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File (a)
As we like it: a tragedy. Typescript, 4 copies
The husband of Camille: a play in one act. Typescript
Charlotte Corday speaks in her cell (France, 1793). Typescript
File (b)
Pre Existence (manuscript) | " will come back" (manuscript) | Instead of another (manuscript)
So he told me (manuscript and typescript) | The ageing courtezanne [sic] (manuscript)
Summer fairies (manuscript) | My lady (typescript) | Charming Mollee (typescript)
Nonsense rhymes (manuscript and typescript) | 'On the landing' (manuscript and typescript)
Across the copse (manuscript and typescript) | When I was little (typescript)
Verses (typescript) | To a China shepherdess (manuscript) | Pierrot and Pierrette (manuscript and typescript)
Typescripts, including:
Impressions of a poet | The other day | On the portrait of a pretty lady | The lovers' walk | Moonlight over the island
The sense of it | Possession | Summer | Evening | Morning | The ball | To thespie | Keepsakes | Mayday in London
The shower | In London in October | A supplication to Cupid | By morning light | The way things go
Lad's love | The skeleton | To Miss 1840 | Star shine | The tragedy of every day | Regret | Instead of another
The signed engraving of the shepherdess | To Joyce | My own song | Growing up | To a lady whom I have never met
Summer fairies | Layer Breton meadow | To little sister | The study fire | Let us respect the saltings and the wind
Rhymes of an ignorant child | Railway trains | The sandwiched man | For a soldier
The three ideas of Middle Wick the Brownie, with original artwork by Nicola Snell
File (c) Poems: written when very young.
Typescripts include:
Pierrot and pierette | To little sister (Joyce) | My own song | Autumn foolishness | Possession | Mrs. steam roller
The red lion | The horrid tale of a romantic tram | The lady | The fairy garden | The signed engraving of the shepherdess
Instead of another | For a soldier | On the landing | The skeleton | To my husband on active service
Star shine | Dorothy Perkins | In London in October | The way things go | May Day in London
The shower | Summer | Morning song | Let us respect the saltings and the wind | By morning light
Pre existence | " will come back" | Autumn foolishness | The tragedy of every day | Moonlight over the island
Sunset over Mersea | Stars | Sunset | Across the copse | The fairy garden | To a lady whom I have never met
Summer fairies | Evening | Morning
Early plays and monologues, including:
Producing a play (2 copies, manuscript) | Maid Marian (and typescript, 2 copies)
The 'Pothacary, a fantasy [sic] (manuscript) | The Apothecary: a study in the grotesque (typescript)
The Page (typescript) | Amy Robsart (typescript) | Jerry Abershaw's sweetheart speaks in the crowd (typescript)
Charlotte Corday speaks in her cell (typescript) | Tib Merriweather (typescript) | The ballad of Rowenne (typescript)
On board the Hi-Yang-Fo (manuscript and typescript) | The lady: the jongleur's song (manuscript)
Polytechnic School of Speech-Training and Dramatic Art
Performance programmes, press cuttings and publicity 1921-1926
File (d)
Dido and Aeneas: a play [1922]
Manuscript pages (3)
Typescripts (3)
Performance programmes, 1.6.1922
Newspaper reviews and correspondence
File (e)
Photocopies of early works (not listed)
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No.5 (1924) Short stories, including
'The fruit stall' and 'The heretic, Colchester'
No.6 (1923) Poems, including
May day in London
In London in October
The shower
The lady in the garden
Rymes [sic] of an ignorant child
The signed engraving of the shepherdess [sic]
The sandwiched man
Possession
Unnumbered Notes, including
The way things go
No.13 (1934) Notes, including
Rogues holiday
Three hundred thousand pounds
The perfect butler
No.15 (1934) Notes, including
Flowers for the judge
No.21 (1944?) Notes, including
To my husband on active service
Morning song
For a soldier
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File (a)
Manuscript (Smuggled rum: a tale of Mersea Island) wants Chapter 14
Introduction to Blackkerchief Dick, by William McFee (typescript and publisher's literature)
Correspondence
File (b)
Sèance records, including notes by Margery Allingham
File (a)
Early (unpublished?) manuscripts:
'Back' | The secret | Pals first | The Wag-tale | The man from the shadows
The peacemaker | Cupid's fire man (A boy's ambition) | Seeing double | Untitled
Early (unpublished?) typescripts:
The three bears and Goldilocks | Hurdy-gurdy Ann | 'Re X, deceased'
The eye of a hawke (with Phil Allingham) | The three ideas of Middle Wick the Brownie (2 copies)
How Binkie became a king | Romeo Domino (2 copies)
File (b)
Early manuscripts:
Sweet and low | The widow | ['Tis not hereafter] | ['The mind's eye mystery']
Miss Amber | ['She heard it on the wireless' last page] | [The same to us] 'They're clever'
The sexton's wife | The psychologists | The old man in the window
The lyabout / The lieabout | The longer view | They never get caught
[The pro and the con]? | Title? ["Mr Campion piloting his companion through the crowded courtyard at Burlington House "]
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Three typescripts of 18 short stories, including file copy
Typescript (wants 'The curious affair in Nut Row')
Files (a) and (b) Short stories (typescripts):
The barbarian | The beauty king | Bird thou never wert | The correspondents
The day of the demon (see also Box 42, file (b)) | Dead man's evidence
Happy Christmas | He preferred them sad | He was asking after you (typescript incomplete pages 4-11)
It didn't work out | The man with the cuckoo clock (Father of all fish) | The man with the sack | Mr Campion's lucky day | The mistress in the house
On Christmas Day in the morning | Once in a lifetime | The perfect butler
The pioneers | Publicity | Safe as houses | The same to us | The secret
The sexton's wife | She heard it on the radio | Tall story | Thicker than water
'Tis not hereafter | The unseen door | The wink | A word in season
Files (c)
Occasional pieces and essays, including the following typescripts:
The book as a possession | Crime for OUR delight | Detective stories and thrillers
The fine art of intrigue | The garden | In my garden | My garden, my love
London, my market town (talk on BBC) | I seem to have a medal: a memory | Mr Campion's lady
My characters | On the writing of dialogue in detective and mystery fiction | On being asked to write a poem to Doubleday
Plot for detective novel | The programme is continuous | The thriller | A letter to my niece
Publications of short stories and occasional pieces (not listed)
Transcript of an interview [1965]
Typescript note re The fashion in shrouds
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File (a)
Typescripts (2)
File (b)
Correspondence with publishers
Typescripts (2)
Radio script, 19.9.64
Cargo of Eagles
Typescripts (2)
The Case of the Late Pig
Typescripts (3)
Radio script, 11.9.65
Murder Most Peculiar
Manuscript of chapters 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7
Typescript, with exchange of correspondence between Miss Margery Allingham and Mr Albert Campion, April 1936
The China Governess
Typescripts (4)
Abridged typescript for serialised version in Woman's own (1963)
Publisher's notes on the derivation of the title (from a Staffordshire pottery figure)
A Corner in Crime
Radio script, 21.10.43
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Manuscripts of chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4Typescript
File (a)
Manuscript, chapters 1 - 10
File (b)
Manuscript, chapters 11 - 28
File (c)
Typescript
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Dance of the Years
Manuscript
Dark Invitation
Typescripts (2)
Death of a Ghost
Typescript
Rehearsal script for BBC television
File (a)
Manuscript (incomplete)
File (b)
Typescripts (2)
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Flowers for the judge
Manuscript (incomplete: chapters 1, 2, 3; 15, 16 and 17)
Typescript
Green corn
Typescript
Here's wishing you well again
Radio script, page 5 only, 4.11.43
Manuscript notes for chapter 9
Typescript
Correspondence with publishers re a film production
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Typescripts (3)
Radio scripts (2), 15.6.57 and [n.d.]
Correspondence relating to sale of film rights
Notes on Look to the lady, Mystery mile, Sweet danger "
The Lover
Manuscript, chapter 1, (3 pages)
Typescript, page 2 - chapter 10, page 8
Manuscript, outline of the story from the end of chapter 9
Mystery Mile
Typescript
Radio script, 27.1.62
Serialisation in the Swedish magazine Lektyr
The Mind Readers
Typescripts (3)
Typescript of early version of chapter 1
Various correspondence and notes
Manuscript, chapters 1 - 6
Typescripts, parts 2, 3 and 4
Screenplay by Derry Quinn: first shooting script, 15.11.49
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Manuscript
Typescript (2 copies)
Notes and correspondence
Police at the funeral [Death in this house]
Typescript
A quarter of a million [Mystery man]
Typescript
Typescripts (7)
Notes and correspondence
Typescripts (3)
Room to Let
Manuscript
Typescripts (2)
Radio scripts (3), 11.11.49 and 26.12.51
Film script
Correspondence and reviews
Safer than love
Typescript, parts 1, 2 and 3
Correspondence
Typescripts (2), (incomplete)
Correspondence; notes on the novels of Maxwell March by Barry Pike
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Sweet Danger
Typescript
Take Two at Bedtime, The Last Act
Manuscript
Wanted: someone innocent [It needed someone innocent]
Typescripts (2)
Typescripts (2)
Radio scripts (2), 9.11.63
Photographs from the film production
Manuscript
Typescript
Short stories from newspapers and magazines, including:
The beauty king | The Black Dudley murder | Borderline case | The case is altered | The case of the Frenchman's gloves
Dangerous secrets | Dangerous invitation | The Darings of the Red Rose | The day of the demon | The definite article
The doctor and the silver plate | Evidence in camera | Face value | Family affair | Felony at Mr Mevagissy's
Formula for murder | Little Miss Know-all | The man who utterly vanished | The meaning of the act
A medal | Mind's eye mystery | Mr Campion's lucky day | Murder under the surface | The name on the wrapper
The old man in the window | On Christmas day in the morning | Open verdict | Pearls before swine
The pioneers | A proper mystery | The psychologists | Publicity | The rescue of the rain-clouds
The same to us | The snapdragon and the C.I.D. | Take two at bedtime | Tall story | 3 is a lucky number | The white cottage mystery
Sleuth's corner: a practical problem in crime detection
Agatha Christie: half-way house. (An appreciation on Agatha Christie's 50th book)
Unsorted file of short stories in newspapers
In my garden
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Lists, bibliographies and reviews
5 files listing the works of Margery Allingham [prepared by the author?]
Lists [prepared by Barry Pike]
The case of the missing detective stories ... by L.S.Gribbin, 1966
A Campion dossier, prepared by J.E.Morpurgo
A note on Albert Campion [author unknown]
File of reviews and press cuttings
Proof copies of books by Margery Allingham and Philip Youngman Carter
Cargo of eagles
The case of the late pig
Mr Campion's clown
Dancers in mourning
The mind readers
The oaken heart (with annotations, and typed note by M.A.)
Mr Campion's farthing (PYC)
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Mr. Campion's falcon
Typescripts (2) (with mss notes)
Mr. Campion's farthing [The Kopeck enigma]
Typescripts (3)
The adventures of Margery Allingham [author?] (printouts, incomplete?)
Ink in her blood, by Richard Martin
Marge: a private life, by Richard Martin, sample chapter, with photocopies of correspondence
Margery Allingham: 100 years of a great mystery writer, edited by Marianne Van Hoevan. Sample chapters.
Margery Allingham: a biography, by Julia Thorogood
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Biographical notes
Margery Allingham: year-by-year factual summary based on letters, diaries and documents
Margery Allingham [by Philip Youngman-Carter]
Pip and Marge [by Philip Youngman-Carter]
Notes [by Joyce Allingham]
Margery Allingham: personal reflections and notes, including:
What is the reason for me?
Thoughts on religion and Christianity
Correspondence, August 1940, with William Ebor, Archbishop of York
Margery Allingham: an introduction by J. E. Morpurgo
Articles about Margery Allingham, including Margery Allingham by B. A. Pike
Margery Allingham: miscellaneous personal material and biographical notes (unsorted)
Diary for 1934
Correspondence (MA and PYC) with publishers
Correspondence with the BBC re Campion television series, including press reviews (Box 34)
Contents of all boxes unsorted
Personal correspondence (sent to M.A.)
Box 40 includes a file of letters, c. 1948 - 1960, from Lavinia Davis
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File (a)
Letters from M.A. to Cecil Walker
Mss. letters numbered 1 (22.8.41) to 65 (24.10.62); items 57 and 59 are note cards. Letter 58 not included but "with Penguin set; retained"
Typescripts of the above
Mss. letters from Cecil Walker to M.A. with typescripts
File (b)
Letter (typescript copy), 21.2.51, to T.E.B.Clarke, with typescript copy of The day of the demon: a country tale, by Margery Allingham.
Letters from Frank Swinnerton, 1936 - 1941
Letters from A.V.Cookman, 1947 - 1953; copies of letters from M.A. to A.V.C. (14.10.47) and two others [nd]
Letters from St. John Ervine, 1937, "Allingham-bashing", with copies of replies (3) from M.A. to St.J.E.
Photographs and notes relating to Leslie Cresswell
Various Christmas cards
File (c)
65 letters and 3 postcards, 1922 - 1964, from William McFee
9 letters from B. McFee to H. J. Allingham
2 letters from James T. Babb, 6.2.56 and 30.12.59, to M.A.
File (d)
2 letters from James T. Babb, 6.2.56 and 30.12.59, to M.A.
17 letters from M.A. to Russell Meiggs [c. 1930s]
Letter [undated] from R.M. to M. A., with M.A.'s annotations
Two files of M.A.'s correspondence to publishers and others (mss. and typescript copies). Unsorted, c. 1942 - 1966.
Correspondence relating to taxation, 1937 - 1964
Correspondence with H.M. Inland Revenue and A.F.Christlieb & Co., Chartered Accountants.
Letters from Phillip Youngman Carter to Margery Allingham
Early letters (pre-marriage)
Cards (3) designed by P.Y.C.
Wartime letters, 1941 - 1942; letter, 21.3.1946
Undated letter (1952?)
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File (a)
M.A.'s Garden book, 1949 -; photographs of the garden at D'Arcy House, and photographs of the House
M.A.'s notebooks (2) (WWII ARP notes, and WWII 'billeting' notebook); WWII 'billeting' ledgers (3)
D'Arcy House: party files and correspondence, 1953 - 1962
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Typescript / manuscript interfiled
Correspondence, 1982, (J. P. Morpurgo, Joyce Allingham and others) relating to the publication of All I did was this.
Biographical notes
Typescripts:
A for assassin | The agent | Alternative ending | Brother Polidor's eye [The evil eye of Brother Polidor]
The bulletin | Chaplin solo (article in England magazine) | Collector's item | Dead ringer
A frog in the throat | The genuine article | Grand seigneur | The green box | Humble's box
In the pink | Kane's doll | Keep the change | The last hangman | The last of General Trotter | The Levasseur formula
Typescripts:
Means of escape | Mr Anomaly | Mr Healy's day | Mr Manchester | A name on the bullet
The new confidence trick | Odd little tune | Old school type | Old soldiers never lie
The once-er | One for the memoirs | One for the record | The proper charley
St Alban's elixir | The seeds of time | So many enemies | The straight question | The test of speed [That's cricket - that was]
There is a tide " | These old families | They asked after me | The thorns are vicious (typescript / manuscript)
The trivial round | The trouble with locksmiths (manuscript) | Uneasy lies (typescript / manuscript)
Wheels within wheels (typescript / manuscript) | You know how it is
On to Andorra
Manuscript and typescript
'Western Desert' typescripts and notes, 1942 - 1943
Short articles (typescripts):
The artist's notes on the drawings | Chaplin: solo (mss and typescripts) | Chaplin towards seventy The Englishman in pursuit of his health (mss and typescript) | In darkest clubland (mss) | The first Taverner?
The last curtsy | Letter from London | Longford and Oak | Lovely bubbly at less than champagne cost
Malta, the holiday island | Masks and faces (mss) | Mating habits of the traffic warden
Off the record. Not on record (mss and typescript) | Rogue's holiday (mss) | "The shiny's" | Theatre
The town in summer (mss and typescript) |The traffic warden | Traitor
Drinking burgundy | Champagne and brandy | How to know your brandy | Wines that sparkle
Miscellaneous notes
P.Y.C.'s last novel [untitled]
Manuscript and notes (incomplete)
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The Tatler press cuttings
Publishing projects
Correspondence 1942 - 1966
File includes 14 letters from PYC to MA [nd], and 1.6.42 to 2.10.45
Legal correspondence, 1946 - 1966
Correspondence 1962 - 1969
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Including:
A file containing birth, marriage and death certificates; WWII National Registration identity card; passport;
WWII Air Raid Precaution, Invasion; Arrangements and Billeting papers for Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Polytechnic certificates,
Medical records.
Margery llingham: photographs and drawings
Philip Youngman Carter, personal items, documents and photographs, including:
A file of birth and marriage certificates; passports and WWII identity cards
WWII medals (1939-1945 medal; the Defence medal; the Africa star; the 1939-1945 star)
Mss. of two poems by Edmund Blunden (Overheard; Cathedrals), with note 8.2.1957 [Photocopy; the original kept in filing cabinet, Special Collections Room]
Miscellaneous publications
Photographs of PYC
One ash-tray ("Our Prince of Sports") with note from Blenheim Palace
Landscapes and village life
Portraits and miscellaneous
Book covers (Authors other than M.A.)
(Large Portfolio) Portraits and landscapes
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