Beschreibung:

WITHDRAWN The literary and personal archive of Fr. Brocard Sewell, contained in 6 boxes, with brief contents listed below. Some folders of correspondence etc. have been lotted separately. Most of the folders have detailed contents lists compiled by Fr. Sewell's executor and friend, the artist Jane Percival. The portrait photographs used to illustrate the lots are mostly by Oswald Jones. Box 1 containing folders of mainly ecclesiastical material, including: research papers relating to Father Benedict Williamson priest and architect (unfinished memoir; ring-bound ms. notebook by Fr. Brocard, etc.) with printed booklet by Williamson on The Bridgettine Order, 1922; a few notes about Dominic Willliams, O.P. (for possible inclusion in a volume of studies intended as a sequel to "Like Black Swans"); the Muggletonians (followers of Lodowick Muggleton); letters from Father Bede Bailey, of the English Dominican Province Archive, from Newport, Isle of Wight, and Blackfriars, Edinburgh, 1981 - 91, referring to Eric Gill the St. Dominic's Press etc; typescripts of Fr. Brocard's sermons, addresses, lectures etc., including pieces on John Gray Arthur Symons, Fr. Vincent McNabb, G.K. Chesterton, Cecil Chesterton and others; 3 folders of research material, correspondence etc. relating to Fr. Brocard's book on Brother Joseph Gard'ner, published as "Cancel all our Vows", particularly the Frensham Circus and St. Thomas More school; printed forms of service, funerals,memorials etc., including several items about Erica Marx of the Hand and Flower Press; a folder of ms. and typed notes on G.K. Chesterton's Defence of Dogma, approx. 288 pp.; folder of letters from Bro. Peter Anson, Caldey Island, to Bro. Donald Halliday, c. 1970 - 74 (forwarded in 1986), with photocopy of Peter Anson's Correspondence by S.G.A. Luff; Commonplace book, 10 pp., 1985; red cloth bound notebook containing various ms. items on Thomas Dominic Williams (1668 - 1740), The Hague & Gill press, the founding of the Aylesford Review etc.; folder relating to the Saint - Pol - Roux number of poesie vivante, Geneva 1965 [Paul-Pierre Roux, French symbolist poet 1861 - 1940]. Carmalite history, students course, carbon copies; carbon copies; A History of the Carmelite Order, ms. by Fr. Brocard, 41pp., in a red cloth notebook, with Carmelitana. ms. by the same, rough notes, disbound; folder on the Turin Shroud; folder of photocopies of various numbers of the periodical Our Saviour's Messenger, 1921 - 23. Box 2 containing personal correspondence including letters from Penelope Shuttle (1947 - ) poet and novelist. Three folders, from Staines and Falmouth, 1964 - 96; Fiona MacCarthy (1940 -) biographer and cultural historian. One folder, from Sheffield, 1984 - 94; Dyan Wade (1945 - 88) writer (see also Box 5). Two folders, mostly from London, 1972 - 88. Box 3 containing folders of papers and letters etc., comprising autobiographical material,family history, including copy of paper by Devendra P. Varma on Fr. Brocard read at the Aylesford literary weekend, May 1992; 70th and 80th birthday cards; folder relating to The Aylesford Review, correspondence etc., including personal statement concerning its discontinuation and Fr. Brocard's suspension from normal priestly duties following his criticism of the Pope's encyclical "Humanae Vitae", 1968, with letters of support received in response; samples of printing from the St. Albert's Press, Llandeilo etc; A List of the Sewell papers in the English Dominican Archive, Oct. 1982, ms., 15 pp.; folder of correspondence from Jerusha McCormack mostly relating to John Gray 1982 - 89; folder on "In the Dorian Mode", reviews, critical studies, etc., 1983; folder on "My Dear Time's Waste"; folder on H.R.L. Gough, a teacher at Weymouth College who featured in Fr. Brocard's autobiography; three folders of miscellaneous correspondence including letters from William Plomer, Charles Causley, Paddy Kitchen, Michael Hastings, Fleur Adcock, Ruth Fainlight, A.N. W