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Accession #2: 1908 - 1954 (Boxes 22 - 32)
MORLEY FAMILY PAPERS. Additions: Christopher Darlington Morley, 1908-54.
11 boxes, ca. 600 items

These papers embrace Morley's correspondence, primarily letters to him, mostly from people connected with the writing business; manuscripts; miscellaneous; and printed items. Correspondents include: William Rose Benet, Earl Biggers, David Bone, Muirhead Bone, Heywood Broun, Homer Croy, Walter De la Mare, Frank Doubleday, Sara Teasdale Filsinger, Glenn Frank, Buckminster Fuller, Stephen Graham, William Bayard Hale, Bart Haley, A.P. Herbert, Jerome Kern, Arthur Koestler, Stephen Leacock, Leonard Lyons, Arthur Morgan, Thomas Bird Mosher, Ogden Nash, A. Edward Newton, Frederick Niven, John Ransom, A.W.S. Rosenbach, Carl Sandburg, Ernest Bramah Smith, Logan Pearsall Smith, Vincent Starret, Julian Street, H.M. Tomlinson.

Table of Contents: Accession #2

Box 22

Correspondence: 1918 - 1936. (Correspondence is arranged chronologically, except for the items with no date which are arranged alphabetically. Correspondence is highlighted below based on subject matter and author)

  1. Benet, William Rose to Dunsany (C.D.M.) [s.l., s.n., Feb. 1919.] [is writing copy for Corman Advertising; would like to give poetry readings and asks for advice.]
  2. Mosher, Thomas Bird to CDM. Portland, Me., Oct. 9, 1919. [discusses various rare books, Omar Khayyam, etc.]
  3. Hale, William Bayard to CDM. New York, November 17, 1920. [re his book The Story of a Style about Woodrow Wilson.]
  4. Biggers, [Earl Derr] to CDM. Washington, D.C., Dec. 29, 1920. [re play "Three's a Crowd" on which Morley collaborated.]
  5. Haley, Bart to CDM. [s.l., s.n., 1921]. [bemoans the state of newspapers.]
  6. ? to CDM. Glacier National Park, [ca. 1921]. [has sent two installments to Vachel Lindsay who liked them.]
  7. Tomlinson, H[enry] M[ajor] to CDM. London, [Eng.], Feb. 22, 1921. [admits that as a staff member of the Nation, the only American daily he reads is the Detroit News, along with several periodicals.]
  8. Ransom, John C. to CDM. Nashville, Tenn., March 9, 1921. [hopes to get a friend's, Stanley Johnson, book published.]
  9. Nock?, Albert Jay to CDM. New York, 10 March 1921. [turns down a story, as acting editor of The Freeman, by CDM's brother, but suggests he try Henry Mencken.]
  10. Mosher, Thomas Bird to CDM. Portland, Me., March 15, 1921. [feels his introduction to Whitman's Leaves of Grass is his best work.]
  11. ?, Grant to CDM. Cambridge, Mass., March 16, 1921. [has taken a job at Swarthmore College, but will not give up his position with the Rhodes Scholarship Trust.]
  12. Filsinger, Sara Teasdale to CDM. [N.Y.], May 2, 1921. [re circular Macmillan Co. has put out about her work.]
  13. Book inscribed by patrons(?) to Sydney S. Pawling of The Coffee House, May 9, 1921. [includes Robert Benchley, Lyman Beecher Stowe and CDM (Signed as L. Abbott-Gissing)]
  14. "Effendi" and "FND" (Doubleday, Frank) to CDM. Garden City, N.Y., May 16, 1921. [re sales of Morley's "Doubleday" books; Rudyard Kipling does not want to receive any more applications for permission to publish, so Doubleday can't include his "Some Aspects of Travel" in an anthology.]
  15. Graham, Stephen to CDM. Springfield, Ill., 18th July '21. [sends two letters for the back page of the Evening Post about their trip; all is well with Vachel Lindsay.]
  16. Graham, Stephen to CDM. Glacier Park, 7th August, 1921. [sends more letters to be printed in the Evening Post.]
  17. Graham, Stephen to CDM. 22nd August, 1921. [sends more letters to be printed in the Evening Post.]
  18. Graham, Stephen to CDM. August, 1921. [more re trip Å nearly lost and starved.]
  19. Fogarty, Thomas to CDM. Naples, N.Y., Aug. 24, '21. "thanks him for compliments on his illustrations for Chimneysmoke.]
  20. ? , Elly to CDM. (editor of Atlantic Monthly). Boston, [Mass.], Sept. 8, 1921. [compliments Morley on verses sent to him.]
  21. Daly, Tom to CDM. [Phila., Pa.], Sept. 21, '21. [compliments Morley on verses sent to him.]
  22. Graham, Stephen to CDM. London, [Eng.], November 3, 1921. [is working on a book which he hopes Doubleday will publish.]
  23. Starret, Vincent to CDM. Chicago, [Ill], 22 October 1921. [would like to get a copy of Morley's The Eighth Sin.]
  24. Frank, Glenn (ed. of The Century Magazine) to CDM. New York, 10/25, 1921. [returns [Continuity" as it is not a compelling story.]
  25. Niven, Frederick to CDM. Nelson, B.C., November 11, 1921. [appreciated reading Shandygaff and mentions his friends Walpole and Tomlinson.]
  26. Willem, Hendrick (?) (Pres. of Antioch College) to CDM. Yellow Springs, Ohio, 15 November xxi.
  27. Eatus (?), Woller Prichard, to CDM. Sheffield, Mass., Nov. 19 '21. [says he is not a writer failed, but has been happy as a drama critic for 20 years.]
  28. ? , Bob to CDM., New York, November 26, 1921. [saw Booth Tarkington at the dedication of the Academy of Arts and Letters bldg.]
  29. Macy, John to CDM. New York, Nov. 30, 1921. [Morley's book of essays admired.]
  30. Graham, Stephen to CDM. London, [Eng.], Dec., 1921. [likes Morley's Plum Pudding; T.S. Eliot's writing is more complex than Morley's.]
  31. Graham, Stephen to CDM. 9th December, 1921. [has sent Morley a copy of his ms.]
  32. Beer, I? to CDM. Yonkers, N.Y., Dec. 12, 1921. [re "adaptations" made from Stephen Crane's work.]
  33. Sherman, Stuart P. to CDM. Urbana, Ill, Dec. 15, 1921. [re the writings of the fraternity of N.Y. essayists as compared with novelists and verse writers.]
  34. Firkins, 0W to CDM. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 20, 1921. [re his inclusion in a book of American essayists.]
  35. Pollinger, L.E. to S.A. Everitt. London, [Eng.], 22nd Dec., 1921. [re publication of Morley's books, Shandygaff, Kathleen, Pipefuls, and Plum Pudding in England.]
  36. Smith, Logan Pearsall to CDM. Baltimore, [Md.], Dec. 29, 1921. [has put off trip to Egypt as has been in hospital; his book has been translated into French.]
  37. Bone, David to CDM. Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, [Scotland], 29th December, 1921. [has reviewed A.E. Newton's book A Magnificent Farce, and wrote an article on E.0'Neill's play Anna Christy.]
  38. MacQuarrie, Hector to CDM. New York City, Dec. 30, 1921. [thanks Morley for a write-up]
  39. Newton, A. Edward to CDM. Phila., [Pa.], January 5th, 1922. [tells his opinions about Woodrow Wilson and William Randolph Hearst.]
  40. Street, Julian to CDM. Princeton, N.J., Jan. 6, 1922. [has been asked to speak on American wit and humor, but declined.]
  41. Graham, Stephen to CDM. London, [Eng.], 19th January 1922. (fragment) [[is writing a book called Tramping with a Poet in the Rockies.]
  42. Graham, Stephen to CDM. Santa Fe, N.M., [ca. 1922]. [describes his surroundings; posts an article.]
  43. Smith, Logan Pearsall to CDM. Jan. 26, 1922, Baltimore, Md.
  44. Bone, David to CDM. Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire [Scotland], 28th January, 1922. [movement afoot to revive interest in Scottish drama; (long letter touching many points)]
  45. Low, Will H. to CDM. Bronxville, N.Y., 12 February 1922. [thanks Morley for his comments on "Margarita."]
  46. Acklim, G.M. to CM New York, February 14, 1922. [hopes Morley knows someone who could read a play by Robert Nichols.]
  47. Morley, Christopher D. to Will H. Low. New York, February 20, 1922. [would like to meet with Low; thanks him for a tip on Robert Lewis Stevenson's tobacco.]
  48. Bolling, John Randolph to CDM. Washington, DC, 10th March 1922. [Woodrow Wilson will see Morley in a fortnight.]
  49. Lampson, Alden to CDM. Washington, D.C., March 11, 1922. [re attribution of a Walt Whitman photo taken before he suffered apoplexy.]
  50. [Graham], Stephen to CDM. San Juan, P.R., 12th May 1922. [sends 4 articles.]
  51. Tinker, Chauncey Brewster to CDM. Yale [New Haven, Conn.], May 22 1922. [thanks Morley for his comments on a book.]
  52. Bone, David W. to CDM. Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, [Scotland], June, 1922. [finishing his book Lookout Man]
  53. Smith, Logan Pearsall to CDM. Chelsea, [Eng.], July 7, 1922. [feels he and Morley are both trying to represent the self-conscious of modern man.]
  54. Niven, Frederick to CDM. Nelson, B.C., July 17, 1922. [re his books and a preface, he hopes by CDM or 2 others; a fall in the mountains.]
  55. Newton, A. Edward to CDM. Phila., [Pa.], August 7, 1922. [has written the play ["Dr. Johnson" and has purchased the Reynolds portrait of Johnson.]
  56. Mitchell, E[dward] P. (editor of N.Y. Sun) to CDM. Kenyon, R.I., September 12, 1922 [praises a book by Bramah].
  57. M[iles], H[amish] to CDM. Chelsea, [Eng.], October 17th, 1922. [sends copy of Oxford Circus]
  58. de la Mare, Walter to CDM. Anerley, [Eng.] 4th November, 1922. [is giving the "Clark" lectures at Cambridge.]
  59. M[iles], H[amish] to CDM. [London, Eng.], Nov. 23, 1922. [has sent Morley Ernest Bramah's The Wallet of Kai-Lung; his Oxford Circus has has good press.]
  60. Bone, David W. to CDM. Glasgow, [Scotland], 4th December, 1922. [saw Frank Doubleday at Gibraltar; breakdown of his ship R.M.S. Tuscania.]
  61. Palmer, E.H. to CDM. Cambridge, [Mass.], December 12, 1922. [thanks Morley for a volume of his.]
  62. Newton, A. Edward to CDM. Philada., [Pa.], December 20th, 1922. [critique of Where the Blue Begins; Austin Gray as replacement for Gummere at Haverford.]
  63. "Effendi" (Frank N. Doubleday) to CDM. Garden City, N.Y., December 27, 1922. [would like to set up Joseph Conrad to speak about literary values and ambitions, showing how an incident provoked a book.] "Three's a Crowd", play by Biggers based on CDM's story "Kathleen"
  64. Bramah, Ernest to CDM. London, [Eng.], 10 Jan. 1923.
  65. Kern, Jerome to CDM. Bronxville, N.Y., [ca. 1923.] [praises Morley's Shaw paper, suggesting GBS should do an introduction to a Morley brochure; has been touring with "Stepping Stones"]
  66. Sollers, William to CDM. Calvert Co., Md., Nov. 2nd, [ca. 1923]. [re the employment of an agent --his own play is in the hands of a friend; feels Where the Blue Begins would make a fine play.]
  67. Daly, [Tom], [s.l., s.n., January, 1923] [re his play which is not doing well; poor health.]
  68. "Alf" to CDM. (Harcourt Brace & Co.) New York, January 17, 1923. [re the death of Russell Loines and an anecdote about him and Gorky]
  69. Bone, David W. to CDM. Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, [Scotland], 25th Jan., 1923. [re possible sailing with Joseph Conrad; his book being published.]
  70. Biggers, Earl D[err] to CDM. Camden, S.C., Feb. 5, [ca. 1923]. [re a London production of "Three's a Crowd."]
  71. Daly, Thomas Augustine to CDM. Phila., [Pa.,] Feb. 10/23. [hopes to get to the Philobiblon Club to hear Newton read his Johnson play.]
  72. Miles, Hamish to CDM. London, [Eng.], Mar. 24th, '23. [re London production of "Three's a Crowd"; is on the staff of the New Statesman; has discovered the root for an episode in Stevenson's The Wrecker.]
  73. [Morley, Frank V.] to CDM. New College, [Oxford, Eng.], 13-2-23 [congratulates Chris on birth of 4th child; has finished a book on East Anglia; is thinking of taking a job with Harcourt, Brace.]
  74. [Morley, Frank V.] to CDM. [England], 5th April 1923. [had dinner with Swinnerton and Huxley -- descriptions of both; mentions Sinclair Lewis and John Cournos].
  75. Morley, Christopher D. to Will Low. New York, June 4, 1923. [hopes he can come to the christening of the Tusitala, of which Muirhead Bone will execute a drawing and letter by Joseph Conrad will be read]
  76. Low, Will H. to CDM. Bronxville, N.Y., 5 June 1923. [accepts above invitation.]
  77. Low, Will to CDM. Bronxville, N.Y., 27 June 1923. [sends photos for the ship Tusitala, gifts of the Stevenson Society of America.]
  78. [Bone], Muirhead to CDM. Petersfield, [Eng.], Aug. 11, 1923. [writes of enjoyment upon reading a Morley column about "M.B." (himself?)
  79. Newton, A. Edward to CDM. Phila., [Pa.], August 14, 1923. [praises a Morley ms. on poetry.]
  80. Carman, Bliss to CDM. New Canaan, Conn., 28 Sept. 1923. [asks permission to use two pieces of Morley's for an anthology.]
  81. Tingle, Jedediah to CDM. [s.l., s.n.], October 16, 1923. [has visited playgrounds in various parts of the country financed anonymously by him; also a copy of a "Bowling Green" column re Tingle as philanthropist.]
  82. Low, Will H. to CDM. Bronxville, N.Y., 18 October 1923. [re time spent with Robert Lewis Stevenson and painting of Stevenson.]
  83. Morley, Christopher D. to Will H. Low. New York, October 18, [l923]. [has ideas for publication of the R.L. Stevenson painting.]
  84. Broun, Heywood to CDM. [New York], October 30, 1923. [will bring a book to Morley.]
  85. N[ewton], A. E[dward] to CDM. [s.l., s.n.], Nov. 11, 1923. [had a party for E. V. who sent a poem on the occasion.]
  86. Morley, Christopher D. to Will H. Low. Roslyn Heights, New York, Feb. 14, 1924. [would like to include a piece by Low in an anthology he is editing.]
  87. Morley, C.D. to Will H. Low. Roslyn Heights, N.Y., March 27 and Apr. 30, 1924. [Morleys will be going abroad - northern France; he is trying to finish a book of one-act plays.]
  88. Morley, C.D. to Will H. Low. Donville-les-Bains, Manche, [France], 15 October] 1924. [describes his time and place in France; about writing and writing style.]
  89. Morley, C.D. to Will H. Low. Roslyn Heights, N.Y., Mar. 10, [ca. 1925]. [Will be seeing Jerome Kern about the production of a play based on Where the Blue Begins.]
  90. Morley, C.D. to Will H. Low. Roslyn Heights, N.Y., April 5th, 1925. [has finished this day his novel, Thunder on the Left.]
  91. Morley, C.D. to Will H. Low. Roslyn Heights, N.Y., Sept. 5, 1925. [Morleys sailing for France and England that day.]
  92. Morley, C.D. to Will H. Low. Atlantic City, N.J., Dec. 11, 1925. [Having trouble writing a story.]
  93. Bone, Muirhead to CDM. Oxford, [Eng.], Feb. 14, 1926. [would like to see his son's ms. published; has a new studio.]
  94. Allison, John M. to CDM. American Embassy, Tokyo, Japan, November 19, 1933. [has read and enjoyed "Trivia" in the Modern Essays anthology.
  95. Graham, Angus to CDM. Edinburgh, Scotland, 11/8/35. [re a book he has written.]
  96. Morley, C.D. to H. Tatnall Brown. New York City, February 14, 1936. [encloses a reprint "The Mark Twain Commemoration"].
  97. Nash, Ogden to Alfred P. Lee (author of A Bibliography of Christopher Morley), October 5, 1929, Garden City, N.Y. [sends CDM's ms. "Trade Winds"] .
  98. [von Luckner], Felix to Gene [MacDonald]. Halle-Saale [Germany, ca. 1932]. [Praises the new Reich under Hitler.]
  99. Fuller, Buckminster to CDM. Bridgeport, Conn., May 11, 1934.
  100. Morley, C.D. to H. Tatnall Brown. New York City, July 15, 1936. [attached is copy of a song written by Morley.]
  101. Macdonell, Archie to CDM. Surrey, Hascombe, [Eng.], July 23rd, 1936. [has written a "violent" novel which has been rejected and would like to find a new publisher.]
  102. Lange, Lester F. to CDM. New York City, August 16, 1936. [has a Hazlitt ms. which he would like to show Morley.]
  103. Morley, C.D.M. to "dear old Groups"(Frank V. Morley). [s.l., s.n., Sept. 16, 1936. [has just returned from a trip to Chile; Bernard DeVoto is to take charge of Saturday Review of Literature.]
  104. Morley, C.D. to Roger [Scaife]. [S.l., s.n.], September 16, 1936. [will finish Bartlett's Quotations; inclusions in this edition.]
  105. Reynal, Eugene to CDM. New York, October 17, 1936. [notes receipt of Morley's ms. Ex Libris assembled for the New York Times' National Book Fair.]
  106. Morley, C.D. to Frank Monaghan, [New York,] October 14, 1936. [sends a piece on New York to be included in the world's fair booklet.]
  107. Morley, C.D. to George Middleton. [s.l., s.n.], October 23, 1936. [assumes notice of Middleton's book on Balzac will appear shortly in SRL].
  108. Morley, Frank V. to CDM. London, [Eng.], 23rd October 1936. [wishes CDM luck with Book Fair.]
  109. Morley, C.D. to Frank V. Morley. New York, Dec. 11, 1936. [mentions that Edward VIII and he took a course together.]

Box 23

Correspondence: 1937 - 1942.

  1. Morley, C.D. to H.S. Latham. [New York], January 18, 1937. [feels Muirhead Bone's Old Spain is best book of the times, and would like to buy a copy in some form.]
  2. Morley, C.D. to Roger Scaife. [New York], February 19, 1937. [is sending the last main section to be included in Bartlett's Quotations which he feels is "the most interesting textbook of our literary history."]
  3. Allison, John to CDM. Tsinan, China, March 15, 1937. [thanks Morley for inscribing "Streamlines"; talks of political picture in China; may write a biographical sketch of Max Beerbohm.]
  4. Macy, George to CDM. New York, Apr. 23, 1937. [asks Morley to be chairman of jury to select gold medalist for Limited Editions club; Morley refuses on Apr. 29.]
  5. Scaife, Roger L. to CDM. Boston, [Mass.], May 5, 1937. [wonders if Morley's preface to Bartlett's Quotations could not be sold separately and used as a come-on to early subscribers.]
  6. Lyons, Leonard to CDM. [New York, May, 1937] [would like to put some Morley items in his column; Morley declines, not wishing publicity.]
  7. Morley, F.V. to CDM. [London, Eng.], 6th April 1937. [partial letter: sends Chris. Auden poem on Spain -- if published proceeds would go to Medical Aid in Spain.]
  8. Morley, C.D. to Virginia Bertsch. [New York], May 21, 1937. [explains basis for good writing.]
  9. Morley, C. D. to Frank V. Morley. [New York], Dec. 10, 1937. [will be presenting books to the president].
  10. Morley, C.D. to Thurston Macauley. [New York], Dec. 30, 1937. [can't come to lunch because of funeral of Don Marquis.]
  11. March, Harry A. to CDM. New York, [l938]. [concerned about the "memorial show", apparently for Don Marquis].
  12. McKee, Ruth to CDM. Los Angeles, Cal., March 17, 1938. [mentions Kathryn --'s novel about the Bronte's and her own Three Daughters and other works.]
  13. Morley, C.D. to Marion Dodd. [New York], October 10, 1938. [calls Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years a "civilized" book and explains meaning of 'civilized'].
  14. McClintock, Theodore to CDM. New York City, October 22, 1938. [thanks Morley for the praise of his book The Underwater Zoo.]
  15. Kunitz, Stanley J. and Haycraft, Howard to CDM. New York, July 27, 1939. [Morley has been selected for inclusion in Twentieth Century Authors.]
  16. Morley, C.D. to Joseph W. Lippincott. [New York], July 31, 1939. [concerns plagiarism of Morley piece and reparation.]
  17. Memorandum simulating obituary written by CDM, September 16, 1939. [tells what are his own favorite works and why and how he sees himself.]
  18. Contract dated New York, September 21, 1939 to CDM from This Week magazine for publication rights of The Bird that didn't Go South in the amount of $400.
  19. Robinson, Henry Morton to CDM. Pleasantville, New York, March 22, 1940. [would like Morley to do a sketch for Reader's Digest of "The Most Unforgettable Characters I Have Ever Known", lists other contributors.]
  20. [McKee,] Ruth to CDM. "In the wilderness," March 10, 1940. [thanks Morley for introduction to the Van Dorans; is writing a novel, Mirage.]
  21. Reid, James M. to Sharon Brown. [s.l., s.n.], June 21, 1940. [re plans for 4-volume edition of Present Tense and outline of scope] (Several items follow enlarging on theme of Present Tense)
  22. [McKee], Ruth, to CDM. [s.l., s.n.], December 3, [ca. 1940]. [will begin working on a novel After a Hundred Years.]
  23. Howell, Douglas Morse to CDM. New York City, March 24, 1941. [encloses samples of his woodcuts -- would like to do illustrations for SRL].
  24. Tomlinson, H[enry] M[ajor] to CDM. Abbotsbury, Dorset, [Eng.], 20 Jan. 41. [talks of England, Joseph Kennedy and the war.]
  25. Housman, Ann to CDM. Brooklyn, [New York], Mar. 26, '41. [has enjoyed Morley's books.]
  26. Morley, C.D. to H. Tatnall Brown. New York City, December 17, 1941. [encloses program for a book fair at which he introduced and commented on the work of several authors.]
  27. Allen, Ned to CDM. New York, New York, Sept. 10, 1942. [returns two Morley pieces with his letter].
  28. Curtis, G. to CDM. Hartford, Conn., Oct. 18, 1942. [a"Parnassus on Wheels" club was organized in 1934 for prisoners and parolees -- CDM requested to speak; hopes he will write about the inequities doled out to criminals.]
  29. Dunn, Esther E. to CDM. Northampton, Mass., 19th November 1942. [relates identification with characters in Thorofare.]
  30. Vitinghoff, H. to CDM. New York, December 4, 1942. [compliments Morley on Thorofare as a mirror held up for exploring Anglo- American images -- thinks Morley is An Englishman.]
  31. Zahn, Mabel to CDM. Philadelphia, Pa., December 10, 1942. [reports enthusiasm at Sessler's for Thorofare.]

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Correspondence, 1943-54 and no date

  1. Koestler, Arthur to CDM. Tring, Herts, [England], 4th March, 1943. [asks Morley to contribute to a "visionary" anthology.]
  2. Brooks, Geraldine to CDM. Clearwater, Fla., February 27, 1943. [is soon to do a review of Thorofare; appreciates reference in it to her father, Elbridge S. Brooks' work "A Boy of the First Empire."]
  3. -- , Roy (pres. of Time) to CDM. New York, March 24, 1943. [responds to apparent opinion by Morley that Time has not reviewed him kindly.]
  4. [Bundy, M.W.] (head of dept of Eng. at State College of Washington) to CDM. [Pullman, Wash., ca. 1943] (letter fragment). [praises Thorofare, especially Shakespearean angle.]
  5. Bell, Arthur W. to CDM. [s.l., s.n., ca. 1943]. [enjoyed Thorofare ocean voyage better than a Conrad one]
  6. Rieber, Frank to CDM. New York, March 29, 1943. [enjoyed Thorofare, particularly for scientific element.]
  7. Poley, Irvin to CDM. Phila., Pa., April 4, 1943. [comments on Thorofare.]
  8. Burt, Struthers to CDM. Southern Pines, N.C., April 5 /45. [thanks Morley for the review of his book.]
  9. Morley, C.D. to Irvin Poley. [New York], April 7, 1943. [responds to Poley's comments and mentions factual error in Thorofare.]
  10. Morley, C.D. to [H. Tatnall Brown]: [New York City, July 16, 1943. (written on SRL letterhead stationery)
  11. Smith, Edgar W. to CDM. New York, July 27, 1943.
  12. Faber, Geoffrey to CDM. Sussex, [Eng.], August 2, '43. [thanks him for New York hospitality.]
  13. Kennerley, Mitchell to CDM. New York, August 26, 1943. [talks of Walt Whitman and an article about the war.]
  14. Kerr, Chester (chief of Book Bureau, Office for Emergency Management) to John J. McCloy (ass't sec'y of war). [Washington, D.C., September 3, 1943. [feels a joint publication project with England about the war would be valuable -- Morley chosen as American representative of the writing team.]
  15. Opffer, Ivan to CDM. New York City, Nov. 5, 1943. [wants to do a drawing of Morley for Daily Telegraph.]
  16. Graham, Stephen to CDM. London, [Eng.], 12th November 1943. [reading and enjoying John Mistletoe.]
  17. Bird, Florence (CDM's aunt) to CDM. Royston, Herts, [Eng.], Nov. 21, '43. [war effects; family news.]
  18. Cochrane, Louise (Morley) to CDM. London, [Eng.], December 12, 1943. [personal news].
  19. Dierkes, Henry to CDM. LaPorte, Indiana, January 25, 1944. [sends copy of Living Poetry and philosophy of the magazine's editors.]
  20. [Brace], Done to CDM. New York, March 13, 1944. [includes a clipping of letter to the editor written by George Bernard Shaw who comments on the government's fiscal policies.]
  21. Morley, C.D. to Commander E.E. Hazlett, Jr. [New York], May 12, 1944. [suggests an exchange of naval officers at British and American naval academies.]
  22. [Lockwood, Dean] "Pete" to CDM. [Haverford, Pa.], Jan. 23, 1944. [cites various committees to which he is committed; praises Morley as a "tower of strength for the Library Associates".]
  23. Drake, Thomas E. to CDM. Haverford, Pa., Feb. 4, 1944. [thanks Morley for Holmes ms., The Iconoclast.]
  24. Adams, George Matthew to CDM. Nova Scotia, [Canada], July 15th, 1944. [is trying to write his autobiography; describes his location.]
  25. Morley, C.D. to George Adams. [New York], November 29, '44. [apologetic letter for accident by which Morley was credited as donor of The Iconoclast by A.C. Doyle, rather than Adams.]
  26. Rosenbach, A.S.W. to CDM. Phila., Pa., July 25, l945. [re purchase of A.C. Doyle's "Criminal Library".]
  27. Maxwell, Bill to CDM. New York, January 22, 1946. [returns his ms. Three-Star, Would I Were Steadfast.]
  28. Morley, C.D. to "Laurence". New York, 29 Oct. 1946. [notes about Gissing].
  29. Morley, C.D. to Archibald MacIntosh. Roslyn Heights, N.Y., Dec. 23, 1946. [Christmas poem.]
  30. [Morley, C.D.] to William Ross Bennett (William Rose Benet?). [s.l., s.n.,] June 14, 1949. [re book of poetry to be issued under both their names.]
  31. Fox, C.L. to CDM. Egham, Surrey, England, Feb. 4th, 1950. [encloses an article for the Baker Street Irregulars, "New Light on Dr. Watson."]
  32. Morley, C.D. to Louis [Greenfield?]. [s.l., s.n.], March 8, '50. [Getting ready to do a preface for the first vol. of the Boswell papers.]
  33. Morley, C.D. to [H.] Tat[nall Brown]. Roslyn Heights, N.Y., Oct. 23 '50. [in preparation for a trip to Haverford College.]
  34. Morley, C.D. to H. Tatnall Brown and "Bunny". Roslyn Heights, N.Y., [Oct., 1950]. [reminisces about Haverford College after his visit.]
  35. Morley, C.D. to W.W. Comfort. Roslyn Heights, New York, Sept. 23, '50. [about his book Thorofare and Haverford College.]
  36. Morley, C.D. to [William Wistar Comfort] "Bill". Roslyn Heights, New York, May 17 '54. [talks about his Haverford days.]
  37. Benet, Laura to C.D.M. Scarsdale, N.Y., [n.d.] [hopes Morley will contribute a poem for the Vassar College Salary Endowment Fund.]
  38. Croy, Homer to CDM. Forest Hills, L.I., N.Y., [n.d.] [illustrated invitation].
  39. [Daly], Tom to CDM. Phila., [Pa.], n.d. [encloses a clipping containing a poem by CDM.]
  40. Devine, Jim to CDM. New York City, [n.d.] [recount a dream in which CDM and Charles Lamb figure].
  41. F[ootner], B[ill], to CDM. London, [Eng.], March 9th, [n.y.] [his stay in England has gained him friends in Aldous Huxley, Frank Swinnerton, et al.]
  42. [Footner], B[ill] to CDM. Sollers, Md., July 26, [n.y.] [has sold the Substitute Millionaire to the movies; also about other of his works.]
  43. F[ootner], B[ill] to CDM. Sollers, Md., [n.d.] [re his writing book reviews.]
  44. Frank, Glenn (ed of Century Magazine) to CDM. New York, [n.d.] [turns down Morley's play].
  45. H., B. to CDM. [s.l., s.n., n.d.] [criticizes Morley's Where the Blue Begins; his own work on a book and at The Ledger.]
  46. Haley, [Bart] to CDM. Phila., [Pa.,n.d.]
  47. Herbert, A[lan] P[atrick]. s.l., s.n., n.d.] [would like to do some articles for Morley]
  48. Leacock, Stephen to CDM. McGill University [Montreal, Can.], Feb. 6, [n.y.]. [congratulates CDM on his "Modern Essays."]
  49. M[arquis], Don. Paris, [Fr.], August 8, [n.d.]
  50. Ransom, John C. to CDM. Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 22, [n.d.]. [would like to have Morley recite some his poetry, along with several other poets.]
  51. [Sandburg], Carl to CDM. Rochester, N.Y., Feb. 2, [n.y.]

Box 25

Manuscripts: 1910-31.

  1. [Haverford song], [ca. 1910], [l p.]. Ts., annotated.
  2. "In the Steerage of the Lusitania". [l915]. 4 p.  
  3. Where the Blue Begins. Galley proofs, 1922.  
  4. Miscellaneous: a. "Ferdinand and the Taste for Cheese", 1927. In braille.
    1. Quotes from Kitty Foyle. 2 p., ts.
    2. "Pleasure of Nuncprotuncking" (from"Bowling Green" column). 1 p., ts.  
  5. "Cuckoo Interlude". (play) 1928, 5 p., ts., annotated; "Pennsylvania Dutchesses". (play) [n.d.], 3 p., ts.  
  6. working notes for: John Mistletoe, 1930 (published in 1931). H.Ms.

Box 26

Manuscripts: 1935-1945 & n.d.

  1. "The Second Mate," by C.D.M. and Felix Riesenberg. A play in three acts, 1930. Ts., annotated, perhaps by Riesenberg.
    1. Christmas Cards.
  2. "Ex Libris", Book Fair edition, 1936. 27 p. Holograph ms. and pasted down cuttings from printed material. Also gal]ey proofs and photos of art and type.
  3. Poems: a. "February 25, 1936"; no title, [ca. 1942]; "Requiesco", 1944; "From an Apt Near the River", [n.d.]; "From Arthur's seat", [n.d,]; "The Bus Conductor", [n.d.]; "The Wall Street Kitten", [n,d.]; "To a Broadway Hotel", [n.d.]; "On my New Typewriter Ribbon", [n.d.]; "The Nightpiece to Herrick", [n.d.]
  4. Essay. 3 states. 1940. [4 p., 4 p., 3 p.]
  5. "Soft Shoulders". (play) Produced at Millpond Playhouse, July 17-20, 1940. 122 p.
  6. "Sherlock Holmes and Mr. Watson", 1944. 27 p. Also known as "Textbook of Friendship" which appears to be a later version of above. 27 p. Both Tss., annotated.
  7. "What '45 Ought to Know", [l945], 6 p. Ts., annotated; "The Sheepmeadow Speech", [1945], 8 p. Ts., annotated.
  8. Essays, n.d.: "Naval Engagement"; "Collaborating with the Author"; 5 with no title.
  9. Magazine stories: "A XMas Story without Slush" (review for), [n.d.]. 1 p., Ts.; "The One Who Sees Most", [n.d.], 2 p., H.Ms.; "The Woman Who Saw Tompkins Square", [n.d.], 2 p., H.Ms.
  10. "Reality Goes Overboard", [n.d.], 11 p., Ts.
  11. Fragmenta Disjecta, containing partial H.Ms. "The Hilarity of Hilaire", and other fragments.
  12. Facetious precis and exegeses of various Sherlock Holmes stories. [n.d.]. Ts. and H.Ms. ( 2 folders )

Box 27

Manuscript.

  1. The Man who Made Friends With Himself. 1948 ( published in 1949 ). [ca. 410 p.] Ts. with annotations. Plus letter by Morley, apparently to Doubleday & Co., on completion of the work.
    1. Notes for The Man Who...

Box 28

Manuscripts.

  1. Several draft states of The Man Who Made Friends With Himself. Five folders. Photo of dust jacket of TMWMFWH (celluloid). See also below: Misc.

Box 29

Miscellaneous.

  1. Notes for lectures, ca. 1933-36.
  2. Photographs(11) including one of CDM with Alistair Cooke and John Mason Brown.
  3. Clippings: Includes printed solicitation for serial publication "Human Events" with printed signature of Felix Morley et al, 1944.
  4. Publicity for Thorofare and The Trojan Horse.
  5. Log book of "The Small Fry", an"organization of young publishers". Included are signatures of greater and lesser known lights in the period 1916-1919. Laid in are three letters about club luncheons, a photo of a drawing probably of some club members; toward the end, under the title "The Race of Grub Street Runners" are more signatures.

Box 30

Miscellaneous.

  1. "Hoboken" envelope.
  2. Publicity for Notes on Bermuda
  3. Notice concerning Rockwell Kent edition of Shakespeare to which Morley wrote the preface
  4. Catalogue for auction of books and manuscripts property of CDM
  5. Copy of "Hoboken Nights: A Journal of the Drama, Music, Etc.", the publication of The Hoboken Theatrical Co. of which CDM was president. April 14, 1929
  6. CDM's French lessons at H.C., Sept-Nov., 1907.
  7. Other miscellaneous pertaining to CDM, including notice of his inclusion on Adelphi faculty, 1939(items 6-12 in one folder)
  8. Miscellaneous items which were presented with this collection.
  9. scarf imprinted with TMWMFWH & other CDM book titles.

Box 31

Printed items.

  1. "The Haverfordian", Nov., 1908, including CDM's poem, "The Pine Woods."
  2. "The Haverfordian", Dec., 1908, including CDM's poem "To a Grasshopper."
  3. "The Haverfordian", Jan., 1909, including CDM's article "The Limerick".
  4. "The Haverfordian", Feb., 1909, including CDM's story, "Episodes in the Life of an Irish Waitress".
  5. "Great Caesar", H.C. play of 1910, for which CDM wrote some songs, and in which he played a role.
  6. "Thinking about Haverford", 1919.
  7. "New York Central Magazine", May, 1927, for which CDM wrote "Christopher Morley writes about his trip on the Champion 20th century "
  8. Copy from SRL of CDM's "Advance Comment" on All Quiet on the Western Front.
  9. Catalog of photographic exhibition for which Morley wrote introduction, 1931.
  10. New York Herald Tribune, Dec. 25, 1932: "Sky Writing" by CDM.
  11. "Catalogue of the Theatre", 1932, in which CDM's "opinion" is printed.
  12. Saturday Review of Literature, Sept. 24, 1932: "What the President Reads..."

Box 32

Printed items

  1. "The Haverfordian", Nov., 1933, including CDM's poem, "Ballade".
  2. "The Haverfordian", Nov., 1934, including article by CDM "Eumenides of Book Collecting".
  3. "The Haverfordian", Nov., 1934. Second copy.
  4. "The American Traveler", June, 1934, containing CDM's "Thirty out of Forty-Eight".
  5. SRL, June 29, 1935, containing CDM's "Bowling Green" column.
  6. SRL, Oct. 5, 1935, in which CDM was one of "The First Five Readers."
  7. "The Haverfordian", Jan., 1935, containing CDM's "In Re: Logan Pearsall Smith."
  8. "The Haverfordian" Jan., 1935. Second copy.
  9. SRL, Jan. 4, 1936, containing CDM's "Bowling Green" column.
  10. Pre-publication pamphlet of Bartlett's Quotations, [ca. 1937] for which CDM wrote "For the Lover of Literature."
  11. Roslyn News, containing article by CDM. Aug. 26, 1937.
  12. This Week magazine containing article by CDM,"The Bird that Didn't go South."
  13. "Roll Call", summer, 1939, containing short column by CDM.
  14. "The Haverford Review, Autumn, 1941, including CDM's "An Archway".
  15. "Everyday Reading", [n.d.], containing CDM's "Passivity Program"
  16. Edgar W. Smith's Christmas card containing poem by CDM. [n.d.]
  17. "A Bookseller's Author", [n.d.] containing quotes from various CDM books.

Removed from collection: Galley proof of T[homas] A[ugustine] Daly's poem "Harvest Home"

Accession #3: 1919 - 1950 (Boxes 33 - 37)
MORLEY FAMILY PAPERS. Additions: Christopher Darlington Morley, 1919-1950.
5 boxes, ca. 200 items

These papers consist of manuscripts, correspondence, printed pieces, and miscellaneous. Included in the latter are drawings by Muirhead Bone.

Table of Contents: Accession #3

Box 33

Manuscripts

  1. Thorofare: Chapters I and II (published 1943)

Box 34

Manuscripts

  1. Thorofare: Chapters III, IV, and V

Box 35

Manuscripts

  1. Ironing Board
  2. Human Being, Chapters I - XXVII
  3. Human Being, Chapters XXVIII -XLIII
  4. "The Trojan Horse or Troilus and Cressida". A play.
    1. advertisement for its production at Millpond Playhouse
  5. Poem: "Archie the Cockroach Discourses on him of Avon"
  6. "Bacon's Essays", Introduction for Limited Editions Club. Feb. 29,1944.
  7. Notebook, entitled "Mandarin Dialect" with passages, probably all used in the publication
  8. Galley proof: Trade Winds
  9. Galley proof: critical review of Tristram Shandy

Box 36

Correspondence

  1. Morley, C.D. To M.M. Mendelsohn. December 18, 1936. [responds to his letter in which Mendelsohn reminisces about meeting Morley]
  2. Moseley, Wayne to CDM. September 11, 1941. [requests contribution to new Haverford College publication, Haverford Review.]
  3. Morley, C.D. to Wayne Moseley. Sept. 15, 1941. [Encloses a piece, presumably from John Mistletoe, "An Archway," (the Carvill Arch at Haverford, which was part of the greenhouse before it burned.]
  4. Printer's copy and proofs of above piece.
  5. Morley, C.D. to Doris -. 10 October 1945. [re a book by Frank Morley which she will have reviewed.]
  6. Bolton, Theodore to CDM. November 2, 1945. [concerns an artist, Landerer, about whom Morley had been inquiring.]
  7. Morley, Frank Vigor to Felix Morley. Feb. 13, 1946. [about Felix's ms. with which he is delighted. The ms., an autobiography, is included.]
  8. Scaife, Mary L. to Frank V. Morley. March 5, 1946. [sends a continuation of Felix's autobiography mentioned in no. 7 above]
  9. [Morley, C.D.] to Edgar W. Smith and L[ouis] Greenfield. Dec. 21, 1947. [proposes Baker Street Irregulars produce new edition of The Blue Carbuncle.]
  10. McPharlin, Paul to [Edgar] Smith. 10 February 1948. [proposes type face for new edition of The Blue Carbuncle.]
  11. Canby, Henry Seidel? (Book-of-the-Month Club) to CDM. May 12, 1948. [Does not care for The Blue Carbuncle.]
  12. Streibert, Theodore C. (president of WOR) to Louis Greenfield. May 18, 1950.

Printed Pieces

  1. "Thinking about Haverford" in Back to Haverford And. [ca. 1919]
  2. Christopher Morley's New Books (A Review) in The Haverfordian. Dec., 1920
  3. Advertisement for a Morley talk at Haverford, entitled "The Religion of a Newspaper Man". May 13, 1924.
  4. "Devotion". A song. Words by CDM. 1922.
  5. "Hoboken Nights" in the Saturday Evening Post. July 13, 1929.
  6. Description and request for funds for The Foundry. April, 1930.
  7. "Sun Cured - a peccadillo". Short play. 1930.
  8. A John Mistletoe calendar. [ca. 1931]
  9. "Old Loopy" in Inland Topics. Nov., 1935.
  10. Speech at the Mark Twain Commemoration in Columbia University Quarterly. December, 1935.
  11. The Stuff and Nonsense Scrap-Book. Dedicated to CDM. Contains CDM' s first article for Evening Public Ledger. Dec., 1935.
  12. "A Successor to Mark Twain" in Michigan Alumnus. Summer, 1937.
  13. CDM' s letter to the printer. [Ca. 1937]
  14. "Confessions of a Pipe Smoke" in Pipe and Pouch. 1937.
  15. "The Secret" and "The Brown-Eyed Mistress". Two songs. Words by CDM. 1938.
  16. "People - The Important Thing at Knox". Brochure including visit to the college by CDM. [ca. 1938]
  17. "To Fra Giovanni" Originally written in 1603. Reprinted, and possibly used as a Christmas card in 1939.
  18. "The Barton Autograph Book" in The Haverford Review. Spring, 1943.
  19. Advertisement: "Christopher Morley writes for your papers..." [ca. 1947]. 2 copies.
  20. Advertisement by Baker Street Irregulars for Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle. [ca. 1948]
  21. Advertisement by Saturday Review for a CDM column "Notes on a Visit to England". n.d.
  22. Program for CDM'S play "Soft Shoulders". n.d.
  23. Stock certificate issued to CDM for shares of Baker Street Irregulars, inc. n.d.
  24. Two cards. n.d.

Box 37

Miscellaneous

  1. Notebook containing typed, annotated index to CDM's Bowling Green column, 1924-38; toward a bibliography for Trade Winds, 1929-40, includes correspondence concerning Trade Winds columns.
  2. Drawings (by Muirhead Bone), photographs and a clipping.

Removed from collection:

  1. The German Terror in France by Arnold J. Toynbee to book collection
  2. quotes from John Mistletoe, on cardboard, signed and proofed by Morley, to 812R.
  3. Photo of C.D. Morley and secretary to 812R
  4. "A prologue for the Old Rialto Theatre, Hoboken" to 812R

Accession #4: 1910 - 1970 (Boxes 38 - 39)
MORLEY FAMILY PAPERS. Additions: Christopher Darlington Morley, 1910 - 1970.
2 boxes, 140 items

These papers consist of letters, printed pieces and miscellaneous items.

Table of Contents: Accession #4

Box 38

Letters (Highlighted):

  1. Morley, C.D. to "Shep" (Victor Schepperle). June 25, 1910. [sends itinerary; describes possibilities after Shep graduates (H., '11)]
  2. Morley, C.D. to "Sheps". July 14, 1910. [dreams up scheme for a boating excursion, naming entire ship's company; is in Nova Scotia, which he considers preparation for England.]
  3. Morley, C.D. to "Mifflin" (E. Page Allinson). Aug. 28, 1911. [verse in thanks for tobacco pouch; is reading Robert Louis Stevenson; describes Woodbridge in Suffolk, etc.]
  4. Morley, C.D. to "Mifflin". Oct. 6, 1914. [wants to write a skit for the Haverfordian called The Night Before.] See item 1 in Additions, 1984.
  5. Morley, C.D. to E.P. Allinson. January 3, 1917. [thanks for gift to his new son.]
  6. Morley, C.D. to "Mifflin". [ca. 1918]. [announces position with Evening Ledger.
  7. Morley to Mifflin. [ca. 1918.] [His play is in rehearsal; teaching a course in Chaucer at Haverford.]
  8. Morley to Mifflin. [ca. 1920]. [hard at work on a novel.]
  9. Morley to Mary (Allinson). October 23 - '37. [on the death of her mother, his father; has a play going into rehearsal.]
  10. Morley to Mifflin. Feb. 9 [1940]. [Angry at denigrating statement about Kitty Foyle by W.W. Comfort.]
  11. Morley to E. P. Allinson. March 25, 1940. [re books bought at Leary's.]
  12. Morley to Mifflin. June 20, 1940. [will take some refugees from England into his home; displeasure with the literary views of "the Billy Comforts." See item 3 in Additions, 1984.
  13. Morley to Mifflin. Dec. 21, 1946. [Christmas greetings.]
  14. Morley to Page and Mary (Allinson). [have been abroad for three months.]
  15. Morley to Mifflin. Mar. 7, '50. [thinks H.C. Library collection important to contribute to, though young people do not tend to read the same books as Morley's generation; topics he would like to write about.]
  16. Morley to Mifflin. May 9, 1950. [re death of William Rose Benet; his son off to Japan -- melancholy; writing about Boswell.]
  17. Morley to Page and Mary (Allinson). [June 12, 1950. [about current work; lack of flowers at H.C.; John Mistletoe is a good deal about H.C., "but I think is now entirely forgotten."]
  18. Morley to George [Stevens?]. June 14, '50. [about the wonderful library at H.C.]
  19. Morley to [Allinson?]. July 14, [1950?] [re impending trip together.]
  20. Morley to Mifflin. August 20, 1950. [poetry everywhere; encloses poem "Hurricane weather."]
  21. Morley to Mifflin. Sept. 19, '50. [will do a review of Maugham work for New York Times; works that did and do appeal to him; lectures he gave in Hawaii in 1933.]
  22. Morley to George [Stevens?]. Nov. 1st, 1950. [dreamed of Logan Pearsall Smith; gets first editions cheaply; delights of the H.C. Library; has Lindsay manuscripts.]
  23. Morley to [E.P. Allinson?]. Mar. 11 '51. [to resume BBC-run Transatlantic Quiz; vacation together in Europe.]
  24. Morley to Allinson. April 3, 1951. [details of impending vacation together.]
  25. Morley to Allinson. April 29, 1951. [has had stroke?]
  26. Morley to Stephen Fry. June 3, 1951. [leg and arm had been affected by stroke]
  27. Morley to Allinson. June 21 '51. [offer from Jesse Merritt of some New York Quaker records.]
  28. Morley to ? [June 21, 1951?] fragment. [L[ogan] P[Earsall] S[mith] Shakespeare MS is to be given to the H.C. Library.]
  29. Morley to Allinson?. Dec. 12, 1951. [encloses verse to be sung; beautiful description of an oak tree being removed.]
  30. Morley to Allinson? May 26, '52. [first piece about their trip together written up for the New York Times.]
  31. Morley to Allinson. Nov. 12, '52. [John Keats' letter to Fanny Brawne in H.C. Library, "but how many of us took cognizance of same?"]
  32. Morley to Mifflin. Jan. 29 [1953]. [political situation in U.S.; books.]
  33. Morley to Allinson. June 22 '53. [saddened by death of his hero Henry Scattergood.]
  34. Morley to Page and Mary (Allinson). August 24, '53. [new English trip planned.]
  35. Morley to Mifflin. June 18, [n.y.] [storm brewing and recollections of storms in prose.]
  36. Morley to Page. April 9 [n.y.] [spoke at a Library Associates meeting at H.C.; books he has collected to give H.C.]
  37. Morley to Rudyard [Kipling] [pre-'36] [With short reply by R.K. appended]
  38. Morley to Allinson?. [n.d.] [poem about cutting off his beard]
  39. Morley to Mifflin. [n.d.] [written from England]
  40. Morley to Page and Mary (Allinson) [n.d.] [commitments he must honor]
  41. Morley to Page and Mary (Allinson) [n.d.] [can't accept invitation, as must finish writing or revising a book of poems]
  42. Morley to Page and Mary (Allinson) Nov. 19 [n.y.] [has signed for a movie of Parnassus on Wheels]
  43. Morley to ? [n.d.] fragment. [has corresponded with Lady Colvin about Robert Louis Stevenson]

Printed Pieces

  1. "Great Caesar!" Presented by class of 1910, with C.D.M. in cast.
  2. "Larger version, including words to songs by C.D.M., 1910.
  3. Fourth Class Letter, class of 1910, March, 1915. Contains C.D.M.'s letter.
  4. Saturday Review of Literature, Apr. 17, 1948. Contains "Notes on an Island"; also C.D.M. advertisement on p. 56.
  5. "Britain for the Holidays". Six sonnets. 1951.
  6. Courier, Nov., 1958. Contains "The Old Mandarin" and "Unpublished Epigrams".

Box 39

Miscellaneous

  1. 43 letters concerning dedication of Morley Alcove at Haverford College in May, 1968, or other events connected with the alcove, including letter from Katharine White; also typed copy of Frank Morley's dedication speech. See also misc. folder, box 42.
  2. In Memoriam (to C.D.M.) 2 copies.
  3. "Christopher Morley on Long Island" by Helen McK. Oakley; review of Oakley's Three Hours for Lunch....
  4. "Lines from Christopher Morley." Christopher Morley Knothole Assoc.
  5. Review of C.D.M.'s life and literary contributions by Donald Adams.
  6. Correspondence of Mary Allinson with Herman Abromson about C.D.M. 7. Correspondence of E. Page and Mary Allinson with Jon Bracker about C.D.M.
  7. "The C.D.M. Collection" by Bracker
  8. "Confidential Memorandum re The Foundry". Mimeographed report on the location for the Hoboken Theatrical Co. of which C.D.M. was president.
  9. Announcement of a Morley exhibit, 1970, at Hofstra University
  10. Letter from Mae Craig to Mary Allinson about an unwritten tribute to C.D.M.
  11. Letters to Mary or E. Page Allinson from Morley family members -3 items.

Removed from collection

  1. Centenary program, Haverford College, 1933. To Haverfordiana.

Accession #5: 1906 - 1955 (Boxes 39 - 40)
MORLEY FAMILY PAPERS. Additions: Christopher Darlington Morley, 1906-55.
Ca. 75 items

Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts and miscellaneous.

Table of Contents:

Box 39 (cont.)

Miscellaneous

  1. Eight compositions on Troilus & Cressida. [Christopher Morley taught English courses at Haverford dealing with Shakespeare and Chaucer and the writing of compositions -- in 1930-31. Apparently one of the assignments to his students was to write on the theme of Troilus and Cressida.]
  2. Xerox of T.L.S. by M. Lincoln Schuster -- a tribute to C.D.M., Apr. 4, 1957. etc.
    1. 9 items mostly letters, to Tat Brown re collecting C.D. Morley items, 1929-73
  3. 3. Xeroxes of papers connected with the Bryant Library C.D.M. exhibit in 1973.
    1. Wooden endpiece inscribed by C.D.M., "'Assidnus sis in Bibliotheca' - you good old book-collecting Quaker..." on shelf above 807.
  4. Ships' menu cards autographed by C.D.M.'s companions. 18 items.
  5. "Little Hungary". Printed pamphlet. Unattributed.
    1. Certificate of "Hoboken Free State, E Pluribus Euthanasia.
  6. Photograph, including Morleys, Kenderdines and Allinsons. 1 item.
  7. Caricature of C.D. Morley by Jay.

Box 40

Correspondence: 1906-55 & n.d. (Letters are from C.D.M. unless otherwise noted)

  1. Morley, Lilian to C.D.M. Sept. 23, 1906. (xerox). [written on the eve of Morley's departure for H.C.] See item 4 in Additions, 1984
  2. to Mr. Chase. November 25, 1919. [regrets unable to accompany cast of Three's a Crowd" to Syracuse.] See item 2 in Additions, 1984
    1. Correspondence, 1925, [re publication by "Haverfordian" of C.D.M.'s college pieces under the title Hostages to Fortune: Also dust jacket, articles of agreement & clipping.]
    2. Photostatic copies of letter & inscription tipped into The Eight Sin in C.Morley Alcove.
  3. to Jack [Kenderdine]. Aug. 28, 1928. [Morley's theatre, The Rialto, reopening with Morley as a manager; invites Kenderdine to opening.] (Printed announcement, annotated)
  4. to Jack [Kenderdine]. Aug. 15, 1929. [concerns opening of a club, The Foundry, a place for frolicking]
  5. to ?. August 4, 1931. (xerox) [his own favorite of his books is Inward Ho!]
    1. to Robt. E. Meinberg. Jan. 10, 1933.
  6. to Tat Brown. Dec. 17, 1937. [encloses his column, printed in Yale News of 1927.]
  7. to Tat Brown. Mar. 16, 1938. [claims idea for establishment of Bryn Mawr College born in library at Haverford College -- and Bryn Mawr should not forget its origins.]
    1. Lee, Alfred P. 7/1/38. [note from C.D.M.'s bibliographer and Morley's penciled response]
  8. to Donald N. Clark. January , 23. 1942. [he use to be a library assistant in a Quaker Sunday School.]
  9. to Pete [Lockwood]. 20 Jan. '44. [a friend has promised to give Haverford College his Max Beerbohm collection, Conan Doyle's Iconoclast et al]
    1. to Tat. Aug. 11, 1944. [re C.D.M.'s new book, the Middle Kingdom, etc.
  10. to Pete [Lockwood]. March 21, 1945. [will come to Library Associates meeting, but doesn't want to be the speaker.]
  11. to Pete [Lockwood]. April 14, '45. [quotes relating to Fox portrait; watermarks in his copy of Fox's journal].
  12. Keddie, James to C.D.M. April 16, 1945. [would Haverford College Library want a copy of "Sherlock Holmes - A Play" by Gillete?]
  13. to Pete [Lockwood]. October 20, 1946. [3 advices to Haverford.]
  14. to - . January 4, 1947. [the most wonderful book in the world would be a complete series of perfectly honest letters; papers of C.D.M. to go to Haverford College to be opened in 25 years.]
  15. to Pete Lockwood. 8 May, 1948. [Milton used to be taught at Haverford; thrilled to see Reynolds portrait of Johnson at Haverford which he remembered hanging in A. Edward Newton's library.]
  16. to Pete [Lockwood]. Oct. 25" '48. [Is sending first publication of Baker Streets Irregulars.]
  17. to Pete [Lockwood]. November17, '48. [Ralph Isham is the greatest Johnsonian cogniscenti he has ever known; extremely busy with new novel.]
  18. to Petey [Lockwood]. Dec. 28, 1948. [someone such as Gilbert White or Ralph Sargent should do a "nature-and-human-nature" study of Haverford --- and be a classic.]
  19. to Pete [Lockwood]. 5 Feb. '49. [requests help for a Latin motto for a book. Lockwood obliges (Feb. 7, 1949)].
  20. [Lockwood], Pete to D.C.M. March 2, 1952. [Would like Morley to give a talk on Logan Pearsall Smith for Library Associates]
  21. [Lockwood, Pete] to C.D.M. April 2, 1952. [includes Morley's Shakespearian Sonnet, no. 155.]
  22. to "O, King, Live forever!". March 11th, [n.y.] ["who's offering a prize for the most flippant essay on Spring."]
  23. to Tat & Bunny [Brown]. (xerox) [n.d.] [sees his epitaph as reading "inter poetas Haverfordienses/Haud minimus habebitur"; comments about the George Fox portrait.]
  24. to [H.] Tat[nall Brown] Feb. 18 [n.y.] [written on the back of a page of a play-script. Encloses printed leaflet about the play "The Black Crook," which he wrote, which plays at the new Lyric Theatre.

Manuscripts:

  1. [Essay (fragment) on Robert Louis Stevenson, pre-l910]. Very fragile. Holograph.
  2. "Robert Louis Stevenson: Author and Man." Graduation thesis [Haverford College] 1910. Holograph, 21 p.
  3. "Ritualization for the solemnization of a new collar in hot weather." Xerox of ts., annotated recalling the writing of these lines for the Phila. Evening Ledger in 1917.
  4. Book Review of Dusty Answer by Rosamund Lehmann. Ts., 1 p., [1927?].
  5. "Translations from the Chinese." Xerox of holograph, annotated, written for Saturday Review of Literature ("Bowling Green"), Dec. 23, 1932.
  6. "Notes for an essay on religion." Holograph, 11 p., 1924; "Newspapers and religion". Holograph, 3 p., [ca. 1924]. See #23.
  7. Book review of Mainly on the air by Max Beerbohm. Xerox of ts. and xerox of printed review in altered state, 1947. 2 items.
  8. "Ballade" [to Haverford College, 1933]. Holograph signed, 2 p.; also ts.
  9. "Footnotes for a Centennial", 1933. Ts., annotated. Published in Literary Digest, Saturday Review and Haverford College Centenary, and separately in 1936. 9 p.
  10. "Eumenides of book collecting" Holograph, 6 p., [1934]
  11. "A note by Christopher Morley on The Fool of Venus by George Cronyn." Ts., 1 p., [1934?].
  12. Poem, written on the stay of a hat lining, bedecked with labels and C.D.M.'s autograph. Holograph, [ca. 1934].
  13. Book review of Slovenly Peter translated from the German by Mark Twain. Holograph, 2 p. 1935.
  14. "Mother Goose at Election" [about the economy and state of society in 1936] Holograph, 6 p., [1936]. Written for Saturday Review of Literature.
  15. Notice of memorial meeting for Frank Morley at Haverford Friends Meeting. Holograph, 1 p., [1937]. See #22.
  16. "A letter from Christopher Morley: "O that my publisher had written a book...." Ts., mimeographed, 4 p., 1945. [re Frank Morley's "My One Contribution to Chess"]
  17. [Notes for a column on some events of the year 1946]. Ts., 1 p., [1946].
  18. (see number 7 above)
  19. "Memo for this private edition" [re a book to be published]. Ts., 1 p., 1949.
  20. Book review of The Old House at Coate by Richard Jefferies. Ts., 1 p., n.d.
  21. "Valediction". Ts., 1 p., n.d.
  22. "Ballade in a Bookseller's Catalogue." Xerox of ts., annotated, and xerox of same printed in the New Yorker, Feb. 27, 1943. 1 p., [1943].
  23. ["Centennial Ode to Haverford]. Ts., 2 p.,[1933].
  24. "A Barbershop Shantey." Xerox of holograph. 1p.
  25. "White House Interior" H.Ms.S., 1932; 2 letters

Accession #6: 1923 - 1955 (Boxes 40 - 41)
MORLEY FAMILY PAPERS. Additions: Christopher Darlington Morley, 1923-55.
Ca. 60 items

Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, musical scores, printed items, a photograph and print and miscellaneous.

Table of Contents

Box 40 (cont.)

Correspondence: 1925-55 (Letters are from C.D. Morley unless otherwise noted)

  1. to "Bill" (Ernest S. Colling). Aug. 13, 1925 - Nov. 23, 1955. 11 items. T.Ls.S. and A.Ls.S., one dictated. [mix of business and personal news, mentioning t.v. work of Colling in Hollywood; discussing book by Robert Louis Stevenson, Silverado Squatters; discusses a play, Where the Blue Begins, A Divine Comedy, assisted by E.S. Colling, published in 1925, on which he is working, detailing actions in the last act and includes words for music to "Paddy Paws" and verse]
  2. to William W. Comfort. Oct. 4, 1932. T.L.S. [refers to the "best thing I've done", probably referring to Human Being.]
  3. Karig, Walter to C.D. Morley. (Karig was Secretary of the Navy). 11 June 1952. T.L.S. [re getting work for Ernest S. Colling at Voice of America.]

Manuscripts:

  • 1. The Blue and the Gray by Christopher Morley. Ts., annotated. Play produced at the Old Rialto Theatre, ca. 1929-30; also review clippings.
  • 2. Poems: "A Birthday" written "for Moussie", Apr. 13, 1950. T.Ms.S. First line reads "When Katy is weary and bilious..." Two stanzas, n.d., H.Ms.
  • 3a. Ms. Scores: Music by Ernest Colling, words by C.D. Morley
    1. "Epitaph". Two states.
    2. "I was just a little song."
    3. "If you and I"
    4. "Tit for Tat"
    5. "Dandy Dandelion"
    6. "The Plumpuppets"
    7. "Six weeks old" - 2 states and photostat
    8. "The black beetle"
    9. "Let's pretend not to pretend"
  • 3b. Ms. score: Music by Jerome Kern, words by Christopher Morley
    1. "Illyrisches National Lied"
  • 3c. Ms. words by Christopher Morley without music:
    1. "Hoboken Drinking Song."

Printed Items:

  1. Printed Scores: Music by E.S. Colling, words by Christopher Morley. 5 items. Printed score by T. Kennick and G. Bickwell inscribed by P. Stammer to C.D.M., July, 1929.
  2. Theatrical Materials:
    1. "Gambrinus Thalia Birds-eye view of Hoboken, New Jersey U.S.A. New York's last seacoast of Bohemia .. executed for Messrs. Morley and Throckmorton..." 7-color illustrated map, with sites of particular interest noted around perimeter. With envelope.
    2. Printed notice requesting mannerly behavior in the theatre.
    3. "Hoboken Free State - E Pluribus Euthanasia" 1l
    4. Small printed map of Roslyn, L.I. area indicating Millpond Playhouse
    5. "A prologue for the Old Rialto Theatre, Hoboken, written by Christopher Morley... and spoken by Mr. Morley at the first performance of After Dark" ..., Dec. 10, 1928." 1l, folio
    6. Typed list of players and their signatures at Old Rialto Theatre, Nov. 1928.
    7. Promotional publication for Lyric and Old Rialto Theatres, Apr., 1929. Entitled Hoboken Nights, vol. 1, no. 1.
    8. Advertisement for production of "After Dark" at Old ,Rialto Theatre, but dated 1868, 1 year after original production was first performed in London.
  3. "My one contribution to 17th century scholarship/ by C.D. Morley. 2/100, 1927.

Miscellaneous

  1. Envelope inscribed to Joyce [Colling] by C.D. Morley
  2. Inscription to E.S. Colling by C.D. Morley, 1923
  3. Photograph of "house in Frankford (Phila.) where K. Foyle grew up," written in C.D.M.'s hand/with a group depicted, including C.D.M. in front of house.
  4. rint by ? of a Mennonite
  5. Photo of dust jacket for Kitty Foyle (celluloid)

Box 41

Books

12-volume Haverford edition of the works of Christopher Morley signed by the author, no. 999 of a set of 1001. Plus additional Kitty Foyle.

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