urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00210 Francis Henry King: A Preliminary Inventory of an Addition to His Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Text converted by SPI Content Sciences Inc., July 2003. Finding aid written in English. Francis Henry King Addition to His Papers 1938-2000 10 boxes (4.2 linear feet) Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin King, Francis Henry, 1923- This addition to the Francis King collection contains his personal literary correspondence and writings including written notebooks from his school days at Shrewsbury; two handwritten journals kept during his stay in Japan in 1963; and published and unpublished short stories. Acquisition:

Purchase, 2002 (Reg. no. 15095)

 Access:

Open for research

 Processed by:

Liz Murray, 2002

 Scope and Contents

This addition to the Francis King Papers contains his personal literary correspondence, 1948-2000, and writings including juvenilia and short stories.

The collection is arranged in two series: Series I. Correspondence includes incoming letters in Subseries A. Outgoing correspondence to Cyril Eland, Tony Jebez-Smith, and James Sartin is found in Subseries B. The full names of correspondents are notated by King throughout. An index of correspondents follows the folder list.

Series II. Writings contains handwritten notebooks from King's schooldays at Shrewsbury, including a book of poetry; two handwritten journals kept during his stay in Japan in 1963; published and unpublished short stories; and a piece on Christopher Isherwood. Also present is a handwritten draft of J. R. Ackerley's The Bench of Renunciation with Ackerley's correspondence with Cyril Eland.

Originally housed in binders, each letter sustained two punched holes causing some minor loss of text. Otherwise the materials are in good condition.

 Francis Henry King Papers (addition)--Folder List I. Correspondence, 1948-2000 A. Incoming 1 1 A 1 2 Ba-Bl 1 3 Bo-Bu 1 4 Braybrooke, June 1 5 Braybrooke, Neville 1 6 Brophy, Brigid 1 7 Brown, Geoff 1 8 Burkhart, Charles 1 9 C 2 1 Callard, David 2 2 Cooper, Lettice 2 3 Cotes, Peter 2 4 Cranston, Maurice 2 5 D-E 2 6 De-la-Noy, Michael 2 7-9 Dick, Kay 3 1-5 Dick, cont'd 4 1 Dick, cont'd 4 2 A Domestic Animal 4 3 Epton, Nina 4 4 F 4 5 Farrell, Kathleen 4 6 Fitzgerald, Penelope 4 7 Fryer, Jonathan 4 8 G 4 9 Grosskurth, Phyllis 5 1 H 5 2-3 Haylock, John 5 4 Hayter, Alethea 5 5 Holroyd, Michael 5 6 I-K 5 7 Kirkup, James 5 8 L 6 1 M 6 2 McBrien, Bill 6 3-4 Meyers, Jeffrey 6 5 Miller, Miranda 6 6-7 Murphy, Clive 7 1-4 Murphy, cont'd 7 5 N-O 7 6 P 7 7 Parker, Peter 8 1 P. E. N. 8 2 Petre, Dianna 8 3 Quigley, Isobel 8 4 R 8 5 Roose-Evans, James 8 6 S 8 7 Spencer, Colin 8 8 T-V 8 9 Trafford, Jeremy 8 10 W-Y 9 1 Wakefield, Tom 9 2 Walton, Alexander 9 3 Warner, Val 9 4 Wright, Adrian 9 5 Miscellaneous, A-F 9 6 Miscellaneous, G-M 9 7 Miscellaneous, M-Z and unidentified B. Outgoing 9 8 Eland, Cyril 9 9 Jebez-Smith, Tony 9 10-11 Sartin, James II. Writings 10 1-2 Notebooks from schooldays at Shrewsbury, age 15-17 10 3 Poems written at Shrewsbury 10 4 Japanese journals, 1963 10 5 Christopher Isherwood, corrected typescript, 1976, for Writers and Their Work series 10 6 Short stories, published and unpublished 10 7 The Bench of Renunciation by J. R. Ackerley and JRA's letters to Cyril Eland Francis Henry King Papers (addition)--Index of Correspondents Ackroyd, Peter Acton, Harold Adams, Richard Allen, Walter Al Shaykh, Hanan Amis, Kingsley Amory, Mark Anderson, Lindsay Andrews, Harry Annan, Gabriele Armstrong, Tim Aronson, Theo Ashenden, Robin Atwood, Margaret Bagnall, Nicholas Bainbridge, Beryl Baird-Smith, Robin Baker, Anthony Barber, Janet Barber, Michael Barker, A. L. Barr, Pat Baxter, Keith Beauman, Nicola Beaumont, Sebastian Bedford, Sybille Beer, Patricia Bennett, Penelope Berridge, Elizabeth Billington, Rachel Binding, Paul Bingham, Madeleine Binns, Ronald Bird, Alan Birley, Julia Bishop, Alan Blishen, Edward Bloch, Michael Blokh, Alexandre Blunck, Jürgen Blunt, Anthony Botschev, Dimitar Box, Eden Boyle, Clare Bragg, Melvyn Braine, Richard Braybrooke, June Braybrooke, Neville Bridgewater, Bentley Brockway, James Brooks, Jeremy Brophy, Brigid Brown, Geoff Buckingham, May Buckingham, Sylvia Bucknell, Katherine Burkhart, Charles Burton, Peter Callard, David Callow, Philip Campbell, Sandy Cannan, Denis Carney, Catherine Carondelet, Anna de Carpenter, Humphrey Carter, Miranda Castellares, Lazora Cecil, Jonathan Chand, Meira Chisholm, Anne Chitty, Susan Cicellis, Kay Coakley, William Leo Codron, Michael Cohen, Lisa Cohen, Morton Cohen, Richard Commander, John Conradi, Peter Cooper, Jilly Cooper, Leo Cooper, Lettice Cooper, William Cortazzi, Sir Hugh Cotes, Peter Craig, Maurice Cranston, Maurice Curtis, Sarah Curtis, Anthony De Born, Edith Delaney, Paul De-La-Noy, Michael Dick, Kay Drabble, Margaret Duffy, Maureen Duke, Madeleine Duncan, Ben Dupré, Catherine Ebejer, Francis Egremont, Max Elstob, Peter Enright, Dennis J. Epton, Nina Ewart, Gavin Eyre, Peter Fane, Julian Farhi, M. Moris Farrell, Kathleen Fitzgerald, Penelope Fleischer, Anthony Fleming, John Forbes, Alastair Forster, Margaret Fothergill, Brian Fraser, Antonia, Lady Freeman, Gillian Fry, Christopher Fryer, Jonathan Furbank, P. N. Gale, Patrick Gardam, Jane Gardien, Kent Gardiner, Bennitt Gardiner, Patrick Gardiner, Stephen Garland, Patrick Garrett, Tony Glanville, Brian Glanville, Pamela Glendinning, Victoria Goff, Martyn Gordon, Giles Greacen, Lavinia Grey, Stephen Grosskurth, Phyllis Guest, John Guppy, Shusha Hamburger, Michael Hampton, Christopher Harris, Harold Hart-Davis, Rupert Harwood, Ronald Hastings, Selina Hawtree, Christopher Haycraft, Colin Haylock, John Hayter, Alethea Heald, Tim Herz, Judith Hibbert, Christopher Hignett, Sean Hill, Derek Hill, Susan Hillier, Bevis Hills, Charles A. R. Hinde, Thomas Hinks, Roger Hoare, Philip Holden, Ursula Holmes, Richard Holroyd, Michael Hough, Charlotte Howard, Michael Howe, Geoffrey Hughes, David Humana, Charles Huth, Angela Inglis, Brian Ireland, Timothy Irvine, Gerard Ivasheva, Valentina Iwayama, Tajiro James, P. D. Jennings, Reginald Johnson, Adam Jones, D. A. N. Jones, Edward T. Jones, Nigel Jongh, Nicolas de Joseph, Keith Kamnitzer, Heinz Keates, Jonathan Keating, H. R. F. Keating, Sheila Keeffe, Barrie Kerensky, Oleg Kessler, Jascha Kidwai, Jalil Ahmad King, Cyril King, Lucille Kingston, Jeremy Kirkup, James Kourkov, Andrei Langley, Lee Lees-Milne, James Levey, Sir Michael Liddell, Robert Lister, Laurier Lively, Penelope Lurie, Alison MacKay, Shena Maclean, Alan Maddox, Brenda Martin, Stoddard Martines, Lauro and Julia O'Faolain Massie, Allan Masters, Brian May, Derwent McBrien, Bill McGuinness, Brian McKellen, Ian McWilliam, Candia Meyer, Michael Meyers, Jeffrey Miller, Miranda Mitchell, Adrian Mondaini, Cinzia Moore, Charles Moore, Humphrey Morley, Sheridan Morrison, Humphrey Mortimer, Penelope Murdoch, Iris Murphy, Clive Neville, Jill Neville, Pauline Nightingale, Benedict Norris, Leslie Norfolk, Lawrence Nott, Kathleen Novak, Boris A. O'Faolain, Julia Olson, Donald S. Osborne, John Owen, Peter Painter, George Parker, Derek Parker, Peter Parks, Tim Parsons, Richard, Sir Petre, Diana Phillips, John Pinter, Harold Plante, David Popescu, Petru Powell, Anthony Preston, Stuart Pritchett, V. S. Procktor, Patrick Pullein-Thompson, Josephine Pulsifer, Gary Putt, S. Gorley Quigley, Isobel Raine, Kathleen Redd, Tony Renouard, Michel Rice, Desmond Roberts, Mervyn Robinson, Barbara Rollyson, Carl Roose-Evans, James Ross, Alan Rossen, Janice Rubens, Bernice Rudman, Michael Runciman, Steven Russell, Peter Russell, Vera Rylands, George Scammell, Michael Schmidt, Michael Secrest, Meryle Segrave, Elisa Sewell, Brian Seymour, Alan Seymour-Smith, Martin Shaykh see Al Shaykh Shaw-Taylor, Desmond Sheridan, Alan Showalter, Elaine Silkin, Jon Simonsuuri, Kirsti Sinclair-Stevenson, Christopher Skidelsky, Robert Spalding, Frances Spence, Jon Spencer, Colin Spender, Natasha Spender, Stephen Spurling, Hilary Spurling, John Stallworthy, Jon Stangos, Nikos Stannard, Martin Stern, James Stevenson, Quentin Stoppard, Tom Storey, Edward Storey, Graham Strachan, Alan Stuart-Smith, Stephen Surtees, Virginia Symons, Julian Taktsis, Costas Tavernier, Rene Taylor, Brian Taylor, D. J. Tennant, Emma Tennyson, Hallam Thubron, Colin Thursfield, Patrick Thwaite, Ann Tindall, Gillian Tomalin, Claire Trafford, Jeremy Treglown, Jeremy Tremain, Rose Trevelyan, Raleigh Tuohy, Frank Uglow, Jenny Urquhart, Fred Vansittart, Peter Vickers, Hugo Wade, Rosalind Wakefield, Tom Walker, Alexander Walton, Alex Walton, Hilary Warner, Val Wastberg, Per Waugh, Auberon Wedgwood, C. Veronica Weldon, Fay Wignall, Anne Willis, Ted Wilson, Andrew N. Wilson, Angus Wilson, Sandy Wilson, Snoo Wingfield, Sheila Woddis, Roger Wolff, Charlotte Worsthorne, Peregrine Wright, Adrian Yeh, Chun-Chan Yokashmimo, Nobaru Yoken, Mel Yorke, Margaret Yoss, Michael