival_objects/953826 1 folder 1926 17 3 Scope and Contents

TMs, with holograph corrections: Chapters I-XIV

 He's Done It Again /repositories/5/archival_objects/953827 1 folder 1933 17 4 Scope and Contents

TMss, with holograph corrections. This was privately published as He's Done It Again: More Indiscreet Recollections in December 1933 in an edition of 99 copies. [see EX 3719.24.344]

 Miscellaneous Memoirs /repositories/5/archival_objects/953828 1 folder undated 17 5 Scope and Contents

TMs, 5 pp.

 Doubleday, Nelson (1889-1949) /repositories/5/archival_objects/953711 1 box 1953 "Comments on Country Life Press Report" /repositories/5/archival_objects/953829 1 folder 1953 17 6 Scope and Contents

TMs (carbon), 6 pp.

 "Business vs. City and Country" /repositories/5/archival_objects/953830 1 folder undated 17 7 Scope and Contents

TMs (carbon), 4 pp., subtitled, "A series of articles describing the movement away from the city, not only for manufacturing purposes but for the departments of business executives as well"

 Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) /repositories/5/archival_objects/953712 2 boxes 1899 April-1929 "For One Night Only" /repositories/5/archival_objects/953831 1 folder undated 17 8 Scope and Contents

TMs, 14 pp.

 "The Lamentable Comedy of Willow Wood" /repositories/5/archival_objects/953832 1 folder undated 17 9 Scope and Contents

TMs, 21 pp.

 "The Legs of Sister Ursula" /repositories/5/archival_objects/953833 1 folder undated 17 10 Scope and Contents

TMs, 12 pp.

 The Light That Failed /repositories/5/archival_objects/953834 1 folder 1899 April 17 11 Scope and Contents

AMs, pp. 1-88, with typed lists of chapter headings, enclosed in leather case, with embossed inscription: "F. N. Doubleday from Rudyard Kipling April 1899"

 The Light That Failed: Chapter Headings /repositories/5/archival_objects/953835 1 folder undated 18 1 Scope and Contents

AMs, 4 pp., with Xerox copies of typed lists of the book's chapter headings and collation notes

 Notes by Lloyd H. Chandler on Editions of The Light That Failed /repositories/5/archival_objects/953836 1 folder 1920s 18 2 Scope and Contents

TMs (Xerox), 5 pp., of Chandler's notes on The Light That Failed, sent to E. H. Martindell (Kipling bibliographer) some time in the 1920s, with note from H. C. Rice, dated 4 April 1966, describing the provenance of the notes

 Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward) (1888-1935) /repositories/5/archival_objects/953713 1 box 1935 The Mint: Notes Made in the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922, and at Cadet College in 1925 /repositories/5/archival_objects/953837 1 folder 1935 18 3 Scope and Contents

galleys, 1-58, marked up in red for the printer

 The Mint: Notes Made in the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922, and at Cadet College in 1925 /repositories/5/archival_objects/953838 1 folder 1935 18 4 Scope and Contents

page proofs, 1-199, with a second set of the front matter, marked up in red

 Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) (1874-1965) /repositories/5/archival_objects/953714 1 box dates not examined "The Breadwinner, A Comedy in One Act" /repositories/5/archival_objects/953839 1 folder undated 18 5 Scope and Contents

four sections, boxed:

TMs, pp. 1-62, with holograph corrections AMs, pp. 1-5; TMs, pp. 3-56, with holograph corrections; AMs, 2 unnumbered pages TMs and AMs, approx. 40 pages, various numberings TMs, pp. 1-58, with holograph corrections Meredith, George (1828-1909) /repositories/5/archival_objects/953715 1 folder undated 19 1 Scope and Contents

4 lines in holograph by George Meredith, beginning "There was a delicate sound...," with penciled note by FND stating that the Ms was given to FND by George Meredith's son, W. M. Meredith, at his home at Fleet on October 9, 1921

 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) (1866-1946) /repositories/5/archival_objects/953716 1 folder 1931 19 2 Scope and Contents 43 copies of a printed sheet, signed by Wells, announcing that "This edition of THE WORK, WEALTH AND HAPPINESS OF MANKIND is limited to 250 sets. Each set consists of two volumes. The first volume of which is numbered and signed by the author." TMs, 1 p., listing names and the number of specially signed copies each is to receive of Wells's The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Manking, with Roy Chapin's handwritten list TMs, 5 pp., of a radio speech given by Wells on 16 October 1931