Curle mss. IV, 1901-1968
Summary Information
Repository:
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University
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Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
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Creator
Curle, Richard, 1883-1968
TitleCurle mss. IV, 1901-1968
Collection No.
LMC 1845
Extent
ca. 7200 items
Language
Materials are in English
Abstract
The Curle mss. IV, 1901-1968, consists
of the papers of author, traveler and bibliophile Richard Curle, 1883-1968.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Biographical Note
In his early career Richard Curle, 1883-1968, wrote leaders for such newspapers as
the
Pretoria News (South Africa),
The Rangoon Times (Burma), and
The Daily
Mail
(London). He also wrote articles for other newspapers and magazines,
short stories, and books of fiction and non-fiction. In 1912 Curle was introduced to
Joseph Conrad and, as a consequence of their long-standing friendship, much of
Curle's writings and correspondence with colleagues and friends reflects his
considerable knowledge of Conrad and his works.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into the following series: I. Correspondence; II.
Diaries; III. Writings; IV. Miscellaneous; V. Photographs; VI. Printed.
Scope and Content Note
The Curle mss. IV, 1901-1968, consists of the papers of author, traveler and
bibliophile Richard Curle, 1883-1968.
Along with letters from other correspondents, there are also many letters from his
son Adam who was raised by Curle's ex-wife Cordelia Fisher Curle after their divorce
in 1922.
The writings include short stories and novels; introductions to books on Conrad,
Thomas Hardy and other subjects; and other non-fiction works reflecting Curle's
interest in such subjects as natural history, traveling, and book collecting. The
collection also contains his diaries dating from 1942-1968 and photographs of
himself, family and friends. The miscellaneous section contains personal papers,
such as financial, medical and divorce documents, as well as materials pertaining to
friends and family including Joseph Conrad, James Stevens-Cox, Cicely Veronica
Wedgwood and his brother, James Herbert Curle. Printed materials include an
extensive file of clippings of his leaders from the above mentioned newspapers and
others, several magazines containing articles by him, clippings of reviews of his
books, and articles about him.
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Indexing Terms
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
IUCAT, the IU Libraries'
online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by
searching the catalog using these terms.
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Names
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Curle, Richard,
1883-1968.
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Conrad, Joseph,
1857-1924.
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Curle, Adam.
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Allen, Jerry, 1911-
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Baines, Jocelyn.
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Curle, Adam.
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Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir,
1866-1941.
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Clemens, Cyril,
1902-
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Conrad, Borys,
1898-1978.
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Conrad, John,
1906-1982.
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Conrad, Joseph,
1857-1924.
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Crankshaw, Edward.
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Cunninghame Graham, R. B.
(Robert Bontine), 1852-1936.
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Forman, Maurice
Buxton.
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Garnett, David,
1892-1981.
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Garnett, Edward,
1868-1937.
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Johnson, Fred
Bates.
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Price, G. Ward (George Ward),
1886.
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Savory, Theodore Horace,
1896-
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Shively, George,
1893-
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Stevens-Cox, James.
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Walpole, Hugh, Sir,
1884-1941.
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Watts, Cedric
Thomas.
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Wedgewood, C. V. (Cicely
Veronica), 1910-1997.
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Wise, Thomas James,
1859-1937.
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Related Material
Curle mss.; also located at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana.
Curle mss. II; also located at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana.
Curle mss. III; also located at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 1996.
Usage Restrictions
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly
Library.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Curle mss. IV, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana.
Series:
Box 1
Correspondence
Subseries:
Colleagues and friends
Arranged in chronological order.
Consult Manuscripts Index in the Lilly Library for dates of letters of
individual correspondents.
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- Jerry Allen,
- Helen Maria Madox (Rossetti) Angeli,
- Jocelyn Baines,
- Sir Hugh Charles Clifford,
- Cyril Clemens, Borys Conrad,
- John Conrad,
- Joseph Conrad,
- Edward Crankshaw,
- Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham,
- Arthur Ellis,
- Lenox Fane,
- Maurice Buxton Forman,
- David Garnett,
- Edward Garnett,
- Fred Bates Johnson,
- George Ward Price,
- Harold Ford Rossetti,
- Theodore Horace Savory,
- George Jenks Shively,
- Jordan Herbert Stabler,
- James Stevens-Cox,
- Alexander Cockburn Townsend,
- Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole,
- Cedric Thomas Watts,
- Cicely Veronica Wedgwood,
- John HamiltonWedgwood,
- Sir Ralph Lewis Wedgwood,
- Pieter Wenning,
- Carroll Atwood Wilson,
- Thomas James Wise
Box 1
1901-1951
Box 2
1952-1967
Box 3
undated
(9 folders)
Subseries:
Adam Curle
Arranged in chronological order.
The letters from Adam to his father Richard number 537 and are not
indexed. Also includes: several letters from Richard to Adam (consult
the Manuscripts Index in the Lilly Library for individual dates);
letters from Adam's first wife Pamela (Hobson) Curle to Richard, dated
Apr. 29, 1940;
June 7, 1942 and Jan. 25, 1947; 44 letters from Adam's
second wife Anne (Edie) Curle to Richard dating between 1958 and 1967
which are not indexed; and a carbon and copy of one letter from Richard
to Anne, dated Nov. 30, 1961.
Box 3
1924-1967
(15 folders)
Series:
Diaries
Box 3
27 pocket diaries, dating from 1942 to 1968.
Series:
Box 4
Writings
Arranged in alphabetical order by title.
Mostly undated. Where known, "unpublished" is
indicated.
folder 1:
"American Etiquette Fifty
Years Ago."
Typescript. 9p. Unpublished.
folder 2: The Bibliographies of
Orders in the Revised Edition of IMMS's
A
General Textbook on Entomology
: Some Criticisms and
Suggestions. Reprint from
The
Entomologist's Gazette
, Vol. 10, No. 3. [6p.] 2 copies, plus
notice of election of Curle to the Royal Entomological Society of
London, Nov. 6,
1947.
folder 3:
"The Books of the Ray
Society."
Typescript and carbon. 3p. each.
Unpublished.
folder 4:
"The Cat, A Short
Story."
Radio script. Mimeo with corrections. 9p. Broadcast
Aug. 19, 1948.
folder 5:
"Conrad and the Younger
Generation."
10p. Reprint from
The
Nineteenth Century,
Dec. 1929.
folder 6:
"Conrad and
'Victory'."
9p. [stamped 8 Sept. 1915] Proof from
Fortnightly Review.
folder 7:
"Conrad's Village Unveils
Porch as Memorial."
Typescript. 3p. Published in
New York Herald-Tribune,
Nov. 13, 1927. Includes
photograph of Canon Ashton-Gwatkin, rector of Bishopsbourne and chairman
of the memorial committee, Curle and others at the memorial, October 1927.
folder 8:
Corruption. Proof of
novel. 1933.
folder 9:
"Criticism and
Creation."
Typescript and carbon. 9p. each.
Unpublished.
folder 10: "Cunninghame Graham,"
talk by Richard Curle. Mimeo script with revisions. 5p.
folder 11:
"Dostoevsky."
Typescript. 7p. Unpublished.
folder 12-19:
Echo of Voices. All
holograph. Includes: Deep Down. 45p.; General Service. 68p. June 18, 1914; His Kingdom. 31p.
Nov. 11, 1914; Midnight. 2
versions. 26p. each. One titled: The Stranger and dated May 18, 1914; Monsieur Clavel. 31p.
Mar. 30, 1914; Nineteen.
66p.; The Two Dependents. 96p. "Fin. 23/10/15, rev. fin. 10/12/15 & 2/1/16"; The Would-be Friends. 57p. May? 7, 1914
folder 21:
"Emil's Innovation,"
written and read by Richard Curle, for radio program Tuesday Story.
Broadcast Nov. 16, 1948. Mimeo
with corrections. 16p.
folder 22:
"The Foreign Newspapers of
New York."
Typescript. 2p.
folder 23:
"Introduction [to a book on
Robert Garnett]."
Typescript. 5p. Unpublished.
folder 24:
"Introduction to Nigel
Maxwell's Conrad dictionary."
Typescript. 4p.
folder 25: Introduction [to Conrad's
Nostromo]. Proof for
memorial edition published in 1925.
folder 26:
"Introduction [to Vol. I of
T.J. Wise's Ashley Catalogue, 1922 or 1927?]."
Tearsheet.
folder 27: [Introductions to various works on Thomas Hardy],
including:
The Hardy Series. 4p.;
The Homes of Thomas Hardy, by Evelyn L.
Evans. 2p.;
Hardyana. 2p.;
Young Mr. Thomas Hardy, by May O'Rourke. 2p.
folder 28:
"The Isle of Sark."
Two typescripts, two carbons. 2p. each. Unpublished.
folder 29: Joseph Conrad. Tearsheets mounted on scrapbook sheets.
Published in
Rhythm,
Nov. 1912. Includes two clippings
of works by Curle mounted on the versos: 1) untitled, published in
The Onlooker,
Aug. 17, 1912, and 2)
"The Art of Joseph Conrad,"
published in
Everyman,
Nov. 22, 1912.
folder 30:
"Joseph Conrad: A
Play."
Typescript and carbon. 9p. each.
folder 31:
"Joseph Conrad As I
Remember Him."
Carbon typescript. 13p.
folder 32-38:
Life is a Dream. All
holograph. Includes: Blanca Palillos. 72p. Finished 10/1/13, revision 10/1/13; Going home. 40p. Finished
[early?] draft 3/9/12; The
look-out. 15p.; A memory. 18p.; Old Hoskyns. 20p.; A remittance man.
46p. 28/5/13; The velvet suit.
14p.
folder 39:
"Links in the
Chain."
Carbon typescript. 10p.
folder 40:
"Men of the 16th
Century."
Typescript. 3p.
folder 41:
"Monsters of the
Past."
Carbon typescript. 7p.
folder 42:
"My Conrad
Collection."
Tearsheet from The Mermaid, Oct. 1926.
folder 43:
"My Impressions of the
Conrad Centenary Celebrations."
Two carbons. 3p. each. Three
reprints.
folder 44:
"My Youth in
Scotland."
Carbon typescript. 4p. "This [was for] a radio talk"
folder 45:
"The New Life."
Carbon typescript. 11p.
folder 46:
"Panama Fifty Years
Ago."
Typescript and carbon. 6p. each.
folder 47:
"The Personality of Joseph
Conrad."
Tearsheets. Jan.
1925
folder 48:
"The Ray Society."
Typescript. 7p. Unpublished.
folder 49:
"The Ray Society: A
Bibliographical History."
Draft holograph and typescript
pages.
folder 50:
"Richard Curle: A List of
His Books, Pamphlets and Introductions."
Draft holograph and
typescript pages, galleys, clipping.
folder 51: Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood. Typescripts of
some letters, notes, and lists of expenses
folder 52:
"Romance of
Contrast."
Proof of article.
folder 53: Stories I. Unpublished stories. All typescripts or
carbon typescripts. Proposed title:
Strange
Things in Hand: Tales of the Macabre and the
Unusual.
"Who Guards the Custodians?"
5 p.
"Guests of the House,"
8 p.
"Enigma"
(Verso of page
three:
"The Courage of
Women"
),
3 p.
"Heart of My Heart,"
2 copies. 3 p. and 4 p.
"The Best-Laid Schemes,"
5 p.
"Links in the Chain,"
10 p.
"Emblems of Nullity,"
10 p.
"The Suppressed Edition,"
6 p.
"The Way Things Happen,"
22 p.
folder 54: Stories II. Unpublished stories. All typescripts or
carbon typescripts.
"The Best-Laid Schemes,"
5 p.
"A Comedy of a Day,"
27 p.
"Emblems of Nullity,"
10 p.
"Emil's Innovation,"
2 copies. 6 p. each
"Guests of the House,"
8 p.
"Heart of My Heart,"
3 p.
"The Suppressed Edition,"
6 p.
"Two Methods of Using Eggs,"
6 p.
"The Way Things Happen,"
22 p.
"The Wedding Present,"
16 p.
"What Lived in the Wood?"
5 p.
"Who Guards the Custodians?"
5 p.
folder 55:
"The Strange Life of
Dostoevsky."
Typescript. 6p.
folder 56:
"Walter Fish."
Carbon typescript. 2p.
folder 57-59:
"Wanderings."
Holograph.
folder 60:
"Warsaw Under
Communism."
Typescript. 7p.
folder 61:
"Watching Geese With
Hudson,"
talk by Richard Curle. Mimeo script. Broadcast
29 October 1944, B.B.C.
Home Service.
folder 62:
"What Lived in the
Wood?,"
written and read by Richard Curle, Stories from
Studio Five. Corrected mimeo script. Broadcast 5 December 1949.
folder 63:
"What Not to Read."
1p. "Published but not in this final form in
Stevens-Cox's
Literary
Repository
"
folder 64:
"Where!, Why!, When!, or
the Hectic Hours of a Dorset Day."
Printed. 1p. 1963.
folder 65: Untitled writings and fragments
Series:
Miscellaneous
Arranged alphabetically by subject after Curle, Richard.
Subseries:
Curle, Richard
Box 4
folder 66: Book contracts
Box 5
folder 1: Financial papers, such as: bank statements,
correspondence concerning his will, estate, and
investments
folder 2: Lists of Curle's Library
folder 3: Marriage certificate and divorce papers
folder 4: Medical papers, such as: discharge papers from
Anti-Aircraft Corps, Royal Naval Air Service due to illness;
affidavits from doctors concerning fitness to travel, visa for
travel to Brazil.
folder 5: Miscellany
Subseries:
Clemens, Cyril
Box 5
folder 6: Pamphlets and reprints with dedications by Clemens
to Curle, including seven issues of the
Mark
Twain Journal
and a reprint of
Father Prout and the Brownings by Clemens.
Subseries:
Conrad, Joseph
Box 5
folder 7: A pen and ink drawing by Conrad, agreement with RKO
Radio Pictures, Inc. for the film rights to
Heart of Darkness, comments by Curle on his various
works on Conrad, articles by writers other than Curle about Conrad,
copies of correspondence concerning or to Conrad
folder 8-9: Materials concerning the Conrad Centenary held in
Warsaw, Poland in 1957.
folder 10: Writings by others about Conrad
folder 11: Clippings about Conrad
Subseries:
Cunninghame Graham, Robert Bontine
Box 5
folder 12: Transcripts of his letters to Curle.
Subseries:
Curle, James Herbert
Box 5
folder 13-14: Copy of will, correspondence between Richard
and lawyers concerning estate, two holograph fragments from his book
This World of Ours,
clippings
Subseries:
Stevens-Cox, John
Box 5
folder 15: Two pamphlets edited by JSC
News from Canada, 1628, introduction by C.V. Wedgwood
(Dorset: Toucan Press, 1964) and
The wigmaker's art in the 18th
century
(London: Hairdressers' Registration Council,
1965); six issues of
The Registered Hairdresser,
1960-1962
with a review by Curle of
The art of the
wigmaker
by JSC in No. 8, January 1962, plus a typescript of a fragment of
this article.
Subseries:
Wedgwood, C.V.
Box 5
folder 16: Program and addresses for Encaenia at Oxford
University, 23 June 1965 at
which Wedgwood was given an honorary degree, invitations to
functions connected with Encaenia and clipping marking that
occasion.
Subseries:
Wise, T.J.
Box 5
folder 17: Notes by Curle mostly concerning his
correspondence with Wise; two catalogs:
Wise
After the Event: A Catalog of Books, Pamphlets, Manuscripts and
Letters Relating to Thomas James Wise Displayed in an Exhibition
in Manchester Central Library, September 1964, edited by G.E.
Haslam
(Manchester: Libraries Committee, 1964) and
Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection Formed by Sir Maurice
Pariser, of Manchester, of the Notorious Nineteenth Century
Pamphlets and Other Important Wiseiana Manuscript and
Printed
(London: Sotheby & Co., 1967).
Subseries:
Miscellany
Box 5
folder 18-19: Includes a pencil drawing possibly of Curle by
an unknown artist.
Series:
Photographs
Box 5
folder 20-23: Contains 97 photographs. There are 22 of Curle. The
remaining photographs are of family, friends and a few buildings. There
are inscribed portraits from Jessie Conrad, John Conrad, and C.V.
Wedgwood. Most are unidentified.
Series:
Printed
Subseries:
Articles By Curle.
Mostly clippings from the following newspapers:
Box 5
folder 24:
American and Commonwealth
Visitor.
Apr. 1946 -
Sept. 1954. Articles about stamp
collecting
folder 25:
Bpeme.
Czechoslovakian newspaper which ran in serial form Curle's
Who goes home,
1935.
folder 26-29:
Daily Mail.
1922-1928.
folder 30:
Daily Mail.
1932-1934.
Under pseudonym John Blunt.
Box 6
folder 1:
Time and Tide.
1944-1956.
Book review.
folder 2:
Everyman.
1912-1913;
1935,
Jan.-Feb.
folder 3:
John O'London's
Weekly.
1929,
1937,
1945,
1946.
folder 4:
The Literary
Repository.
1954-1964
folder 5:
Outspan. 4 issues of
magazine containing Curle's series:
"Woman--The Great Mystery."
folder 6:
Pretoria News.
1918
folder 7:
Rangoon Times.
1920-1922
folder 8:
The Star (London
evening paper). In 1956 reprinted
a portion of Curle's
Reflections on
Woman
folder 9-14: Articles for various newspapers and reviews,
including a group on travel, 1923-1952; on Conrad; misc.
topics
Subseries:
Articles By C.V. Wedgwood
Box 6
folder 15: Clippings, mostly written for the
Daily Telegraph
Subseries:
Articles by others about Curle.
Box 6
folder 16: Clippings from various newspapers
Subseries:
Reviews of Curle's books
Box 6
folder 17-30: Clippings from various newspapers, reviewing
the following books:
Caravansary and
Conversation;
Characters of Dostoevsky;
Collecting American First Editions;
Corruption;
Into the East;
Joseph Conrad: A Study;
Joseph Conrad and His Characters;
Last Twelve Years of Joseph Conrad;
The One and the Other;
Oriental Trail;
Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken
Friendship as Revealed By Their Letters;
Stamp Collecting;
Who Goes Home?;
Women: An Analytical
Study
Subseries:
Scrapbooks
Contain clippings from various newspapers
Box 6
folder 31: Articles concerning American Art Galleries sale of
Curle's Conrad collection
Box 7
Scrapbook 1: Articles written under pseudonym John Blunt,
1926-1928
Scrapbook 2: Reviews of Curle's books and articles about him,
1908-1930
