Richard Heron Ward:
A Preliminary Inventory of His Collection at the
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
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| Creator: | Ward, Richard Heron,
1910-1969 |
| Title: | Richard Heron
Ward Collection
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| Dates: | 1910-1969 |
| Abstract: | 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. |
| Extent: | 24
Boxes |
| Repository: | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,
University of Texas at Austin |
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.
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Liz Murray, 1995
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I. Works
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| Box | Folder |
| 1 | 1 | | A-Ad |
| 2 | | Ag-And |
| 3 | | The Angle of Vision |
| 4 | | Ano-At |
| 5 | | Ba-Bo |
| 6 | | Brief History of Queen Equa the
First |
| 7 | | Brit-Ce |
| 8-9 | | A Chapter in the Life of Jacob
More |
| Box | Folder |
| 2 | 1 | | Charity in All Things |
| 2 | | Chr |
| 3-4 | | The Clouded Brow |
| 5 | | Comments on the Church of England's
Moral Welfare Council's Interim Report on the Problem of
Homosexuality |
| 6 | | A Common Error |
| 7 | | Com-Cr |
| 8 | | Da |
| 9 | | Dead Letter |
| 10 | | Des-Dies |
| 11 | | The Discovery of Meaning |
| Box | Folder |
| 3 | 1 | | Dist |
| 2-4 | | A Drug Taker's Notes |
| 5 | | Ec-Ex |
| 6 | | Fac-Fal |
| 7 | | Far Side of Despair |
| Box | Folder |
| 4 | 1 | | Figures in the Landscape |
| 2 | | Fire in His Bosom |
| 3 | | Firs-From |
| 4 | | Furious Faces |
| 5 | | Ga-Gh |
| 6 | | God's Absence: God's
Return |
| 7 | | Going Somewhere Else |
| 8 | | H.R.L. Sheppard: A Note in
Appreciation |
| Box | Folder |
| 5 | 1 | | Ha-He |
| 2-3 | | Hidden Boy |
| 4 | | Hid-Hob |
| 5 | | Hookum-Snivvy |
| 6 | | Hop-Hu |
| 7 | | I Shew You a Mystery |
| 8 | | Im-K |
| Box | Folder |
| 6 | 1 | | La |
| 2 | | Leo and Olympia |
| 3 | | Let-Lib |
| 4 | | The Life of Cassie Pearson |
| 5 | | Lift-Low |
| 6 | | Ma |
| 7-8 | | Max Plowman |
| 9 | | Max Plowman and Blake |
| Box | Folder |
| 7 | 1 | | Me-Mod |
| 2-3 | | The Moral Contrast |
| 4 | | More Than Nature |
| 5 | | Mos-Mu |
| Box | Folder |
| 8 | 1-4 | | Names and Natures |
| 5 | | Nap-Nat |
| 6 | | Neither Way |
| 7 | | New-Nex |
| 8-9 | | No Angels Now? |
| Box | Folder |
| 9 | 1 | | Note-Notes |
| 2 | | Notes on the Writers and the
Theatre |
| 3 | | Noth-Nov |
| 4 | | The Offenders |
| 5 | | Ol-Or |
| 6 | | The Other Prison |
| 7 | | Our Estate; or, Publicans and
Sinners |
| 8 | | Pa-Pe |
| 9 | | The Phoenix Ablaze |
| 10 | | Pl-Pr |
| Box |
| 10 | | | Prodigal Son |
| Box | Folder |
| 11 | 1 | | Prog-Ro |
| 2 | | Sense and Sexuality |
| 3 | | Sh-Sta |
| 4 | | Stricture |
| 5 | | Strindberg |
| 6-7 | | The Sun Shall Rise |
| 8 | | Syncopated Suspension |
| Box | Folder |
| 12 | 1 | | T-Th |
| 2 | | The Powys Brothers |
| 3 | | The Three Powys Brothers |
| 4 | | Ti |
| 5-6 | | To the Wood |
| 7 | | Twisted Soul |
| 8 | | U |
| 9 | | Value of Professional Freedom to the
Community |
| 10 | | Variations on a Life: 1962
Onwards |
| 11 | | Variations on a Life: The
Conspiracy |
| Box | Folder |
| 13 | 1 | | Wa-We |
| 2 | | Webster's Bosola |
| 3 | | What |
| 4 | | When I Am Dead, My Dearest |
| 5 | | Where Are the Graves |
| 6 | | The Wilderness |
| 7 | | William Forest |
| 8-9 | | William Somerset Maugham |
| 10 | | Win-Wr |
| 11 | | Your |
| Box |
| 14 | | | Poems |
| Box |
| 15-16 | | | Verse |
| Box | Folder |
| 17 | 1 | | Short works on the theater |
| 2 | | Stowe School papers |
| 3 | | French years,
ca.
1928-29 |
| 4-6 | | Ms. fragments and notes |
| Box | Folder |
| 18 | 1-3 | | Reviews |
| 4-5 | | Translation of Rene Daumal's The Night
Before the Morning After |
| 6 | | Contracts |
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II. Correspondence
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| Box |
| 19-24 | | | Correspondence related to all aspects
of Ward's personal life and professional career. (No organizational arrangement
exists at the accession level.) |
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