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Accession #7 - 1915 - 1968 (Box 42)
MORLEY FAMILY PAPERS. Additions: Christopher Darlington Morley, 1915-1968.
1 box, ca. 100 items.

Papers consist of letters, notebooks and printed material by or about Christopher Morley.

Box 42

Notebooks:

  1. Private notebook for Shipley Lectures on Shakespeare given by C.D.M. at Haverford College, 1930-32.
  2. Private notebook kept by C.D.M. for talks on Shakespeare, ca. 1930-32, with dedication to Ralph Sargent in 1946.

Letters, 1940-1954, from C.D. Morley to Ralph Sargent unless otherwise noted (total of 69, selected below for Content):

  1. Oct. 7, 1942 [the value of Chaucer increases for him with time.]
  2. Apr. 9, 1946 [has worked on translation of Horace]
  3. 20 May 1946 ["I have a horrid fear that Rufus may have thought that Dreiser is a writer."]
  4. 5 Jan. 1947 [contains two verses by "Barclay Hall" (C.D.M.), and encloses a letter never sent to the President of Kenyon College, thoughts on a variety of topics, including truth, H.C., Robert Frost, Baker Street Irregulars, journalism]
  5. April 1, 1947 [copy of a letter to John Allison re Sugimoto Prize, commenting in an annotation to R.M.S. on the character of Allison and H.C. alumni]
  6. April 25, 1947 [includes a "spring" verse and limerick about Gandhi]
  7. April 27, 1947 [importance of Shakespeare is his "habit and watchfulness of mind"; literature is power; he is looking for the "waking Dream", etc.]
  8. 30 April '47 [on Marianne Moore and George Saintsbury, the latter one of his heroes; he wrote his diary in French for a year, just to see how Frenchmen think -- and he thinks like Ronsard and Chaucer (" a Frenchman at guts")]
  9. September 25, 1947 [about writing, T.S. Eliot, planned work, "Charter of Human Comedy"]
  10. 22 September 1948 [re giving H.C. his first edition of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary ;re Shakespeare, sends his rendition of the Droeshout portrait]
  11. to"Mac" [Archibald MacIntosh], Nov. 9, 1948 [writing new book which will "outrage the 'unco guid' even more than Kitty did"; H.C. sports]
  12. Dec. 10, 1948 [description of characters in his new book; sent H.C. first edition of Baker Street Irregular's Blue Carbuncle]
  13. 23rd April 1949 [poem to R.M.S re Shakespeare]
  14. Aug. 29, 1950 [poem on a writer's interruptions]
  15. April 21, 1950 ["What an essay could be written and never will be, on the Quaker horror of the Arts in Being."]
  16. 12 Oct. 1950 [writing verse and 'Translations from the American' for Punch; includes copy of letter to George Adams and H. Tatnall Brown, and letter to R.M.S.]
  17. April 19, 1951 [C.D.M.'s favorite poets are Coleridge, Keats and Sherlock Holmes]
  18. July 2, 1951 [poetry and about poetry]
  19. July 19, 1951 [has suffer partial paralysis, but is recovering]
  20. Nov. 20, 1951 [used to sing with glee club at H.C. -- David Bispham also; more information re H.C., and plea to save the 1864 hearth in North Wing of the Library (Philips Wing)]
  21. Dec. 2, 1951 [on F.B. Gummere, L.P. Smith and his Shakespeare Ms. to H.C.; on the Alger Hiss case]
  22. Dec. 17, 1951 [includes a postscript written 1 year later, containing reference to the episode of Indian clubs in Kitty Foyle which was drawn from the memory of (W.P.) Philips swinging pearl-inlaid clubs at H.C. in 1899]
  23. Jan. 18, 1952 [working on a sonnet about the Country Without a Man; on English vs. Latin; on H.C. and Rufus Jones and F.B. Gummere]
  24. Dec. 23, 1952 [on the pine barrens and use as locale in Kitty Foyle]
  25. March 1, 1953 [on his house at H.C., English Department and reading]
  26. April 26, 1953 [draft of sonnet "Climacteric"]
  27. Jan. 27, 1954 [has had another stroke]
  28. March 26, 1954 [character and book of James Whitall]
  29. April 21, 1954 [on H.C. and recollections of childhood scenes]
  30. June 6, 1954 [on H.C. and F.B. Gummere]
  31. Aug. 24, 1954 [new book of poems called Gentlemen's Relish]
  32. Sept. 12, 1954 [list of books being read]
  33. Oct. 3, 1954 [music at H.C.]
  34. Nov. 8, 1954 [worked much harder at H.C. than at Oxford]
  35. [1950's] "Sonnet 155" and
  36. to Mrs. Doubleday. January 7 1938 [thanks her for sending the book on "Effendian" (F.N. Doubleday) reminiscences]

Typescript:

  1. Prompt book of the Trojan Horse: A Contemporary Drama ... by C.D.M. (copyright 1937, 1939)

Printed Pieces:

  1. Haverford College Bulletin, Vol. XIII, No. 4, Alumni Quarterly, Feb., 1915. Contains article by C.D.M., "Haverford and Publicity."
  2. "Rubaiyat of Account Overdue"/ by C.DM., 1935.
  3. Page Proof of The Ballad of New York, New York: Poems, 1930-1950/ by C.DM., 1950.
  4. "A birthday greeting for William Shakespeare", including C.D.M.'s "Shakespeare and Hawaii", [1950's]

Miscellaneous: (1958)

  1. Tribute to C.D.M. and dedication of Morley Alcove (1968)
    1. Notes for introduction to talk by Frank Morley, Oct., 1958
    2. Printed copy of Frank Morley talk, "Christopher Morley or the Treasure of the Abandoned Mine"
    3. Letters to R.M.S. from Frank Morley and others re lectures he will give at H.C., including one on C.D.M. and H.C. in tribute to C.D.M., also planning stage for these lectures and for the presentation of C.D.M.'s papers to H.C.
    4. Biographical sketch of C.D.M.
    5. Selections from C.D.M.'s John Mistletoe for dedication
  2. Obituary notices
  3. Etching of C.D.M. by Richard Hood & signed by both. n.d.

Accession #8 - 1938 - 1953 (Box 42)
MORLEY FAMILY PAPERS. Additions: Christopher Darlington Morley, 1938-1953.
70 items

Box 42 (cont.)

Correspondence of Christopher Morley and Joseph W. Lippincott, including 30 letters, mostly t.ls.s., from Morley, beginning in 1938 when Morley confesses he is beginning a new novel set in Philadelphia in 1919 which became Kitty Foyle. Correspondence deals primarily with sales and promotion for Kitty Foyle.

Accession #9 - 1906 - 1954 (Box 43)
MORLEY FAMILY PAPERS. Additions: Christopher Darlington Morley, 1906-54.
Ca 200 items

Papers include letters of Christopher Darlington Morley to H. Tatnall Brown, 1934-54 and n.d.; letters of Ben Abramson to H. Tatnall Brown, 1939-42; papers written by Christopher Morley while a student at Haverford College (1906-1910); letters of 9 authors to Morley, including Stephen Vincent Benet, Maxwell Struthers Burt, James Branch Cabell, Edna Ferber, William McFee, H.L. Mencken, A. Edward Newton, Logan Pearsall Smith, and W.A. White; material about Christopher Morley and; miscellaneous papers including a holograph manuscript written by Ogden Nash.

Box 43

Folder I
Letters from Christopher Morley to H. Tatnall Brown, 1934-40. Ca. 100 items in two folders. [re books, Haverford College and intellectual ephemera.] Letters include:

  1. Scanned Image July 15, 1936, a libretto Christopher Morley has written to the tune of "The Vicar of Bray" as a Haverford College Song.] (approx. 98K).
  2. Jan. 11, 1937. [a Morley collection of autograph letters for Haverford College to rival the Charles Roberts Collection.]
  3. Nov. 3, 1937. [anecdote about his good friend, Buckminster Fuller.]
  4. Feb. 4, 1938. [re interment of his father's ashes at Haverford Meeting.]
  5. Oct. 30, 1938. [has begun translation of Ronsard's most obscene sonnets.]
  6. Nov. 2, 1939. [re Kitty Foyle, with responses from both men and women. C.D.M. thinks Kitty Foyle "honest and beautiful" and is proud of it; has dramatized The Trojan Horse and wishes Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College would perform it.]
  7. Dec. 1, 1939. [suggests Haverford's next president should be outside the usual Quaker stereotype, not a comment on present or past administrations.]
  8. Feb. 5, 1940. [ratings for Kitty Foyle.]
  9. Mar. 18, 1940. Kitty Foyle as Life feature.]

Folder II
Letters of C.D. Morley to H.T. Brown, 1941-54 and n.d.; letters of Ben Abramson to H.T. Brown:

  1. June 30, 1941. [will be presenting a series of monologues on method of studying literature]
  2. Oct. 28, 1941. [it has been a year since Trojan Horse first performed in Roslyn,(L.I.) and will be produced at Harvard (idea later scuttled); wants to give Leviathan to Haverford College Library.]
  3. Nov. 13, 1941. [contemplates "The Assidui" as name for friends of Haverford Library group].
  4. July 1, 1946. [closing on a movie deal.]
  5. Apr. 18, 1947. [writing a book about the "End of the World"; asks if H.T. B. has seen his Spirit Level.]
  6. to Guy Lyle. Dec. 2, 1947. [re Helen Hare Carroll; C.D.M.'s grandfather, Chapman & Hall and George Meredith; C.D.M.'s first bibliographer was Aaron Mendoza.]
  7. Nov. 10, 1948. [his latest book, The Man Who Made Friends With Himself submitted to Doubleday for publishing, considered by them to be his best; has written a piece about Tom Daly.]
  8. Jan. 24, 1949. [enjoyed writing for Evening Public Ledger which he quit, not by his own desire; enclosure to Guy Lyle states that his new novel is an "uninhibited picture of human ecstasies and agonies."]
  9. Feb. 18, 1949. [he wrote Kitty Foyle so it could be translated into French.]
  10. May 12, 1949. [Ten years' worth of C.D.M.'s essays and pieces are to be published.]
  11. June 14, 1949. [poor reviews for The Man Who Made Friends With Himself as he had expected.]
  12. June 17, 1949. [Poetry Package of William Rose Benet and C.D.M. has been privately printed.]
  13. Nov. 10, 1949. [says he has Parkinson's Disease.]
  14. Dec. 23, 1949. [re publishing and a two-volume set of Poems and Essays for C.D.M.'s 60th birthday.]
  15. Mar. 25, 1950. [tells what area from Ardmore to Bryn Mawr was like in his childhood.]
  16. Sept. 9, 1950. [feels Kitty Foyle is one of the few honest books ever written.]
  17. June 14, 1951. [invites H.T. Brown to take away a sea chest of his material.]
  18. [n.d.] [many tidbits about Haverford College.]
  19. 8 T.Ls.S. by Ben Abramson to H.T. Brown, 1939-42 relating to C.D.M., including: 16 Dec. 1939. [stating that C.D.M. was offered $50,000 for movie rights to Kitty Foyle which he turned down.]

Folder III
38 papers written by C.D.M. while a student at Haverford College (1906-1910).

Folder IV
16 letters to C.D.M.

  1. Benet, Stephen Vincent. A.L.S., n.d.
  2. Burt, Maxwell Struthers. A.L.S., 5/5/21
  3. Cabell, James Branch. T.L.S., 12/3/21
  4. Ferber, Edna. T.L.A., 12/14/21
  5. McFee, William. T.L., 4/18/21
  6. Mencken, H.L., T.Ls.S., (4), n.d.
  7. Newton, A.E., A.Ls.S., (5), 1921
  8. Smith, Logan Pearsall, A.L.S., 10/4/21. [will be in America and staying with his cousin, M. Carey Thomas, at the Deanery, Bryn Mawr College.]
  9. White, W.A., T.L.S., 12/12/21

Folder V
Material about C.D. Morley:

  1. 6 photos, 1 signed clipping of Morley
  2. Description of The Foundry (Hoboken) and v.1, no. 1 of Hoboken Nights, 1935 and 1929 respectively.
  3. Four essays re C.D.M. by undergraduates.
  4. Ex libris label showing C.D.M., bookmark, Bryant Library exhibit notes and "C.D.M. writes for your paper"
  5. Scanned Image Sampler, unframed."When we on simple rations sup, How easy is the washing up, But heavy feeding complicates, The task by soiling many plates," Signed by C. M. (approx. 39K).

Folder VI
Miscellaneous Papers:

  1. Nash, Ogden to Christopher Morley. T.L.S., 1944; 3-page holograph introduction of C.D.M. by Nash at a meeting, Dec. 14, 1943. Includes two rhymes.
  2. "A Thomas Hardy Memorial"/A. Edward Newton. 1931. Signed and inscribed by the author.
  3. Ms. score for "Dusk", words by C.D.M. Not in his hand.
  4. Ms. fragment of score for "Put Your Arms Around Me". Albert von Tilzer, composer, Junie McCree, lyricist. 1910, revived in 1943.
  5. Five Haverfordiana items.

Loose: 1936 Morrell calendar with illustrations for 12 stories chosen by C.D.M.

Removed from collection:

  1. to 975C. Supplementary memoranda re the ms. of Pearsall Smith's "On Reading Shakespeare". With Pearsall Smith's ms.
  2. to H.C.A. Two Haverford College plates: gold rim "Haverford College founded 1833" inscribed by creator to Dean Brown, H.C., 1937; Haverford College seal with William Penn, gold rim, red and black circles.
  3. To Humanities Bibliographer for Main Library Collection. Pamphlets: "Lines from C.D.M."; "The Curious Case of Kenelm Digby/ C.D.M.; "85 Golden Florins .... books selected by C.D.M."; Journal of the Long Island Book Collectors, including "The Case of C.M."; "To Lucy"/ Walter de la Mare. Signed by the author.

Accession #10 - 1918 - 1940 (Box 43)
MORLEY FAMILY PAPERS. Additions: Papers, 1918-40.
l0 items. Papers include letters of Christopher Darlington Morley, 1919-40 and Morley ephemera.

Box 43 (cont.)

Folder I
Letters of Christopher Darlington Morley, 1919-40. 5 items.

  1. l. to [Francis Barton] Gummere. Phila., Feb. 17, [1919]. [Would like Gummere to write an account of his impressions when he first read Robert Louis Stevenson's The Wrong Box in 1889 for Morley to publish in "The Chaffing Dish"; Morley's Rocking Horse to be published.]
  2. 2. to Mrs. [F.B.] Gummere. Phila., July l0, 1919. [would like to visit "or do anything that you think would be helpful."]
  3. 3. to Margery [Gummere?]. Aug. 19, l929.
  4. 4. to Mrs. [F.B.] Gummere. New York, May 24, 1935. [hopes Haverford hasn't become too big.]
  5. 5. to S[amuel] J. Gummere. New York, Mar 5, 1940. [the Gummere-Morley family friendship still means a great deal to him]

Folder II
Christopher Morley Ephemera:

  1. l. Subscription form from Hoboken Theatrical Company.
  2. 2. Christmas 1918 printing of two Morley ballades from A. Edward Newton.
  3. 3. Christmas card from Helen and Christopher Morley, n.d.
  4. 4. Program from the Repertory Theatre of Boston for Morley's play, "Pleased to Meet You," Oct. 17, 1927.
  5. 5. Program from Morley's theatre Old Rialto in Hoboken, N.J., n.d. (1868!)

Removed from collection:

  • To PG: Ca. 60 newspaper clippings by or about Christopher Morley.

Accession #11 - 1882 - 1986 (Boxes 44 - 56)
MORLEY FAMILY PAPERS. ADDITIONS, 1882-1986.

The principal writer of the collection is Frank Vigor Morley (1899- 1980), son of Frank Morley (1860-1937) and Lilian Janet Morley (1866- 1939). Frank V. Morley and his brothers, Christopher (1890-1957) and Felix (1894-1982), all attended Haverford College and were elected Rhodes scholars; however, Frank remained in England to work as an editor at the publishing firm Faber and Faber. This collection, now a part of the Morley Family Papers, is divided into subgroups and series beginning with Box 44.

Table of Contents: Accession #11

  • Boxes 44 - 46
    contains typescripts by F.V. Morley; his typescripts and manuscripts
  • Box 47
    are F.V. Morley lecture materials and biographical information on F.V. Morley and other Morley family members.
  • Box 48
    includes notes for some of F.V. Morley's books and other writings.
  • Box 49
    incorporates mathematical and some other writings of Frank Morley Sr. as well as a typescripts by Lilian Morley.
  • Box 50
    is devoted to one item by Christopher Morley, typescripts by Felix Morley and Blythe Brennan and a variety of family photographs.
  • Box 51
    is absorbed by a Morley family scrapbook compiled by F.V. Morley.
  • Box 52
    contains the correspondence of Frank V. Morley with his parents as well as material on the disposition of Frank Morley's estate.
  • Box 53
    contains correspondence of F.V. Morley with numerous people, many of whom have a Haverford College connection.
  • Boxes 54-56
    are restricted until 2026.

Copyright is reserved by the Morley family until 2030; permission to publish must also be obtained through the family.

Box 44

Frank Vigor Morley: Typescripts

  • "Jumblies" (incomplete). 1942.
  • "Jumblies". Carbon copy. 198 p.
  • "Dwelly Lane. 366 p.

Box 45

Frank Vigor Morley: Typescripts

  • "East, South East" 377 p.
  • "War Paint" (based on package identification. However, inside is "Old Glory". Ms. in 18 chapters (some chapters missing). Also several pages of ms. additions.

Box 46

Frank Vigor Morley; Typescripts and Manuscripts ( Miscellaneous)

  • "Miscellaneous Writings:"
    • "The Brother's Club". 13 p., TS. and 9 p., Ms.
    • "The Rainbow". 3 items, Ms.
    • "The Gateway". 10 p., TS.
    • "Thirteen Folios from Coleridge's Library". 42 p., TS.
    • "Some thoughts before re-reading Johnson." 11 p., TS.
  • "More Miscellaneous Writings:
    • "A Pit in Dothan". 2 p., TS;envelope with notes.
    • Memo book containing notes for "Literary Britain"
    • "The Sense of Place". 8 p., TS.; fragments, TS (for "Literary Britain"?)
    • Recording of conversation with FVM re Allen Lane. Feb., 1971. 4 p.
    • Outline of "Literary Britain": memo. Feb., 1973.
    • "More Miscellaneous Writings":
    • "Who was Who". TS copy; photo of Mayne Reid.
    • "Dick Turpin". Galleys; "Publisher's notes". 17 p., TS.
    • "The Leaning Tower". Galleys.
    • "Left Hand, Right Hand". 1964. 12 p., TS.
  • Miscellaneous Drafts:
    • "Callers at End House". 2 items, 4 p. each
    • "Incinerator". 2 p.
    • "The Grove". 10 p., Ms.
    • "In Retreat". by Herbert Read. Annotated TS. (for review)
    • "A Few Recollections of Eliot. 12 p., TS. with "The Donkey Book"., 13 p., Ms.
  • More Miscellaneous:
    • "The Gateway". 19 p., TS.
    • "The Impersonal Hamlet". 13 p., TS.
    • "T.S. Eliot and Herbert Read." 19 p.
    • Untitled TS on poetry. 20 p.
    • "The Poetry of T.S. Eliot". 18 p., TS. with Eliot's poem, "Defense of the Islands" for Britain at War, 1940.
  • Puzzles and Games:
    • "Potiphar and other Puzzles". 14 p., TS.
    • "Potiphar" and the "Pyramid of Gafoozleum".
    • "Week-end Guests." 3p., TS.
    • Sam Loyd's "Get off the Earth" puzzle
    • Christmas crossword clues. 1956.
    • "The game of Ziggwat". 1940s. 4 p., TS.
    • "Game of Publishing". 1937. 11 p., TS.
  • Manuscripts and Typescripts:
    • "Johnson Now" 2 items. 14 p., TS.
    • "Samuel Johnson". Ms., notes.
    • "Johnson and America". 2 items: 10 p., Ms., 12 p. TS. with notes
  • "Euclid":
    • "Euclid's Postulates". 6 p., Ms.
    • "Geometry at Home" with drawings
    • "Notes for History of Mathematics". Oxford, 1923.
  • "Cucullati":
    • 3 states: 27 p., 35 p., 35 p.
    • 2 photos of stone "Cucullati"
    • Photo, The Times 8 Aug. 1972: Cucullati at Cirencester

Box 47

Frank Vigor Morley: Lectures and Biographical Information

  • Lectures:
    • "Note on the Humanities". Mar. 1929. 6 p. draft TS. Lecture given for Rockefeller Foundation?
    • "The Importance of Teaching Mathematics". Jan. 1938. 19 p. TS. Lecture at Johns Hopkins?
    • "The Consumer and the Classics". Nov. 1946. 25 p. TS. Lecture at Sarah Lawrence. With 2 related items.
    • "The Use of the Classics". May, 1946. 18 p. TS. Lecture given at Hunter College. Also 2nd copy.
    • "A Publisher's Notes" 1949. 17 p. TS. (Lecture given where?)
    • "Introducing the U.S.A." post-1950. six sessions. (where given?)
    • "The Husbandry of Literature". 1958. 3 TSs, 2 amended copies, 1 ms.
    • "Christopher Morley as Man and Writer". Oct. 1958. 14 p. draft TS. Lecture given at Haverford College.
    • "The History and General Practice of Publishing". 17 p. n.d. TS. Lecture given at N.Y. University.
    • "America Revisited". Annotated TS, 9 p. (lecture? where given?)
  • Biographical Information on Frank V. Morley:
    • Friends School, Baltimore. Grade book, 1910-11.
    • Haverford College grades, 1915-17.
    • Johns Hopkins grades, 1917-18; Lacrosse letter award, 1918; Sketch of FVM for R.O.T.C.; Astronomical surveying notes, ca. 1918.
    • Phi Beta Kappa certificate and constitution or by-laws
    • Discharge from U.S. Army, 1919
    • Acceptance of resignation from Reserve Corps Commission, 1920
    • U.S. copyright certificate for MOCTC, 1945
    • Partial list of publications. 2 items.
    • "Fragments". June 1986 (containing some biographical information).
    • Christmas cards. 2 items.
  • Biographical Information on Morley Family:
  • Obituary for Lilian Janet Morley. 1939. TS.
  • Biographical information of Frank Morley, Sr.
  • Recommendations for Frank Morley, Sr. at Cambridge University, 1882. 6 items.
  • "In Memoriam": tribute to Christopher Morley clipped to letter from Meredith [Wilson?}. Aug. 13, 1957

Box 48

Frank Vigor Morley: Notes:

  • 2 notebooks with notes for "The Long Road West."
  • Outline for "The Long Road West"
  • Synopsis of "The Great North Road. 5 p., TS.
  • Notebook with notes for "The Great North Road"
  • Bound notebook with "Notes on Publishing, i.e. relation of Writer, Patron and Publisher"
  • Notes on "Dr. Watson".

Box 49

Frank Morley Sr. and Lilian Janet Morley:

Frank Morley Sr.:

  • Notebook - Problems ii - Frank Morley, Haverford College, with notes laid in
  • Westminster College, Oct. 1934: lecture notes?, 4 p. and 8 p., Ms.

Lilian Janet Morley:

  • "Bygones": Recollections of early married life in USA and going on till 1911 including many extracts from Christopher Morley's letters to Lilian J. Morley written during his first year as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. 190 p., TS., carbon copy

Box 50

Christopher D. Morley and Felix M. Morley et al:

Christopher Morley:

  • "A Tempest in a Tea-cup". 1 p., Ms.

Felix Morley:

  • "The Message". 267 p., TS.

Blythe Brennan:

  • "The Rosebud Adventure". 260 p., TS., copy

Photographs:

  • Photos of Frank V. Morley

Box 51

Morley Family:

Scrapbook compiled by Frank V. Morley. Baltimore, early 20th century.

Box 52

Morley Family Correspondence:

  • Frank V. Morley and Lilian J. Morley correspondence, 1915-23 while FVM was a student at Haverford College, including:
    • Apr. 21, 1917: [Haverford Emergency Unit]
    • 1917: [Haverford Emergency Unit - outline]
    • Frank V. Morley and Lilian J. Morley correspondence, 1924-30 while FVM was a student at Oxford
    • Frank V. Morley and Frank Morley, Sr. correspondence, 1920-29. Chiefly re mathematics.
    • Frank V. Morley and Frank Morley, Sr. correspondence, 1930-37; also "Captain Rosebud adventure", 3p. n.d.; "An adventure in Kenya", 2 p. May, 1933; "The Heliacal Rising:, 4 p., c. 1935; "When and where", 1935; some drawings by FVM with letters and mass.
  • Frank Morley, Sr., 1860-1937: death and disposition of estate: Copy of notes by FM, Sr.
    • Memorandum re death duties. TS, biographical
    • Frank V. Morley to Dr. J.C. French, Feb. 17, 1937. TS, copy.
    • List of original papers by Frank Morley, Oct. 10, 1904 and as compiled by executors. Feb. 1938. TS, copy.
    • Prof. Frank Morley's manuscripts and models, n.d.
    • Frank V. Morley to J.R.. Musselman and R.C. Archibald. Feb. 1938. TS., copy [re donation of FM, Sr.'s library to Johns Hopkins]. Acknowledgment from Johns Hopkins.

Box 53

Morley Family Correspondence:

  • Correspondence of Frank V. Morley, A-M: (significant amount relates to Haverford College; includes drawings)
    • Abromson, Herman to FVM. May 24, 1979. [re Baker Street Irregulars, Christopher Morley and FVM's crossword puzzle which got the B.S.I. started]
    • Baker, Walter to FVM. Oct. 1, 1959.
    • Corson, Philip L. to FVM. Mar. 25, 1974.
    • D'Esopo, Danna to FVM. June 20, 1961. [researching life of Christopher Morley]
    • Goldberg, Michael to Frank Morley. Dec. 17, 1934. [on dissecting a cube]
    • Graves, Edgar and FVM. July 1961-72. [re Graves' book and as H.C. class reporter, class of 1919.
    • Lester, John to FVM. Feb. 25, 1977.
    • Lockwood, Dean P. Oct. 1, 1958.
    • Magill, James P. and FVM. 1968-74. 42 items [friendly letters, occasionally with news about Haverford College, such as dedication of C. Christopher Morris Cricket Library in 1969 and FVM's talk about CDM in 1971, including 2 from Emerson Greenaway about James P. Magill's death]
    • Morley, FV to Mary Allinson and John R. Coleman. Jordans, Bucks, Dec. 1967 - Mar. 1968. [re dedication of CDM alcove.]
  • Correspondence and articles of Cletus Oakley and Frank V. Morley, 1958- 1979 primarily on math topics, including:
    • Two solutions to intermarriage problem "Corpus Christi Problem" and Playtime pages from Jack and Jill by Cletus Oakley. Mar. and Oct., 1956 and Sept., 1957.
    • "The Morley Trisector Theorem" by J.C. Baker, FVM? and Cletus Oakley. Draft, 42 p. with 1976 items
  • Correspondence of Frank V. Morley, N-Z:
    • Perry, Charles, 1967-70. 4 items, including: I. Sharpless' recruitment of Frank Morley, Sr.
    • Rodell, Fred. 1962 commencement speech.
    • Sargent, Ralph. 1958-71. 8 items. [re arrangements to have FVM speak at Haverford College about Christopher Morley and about FVM's book, The Great North Road and if H.C. would like to have the TS.
    • Shipley, Walter Penn. 1958-84. 5 items.
    • Smith, Robert C. 1961-80. 7 items.
    • Thompson, Craig R. Sept., 1961. 2 items.[FVM's TS. of The Great North Road has arrived]
    • Wilson, A.H. 1923 & 1929. 2 items. [about books, students at H.C. and other topics]

Boxes 54 - 56

RESTRICTED UNTIL JANUARY 1, 2026.

Removed from Collection 807 to PG:

  • Review of biography of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald by Nancy Mitford.
  • Modern Age review of Long Road West
  • New Scientist, 5/31/62, 12/17/59: FVM on Royal Society
  • "The Impersonal Hamlet", University of Arizona Bull., 1959.
  • 3 press clippings re Nuttfield appointment
  • Reprint from Nature re Nuttfield appoints
  • Pleasant Questions and Wonderful Effects by Frank Morley:
  • Presidential Address to Am. Math. Soc., 12/28/20.
  • The Kiss Precise, etc. by Frederick Soddy (reprint from Nature)
  • Extensions of Clifford's Theorem by Frank Morley, Sr., Am. J. Math, 1920.
  • 7 Frank Morley clippings on math-related subjects.
  • 3 math & Morley-related clippings
  • 2 obituaries of C.D.M.
  • clipping about C.D.M., N.Y. Times, 5/20/73
  • Playtime pages from Jack & Jill by C. Oakley, 3/56,10/56, 9/57.
  • "The Morley Trisector Theorem" by C. Oakley and Justine Baker.
  • Articles on Oakley, Sargent, etc. (Haverford Horizons, Winter '79)
  • 3 clippings of obituaries of Frank Morley, Sr.
  • "When & Where" by Frank Morley, Sr., Jan. 1936.
  • Obituary of Lilian J. Morley, Baltimore Sun, 5/25/36.
  • clipping re FVM
  • Sat. Review of Lit.: FVM on Blunder - Undertones of War.
  • Christopher Morley and the Treasure of the Abandoned Mine.
  • Photos of CDM, David Bone, FVM et al from The New York Times.
  • Haverford News re FVM and 125th anniversary
  • "The Husbandry of Literature" by FVM. 1 printed copy of lecture, 1958.
  • press review clippings and other ephemera re Great North Road, Long Road West, other press reviews including "My one contribution to chess"

Accession #12 - 1939 - 1975 (Box 57)
MORLEY FAMILY PAPERS. Christopher Morley Papers, Additions, 1939-75.

Box 57

The additions consist of:

  1. 52 letters and manuscript items characteristically written by Morley to his secretary, Elizabeth Barrett Winspear, primarily in the 1940s and 1950s. The letters concern literary matters, personal matters, references to his works, such as Kitty Foyle and other writings, such as an introduction to Boswell's Diary, occasional political references as to a speech by Hitler (date of June 1, 1949 taken from the envelope) and references to Haverford College. There are also a few sonnets, some signed "Barclay Hall." Also 11 volumes written and inscribed by Morley to Winspear which have been removed to the Morley Alcove.
  2. 32 letters by Elizabeth Winspear to Christopher Morley, including letters written from Tokyo during the Occupation following World War II in which Winspear describes its inhabitants and their customs and makes occasional reference to the American occupation and bombing, but mostly chats about her life; also 2 photographs; and several ephemeral items, 1945-66.
  3. approximately 25 miscellaneous letters, sonnets, photographs, etc. from the 1940s to the 1970s, including a typescript by Tom Mahoney on "The Life and Death of Kitty Foyle" which identifies Winspear as the model for Kitty Foyle.

A more detailed description of the collection follows.

  1. Letters of Christopher Darlington Morley (who signed himself as "O.M." or the Old Mandarin) to Elizabeth Barrett Winspear (whom he usually addressed as "Winling"), ca. 50 items. Primarily letters which occasionally contain verse (provenance counts verse as separate from letter), there are also typed and ms. items, including 4 p.c.s., 1939-1957.
    Morley letters (highlighted):
    • C.D.M. writes about the planned publication with William Rose Benet of Poetry Package and encloses a sample verse (June 20, 1949).
    • Mentions the gingko trees which used to be planted in front of Founders Hall at Haverford College (July, 1949).
    • In a letter to Max Schuster (apparently a copy to E. B. W.), devotes entire page to discussion & praise of a new publication of Walt Whitman's work, a topic with which he is very familiar (Dec. 2, 1949).
    • A self-description borrowed from his description of both Einstein's appearance and that of his father "part human & carnal terror and part don't give a damn I'm beyond all that..." (Mar. 31, 1950).
    • Political prediction that the "USSR will keep us dancing on hot plates all over the map for a long time to come" (July 6, 1950).
    • Current major interests are work for the Book of the Month Club and writing verses, calling the one for Sept. Mercury the best he had ever done; death of his old boyhood friend, Griffith Coale, painter of portraits of F. B. Gummere and Frank Morley, Sr. (Aug. 23, 1950).
    • Rather impoverished financial condition (Sept. 20, 1950).
    • Most of letter devoted to the way in which Yale scholars edited down to one-half of what he had written for an introduction to Boswell's Diary (Dec. 13, 1950).
    • Just discovered The Catcher in the Rye ("silly title") which is "a sort of psychoanalytic autobiogr of a high school kid, age 17, who might have been pitiful young Scotty FitzGerald...Author's name I never heard of, J. D. Salinger..." (Mar. 5, 1951)
    • About Congressman and former classmate of C. D. M.'s at Haverford College, John Phillips who introduced a bill to cut off Dean Acheson's and John Foster Dulles' salaries (July 9, 1951).
    • Had third stroke (May 14, 1954); has been invited to Haverford and would "hate to miss such innocent scenes as a cricket match between Varsity & Alumni in the warm easy savor of a June day on campus."
    • Final letter of the collection was written by Blythe Morley on Jan 22, 1957 reporting on C. D. M's condition.
  2. 32 Letters of Elizabeth B. Winspear ("Wini") to Christopher Morley ("O.M." which stands for his self description as the "Old Mandarin"). Winspear was an ensign, later lieutenant j.g. attached to the Navy's Office of Public Information in Washington at the beginning of her letter writing in 1945. By Oct., 1946, she had moved to San Francisco; then considers taking a secretarial job with the Red Cross overseas for a year (Nov. 10, 1946). It has been said that the character of Kitty Foyle was based on Winspear, and indeed where she has written "I'd like to see it [Europe] first - but would like to see whole international world now that I'm getting started" (Nov. 10, 1946), someone (Abromson?) has penciled in "KF". She was accepted for the job which would take her to Asia. There follows a description of her trip to Japan on board the Gen'l Langfitt (18 Jan 1947), and of Tokyo, its inhabitants and customs from a rather ethnocentric point of view (28 January &14 Feb. 1947). Unhappy with her job in Tokyo, she is transferred to Kobe. There are references to Mrs. Sugimoto (e. g. 21 Mar 1947 and 10 Sept. 1947) on the reissue of her book Daughter of the Samurai; occasional references to the American occupation and the bombing, but no detail.
  3. Miscellaneous: (c.25 items, highlighted):
    • A.L.S. from Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto to E.B. Winspear. [n.p.], July 7, 1948 [about her health, references to her book, EBW's visit to Japan -- but not in detail]
    • T.L.S. of C. D. M. to Meredith Wood (Book-of-the-Month Club). N.Y.C. July 25, 1943 (copy for E.B.W.). [Reference for E. B. W. who has worked as reader, editorial asst. supervisor of correspondence & secretary]
    • 4 sonnets signed by "Barclay Hall" (C. D. M.), one of which was published by Harper's and 12 letter to and from "Barclay Hall" and other Barclay Hall items.
    • 2 C. D. M. sonnets: "Requiesco" TS, annotated, March, 1944 and "I knew that I was lonely..." A. D.
    • TS by Tom Mahoney, "The Life and Death of Kitty Foyle", written after Winspear's death in 1975, which identifies E. B. W. as the model for Kitty Foyle, and is a biography of Winspear and defines the work she did for Morley.
    • Copy of a page of C. D. M.'s will which includes E. B. W. (Mahoney says she inherited a jade medallion).
    • 2 photos: 1 of C. D. M., the other of E. B. W.
    • 4 clippings: obits for C. D. M. et al

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