urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00289 Richard Heron Ward: A Preliminary Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Text converted by SPI Content Sciences Inc., July 2003. Finding aid written in English. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin Ward, Richard Heron, 1910-1969 The collection contains holograph, typescritpt, and published versions of many of this actor and producer's novels, plays, essays, lectures, BBC broadcasts, articles, poems, verse, and reviews. Correspondence also found in the collection documents Ward's participation in the Peace Pledge Union, BBC Home Service, and Religious Drama Society. Richard Heron Ward Collection 1910-1969 24 Boxes

Accession List

 Acquisition:

Reg. no. 13192

 Access:

Open for research

 Processed by:

Liz Murray, 1995

 Scope and Contents

This collection reflects the varied landscape of Richard Heron Ward's writings, dating from the early 1930s through late 1960s, including novels, plays, essays, lectures, BBC broadcasts, articles, poems, verse, and reviews. Ward's life in the theater as an actor and producer, as well as founder and director of the Adelphi Theatre, is chronicled in his correspondence and works written for and about the theater. In addition, ample correspondence exists related to his activity in the Peace Pledge Union, BBC Home Service, and Religious Drama Society.

Ward's works are arranged alphabetically by title with his prominent works of a folder or more listed individually on the folder list. Of particular interest is the combined presence of holograph, typescript, and published versions of many of these titles. His smaller works are not foldered separately but are subsumed in alphabetical groupings, interfiled with his longer works. Following this alphabetical arrangement are Ward's poetry, verse, book and play reviews, manuscript fragments and notes, and contracts. In addition, some of his earliest writings are represented in his class assignments from Stowe School which provide a glimpse at his creative, young mind. Given the continuity of this collection, Ward's writings can be followed from his childhood through adult life.

His correspondence, both personal and professional in nature, remains in unmarked folders as received. While no organizational order has been imposed at this juncture, the correspondence does date from his days at Stowe School in the late 1920s through the years just prior to his death in 1969.

 Richard Heron Ward Papers--Folder List I. Works 1 1 A-Ad 1 2 Ag-And 1 3 The Angle of Vision 1 4 Ano-At 1 5 Ba-Bo 1 6 Brief History of Queen Equa the First 1 7 Brit-Ce 1 8-9 A Chapter in the Life of Jacob More 2 1 Charity in All Things 2 2 Chr 2 3-4 The Clouded Brow 2 5 Comments on the Church of England's Moral Welfare Council's Interim Report on the Problem of Homosexuality 2 6 A Common Error 2 7 Com-Cr 2 8 Da 2 9 Dead Letter 2 10 Des-Dies 2 11 The Discovery of Meaning 3 1 Dist 3 2-4 A Drug Taker's Notes 3 5 Ec-Ex 3 6 Fac-Fal 3 7 Far Side of Despair 4 1 Figures in the Landscape 4 2 Fire in His Bosom 4 3 Firs-From 4 4 Furious Faces 4 5 Ga-Gh 4 6 God's Absence: God's Return 4 7 Going Somewhere Else 4 8 H.R.L. Sheppard: A Note in Appreciation 5 1 Ha-He 5 2-3 Hidden Boy 5 4 Hid-Hob 5 5 Hookum-Snivvy 5 6 Hop-Hu 5 7 I Shew You a Mystery 5 8 Im-K 6 1 La 6 2 Leo and Olympia 6 3 Let-Lib 6 4 The Life of Cassie Pearson 6 5 Lift-Low 6 6 Ma 6 7-8 Max Plowman 6 9 Max Plowman and Blake 7 1 Me-Mod 7 2-3 The Moral Contrast 7 4 More Than Nature 7 5 Mos-Mu 8 1-4 Names and Natures 8 5 Nap-Nat 8 6 Neither Way 8 7 New-Nex 8 8-9 No Angels Now? 9 1 Note-Notes 9 2 Notes on the Writers and the Theatre 9 3 Noth-Nov 9 4 The Offenders 9 5 Ol-Or 9 6 The Other Prison 9 7 Our Estate; or, Publicans and Sinners 9 8 Pa-Pe 9 9 The Phoenix Ablaze 9 10 Pl-Pr 10 Prodigal Son 11 1 Prog-Ro 11 2 Sense and Sexuality 11 3 Sh-Sta 11 4 Stricture 11 5 Strindberg 11 6-7 The Sun Shall Rise 11 8 Syncopated Suspension 12 1 T-Th 12 2 The Powys Brothers 12 3 The Three Powys Brothers 12 4 Ti 12 5-6 To the Wood 12 7 Twisted Soul 12 8 U 12 9 Value of Professional Freedom to the Community 12 10 Variations on a Life: 1962 Onwards 12 11 Variations on a Life: The Conspiracy 13 1 Wa-We 13 2 Webster's Bosola 13 3 What 13 4 When I Am Dead, My Dearest 13 5 Where Are the Graves 13 6 The Wilderness 13 7 William Forest 13 8-9 William Somerset Maugham 13 10 Win-Wr 13 11 Your 14 Poems 15-16 Verse 17 1 Short works on the theater 17 2 Stowe School papers 17 3 French years, ca. 1928-29 17 4-6 Ms. fragments and notes 18 1-3 Reviews 18 4-5 Translation of Rene Daumal's The Night Before the Morning After 18 6 Contracts II. Correspondence 19-24 Correspondence related to all aspects of Ward's personal life and professional career. (No organizational arrangement exists at the accession level.)