The writings are arranged in three sections:
I. Writings by Desmond MacCarthy.I. Writings by Desmond MacCarthy(Boxes 7-13, folder 13). Writings are filed under the following alphabetically-arranged subjects assigned by Desmond. (See Vertical File for a detailed listing of individual works under each subject.) Types of writings include: dramatic criticism, book reviews, and other articles for newspapers and magazines; talks and lectures; radio broadcasts; short stories and books.
Box 7 Box 8 Box 9 Box 10 Box 11 Box 12 Box 13 Box 14
Box 7
- Art
- Art of Reading
- Bacon, Francis
- Barrie, James
- Beerbohm, Max
- Belloc, Hilaire
- Bennett, Arnold
- Bibesco, Elizabeth
- Bloomsbury
- Bronte, Charlotte
- Byron, George Gordon Byron
Box 8
- Capek, Josef
- Carlyle, Thomas
- Carroll
- Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
- Claudel, Paul
- Cobden-Sickert, Ellen Melicent
- Cocteau, Jean
- Congreve, William
- Coward, Noel
- Craig, Gordon
- Criticism
- A Critic's Daybook
- Dalcroze, Jaques
- Dane, Clemence
- D'Annunzio, Gabriele
- Darwin, Charles Galton
- Daviot, Gordon
- Defoe, Daniel
- de la Mare, Walter
- Dell, Ethel May
- de Quincey, Thomas
- de Selincourt, Ernest
- Dibdin, Charles
- Dickens, Charles
- Din, Nasr-ed
- Diogenes, etc.
- Distinguished Villa
- Dogs
- Donne, John
- Dostoevsky,
Theodore M.- Drama
- Drinkwater
- Dryden, John
Box 8 (cont'd)
- Eliot, T.S.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- The English Character
- Firbank, Ronald
- Fleming, Marjory
- Ford, Lionel
- Forster, E. M.
- Fry, Roger
- Gallagher, Frank
- Galsworthy, John
- The Gentleman
- Ghosts
- Gosse, Edmund
- Granville-Barker, Harley
- Hardy, Thomas
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Hawtrey, Charles
- Hazlitt, William
- Heine, Heinrich
- Herbert, Aubrey
- Herrick, Robert
- Holcroft, Thomas
- Holmes, Sherlock
- Hsiung, Shih-li
- Hughes, Richard
- Humanities
- Humour
- Hunt, Leigh
- Huxley, Aldous
- Ibsen, Henrik
- The Irish Players
- James, Henry
- Johnson, Samuel
- Journalists
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Box 9
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Lamartine, Alphonse de
- Lamb, Charles
- Landor, Walter Savage
- Lang, Andrew
- Lawrence, D.H.
- Lee, Vernon
- Lemaitre, Jules
- Lipscomb, William Percy
- Literature
- Lou˙s, Pierre
- Lucas, Edward Verrall
- Lucas, F. L.
- Lytton, Bulwer
- Mackenzie, Ronald
- Maeterlinck, Maurice
- Marillier, Christabel
- Martinez Sierra, Gregorio
- Masculine & Feminine
- Masefield, John
- Maugham, Somerset
- Maurois, Andre
- Melville
- Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich
- Meredith, George
- Merrick, Hope
- Milton, John
- Montaigne, Michel de
- Moore, George
- Munro, Charles Kirkpatrick
- Musset, Alfred de
- Names
- Napoleon I
- New Statesman
- Nichols, Robert
- Nicolson, Sir Arthur
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- The Nineteen-Twenties
- Nonsense
- The Novel
- Obey, Andre
- Obscenity and the Law
- O'Casey, Sean
- Old Age
- O'Neill, Eugene
- Order of Merit
- Ould, Hermon
- Oxford, Lord
- Pain
- Paley, Arthur
- Parnell, Charles Stuart
- Peacock, Thomas Love
- Pencraft
- Penn-Smith, Frank
- Pepys, Samuel
- Phillips
- Pierrot
- Pinero, Arthur
- Pirandello, Luigi
- Pixerecourt, Guilbert de
- Plimsoll
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Poetry
- Pope, Alexander
- Portraits and Criticism
- Powys, Llewelyn
- Priestley, J.B.
- Prince, F.T.
- Proust, Marcel
- Psychology and psychoanalysis
- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich
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Box 10
- Rabelais, Francois
- Reason and common sense
- Religion
- Renan, Ernest
- Richardson and Proust
- Ricketts, Charles
- Ritchie, Arthur
- Robespierre, Maximilien
- Robinson, Lennox
- Romanticists
- Roseberry, Lord
- Rossetti family
- Rothschild, Henri de
- Rousseau, Jean Jacques
- Ruskin, John
- Russian literature,
- Russian stories
- Saintsbury, George
- Sala, George Augustus
- Sanger, Lord George
- Santayana, George
- Savoir, Alfred
- Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Shakespeare, William
- Shaw, George Bernard
- Sheppard, Jack
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
- Sherwood, Robert Emmet
- Short stories,
- Sidney, Sir Philip
- Sign of the World's End
- Simenon, Georges
- Sitwell, Osbert
- Sitwell, Edith
- Smith, Sydney
- Social Distinctions in the Past
- Speeches
- Spiders
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Box 11
- Stael, Madame de
- Statues and Tailors
- Stein, Gertrude
- Stendahl
- Stephen, Leslie
- Sterne, Laurence
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Strachey, Lytton
- Strindberg, August
- Style
- Sudermann, Hermann
- Suffragettes
- Surtees, Robert Smith
- Swift, Jonathan
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles
- Symons, Arthur
- Synge, John Millington
- Talks
- Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles
- Taylor, Jeremy
- Tears
- Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, baron
- Tetrazzini, Luisa
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Theatre Galley
- Thompson, Francis
- To a Day Dreamer
- Toller, Ernst
- Tolstoy, Alexei
- Toynbee, William
- Tragedy
- Translation
- Travel books
- Tree, Sir Herbert
- Trelawny, Edward John
- Trevelyan, George Macaulay
- Treves, Sir Frederick
- Trollope, Anthony
- Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich
- Van Gogh, Vincent
- Verlaine, Paul
- Verne, Jules
- Vildrac, Charles
- Vinci, Leonardo da
- Voltaire
- Wallace, Edgar
- Walpole, Horace
- Walpole, Hugh
- Walpole, Robert
- Walters, [Miss]
- War books
- Watson, Sir William
- Webb, Beatrice
- Webling, Archie Frederic
- Webster, John
- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley
- Wells, H.G.
- Wharton, Edith
- White, Gilbert
- Whitman, Walt
- Wilde, Oscar
- Wilder, Thornton
- Williams, Emlyn
- Wilson, Harriette
- Winter, Keith
- The Wonder Zoo
- Woolf, Virginia
- Words
- Writing
- Wyatt, Thomas
- Yeats, Jack Butler
- Yeats, William Butler
- Zangwill, Israel
- Zweig, Stefan
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Box 12 folders 1-3: Unidentified writings and miscellaneous pages folders 4-11: 14 Notebooks folders 12-18: Alphabetical and chronological lists of articles including those written for Eyewitness, 1911-1912, New Statesman, 1913-1928, The Sunday Times, 1928-1952 folders 19-26: Tear sheets of articles written by Desmond from the following newspapers/magazines: Empire Review, The Eyewitness, The Listener, The New Statesman, 1905-1941, and The New Witness TOP
Box 13 folders 1-11: Tear sheets from the series "The World of Books" in The Sunday Times, 1928-1952
Four scrapbooks containing clippings for the series "The World of Books" in The Sunday Times: 1938, 1939, 1949/50, March 1950 to May 1952folders 12: Tear sheets and clippings from other magazines and newspapers folders 13: Tear sheets from Live and Letters TOP
II. Writings by Molly MacCarthy
Box 13 folder 14: Notes on Bloomsbury folder 15: A Pier and A Band (contract only) folder 16: Retrospect, Sept. 1939-Feb.1941 folder 17: Miscellaneous pages TOP
III. Writings by Others
Box 13 folder 18: British Orchids, "...with love from Jocelyn [Brooke], Christmas 1950 "First Published 1917"
"A correspondent..." Article about Theodore Llewelyn Davies
'Esseta Emar [poem], Sept. 1914
Extracts from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. IV, by Charles L. Graves
folder 19: The Garden of Delights, poem by Ursula (Lock) Vaughan Williams
The Hound of Heaven, by Betsy Graves Reyneau
The Last of Miss Vellum, by ?
A Note on Desmond MacCarthy, by Jocelyn Brooke
Note on Falstaff's Hallucinations, by Sydney J. Cole, Feb. 1944
The Real Tripitaka, by Arthur Waley
Resolution passed at the Congress of Intellectuals in Wroclaw,folder 20: Clippings and tear sheets of articles about Desmond folders 21-24: Reviews of Desmond's books: Criticism, Experience, Life and Letters, and Portraits TOP
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Box 14 folders 1-4: Miscellaneous clippings and tear sheets
