Guide to the Papers of Jack Lindsay
MS 7168
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: September 2018
Collection Summary
- Title
- Papers of Jack Lindsay
- Date Range
- 1893 - 1989
- Collection Number
- MS 7168
- Extent
- 32.61 metres (209 ms boxes + 7 archive boxes)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
MS 7168 comprises letters to family, Australian and overseas writers, artists and others; drafts of published and unpublished works with background material (notes, photocopies and cuttings) relating to those works; and, diaries including trip diaries. Lindsay's letters are arranged chronologically with alphabetical indexes. Much of the collection comprises papers arranged by Lindsay according to his activities, especially publication projects, including books on William Blake, Gustave Courbet, William Hogarth, William Morris, and J.M.W. Turner, and interests in subjects such as alchemy, anthropology, art, Marxism and science.
The collection also includes manuscripts, photocopies, printed items and some letters. Among the many correspondents represented in the collection are Arthur Boyd, Harry Chaplin, Clem Christesen, Dymphna Cusack, Simone de Beauvoir, Dorothy Green, Frank Hardy, Flexmore Hudson, Doris Lessing, Sir Daryl Lindsay and other Lindsay family members, David Martin, Alan Marshall, Stephen Murray-Smith, Vance and Nettie Palmer, K.S. Prichard, Elizabeth Salter, Christina Stead, P.R. Stephenson, Peggy van Praagh, Judah Waten and Judith Wright.
Conditions Governing Access
Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2640518)
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Jack Lindsay, National Library of Australia, MS 7168, [class/series/file/item number(s)]'.
Biographical / Historical
Writer, poet, novelist, classical translator and critic. Jack Lindsay was the author of over 150 books including novels, plays, collections of poetry, biographies, translations and works on politics, philosophy and history. Further biographical information available at: ‡u https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-569520
Item Descriptions
Class 1. Consignment received 1985-1986, 1893 - 1989
32.61 metresThis consignment comprises letters to family, Australian and overseas writers, artists and others; drafts of published and unpublished works with background material (notes, photocopies and cuttings) relating to those works; and, diaries including trip diaries. Lindsay's letters are arranged chronologically with alphabetical indexes. Much of the collection comprises papers arranged by Lindsay according to his activities, especially publication projects, including books on William Blake, Gustave Courbet, William Hogarth, William Morris, and J.M.W. Turner, and interests in subjects such as alchemy, anthropology, art, Marxism and science.
The collection also includes manuscripts, photocopies, printed items and some letters. Among the many correspondents represented in the collection are Arthur Boyd, Harry Chaplin, Clem Christesen, Dymphna Cusack, Simone de Beauvoir, Dorothy Green, Frank Hardy, Flexmore Hudson, Doris Lessing, Sir Daryl Lindsay and other Lindsay family members, David Martin, Alan Marshall, Stephen Murray-Smith, Vance and Nettie Palmer, K.S. Prichard, Elizabeth Salter, Christina Stead, P.R. Stephenson, Peggy van Praagh, Judah Waten and Judith Wright
Series. Letters
Russian-Australian;, 1951-1989 (File 137-144) - Box 25
Contains loose letters; undated letters, notes
Ann Lindsay articles, 1921-1952 (File 156-160) - Box 28
Includes school reports, notebook, financial records and school memorabilia (Letters in numerical bundles 1,3,4,6.)
Selected letters listed alphabetically G-V, 1946-1980 (File 180-184) - Box 32
Various topics G-V; includes letters in Russian
Selected and various letters listed alphabetically N-S, 1946-1981 (File 185-188) - Box 33
Various topics N-S; includes letters in Russian
Specific people ‑ Paul Davies, 1973-1976 (File 193) - Box 34
Letters to and from John Hetherington about Jack Lindsay
Series. Manuscripts
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE: Jack Lindsay has originally numbered each individual item/work with a number (prefix MS), correlating with original content listing numbers. Titles listed are written or translated by Jack Lindsay unless noted otherwise
5: Essays for the Literature of Decay Writers Group 1951, 1950-1959 (File 216-217) - Box 38
Some items undated - Includes part essay Kafka ‑ Kierkegaard‑Nietzsche; Some ms of Life Rarely Tells; Battle of Books
10 and 10A: Fire and Water, 1953-1959 (File 222) - Box 39
Part 1 - Handwritten and typescript copies; includes letter from Emile urns (1953) and Professor Kenneth Jackson
11a: Something Wrong Somewhere (File 225) - Box 40
First version and carbon of corrected copy - Rough drafts
11b: Something Wrong Somewhere (File 226) - Box 40
First version and carbon of corrected copy - pp 1-90
11b: Something Wrong Somewhere (File 227) - Box 40
First version and carbon of corrected copy - pp 92-210
11a. Dangerous Choice; 18a Place of Women (File 238) - Box 42
Includes Place of Women Guerrillas - undated
35: Booklets - Nezval; Cry of Greece: Blake Broadsheet, 1947-1973 (File 241) - Box 43
Also includes Greek Trash; Voice of Greece ‑ Leaflet: Peace is our Answer; 5000 years of poetry; Song of peace
35: Booklets - Nezval; Cry of Greece: Blake Broadsheet, 1946-1966 (File 242) - Box 43
Also includes Greek Trash; Voice of Greece ‑ Booklet: Peace is our Answer; Question of Totemism reopened; Arion; Ebenezer Jones; Apex one; XIXth Congress of International P.E.N Club programme
41a. Anthius, 1949-55 (File 248) - Box 44
Published booklets - some with author's inscriptions; including S.O.S; The Song of Earth; published music booklet
61: The Ancient World (File 275) - Box 52
Complete ms and cuts made in printed text pp 231-404: also bibliography and index
62A: Roaring Twenties by Richard Preston (File 277) - Box 52
Includes notes to publisher; dedication has a handwritten translation
64: Stepney Leader, 1939-1969 (File 283) - Box 54
Stepney Leader no. 1-7 issued by the Stepney Branch of the Communist Part of Great Britain; Playscripts - Here in this County: a play by Richard Parker, This is the Worst News by W T Nettlefold and W A Rathkey, Undertones of To-day (rough outline); newspaper clippings (1969)
65: Army Theatre (File 284) - Box 54
Title page: Dramatic Experiment - The story of the ABCA Play unit and of Documentary drama by Jack Lindsay
65: Army Theatre, 1944-1963 (File 285) - Box 54
Mainly CEMA Army Theatre correspondence, programs and newspaper clippings
69: Ariadne's Thread: A study of the origins of Greek culture ‑(i) 1st version (File 286) - Box 54
pp 1-116 - cuts made in printed text
69: Ariadne's Thread: A study of the origins of Greek culture ‑(ii) 1st version (File 287) - Box 54
Numbered pages 116-169; Remaining pages unnumbered
69: Ariadne's Thread - 1st version (File 288) - Box 55
pp 1-122 plus notes pp 1-52. Subtitle: A comparative study of primitive religious bases and the processes of myth-formation with special reference to ancient Greece
90: Socialist Realism (early 1950s); Man and Nature (early 1950s); First drafts (1962), 1950s-1960s (File 320) - Box 61
90: Socialist Realism (early 1950s); Man and Nature (early 1950s); First drafts (1962), 1950s-1960s (File 321) - Box 61
Series. AW
Series. Poems and Poetry
Poems and Poetry (File 664) - Box 146
Includes papers on contemporary Polish Poetry, untitled poems, proposal on Phantasmagoria
Volume of Golibro Da Draola Hiszpanu (File 697) - Box 153
Has newspaper clippings pasted throughout with variety of subjects
Poets 8A and 9A, 1962 (File 700) - Box 153
Newspaper clippings pasted into 2 volumes of Soviet Literature Monthly
Poets 10A Poetry 3 and Poetry 9, 1947-1965 (File 702) - Box 153
Translation in French - loose letters to Jack Lindsay and poetry; book reviews and articles
Series. Romans I
Series. SELF
Self 7 and 8, 1952-1963 (File 739) - Box 162
Poetry and short music compositions in note book; newspaper cuttings, correspondence and some black and white photos
Correspondence (family), 1954-1959 (File 742) - Box 162
Letters from family including Philip Lindsay and Cressida Lindsay
Self 30 and 35, 1954 (File 748) - Box 164
Post war up to 1952 plus AWPA material; Denwoods and broadsheets
Self 29B and 33A, 1954-1968 (File 749) - Box 164
Main speeches USSR Congress; Brisbane Trades Hall; diary
Self 6, 1950-1952 (File 753) - Box 165
Box has label Self 36 but contains 'Self 6' - Assorted material
Self 31, 1929-1963 (File 759) - Box 166
Assorted material - mainly letters; also 'The Companies Act 1929
Self 16, 37, 1954-1970 (File 763) - Box 167
Notes in book labelled National Hotel Moscow 1954; small scrapbook
Self 32, 1964-1989 (File 764) - Box 167
Notes in book labelled National Hotel Moscow 1954; small scrapbook
Self 12, 12A, 12B, 19, 24A, 1950-1981 (File 765) - Box 167
Includes poems, clippings on Lindsay family, Local History Bulletin
Series. SW (SMALL WORKS)
3 works, 1951 (File 665) - Box 146
Poland - handwritten notes in exercise book; Hungarian Peasant Customs; Cumaean Gates Math
2 works, 1951 (File 666) - Box 146
Meeting of poets: a collection of Triads; French resistance poets
Published works of J Lindsay, 1969-1974 (File 667) - Box 146
Some translated works appearing in booklets and magazines
Series. T
Pamphlet 22A, 5, 23 and 35 (File 686) - Box 150
Includes - Murray God of the Witches, Spence - Mysteries of Mexico, Normans, Zosimos Poets
Work etc, 1982 (File 689) - Box 151
Includes background research material and listing of 'Odds' published, Personalia and Manuscripts
Jack Lindsay works 1981, 1981 (File 691) - Box 151
Includes newspapers articles, listing of work and correspondence relating to Lindsay's investiture to the Order of Australia
Poems for Borg (File 692) - Box 152
Includes newspapers articles, listing of work and correspondence relating to Lindsay's investiture to the Order of Australia
Pamphlet 7 and poetry, 1930-1940 (File 693) - Box 152
Pacific Aphrodite by Jack Lindsay - loose typescript
Writings (SW 68B), 1978 (File 774) - Box 169
Clippings and articles by J Lindsay; correspondence and copy edited typescripts; colour photographs of artworks
Die Fluchtlinge (SW 71), 1960-1976 (File 775) - Box 169
Copies of published work Die Fluchtlinge; Material on Turner
Sean Casey - Essays, letters (SW79) (File 776) - Box 169
Annotation by Lindsay indicating he published The Tall Interpreter; also Typescript of Adrian's thread and Crashing Rocks
Broadsheet material (SW 49A), 1939-1951 (File 778) - Box 169
People and poetry - Broadsheets - distributed poems; pamphlets of other poetry groups
French manuscript (SW 60), 1947 (File 779) - Box 169
Antonin Artaud pp 1-19 with note by Lindsay 'translated piece'; newspaper clippings and typescripts of poetry relating to the French Resistance
Series. TURNER
Russian Poetry; The Initiation of Aeneas; The Defence of Superior Orders in Roman Law; The Romanticism of Catullus; Cicero as an Academic; The Times Literary Supplement Religious Books Section [news cutting], 1917-1961 (File 707) - Box 155
P19 - Archaeological Association booklets; P25 - Nationality and Language in Medieval England; Norman London; The Contribution of Flanders to the Conquest of England; The English Succession; Tithe-Collectors in Norman England; P28 - Anglo-Flemish Treaty of Dove; The Household of the Norman Kings; The Sicilian Norman Kingdom; Tibet, India, and Malaya as Sources of Western Medieval Technology, 1954-1962 (File 708) - Box 155
P26 - Various articles in French and English; P29 - The Economic History Review; The Geographical Distribution of Wealth in England, 1334-1649; Anti-Monastic Reaction in the Tenth Century; The Pipe Rolls and the Historians, 1600-1883; The Composition of Demesne Plough-Teams in Twelfth-Century England; England and Sicily in the Twelfth Century, 1911-1965 (File 709) - Box 155
Series. SMALL GROUPS (TITLES AND NUMBERS)
Series. Vakhrushev, V. S
Publishing in the Soviet Union booklet, 1967 (File 787) - Box 172
Published by Progress Publishing in English
Journal article (in Russian), 1963 (File 787) - Box 172
Annotated on cover: To Mr Jack Lindsay from Vladimir Vakhrushev, 16 May 1963
Journal (in Russian): The History of English Literature containing clipping and correspondence, 1959 (File 787) - Box 172
Annotated in inside cover to Jack Lindsay, With my best regards, D. Zhanteira; A letter and a postcard addressed to 'Dear Comrade Lindsay' from D. Zhanteira
Journal (in Russian): Historical Novels, 1970 (File 787) - Box 172
Annotated inside cover: For J. Lindsay with best wishes from Anikin, July 23, 1970
Typescript 'A new type of historical novel "Men of Forty-eight" by Jack Lindsay', c.1964 (File 787) - Box 172
Handwritten numbering and corrections, 15 pages
Series. Typescripts and Manuscripts, Miscellaneous Small Works papers
Clairvoyance of the Normal: The Aesthetic theory of Bulwer-Lytton typescript and proofs; manuscript annotated, 1948 (File 788) - Box 172
Article by Cedric Dover 'Zoology and Culture', 1952 (File 788) - Box 172
Attached is hand written note to jack Lindsay from Cedric Dover
Song of Peace by Vitezslav Nezval (File 788) - Box 172
Translated from the Czech by Jack Lindsay and Stephen Jolly
Poems commemorating 200 years of William Blake, c.1957 (File 788) - Box 172
Poets include Jack Beeching, peter Dunbar, Thomas McGrath, Maurice Carpenter, Gordon Harris and jack Lindsay, two copies
Articles, draft correspondence, notes, press cuttings, c.1974 (File 788) - Box 172
Includes A personal tribute to Pablo Neruda
Comment: Communist fortnightly review, 1967-1969 (File 789) - Box 172
Contain book reviews by Jack Lindsay
Booklet - The Damnation of Panurge's Codpiece by a Poetical Ladie of Paris, 1977 (File 791) - Box 173
Copy No. 3 of a limited edition of 25 by Jack Lindsay; contains addenda to Lindsay's bibliography up to 1926
Poetry of Lithuanian poet Eduardas Miezelaitis - pamphlet and typescript copies, 1970 (File 792) - Box 173
Translated by Jack Lindsay
Martin Andersen Nexo (File 793) - Box 173
Responses to Nexo's work from jack Lindsay, Katharine Susannah Prichard and others, correspondence from Martin Anderson Nexo to jack Lindsay
Mulk Raj Anand: A Critical Essay by Jack Lindsay, 1948 (File 793) - Box 173
Published by Hind Kitabs Ltd. Bombay
The Elephant and the Lotus; A Study of the novels of Mulk raj Anand by Jack Lindsay, 1965 (File 793) - Box 173
Published by Kutub Popular press, Bombay
Manuscripts list of published works, incomplete; photocopies of published works (File 794) - Box 173
Handwritten letter in pencil to jack Lindsay, signed BB with attached Summary of Thermo-Dynamic Ideas, 1946 (File 794) - Box 173
Journal Articles, address transcripts, carbon copy of essay, 1946-1953 (File 794) - Box 173
Articles by Lancelot Law Whyte and others
Typescript 'Convoy to Murmansk - An episodic play in six parts by Jack Lindsay', c.1942 (File 799) - Box 174
The Starfish Road - Translations from French Poets typescript, c.1947 (File 800) - Box 175
Tzara, Eluard, Aragon, Cassou, Moussinac, Marcenac, Seghers, Massat, Guillevac
Copies of French poetry, 1947 (File 800) - Box 175
Tzara, Eluard, Aragon, Cassou, Moussinac, Marcenac, Seghers, Massat, Guillevac
Photocopy of an article by T. Scholes on Structuralism and accompanying notes, 1974 (File 803) - Box 175
The Elegies of Tibulkus with the other poems of the Circle of Messalla translated by Jack Lindsay, c.1931 (File 804) - Box 176
Typescripts and manuscript translations of Latin poets, correspondence from Stephen Gaselee, 1934 (File 804) - Box 176
Art History notes and press clippings, c.1965 (File 805) - Box 176
Redding, Dayes, Burnet, Clare, Pye, Holworthy Constable, Turner
Series. J.M.W. Turner
Correspondence and photographs from Maurice Clement de Coppet, John Gaye, 1974-1975 (File 809) - Box 177
Photographs of Turner paintings
The Troubadours and their World odds; two copies of Mermaids text; Byz Ballo, c.1976 (File 817) - Box 178
Uncorrected Proof copy of The Troubadours and their World by Jack Lindsay, 1976 (File) - Box 178
Contains clippings of reviews
Exercise books containing notes on Turner; Photocopy of The Family and Friends of William Frederick Wells; photographs, 1970 (File 819) - Box 179
Photographs are of nude studies and erotica from the J M W Turner sketchbooks
Series. William Morris
William Morris Society and Kelmscott Fellowship papers, 1962-1976 (File 822) - Box 180
The Gazette of the John Lewis Partnership; correspondence; pamphlets; catalogues; postcards; press clippings; The Journal of the William Morris Society; journals; articles; brochures
William Morris Papers 2B, 1953-1976 (File 824) - Box 180
William Morris and Eric Gill by Peter Faulkner; cartoon mock-ups for book; two photographs of Morris; correspondence; book of journal articles; The Death of Topsy; booklet on Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours
William Morris Papers 4, 1957-1974 (File 825) - Box 180
William Morris Society AGM Agenda, correspondence
William Morris Papers 2A, 1893-1974 (File 826) - Box 180
Correspondence; press clippings; List of signatures of the Hammersmith Socialist Society including original autograph of William Morris, 1895; copy of the Hammersmith Socialist record, 1893
William Morris Papers 2B + C, c.1974 (File 829) - Box 181
Correspondence; articles; preparatory line drawings for a publication; press cuttings; Society reports; transcriptions from diaries and letters;
William Morris Papers 1A: A1-100 Annotated typescript, 1966-1984 (File 832) - Box 182
Small exercise book at the back of this volume contains miscellaneous notes
William Morris Papers Bibliography, c.1974-1975 (File 832) - Box 182
Correspondence with publisher, 1975
Articles, suggestions for exhibition, correspondence, c.1971 (File 833) - Box 182
Brown paper folder
William Morris papers 7, 1957-1981 (File 834) - Box 182
Articles, booklets, WM Society papers, wallpaper examples
Letters of William Morris, 1849-1896 (File 835) - Box 182
Printed and typescript copies of William Morris correspondence
William Morris publications, 1951-1973 (File 836) - Box 183
Morris as I knew Him, George Bernard Shaw; Alan G. Thomas Fine Books catalogue; An Unpublished Lecture of William Morris: "How Shall we Live then?" Ed. Paul Meier; A catalogue of Books and Pamphlets from the library of Maurice Buxton Forman; Unpublished letters of William Morris, Introduced by R. Page Arnot; Journal article 'William Morris' Romances and the Society of the Future' by Lionel M. Munby; Rules of the William Morris Society; Kelmscott - An Illustrated Guide by A R Dufty (2 copies); William Morris as a Socialist - G D H Cole Lecture transcript
William Morris publications, 1930s-1978 (File 837) - Box 183
William Morris, Writer: Jack Lindsay lecture transcript; Auto biographical notes for the magazine of English and American Literature (3 copies); Pamphlet - Who are the English by Jack Lindsay; Martin Andersen Nexo: A Symposium; William Morris: Aspects of the Man and his Work - proceedings of the conference on William Morris held at Loughborough University of Technology March 1977
Series. Miscellaneous Papers and Manuscripts
Red on Purple: A Dream of the Ancient World by Albin Eiger, 1961 (File 838) - Box 183
Privately printed text sent to Lindsay by P R Stephensen
Carbon copy of play script 'The Front' by Alexander Korneichuk, 1942 (File 838) - Box 183
In English - typewriting my Max Hemery Ltd
Mermaid Theatre correspondence, 1955-1973 (File 839) - Box 183
Correspondents include Sir Bernard Miles, Lady Miles, Elsa Pomeroy, Sam Jones, Arthur Horner, George Astley, Penelope Gilliatt, Tony Loynes
Walter Kaufmann novel, typescript: Where a man belongs (File 840) - Box 184
Walter Kaufmann arrived in Australia aboard the Dunera
Correspondence, 1979-1981 (File 844) - Box 185
Correspondents include Jack Lindsay, Jim Borg, Pat Wooley
BBC Radio play script: The Egoist by George Meredith (File 845) - Box 185
Adapted for radio by Jean Morris
Papers relating to the literary work of Philip Lindsay, 1930s (File 846) - Box 185
Documents in poor condition
The Soldier cam Home - manuscript essay by John H. Moorhouse (File 847) - Box 185
Apparently marked by Jack Lindsay
Left pageants in Britain, 1934-1944: Preliminaries to a contextual study, 1985 (File 848) - Box 186
Nick Wallis
Treasure Trove - Jack Lindsay, edited by John Arnold, 1988 (File 849) - Box 186
includes correspondence from John Arnold and a transcript of a speech relating to the Panfrolico Press
Excerpts from P R Stephensen: Publisher, patriot and Prisoner, 1982 (File 850) - Box 186
Published as Wild Man of Letters: The Story of P.R. Stephensen (1984)
Excerpts from P R Stephensen: Publisher, patriot and Prisoner (Chapters 5 and 6), 1982 (File 851) - Box 186
Correspondence between Craig Munro and Jack Lindsay
Journal article - The Hispano-Arab garden: its philosophy and function by James Dickey, 1968 (File 851) - Box 186
On cover - To Jack Lindsay with Kindest regards, James Dickie
Correspondence and book - Salvation Without Saviours by W H (Harry) Parke, 1951-1952 (File 852) - Box 186
Correspondence from Richard Kelly Tipping to Robert?, 1985 (File 852) - Box 186
Attached is a book chapter The Sculpture of Anthony Stones by Denys Trussell
Typescript - Autobiography of William Francis Kett, 1957 (File 853) - Box 186
Corrected copy Includes letter to Jack Lindsay from Charlotte Frances Kett
Copies of Articles and poems, 1929-1979 (File 855) - Box 186
The Poetry of my Politics, Walter Lowenfels; views and reviews of jack Lindsay in 'The New Age'; Post Modern Writing - a collection of poetry by Jonah Raskin, Michael Wilding, John Montgomery, Louis Johnson, Jack Lindsay, Margaret Randall and others
Papers relating to poets John Milton, John Dryden and Isaac Vossius (File 857) - Box 187
Typescript of 'The Originality of Milton' unpublished; correspondence
Annotated typescript 'Case for the Defence in Royal Commission on Historical Monuments v. Cummins and Company (Colliton Carvings), 1947 (File 859) - Box 187
Includes manuscript additions, drawings and correspondence
Scrapbook art of Italy, West Africa, England and Etruscan, c.1950 (File 861) - Box 187
Copies of images from journals and magazines
Sketches and Rubbings from Archaeological sites of Norman Britain (File 864) - Box 188
Sites include Gestingthorpe, Halstead, Gosfield, etc in Essex
Collection of English and US newspaper critiques of Dickens and other authors, 1960-1972 (File 865) - Box 188
Dickens; George Eliot; T Carlyle; Coleridge to Gore; T Hardy; Mrs Gaskell; G Meredith
(i) Sketches of Ancient Terra Cottas and Pottery found in Britain and Europe; (ii) Articles on Byzantine history and arts, c.1946-1954 (File 866) - Box 188
(i) Greek, Cretan, Cyprian and Roman from Kent, Middlesex; Netherlands. (ii) Covers 50 items
The Normans and Their World by Jack Lindsay (uncorrected proof copy), 1973 (File 867) - Box 188
Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, London, 1973
Meredith- Original Notes, c.1951 (File 868) - Box 189
Copies of Letters(634) by Notables of 18th and 19th centuries referencing important issues of the day
Translations of Greek and Russian Texts; The Artist as Reporter by Paul Hogarth, 1961 (File 869) - Box 189
Typed text: My Friend Jack Lindsay - A Personal Tribute by Colin Huggett, 1977 (File 870) - Box 189
62 pp with comprehensive list of works by Jack Lindsay
Texts: Play-Convoy to Murmansk with letters from Joint Committee for Soviet Aid; Opera - The Mermaid; Fable - Dream of Oedipus; A Night at the Black Bull with Ailsa Lindsay, 1944 (File 871) - Box 189
Licence from Lord Chamberlain to produce Play during WWII
Winter Issue of Pottery Quarterly; Vol 10 No.37 of Pottery Quarterly; Copies of 18th century poems, 1955 (File 872) - Box 189
Article "Pottery Demiurge" by JL in No.37
American Dialog (2 Issues); Russian journal "Bcecbin"; Songs of Peace based on poems of associates of JL, 1958-66 (File 873) - Box 189
Russian journal inscribed by JL's 'old friend from Kiev', also includes letter by JL at p119; Poets include Eluard, Guillen, Mistral, Nezval and Tu Fu
Sites: Sketches of terracotta figurines from Greece and Medea; Mithras - notes and articles, 1955-56 (File 874) - Box 190
Appears associated with Temple of Mithras and Mithriatic culture
Byzantium into Europe- refused by Poland; Notes on Balkans and Central Europe, 1953-1968 (File 875) - Box 191
Seeking publishers for JL's book
Collection of material relating to Alexander Blok, including translations, 1980s (File 879) - Box 191
Peace Poems; Material on Roman Theatre at Verulamium, 1934 (File 882) - Box 192
See also 189/873 for Peace Poems; various booklets on the theatre by academics
The Fetal Origin of History from Foundations of Psychohistory by Lloyd de Mause; Notes for KETT, 1982 (File 883) - Box 192
Copies (7) of publications by Walter Lowenfels, 1968-74 (File 884) - Box 192
A number of these have personal messages from author to JL
Hungarian Writers, c.1950 (File 885) - Box 192
Articles by Jack Lindsay on Hungarian authors and their work
Photocopies of corresponce with Edith Sitwell; original letters from Edith Sitwell; an original manuscript poem by Edith Sitwell with editing, 1948-1978 (File 889) - Box 192
His blood colours my cheek : manuscript poem signed, undated
Copies of Italian art works, press clippings; Celtic art in Britain papers, clippings, postcard, 1960s (File 890) - Box 193
L'Honneur des Poetes, miscellaneous papers, translations of Nerada, correspondence, 1940-1980 (File 892) - Box 193
Correspondence with George Leeson, poetry, correspondence between Jack Lindsay and Theun de Vries, Arnold Wesker, Michael Wilding, William Unger, Basil Wright and others
Papers, 1948-1973 (File 895) - Box 194
Paper clipping from Les Lettres; Journal article Mul Raj Anand: the novelist as novelist by Marlene Fisher; Revolutionary Marxist Current discussion paper, London Museum guide
Papers, 1928-1973 (File 896) - Box 194
Notes for Homeopathy students; journal article by Howard Stein; notes on Modern economics of Clapham and Williams; journal article ' The Living Hand' by Robert Gittings
Book, 1947 (File 897) - Box 194
Studies in the Literary backgrounds of English radicalism by Ray Adams
Papers (File 897) - Box 194
Scientific articles, press clippings, correspondence, photographs, postcards and negatives
Correspondence, 1945-1950 (File 898) - Box 194
Correspondents include Peter Russell, Paul Rudall, Stan Rayner, Georges Soria, Judith Ross, Graham Reynolds
Miscellaneous papers (File 898) - Box 194
These documents have sustained water damage and are unsorted
Partial thesis (File 900) - Box 195
Thesis relates to the representation of race in colonial literature and theatre
Book reviews, notes, press cuttings, Journal articles (File 901) - Box 195
Papers relating to works of Lindsay
Coloured prints of European art; leaflet from the louvre; book; list of Lindsay's ideas for a book, 1948 (File 903) - Box 195
The Painter David by Helen Rosenau
Miscellaneous papers, 1975-1988 (File 904) - Box 195
List of artworks, correspondence, memo book, newspaper clippings, royalty statements, loose notes
Miscellaneous papers, 1983-1984 (File 905) - Box 195
correspondence, memo book, newspaper clippings, articles on Constable and Morris, loose notes, typed book reviews, article on PR 'Inky' Stephensen, magazine articles
Miscellaneous papers (File 906) - Box 196
Notes, Christmas Cards, play scripts, poems, synopsis: George Romney
Exercise Books containing notes on Romney, a bibliography; Exercise book containing notes on Hogarth, a bibliography, c.1985 (File 907) - Box 196
Miscellaneous papers (File 908) - Box 196
Correspondence, articles, Rumanian poetry, excerpt from Richard Preston's Path and Pavement
Booklets and papers (File 909) - Box 196
Song of Peace by Vitezslav Nezval, translated by J. Lindsay and S. Jolly (4 copies); War and Peace - collaboration with Noel Counihan (2 copies); Cry of Peace by Jack Lindsay (broadsheet); flyers for Voice of Greece; William Blake - 200 years, Poems in tribute (13 copies); Play script by Jack Lindsay: The Greeks
Passage of Pegasus: The Cultural Anthropology of Jack Lindsay, 1984 (File 910) - Box 196
An essay by J. Borg in Culture and History: Essays presented to Jack Lindsay
Script for performance based critique of the poetry of Edith Sitwell (File 910) - Box 196
Performed by JL with a reader
Miscellaneous papers housed in British Museum Society Bulletin, 1947-1973 (File 911) - Box 196
Correspondence, typed article titled 'After Sheffield', clippings, poetry
Papers, articles, correspondence, Journal, 1943-1983 (File 912) - Box 196
Letters, poetry, Our Time Journal, A World is One, Play script by Jack Lindsay, transcripts of Radio plays, play scripts
Ray's letter (File 913) - Box 197
Notes for a book on existentialism, typed, uncorrected copy of Ray Lindsay's 13,000 word letter to his brother Jack, correspondence, book launch invitations and flyers
Miscellaneous papers, 1974-1990 (File 915) - Box 197
Correspondence, playscript 'Scenes from Culanem', typed notes on William Morris, William Morris Society papers and Annual Report, newspaper cuttings
Ioannes episcopus servus servorum dei ad perpetuam rei memorium, 1962 (File 916) - Box 197
Latin booklet sent to John Lindsay by Robert Browning
Copies of articles by Jack Lindsay; Newspaper cuttings, c.1973 (File 917) - Box 197
Morning Star - two editions
A poet for the People, typescript copy, pages 1-42, 1984 (File 918) - Box 197
Borg, J. (1984) 'A poet for the people.' In: Smith, B. (ed.) Culture and History: Essays Presented to Jack Lindsay. Sydney, Hale and Iremonger, pp.101-148
Annotated script for stage production on William Blake (File 921) - Box 198
Played by Bernard and Josephine
Agamemnon by Aeschylus, 1931 (File 923) - Box 198
Annotated typescript of translation by Jack Lindsay
Radio Broadcast Scripts, 1954 (File 925) - Box 198
Includes notes and information on the Writers conference held in Moscow that year
The Novel in a Divided World; The Novel and Alienation; The Quest for a Marxist Aesthetic, c.1962 (File 926) - Box 198
Annotated typescript, research papers and correspondence
SCR Activities 1, 1960s-1987 (File 928) - Box 198
Correspondence, poetry, play scripts, three sonnets
SCR Activities 2 (ii), 1944-1960 (File 929b) - Box 198
Correspondence, poetry, play scripts, notes, clippings
The Blood Vote, 1937-1985 (File 930a) - Box 199
Photocopied typescript annotated as unpublished novel (published in 1985)
The Blood Vote, 1937-1985 (File 930b) - Box 199
Photocopied typescript annotated as unpublished novel (published in 1985)
Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1962-1977 (File 931) - Box 199
Christmas cards, postcards, correspondence, poetry, press cuttings ephemera
Series. Notebooks
Notebook, 1949 (File 934) - Box 200
Notebook written in the USSR and on the boat back, used in A World Ahead
Bulletin Notebook 2, 1970-1971 (File 934) - Box 200
Contains notes in Russian and English, housed inside rear cover
Exercise book 'Archaeology', 1960 (File 934) - Box 200
Notes relating to agriculture and archaeology
Exercise Book 'Russian Novels' (File 934) - Box 200
Notes relating to Novels from War and Peace to Harvest
Series. Miscellaneous Papers and Manuscripts
Miscellaneous papers, 1970s (File 936) - Box 200
receipts, tickets, correspondence, credit card, notes, discards
Port Workers News, 1953-1955 (File 937) - Box 200
Covering letter and copies of Port Workers journal
Series. Published Books
William Morris. A Biography by Jack Lindsay, 1975 (File) - Box 202
Autographed title page: To Elaine Baly with the best wishes of Jack Lindsay here at Castle Hedingham, June 1978. This book in which I pay my tribute to Morris for his all roundedness as man and artist
Charles Dickens: A biography and critical study by Jack Lindsay, 1950 (File) - Box 202
Autographed inside cover "To Elaine Baly with the best wishes of Jack Lindsay at Castle Hedingham, 1981…" Ex Libris Leslie Staples
Adam of a New World by Jack Lindsay, 1936 (File) - Box 202
First edition, autographed: With all good wishes to Elaine Baly this New Year (1983), Jack Lindsay
The Origins of Alchemy in Graeco-Roman Egypt by Jack Lindsay, 1970 (File) - Box 202
Autographed title page: Jack Lindsay to Elaine Baly
The Golden Ass by Apuleius (File) - Box 202
The world's most famous erotic novel, translated by Jack Lindsay, autograph to Elaine Baly
Life Rarely tells by Jack Lindsay, 1982 (File) - Box 202
Autobiographical trilogy, note to Elaine Baly pasted in cover
Inspiration: An anthology of utterances by Creative Minds defining the creative act and its lyrical basis in life, ed. Jack Lindsay, 1928 (File) - Box 202
Autographed to Elaine Baly 1981
The Romans were here by Jack Lindsay, 1955 (File) - Box 203
The Roman Period of Britain and its Place in our History. Contains annotations and notes
William Blake His Life and Work by Jack Lindsay, 1978 (File) - Box 203
Includes interleaved correspondence
Cleopatra by Jack Lindsay, 1970 (File) - Box 203
Includes interleaved correspondence and press clipping
The Origins of Alchemy in Graeco-Roman Egypt by Jack Lindsay (Uncorrected proof), 1970 (File) - Box 203
Includes interleaved correspondence and press clipping
Helen of Troy Woman and Goddess by Jack Lindsay (Uncorrected proof), 1974 (File) - Box 203
Some annotations
Arthur and his times Britain in the Dark Ages by Jack Lindsay (Uncorrected proof), 1958 (File) - Box 203
Annotated, interleaved with footnotes etc
Leisure and Pleasure in Roman Egypt by Jack Lindsay, 1965 (File) - Box 203
Annotated, interleaved with review
Men and Gods on the Roman Nile by Jack Lindsay, 1968 (File) - Box 203
Includes interleaved correspondence and press clipping, some annotations
Blast-power and Ballistics Concepts of Force ad Energy in the Ancient World by Jack Lindsay (Uncorrected proof), 1974 (File) - Box 203
Interleaved press clippings
Three essays from University of Tartu, Estonia, 1969-1973 (File) - Box 211
One English Language, 2 Estonian[?]
Unknown title, 1977 (File) - Box 211
Inscribed: Sent home by my Danetsk friends for my 81st birthday, Jack Lindsay
Een Bundeltje Brieven by G H Wallagh (File) - Box 211
Autographed by Wallagh,; Dutch language book: A Bunch of Letters
Collection of essays, 1967 (File) - Box 211
Inscribed 'To Jack Lindsay from Vladimir Vakhrushev'; Russian language
Unknown title 1917-1975, 1976 (File) - Box 211
Inscribed 'To Jack Lindsay from [illegible] this new text-book on modern literature, see j. Lindsay's work on pages 227-229' Russian language
Elarult Tavasz by Jack Lindsay, 1955 (File) - Box 211
Hungarian language translation of Jack Lindsay's Betrayed Spring
Moment Wyboru by Jack Lindsay, 1957 (File) - Box 211
Polish language translation of jack Lindsay's The Moment of Choice
The Lesbian Pastorals of Daphnis and Chloe Translated and with a critical essay by Jack Lindsay, 1948 (File) - Box 211
Translated from the Greek of Longus includes fourteen woodcuts by Lionel Ellis
I Normanni by Jack Lindsay, 1984 (File) - Box 212
Italian language translation of The Normans and their World (1974)
Betrayed Spring by Jack Lindsay, 1957 (File) - Box 212
Russian language translation of Jack Lindsay's Betrayed Spring
The Revolt of the Sons by Jack Lindsay, 1960 (File) - Box 212
Ukrainian language translation of Jack Lindsay's The Revolt of the Sons
A Selection of English Poems Classical and Modern, 1952 (File) - Box 212
Russian language translation
Unknown title. Poetry, contains photograph of Joseph Stalin at the front, 1951 (File) - Box 212
Jack Lindsay poem features on page 518, Russian language
Marxist Literature in England: The Thirties Movement by H. Gustav Klaus, 1973 (File) - Box 212
German language
A Local Habitation A novel of the British Way by Jack Lindsay, 1961 (File) - Box 212
Czech translation of jack Lindsay's A Local Habitation
Unknown title by G V Anikin, 1974 (File) - Box 212
Inscribed: To Jack Lindsay with best wishes, G V Anikin, August 22, 1974
Unknown title, 1977 (File) - Box 213
Inscribed: To Dr Jack Lindsay, the tireless worker of the English progressive literature from a true disciple, Lidia Karbivnichaya
Calatorind prin URSS Note si impresii de drum by Zaharia Stancu, 1949 (File) - Box 213
Romanian language book: Travelling through the USSR. Notes and impressions on the road
Le Origini Dell'alchimia Nell'egitto Greco-Romano, 1984 (File) - Box 213
Italian translation of The Origins of Alchemy in Greco-Roman Egypt
Moraj a fold alol by Jack Lindsay, 1969 (File) - Box 214
Icelandic language translation of Thunder Underground
Die Grosse Eiche by Jack Lindsay, 1959 (File) - Box 214
German translation of The Great Oak: a story of 1549
Letters from various authors on the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, 1962 (File) - Box 215
Includes work by Jack Lindsay
Unknown Title relating to essays on Western authors by Valentina Ivashova, 1971 (File) - Box 215
Inscribed: For Jack Lindsay - our friend Jack - from the author of this book, Valentina Ivashova
Unknown title, 1953 (File) - Box 215
inscribed 'To Jack Lindsay with all my friendship, D. Fotiadis', Greek language
Series. The Monster City: Defoe's London, 1688-1730
The Monster City: Defoe's London, 1688-1730 by Jack Lindsay First version typescript, 1977 (File 944) - Box 204
The Monster City: Defoe's London, 1688-1730 by Jack Lindsay First version notes 1, 1977 (File 944) - Box 204
The Monster City: Defoe's London, 1688-1730 by Jack Lindsay First version notes 2, 1977 (File 944) - Box 204
The Monster City: Defoe's London, 1688-1730 by Jack Lindsay First version references, 1977 (File 944) - Box 204
The Monster City: Defoe's London, 1688-1730 by Jack Lindsay Final version typescript, 1977 (File 945) - Box 204
Includes covering letter to publisher
Series. Miscellaneous texts
( Film)Scripts (various) (File 952) - Box 205
Mostly not JL. Subjects: Germans; My Cry of Greece; Victory Song; Temptation of Major Tinsley (MS 175A)
Short History of Culture (part), 1963 (File 961) - Box 207
1st Version manuscript, includes notes to the printer
Short History of Culture (part), 1963 (File 962) - Box 207
1st Version manuscript, includes notes to the printer
Short History of Culture (part), 1963 (File 963) - Box 207
1st Version manuscript, includes notes to the printer
Plays for Mermaid Theatre (by other authors), 1982 (File 965) - Box 208
The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.by C Hampton; Dinner at Magny's by Robert Baldick
Play: Nathan the Wise by GE Lessing adapted by F Bruckner, c.1967 (File 966) - Box 208
Newly translated for Mermaid Theatre by JL
MS: The Ancient World-Manners and Morals, 1968 (File 968) - Box 208
Proofs. Note that the file has The Roman World, but proofs have The Ancient World
MS: Socialist Realism and the British Tradition, c.1962 (File 970) - Box 209
Date is speculated on note to publisher to use quotes from earlier works on George Meredith and William Morris (1956 and 1961)
Texts: i) Tribal Totems; ii) Glass; iii) Impact of Modernism on DH Lawrence (File 971) - Box 209
Text on Glass is mostly research notes; Totems is a rough draft; (iii) is an essay in Painting of DH Lawrence, London, 1964
MS: i) Thunder Underground - a novel of Rome under Nero [1]; ii) Arthur, c.1935 (File 973) - Box 209
i) Text is comprehensive; ii) mainly notes and background
MS: Fire Underground [11] - a novel of Rome under Nero, c.1935 (File 974) - Box 209
Text is a redraft of Thunder Underground (item 973)