The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center
Whitham, John
Mills, 1883-1956
John Mills Whitham
Papers
ca. 1921-1954
6 boxes (2.52
linear feet)
The papers of John
Mills Whitham contain typescripts of several unpublished works as well as
revisions of previously published works including
Wolfang.
English
Scope and Contents
The papers of John Mills Whitham contain typescripts of several
unpublished works as well as revisions of previously published works including
Wolfang. Included are notebooks and
transcripts of Cry Havoc: A West Country War Journal, Whitham's journal of
World War II. There is also one notebook of sketches and drawings by Sylvia
Mills Whitham, the wife of Whitham.
Related Materials
Additional manuscripts at the Ransom Center include four letters from
Whitham to Harold Wright, dating between 1923 and 1955, as well as one
scrapbook and one folder in the vertical files.
Acquisition:
Purchase, 1973 (Reg. no. 5971)
Access:
Open for research
Processed by:
Hope Rider, 2004
Container List
1
1
A.E.W.: A Biographic Sketch, typescripts, ca.
1945
1
A Biographical History of the Great Rebellion, ca.
1937-1938
1
2
Handwritten notebook
1
3
Synopsis typescripts
1
4-5
Christina Ballad, typescript, ca. 1926-1928
1
Cry Havoc: A West Country War Journal (early title, "A
Breaking of Nations"), 1939-1945
1
Handwritten notebooks
1
6-7
1-2
2
1-3
3-6 (notebook 5 missing)
2
Typescripts
2
4
September-December 1939
2
5
January-April 1940
2
6
May-October 1940
2
7
October 1940-September 1941
2
8
September 1941-May 1942
2
9
May 1942-August 1943
2
10
September 1943-May 1945
3
Fruit of the Earth
(1919)
3
1
"Revised" handwritten draft, 2/12/1945
3
2
Published version with handwritten
corrections
3
3
Gunnar, typescript, ca. 1938
3
4
The Heretic (1921), "author's
proof," bound volume with handwritten corrections
3
The Human Circus (1919)
3
5
"Author's copy," bound volume with handwritten
corrections, 4/19/1945
4
1
"Author's copy" cont'd
4
2-3
Journal of an Obscure Man, typescript, ca.
1954
4
4-5
The Last of the Romantics: Autobiographical Sketches,
typescripts, ca. 1939
4
A Philosophy of Recipience, ca. 1948-1954
4
6
Notebook and typescript notes
4
7
"2nd Writing" typescript, synopsis, correspondence
5
1
Typescript
5
2-5
Redpits (new version of
Broom), typescript, ca.
1935
5
6-7
Starveacre (1913), handwritten
draft of new version of novel, ca. 1939
6
1
The Windlestraw (1924), "author's
proof," bound volume
6
2
Wolfang (1917), "revised version"
handwritten draft, February 10, 1944
6
Miscellaneous
6
3
Whitham, Sylvia Mills, sketch book, loose drawings