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This accretion to the Kay Dick Collection consists of literary works, correspondence,
personal,
and career-related material, spanning her lifetime from 1915 to her death in 2001.
The
papers are arranged in three Series: I. Works, 1934-1994; II. Correspondence, 1941-2001;
and
III. Personal and Career-Related Material, 1915-2001. |
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The Works series is arranged in three Subseries: A. Books, 1943-1991; B. Plays, 1943
and
nd; and C. Short Works, 1934-1994. Works are arranged alphabetically by title in each
subseries. This series contains material written under Dick's pseudonyms Jeremy Scott
and
Edward Lane. Represented in Subseries A. Books, are published fiction including An Affair of Love, By the Lake, The Shelf, Solitaire, Sunday, They, and Young Man, as well as non-fiction works Friends and Friendship: Conversations and Reflections, Ivy and Stevie: Ivy Compton-Burnett and Stevie Smith, and Pierrot: An Investigation into the Commedia dell'arte. Also present
is material for unpublished book projects, "The Carlyle Marriage,""Colette and Her World," notes for a memoir "The Fiction of My Life,""The Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle,""Six Great Diarists," and "Venus." Often included for these works are notes, research,
typescript drafts, contracts, correspondence, clippings, and reviews. |
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Plays for stage, radio, and television are present in Subseries B. Short Works Subseries
C
includes articles, BBC scripts, biographical writings, editorial work, poems, book
reviews,
and short stories. |
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Arranged alphabetically, the correspondence in Series II dates from 1941-2001 and
is
arranged in Subseries A. Literary Correspondence and Subseries B. Personal Correspondence.
While the correspondence is predominately incoming, typed carbons of Dick's outgoing
correspondence are found throughout the series. The literary correspondence includes
communications with publishers, agents, literary societies and organizations, and
newspapers. Also present is a folder for the publication The Windmill which Dick edited under the Edward Lane pseudonym.
Frequent correspondents in Subseries B. Personal Correspondence include Sidney Blackmore,
June and Neville Braybrooke, Brigid Brophy, Maurice Cranston, Gillian Freeman, Roddy
Friend,
Nathaniel and Beverley Gee, Penny Hoare, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Francis Henry King,
Shena
Mackay, and Michael Ratcliffe. Several boxes of correspondence and related material
are
present for Dick's longtime companion Kathleen Farrell. An alphabetical run of general
personal correspondence follows the folders for individuals. |
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Series III. Personal and Career-Related Material includes items ranging from Dick's
birth
certificate in 1915 to bank statements from 2001. Included in this series are address
books,
articles and information about Dick, autograph books, art and publishers catalogs,
clippings, daybooks and diaries, family papers, financial and personal papers, numerous
photographs, and travel material. Also present is lengthy correspondence and documents
relating to Dick's residence at 9 Arundel Terrace. |
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Several personal items, including assorted wallets, were transferred to the Ransom
Center's
Personal Effects. |
