Acquisition:	Purchases, 1963 (1963-10-0034-P, 1963-10-0036-P), 1964 (1964-10-0015-P), 1973 (1973-08-0047-P), 2003 (2003-12-0012-P), 2011 (2011-01-0002-P)
	Processed by:	Melody Fisher and Liz Murray, 2004; Joan Sibley and Apryl Voskamp, 2014 Note: For collection description previously available only in a card catalog, please see the explanatory note for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.

Repository:

Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

The inventory for the Kay Dick Collection is a conflation of two preliminary inventories—one that was originally cataloged in the card catalog prior to 1990 and was made accessible online as a finding aid in 2014, and the second which was created in 2004 and described an addition to the unprocessed collection. The 2004 addition was appended to the end of the 2014 inventory. Because both inventories began the box numbering with Box 1, the 2004 addition is differentiated by adding the letter "a" to the original box number (e.g., Box 1a, Box 2a, etc.). Another unprocessed acquisition received in 2011 was appended to the end of the 2004 addition. The inventories were combined in 2025 to comply with a new content management system.

	The original acquisitions (1963-1973) consist of manuscripts and correspondence ranging in date from 1943 to 1966, with some undated items. Manuscripts for An Affair of Love (1953), By the Lake (1949), Pierrot: An Investigation into the Commedia dell'arte (1960), Solitaire (1958), Sunday (1962), and Young Man (1951) are present, along with correspondence from Elizabeth Bowen, Roy Campbell, Rhys Davies, Lord Dunsany, Lawrence Durrell, Rosamond Lehmann, George Orwell, Anthony Powell, Paul Scott, Rebecca West, and many others.
	Note: The section of the finding aid concerning the original acquisitions replicates and replaces information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.
	The 2003 addition consists of literary works, correspondence, personal, and career-related material, spanning her lifetime from 1915 to her death in 2001. This section is arranged in three Series: I. Works, 1934-1994; II. Correspondence, 1941-2001; and III. Personal and Career-Related Material, 1915-2001.
	The Works series is arranged in three Subseries: A. Books, 1943-1991; B. Plays, 1943 and undated; 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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Several personal items, including assorted wallets, were transferred to the Ransom Center's Personal Effects.
	A 2011 addition to the collection contains correspondence with Sidney Blackmore, dated 1969-1992.