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Catalogue
Autobiographical Papers
a. Family history
- Ancestry
- 1 file ms papers relating chiefly to Henry Madge Pillman b.182
- ff.9. 1/1
- Family history
- Ts of a family history written by Barbara Madge for Henry Hylton Foster
- ff.121. File also includes a small diary of HH-F for 1913 1/2
- Father
- 1 file ms, ts and printed papers relating to the civil and military career of CM's father, C.A. Madge, killed in action, May 1916
- ff.23. File includes 4 letters to his wife from the front dated May 1916 1/3
b. Personal history
- Birth
- 7 als, October-November 1912 from various friends congratulating his parents on his birth 1/4
- Chronology
- Ms loose-leaf notebook recording events and achievements in his life, 1912-1980
- ff.75 1/5
- Diaries
- Typescript extracts from his personal diaries and letters
- ff.25 1/6
- Notebook
- "The ruins of time" 1928. Incomplete autobiographical ms 81pp. 1/7
- Poetry
- 35 letters, 7 telegrams of comment and congratulation on CM's poetry, 1921-1929, including a photocopy of an undated letter of John Masefield to CM
- File also contains typescripts of 8 poems, 1920 1/8
- Miscellaneous jottings, notes, etc.
- ff.14. File includes 4 als from friends (RMW, K.S.Hylton Foster, Herbert Miller, MR) 1922-1937 1/9
c. Autobiography
- Ts draft of CM's autobiography sent to and returned by the literary agent John Farquharson. 1987
- ff.278. File includes copy of a letter of comment from Andrew Lownie to CM 26.3.87 2/1
Photographs
Numbered sequence of 35 b&w photographic prints, formal and informal, of CM, his family and friends, intended to illustrate his autobiography, with a plan for their distribution throughout the volume. 2/2
Correspondence
Notebooks
- c.1920 -1930
- 16 ms notebooks containing essays, exercises, jottings, lists, plays, poems, stories, etc. written as a schoolboy 9/
- c. 1931-1951
- 8 notebooks containing autobiographical recollections, essays, observations, poems, presscuttings, reviews, etc. written in his maturer years. With some post 1951 additions 10/
Pilot Press
Pilot Papers : social essays and documents. Edited by Charles Madge 1 un-numbered and 8 numbered issues January 1946 - December 1947. Complete. CM was a director of the Pilot Press. 11/
Poems
- 1920-21
- 4 exercise books of ms transcriptions by BM of poems by CM 12/1
- 1921
- Ts of 31 poems. Numbered sequence with list of first lines. Some duplication.
- ff.86 12/2
- 1922
- Ts of 20 poems. Numbered sequence (lacks 14) with list of first lines.
- File contains BM's ms and ts transcriptions.
- ff.52 12/3
- 1923
- Ms and ts of 46 poems. Numbered sequence with list of first lines and chronology of composition.
- ff.144 12/4
- 1924
- Ts of 46 poems dated Jan.-May 1924. Numbered sequence with list of first lines.
- ff.77 12/5
- Ts of 62 poems dated June-Dec. 1924. Numbered sequence with list of first lines.
- ff.111 12/6
- 1924-26
- Selections. 1924-25. 1926. Portfolio of ts of 33 poems.
- ff.43 13/1
- 1925
- Ts of 35 poems dated Jan.-July 1925. Numbered sequence with list of first lines.
- ff.77 13/2
- 1925
- Ts of 38 poems dated Aug.-Dec. 1925. Numbered sequence with list of first lines.
- ff.70 13/3
- 1926
- Ms poems in CM's own hand dated Jan.-July 1926.
- ff.54 13/4
- Ms poems in CM's own hand dated Aug.-Dec. 1926.
- ff.60 13/5
- Ts of 25 poems dated Jan.-April 1926.
- ff.51 13/6
- Ts of 61 poems dated June-Dec. 1926.
- ff.96 13/7
- 1927
- Ms of 33 poems dated Jan.-February 1927 with ts transcriptions.
- ff.84 14/1
- Ms of 26 poems dated March-May 1927 with ts transcriptions.
- ff.74. 14/2
- Ms of 29 poems dated June-Aug. 1927 with ts transcriptions.
- ff.72 14/3
- Ms of 20 poems dated Sept.-Dec. 1927 with ts transcriptions.
- ff.49 14/4
- 1928
- Ms of 24 poems dated Jan.-April 1928 with some ts transcriptions.
- ff.42. File also contains ts of "The sunshine holiday : a natural drama"
- ff.58. 2 copies 15/1
- Ms of 15 poems dated May 1928 with some ts transcriptions.
- ff.16. File also contains 2 versions of "Atlantis" 9pp. ms, 15pp. ts. With drafts ff.4 15/2
- Longer poems
- "Come follow : a summer sonata" dated June-Aug. 1928. 55pp. ts
- "Before the fantasias : experiments and ideas" dated Aug. 1928. 12 pp. ms,
- 8 pp. ts transcription
- "Six preludes" dated Sept. 1928. 8 pp. ms, 11pp. ts transcription
- "Seven strings : a suite of sonnets" dated Nov. 1928. 6 pp. ms
- File also contains 7 ms poems, 2 ts poems 15/3
- Longer poems
- "Epithalamion" dated Jan. 1929. 50pp. ms on grey handmade paper.
- "Legend for two voices" dated Feb. 1929. Ms ff.12. Ts transcription ff.15
- File also contains ms, ts poems, drafts, fragments.
- ff.51 15/4
- 1930-39
- Longer poems
- "13 poems for April 1930" Ms 16 pp., decorated
- "Argo, May 1930" Ms 8pp.
- "7 hymns to an abstraction" dated 1931. Ms 24 pp.
- File also contains ms, ts poems, drafts
- ff.40 16/1
- 1932-35
- Ms and ts of poems not included in The disappearing castle
- ff.100 16/2
- 1930s
- Ms, ts and drafts of poems published in The father found
- ff.137 16/3
- 1938-39
- Ms, ts of poems 1938-39 not published in The father found
- ff. 118 16/4
- 1940-49
- Longer poems
- "Visions of Camden Town". 2 versions. Ts 9pp., 11pp.
- "Genital poem" Ms draft ff.55
- File also contains ms and ts poems, drafts
- ff.56 17/1
- 1944-52
- "Out of dust and air : poems 1944-1952"
- Ts 58pp. 17/2
- 1946-54
- "Forty nights and one night : poems 1946-1954"
- Ts 48pp. 17/3
- 1950-77
- Ms, ts and printed, published poems
- ff.59 17/4
- Please note that the Notebooks in boxes 9 and 10 contain poems
Prose
- 1920-25
- Short paper on medicine. 1922. Ts ff..3
- "The hope of Karel". May-June 1923. Ms ff.9
- "The county of Blacin". Christmas 1925. Ms ff.13. Illustrated
- Untitled ms, drafts. ff.28 18/1
- 1926
- "Imperialist addresses. Lord Harwood". Aug. 1926. Ms ff.3
- "Fugue". Sept. 1926. Ms ff.20
- "Lenses". Sept. 1926. Ms ff.4
- "The magician's holiday". Short half 1926. Ms 12pp.
- "The madman's amusement." Ms ff.3
- File also contains school essays, exercises, jottings, plays, etc. ff.29 18/2
- 1927-28
- "Suite ~ old ladies". 16th, 17th September 1928. Ms ff.10
- "Autumn mirror : a suite for prose progressions". October 14th 1928. Ms ff.3
- "Enough, or Too much : proverbs from hell". Ms f.1
- File also contains school essays, exercises etc. ms, ts ff.65 18/3
- 1929
- "Masquerade : a play. Writ on an April day 1929". Ms ff.5
- "Prospectus : prolegomena to a new system of thought". May 1929. Ts ff.27
- "Species and the realist". Ts ff.20
- File contains other miscellaneous prose pieces. Ms ff.9 18/4
- 1930s
- Account of a trip to Scandinavia, August 1930. Ts ff.180 19/1
- "Arethusa, or, The future of enthusiasm". Ms ff.8, ts ff.82
- "Notes on the technique of poetry". Ms ff.4
- "English essay". Ms ff.2 19/2
- Miscellaneous prose. Ms, ts jottings, notes, etc. on language, philosophers and philosophy, poetry, etc. ff.62 19/3
- Stories - early thirties :
- "The maniac". Ms ff.3
- "Murder and arson". Ms ff.5
- "The settlers". Ms ff.3
- File also contains untitled ms, ts. ff.26 19/4
- 1936
- Darwin. Ts of a long essay on Darwin. ff.53
- File also contains related material including botanical notes. ff.36 19/5
- Undated prose
- Essay on publishing poetry. Ts ff.31
- "An introduction to the symbolism of William Blake". Ms 20pp. Illustrated
- "The point of relief as formula of freedom". Ms ff.9
- "Remarks on style". Ms ff.26
- "The white square : an essay on reason". Ts ff.41 19/6
- Please note that the Notebooks in boxes 9 and 10 contain Prose
Published reviews, articles
Contributions to Listener, New Statesman and Nation,Observer, Times, Times Literary Sipplement 1952-1964.
File includes "Myth, metaphor and world picture" offprinted from Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1962-63. 11pp. 20/1
Miscellaneous Papers
- Bridget Riley
- Ms, ts and printed papers relating to CM's purchase of silk screen prints by the artist Bridget Riley from the Rowan Gallery, London. File contains art gallery catalogues, correspondence, presscuttings, reviews of Riley exhibitions, 1969-72. Included among the correspondence are 2 tls from Bridget Riley to CM 10.1.69, 3.4.69. 20/2
- Car accident
- Insurance documents, legal correspondence, statements, etc. relating to CM's car accident, 15.12.63. ff.28 20/3
- Last year at Birmingham University
- 18 tls 10.7.69 - 10.1.72 between CM and officers, colleagues and students of the University of Birmingham on a variety of topics. 20/4
- Letters professional and literary
- 19 als, pcs 11.1.67 - 27.11.71 from Janet Thomas (secretary of CM)
- 12 als, tls 5.12.63 - 10.8.77 from Colin Buchanan Partners, Dartington Hall Trust,
- Institute of Community Studies, LSE, National Consumer Council, University of Birmingham. 20/5
- Portugal
- Ms, ts and printed papers relating to CM's proposed purchase of a building plot in Portugal in 1964. The file contains correspondence, hotel bills, plans. 20/6
- Property valuation
- 3 valuation inventories in respect of property owned by CM. 1967, 1970
- ff.25 20/7
Who's Who entry and obituary notice
- Who's Who entry for Charles Madge, 1996. Ts f.1
- Times obituary of Charles Madge 25.1.96. Ts ff.2 20/8
Additions to the collection
Ad. 1 Donated by Dr V. Randall 12-05-2000.
Comprises 2 boxes of papers , including correspondence, relating chiefly to Charles Madge's professional life, arranged by decade.
Documents of the Thirties
- Correspondence
- 34 als, tls, 1932-35. Correspondents include : W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Geoffrey Grigson, Naomi Mitchison, Janet Adam Smith, various literary editors, members of the Communist Party, and others.
File also contains draft letters and some verses of CM. 21/1 - Printed papers
- CM's contributions to periodicals (articles, reviews, poetry); reviews of CM's poetry; articles relating to perosnalities prominent in the 1930s. 21/2
Documents of the Forties
- Correspondence
- 28 als, tls, 1941-47. Correspondents include : Bruce Bliven, Violet Bonham-Carter, L. Haden Guest, Q.D. Leavis, Herbert Read, Donald Tyerman, and others. File also includes letters to Inez Madge from Gerald Brenan, Marghanita Laski, and Stephen Spender. 21/3
- Keynes : Saving & Spending
- Articles, correspondence, notes, tables by CM and others relating to wartime national savings. 21/4
- National Institute of Social and Economic Research. Wartime savings and spending
- Correspondence : 34 tls J.M. Keynes to CM, 20.4.39 - 7.2.44; 9 als, tls CM to J.M. Keynes, 18.4.39 - 26.1.41.
File also contains 3 letters, 1980, relating to the publishing of J.M. Keynes' Collected writings 21/5 - Pattern of demand
- Articles, notes, reports, surveys, etc. concerning CM's research on changing patterns of demand. 21/6
- Printed papers
- Articles, notes, photograph, presscuttings relating to CM's professional undertakings for the period (i.e. national expenditure, income, savings, social issues).
File also contains reviews of Madge's The father found. 22/1
Documents of the Fifties
- Printed papers
- Articles, offprints,etc. mainly by CM concerning education, mental health, social behaviour, urban planning, etc.
File also contains 1 als 7.12.51 from Sam Gadd to CM enclosing verses. 22/2
Documents of the Sixties
- Printed papers
- Articles, reports, reviews chiefly by CM concerning third world development, social issues, etc. 22/3
Documents of the Seventies
- Correspondence
- 3 tls from Edward Mendelson to CM; 2als CM to Edward Mendelson, 1978, relating to CM's association with W.H. Auden. Mendelson was Auden's literary executor. File also contains a draft letter of CM to Mr Cunningham, 1978. 22/4
- Printed papers
- Presscuttings, reports, etc. on British social history.
File also contains reviews of the Hayward Gallery exhibition "Thirties : British art and design before the war", 1979-80. 22/5
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