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Naomi Royde-Smith Papers

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Call Number:
SCRC 317
Repository:
Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
Extent:
6.85 linear feet (18 boxes)
Language:
English and French
Preferred Citation:
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Naomi Royde-Smith Papers, SCRC 317, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Date:
1861-1978 (inclusive)
Creator:
Royde-Smith, Naomi
Form:
Drama, Clippings, Correspondence, Diaries, Legal documents, Manuscripts, Pamphlets, and Photographs
Abstract:

Naomi Royde-Smith was born in Llanwrst, Wales, and moved to London as a child and was educated at a private school in Geneva, Switzerland. From 1904-1922 she worked at the Westminster Gazette, serving as its literary editor and drama critic. From 1924-1927 Royde-Smith worked as a drama critic for The Outlook. She published her first novel, Tortoiseshell Cat, in 1925. Royde-Smith published another thirty-seven novels, as well as travel books, short stories, plays and biographies.

The manuscripts and working papers of the British writer including handwritten drafts, typed drafts, galley proofs, and final copy; for the following works: "All Night Sitting," "Love at First Sight," "Private Room," and " Rosy Trodd. The unpublished manuscript for "The Newspaper Cutting" is also included. The collection also contains extensive personal and professional correspondence. The primary correspondents include J. Courtenay Wright, Ann Daisy Smith, Maud Royde-Smith, Graham Royde-Smith, Walter De la Mare, J. D. Beresford, Hulda Friedricks, and Margaret Sidney Davies. Other well-known correspondents include J. M. Barrie, Mary Butts, John Gielgud, Radclyffe Hall, Aldous Huxley, Michael Sadleir, and Edith Sitwell. The periodicals Blackfriars and Time and Tide figure in letters. The collection also contains sixty-five diaries (1900-1955), newspaper clippings, reviews, pamphlets, memorabilia, advertisements, receipts, photographs, and prints. A newer accession of materials includes correspondence and legal agreements related to Royde-Smith's writings, as well as two letters to author Sylvia Lynd.

The collection is arranged into 11 series as follows:

Series 1: Diaries, 1900-1955, undated
Series 2: Correspondence, 1886-1955, undated
Series 3: Manuscripts and working papers, 1929-1957, undated
Series 4: Articles written by Naomi Royde-Smith, 1947-1954
Series 5: Advertisements and reviews of works by Naomi Royde-Smith, 1929-1956
Series 6: Works by other authors, 1925-1949, undated
Series 7: Newsclippings, booklets, etc. about people, undated
Series 8: Personal files, 1912-1914, undated
Series 9: Photographs, 1861-1952, undated
Series 10: Prints and oversize items, 1926, undated
Series 11: Accession 1884-1785, 1924-1978

Purchased from Winifred A. Meyers, March 1978. Accession 1884-1785 purchased from David Holmes Autographs in 1998.

Collection processed and finding aid prepared in October 1985 by Sharon Fitzpatrick. Additional accession processed and finding aid revised in November 2017 by Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services.

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Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
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Finding Aid Date
April 2024
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Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

The Naomi Royde-Smith Papers are the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Intellectual property rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for determining the identity of rights holders and obtaining their permission for publication and for other purposes where stated.

Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Series 1, Diaries, contains 69 diaries, address books, and autograph books. Most diaries are in English or a combination of English and French. While some books have very bare entries, others are very full and record discussions, original poems, ideas for books, travel, addresses, as well as books read, plays seen, restaurants visited, and exhibits attended. Earlier diaries cover Royde-Smith's active social life. After her marriage in 1926, entries tend to be briefer. Glimpses, of life in England before and during two World Wars, and life in her social circle, are recorded.

Diary #1, 1900.
Box 1
Diary #2, 1903.
Box 1
Diary #3, 1904.
Box 1
Diary #4, 1905.
Box 1
Diary #5, 1906.
Box 1
Diary #6, 1907.
Box 1
Diary #7, 1908.
Box 1
Diary #8, 1909.
Box 2
Diary #9, 1910.
Box 1
Diary #10, 1911.
Box 1
Diary #11, 1912.
Box 1
Diary #12, 1912.
Box 1
Diary #13, 1912.
Box 2
Diary #14, 1913.
Box 1
Diary #15, 1914.
Box 1
Diary #16, 1915.
Box 2
Diary #17, 1916.
Box 1
Diary #18, 1917.
Box 2
Diary #19, 1918.
Box 1
Diary #20, 1920.
Box 1
Diary #21, 1921.
Box 1
Diary #22, 1922.
Box 1
Diary #23, 1923.
Box 1
Diary #24, 1925.
Box 1
Diary #25, 1926.
Box 1
Diary #26, 1927.
Box 1
Diary #27, 1930.
Box 2
Diary #28, 1930.
Box 1
Diary #29, 1931.
Box 2
Diary #30, 1931.
Box 1
Diary #31, 1937.
Box 1
Diary #32, 1938.
Box 1
Diary #33, 1938.
Box 1
Diary #34, 1938.
Box 1
Diary #35, 1939.
Box 1
Diary #36, 1939.
Box 1
Diary #37, 1940.
Box 1
Diary #38, 1941.
Box 1
Diary #39, 1942.
Box 2
Diary #40, 1943.
Box 2
Diary #41, 1943.
Box 2
Diary #42, 1944.
Box 2
Diary #43, 1944.
Box 1
Diary #44, 1945.
Box 1
Diary #45, 1946.
Box 1
Diary #46, 1946.
Box 2
Diary #47, 1947.
Box 2
Diary #48, 1947.
Box 1
Diary #49, 1948.
Box 2
Diary #50, 1948.
Box 1
Diary #51, 1948-1949.
Box 1
Diary #52, 1949.
Box 2
Diary #53, 1949.
Box 2
Diary #54, 1949.
Box 1
Diary #55, 1950.
Box 1
Diary #56, 1950.
Box 2
Diary #57, 1951.
Box 1
Diary #58, 1951.
Box 1
Diary #59, 1952.
Box 2
Diary #60, 1952.
Box 1
Diary #61, 1953.
Box 1
Diary #62, 1953.
Box 1
Diary #63, 1954.
Box 2
Diary #64, 1955.
Box 1
Diary #65, 1955.
Box 1
#66 Address book, undated.
Box 1
#67 Address book, undated.
Box 1
#68 Birthday book, undated.
Box 1
#69 Autograph book, undated.
Box 1

Scope and Contents

Series 2, Correspondence, contains communication with many of the well-known people of Royde-Smith's day: authors, actors, playwrights, and publishers. Many offer comments, criticism, and suggestions for her work, and likewise inform her of their activities. Additionally, she corresponded with many family members and friends, so glimpses of her private life, travels, religious feelings, health, and mundane worries and cares can be seen. Fragments of life and fears during the two world wars are seen, from letters explaining censorship in books to comments about plane crashes, Nazi captures, and air raids. Royde-Smith used some of the correspondence she received, particularly post cards, to illustrate the binders and exercise books in which she wrote her manuscripts. Some correspondence likewise was glued into her diaries. Such correspondence can be found in Series 1 and Series 3.

ALH, 1917.
Box 3
Alix, 1931.
Box 3
Allen, Mary, 1935.
Box 3
Allt, M., 1944.
Box 3
Anderson, Ruth, 1933.
Box 3
Anni, 1911.
Box 3
Annie, 1955.
Box 3
Anspacher, Louis K. and Florence, 1931-1943.
Box 3
Aryan Path (periodical), 1934.
Box 3
Ashbee, Elsa, 1908.
Box 3
Ashton, Emma, 1930-1950.
Box 3
Austin, E. W, 1918.
Box 3
Austin, Winifred, 1895-1901.
Box 3
B. Robert, 1908-1940.
Box 3
Bansion(?), undated.
Box 3
Barbusse, Henri, 1934.
Box 3
Barker, Arthur James, 1935.
Box 3
Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1898.
Box 3
Baylis, Lilian, 1927.
Box 3
Bean, Arthur, 1932.
Box 3
Bell, Evalyarn(?), undated.
Box 3
Bender, Arnold, 1935.
Box 3
Benham, R., 1899.
Box 3
Bentley, Phyllis Eleanor, 1937.
Box 3
Beresford, J. D. (John Davys), 1914-1923.
Box 3
Beresford, Trissie (Beatrice Roskams), 1915-1917.
Box 3
Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge, Baron, 1928.
Box 3
Biddle, Katherine Garrison, 1931.
Box 3
Biggs, Ada Heather, 1933.
Box 3
Bill, 1896.
Box 3
Binell, Francis, undated.
Box 3
Blackboard, Nora (Hughes Massie & Co.), 1950.
Box 3
Blackwood, Algernon, 1920.
Box 3
Blakelock, Denys, 1956.
Box 3
Blunt, Sybil Allan, 1940.
Box 3
Borland, J., 1913.
Box 3
Bosanquet, Theodora, 1933-1955.
Box 3
Bottomley, Gordon, 1929.
Box 3
Bowman, Alice, 1895-1896.
Box 3
Braithwaite, Lillian, 1926.
Box 3
Brooke, Dorothy, 1928.
Box 3
Brooke, J. R. and Dorothy, undated.
Box 3
Brooke, Rupert, 1914.
Box 3
Brown, Madelle and Weichbrodt, Madelle, 1899.
Box 3
Bruce, R. E., 1931].
Box 3
Budgen, E. Siddons, 1933.
Box 3
Burrow, Henry M., 1934.
Box 3
Burton, Edith M., 1922.
Box 3
Burton, M., 1929-1931.
Box 3
Butts, Mary, 1933-1935.
Box 3
C., 1913.
Box 3
C. S., 1915.
Box 3
C_____(?), Mary, undated.
Box 3
Cadogan, Will, 1933.
Box 3
The Call, Ltd. (periodical), 1930.
Box 3
Carter, Peter, undated.
Box 3
Chadwick, Archie S., 1907.
Box 3
Chalmers(?), Patricia, 19??.
Box 3
Charlotte, undated.
Box 3
Coghlan, John, 1936.
Box 3
Collis, John Stewart, undated.
Box 3
Conway, Alice Ethel, 1927-1940.
Box 3
Conway, Martin, 1926.
Box 3
Cook, W. Grant, 1946.
Box 3
Coupnard, A., 1899.
Box 3
Cox, Barbara K.(?), 1928.
Box 3
Daglish, Michael, 1946.
Box 3
Darbishire, Helen, 1934.
Box 3
Darttell, Arthur W., 1909.
Box 3
Dauglish, Gertrude, 1938.
Box 3
Davies, Mrs., 1929-1950.
Box 3
Davies, David, 1955.
Box 3
Davies, Margaret, 1932-1955.
Box 3
Daviot, Gordon (Elizabeth Mackintosh), 1934.
Box 3
De Brier, Samson, undated.
Box 3
De la Mare, Walter J., 1937-1943.
Box 3
Derville, Antony, 1949.
Box 3
Desborough, Ethel A. P. Grenfell, Baroness, 1930-1935.
Box 3
Dickens, Monica, undated.
Box 3
Dickson, Anthony, undated.
Box 3
Dickson, Lovat, undated.
Box 3
Dingwall(?), E. Jean, 1905.
Box 3
Dommelen, Diane Von, 1933-1934.
Box 3
Donovan, (?), 1935.
Box 3
Dooly, 1886.
Box 3
E., 1916.
Box 4
E. H., 1922.
Box 4
Ed., 1938.
Box 4
Eden, Helen Parry, 1935.
Box 4
Edith, undated.
Box 4
Eliot, Helen E., 1950.
Box 4
Elizabeth, 1927.
Box 4
Enid, 1924-1943.
Box 4
Erica, undated.
Box 4
Esdaile, Arundell James Kennedy, 1955.
Box 4
Evans, Joan, undated.
Box 4
Eyles, Margaret Leonora, undated.
Box 4
Faussett, Mabel Godfrey, undated.
Box 4
Ferelith, Doris V., 1941.
Box 4
Fisher(?), Jim Knoff, 1952.
Box 4
Foster, S(?), 1907.
Box 4
Fox, Herbert F., undated.
Box 4
Francois, 1932.
Box 4
Fraser, Ronald, 1943-1955.
Box 4
Fridy, 1921.
Box 4
Friedricks, H. (Hulda), 1904-1920.
Box 4
Friedericks, L., 1910.
Box 4
G. U., 1923.
Box 4
Gambart, E., 1899.
Box 4
Garnett, Richard, 1905.
Box 4
Garrett, Ilve(?), 1943.
Box 4
Garvin, Viola, 1913-1934.
Box 4
George M(?) W(?) W(?), 1914.
Box 4
Gertrude, 1933.
Box 4
Gielgud, John, undated.
Box 4
Goodfellow, L(?), 1932.
Box 4
Goodman, E. Mary, undated.
Box 4
Greensmith, Downes, & Son, 1920.
Box 4
Gran, 1896-1915.
Box 4
Grogan, Alan, 1938.
Box 4
Gudenian, Katherine Lowe, 1953.
Box 4
Gwen, 1920-1927.
Box 4
Hackforth, Constance, 1939.
Box 4
Halford, Helen, 1931-1943.
Box 4
Hall, Radclyffe, 1928.
Box 4
Hamilton, Hamish, 1931.
Box 4
Hamilton, James, 1930.
Box 4
Hamilton-Fellows, Margaret, 1917-1924.
Box 4
Hart-Davis, Rupert, 1932.
Box 4
Haskell, Arnold Lionel, undated.
Box 4
Hayes, F. (Sampson, Low, Marston & Co.), 1949.
Box 4
Head, Ruth and Henry, 1938.
Box 4
Henderson, Helen and Alan Keith, 1929-1931.
Box 4
Herbert, Alan Patrick, 1936.
Box 4
Hermel, A., 1931.
Box 4
Hewlett, M. (Maurice), undated.
Box 4
Hilda, undated.
Box 4
Hill, Annie, 1934.
Box 4
Hillyard, Jessie, 1907.
Box 4
Hirst, S., 1935.
Box 4
Holme, Constance, 1930.
Box 4
Holroyd-Reece, John, 1932-1934.
Box 4
Hook, Patricia, undated.
Box 4
Horne, Alderson Burrell, 1934.
Box 4
Horne, C. Silvester, 1905-1906.
Box 4
Hosfield, George, 1934-1950.
Box 4
Hubback, Eva Marian, 1931.
Box 4
Hughes, Margaret, 1916-1934.
Box 4
Hughes, Richard, 1906-1915.
Box 4
Huxley, Aldous, 1926-1936.
Box 4
Ida, 1942.
Box 4
Ingersoll, Anna Warren, undated.
Box 4
Irving, Robert, undated.
Box 4
Isaac, Winifred F. E. C., 1950.
Box 4
J.(?), 1937.
Box 4
J. B., undated.
Box 4
James C., 1916.
Box 4
James, M., 1949.
Box 4
Jane, 1935-1941.
Box 4
Jane, 1896.
Box 4
Jarrett, M., undated.
Box 4
Jeffress, Arthur T., undated.
Box 4
Jimmy, 1930.
Box 4
Johnson, Margaret E., 1949.
Box 4
Julia, 1935.
Box 4
K. C., 1915.
Box 5
Kaiser, Isabelle, 1898-1899.
Box 5
Kirkpatrick, Pauline, 1943-1944.
Box 5
Knowles, George S., 1950.
Box 5
Lack, Geraldine, 1943.
Box 5
Lena, undated.
Box 5
Levy, Benn W., undated.
Box 5
Liddell Hart, B. H. (Basil Henry), 1934.
Box 5
Lilac, 1950.
Box 5
Lister, Laurier, 1936.
Box 5
Lord, Louise, 1895.
Box 5
Lord, Robert W., 1896.
Box 5
Lowndes, Marie Adelaide, 1931-1937.
Box 5
M., 1934.
Box 5
M. B., 1923.
Box 5
Mabel, 1948.
Box 5
Macauley, Rose, 1925-1946.
Box 5
Macdonnall, Archie, undated.
Box 5
Macmillan, Harold, 1939.
Box 5
Macmillan, M. Daniel (Maurice Daniel), 1941.
Box 5
Macmillan Publishers, undated.
Box 5
Magee, Ethel Colburn, 1929-1939.
Box 5
Malden, P. H., undated.
Box 5
Margaret, 1933.
Box 5
Margaret, 1935.
Box 5
Marion, undated.
Box 5
Marnal (Marmal?), Louise, undated.
Box 5
Marsh, Edward, 1922-1928.
Box 5
Marston, Marjorie, 1931.
Box 5
Maurice, 1949.
Box 5
McIntosh, Ian, 1947.
Box 5
Mears, Gerald Grimwood, 1917-1950.
Box 5
Methuen, Algernon Methuen Marshall, 1904-1906.
Box 5
Meynell, Esther Magdalena, 1935.
Box 5
Michael, 1931.
Box 5
Mildred F. H., undated.
Box 5
Miles, Constance, undated.
Box 5
Milner, E. W., 1903.
Box 5
Milton, Ernest, 1942-1954.
Box 5
Montgomerie, William, 1933.
Box 5
Moon, F. W., 1932.
Box 5
Moore, Evelyn Stuart, 1923-1937.
Box 5
Moore, Winifred, 1938.
Box 5
Morgan, Charles, 1933-1936.
Box 5
Morgan, David, 1939.
Box 5
Morgan, Hilda, 1933-1935.
Box 5
Morley, Malcolm, 1933.
Box 5
Morris, Arthur R., 1955-1956.
Box 5
Muriel, 1928.
Box 5
Nancy, 1926.
Box 5
Nankivell, Austin T., 1916.
Box 5
Newnes, Priscilla, undated.
Box 5
Nott, S. M., 1949.
Box 5
Nunburnholme, Marjorie, 1945.
Box 5
Nuss, B. C., 1921.
Box 5
Oberton-Jones, G. M., 1931.
Box 5
Other Viola, 1928.
Box 5
Parsons, Clement, 1935.
Box 5
Parsons, Florence Mary, 1933-1934.
Box 5
Patrick, 1931.
Box 5
Pedder, Evelyn, 1932.
Box 5
Philip(?), V., 1923.
Box 5
Philips, Austin, 1915.
Box 5
Poliakoff, Vera, undated.
Box 5
Pollock, Belle E., 1933.
Box 5
Pollok-M'Call, J. B., 1931.
Box 5
Preston, Kerrison, 1931.
Box 5
Pritchett, Victor Sawdon, 1935.
Box 5
R. S., 1949.
Box 6
Ramsbotham, John, undated.
Box 6
Ratcliffe, S. K., undated.
Box 6
Reading, Stella, 1943.
Box 6
Reed, E. T., 1907.
Box 6
Rees-Mogg, Kathleen Mary Christiana Hamilton, 1931-1933.
Box 6
Remington(?), Horace B., 1922.
Box 6
Richmond, Kenneth, 1916.
Box 6
Richmond, Zoe, undated.
Box 6
Roberts, Harriet, 1932.
Box 6
Robert, undated.
Box 6
Robert, 1931.
Box 6
Robertson, W. Graham (Walford Graham), 1928.
Box 6
Ross, Oriel, 1955-1956.
Box 6
Royal Court Hotel, 1945.
Box 6
Royde-Smith, Daisy, 1920-1930.
Box 6
Royde-Smith, Dorothy E. G. ("Holly"), 1894-1943.
Box 6
Royde-Smith, E. J., 1910-1950.
Box 6
Royde-Smith, Graham and Phyllis, 1901-1918.
Box 6
Royde-Smith, Gwenllian, 1895.
Box 6
Royde-Smith, Leslie, 1902-1953.
Box 6
Royde-Smith, Naomi Gwladys, 1898-1942.
Box 6
Royde-Smith, Maud, 1895-1955.
Box 6
Royde-Smith, Owen, undated.
Box 6
Ruck, Berta, 1948.
Box 6
Russell, Flora, 1947.
Box 6
S. L., 1929-1931.
Box 6
Sadleir, Michael, 1928.
Box 6
Salmon, Christopher, undated.
Box 6
Schwann, Oliver, 1915.
Box 6
Seamons, Owen, 1909.
Box 6
Selincourt, Anne De, undated.
Box 6
Sidgwick, C., 1931.
Box 6
Sidgwick, F., 1908-1931.
Box 6
Silcox, Alice, 1931.
Box 6
Simpson, Frances, 1935.
Box 6
Sitwell, Edith, undated.
Box 6
Skinner, James T., 1916.
Box 6
Smith, Ann Daisy, 1895-1931.
Box 7
Smith, Elsie N., 1894-1951.
Box 7
Smith, Matthew, 1932-1955.
Box 7
Smith, Michael Holroyd, 1896-1931.
Box 7
Smith, Theodora, 1896-1940.
Box 7
Speaight, Robert, 1928-1932.
Box 7
Spense, Edward F., 1920-1927.
Box 7
Spender, J. A., 1914.
Box 7
Spender, May, 1916.
Box 7
Spittal, M. K., undated.
Box 7
Sprecher, Andreas, 1923.
Box 7
Specher, Edwin, 1923-1941.
Box 7
Sprecher, Juylinia(?), 1923-1924.
Box 7
Stern, Margaret L., 1934.
Box 7
Stewart, R. A. J., undated.
Box 7
Strickland, Edward, 1907.
Box 7
Sullivan, John J., 1934.
Box 7
T., 1947.
Box 7
Tcholanova, Millor, 1931.
Box 7
Teasley, Ann R., 1926.
Box 7
Theis, Louise (Everyman Publishing), undated.
Box 7
Thorndike, Sybil, 1941.
Box 7
Thursday Club, 1931.
Box 7
The Times London, 1934.
Box 7
Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major), 1933.
Box 7
Unwin, T. Fisher, 1905.
Box 7
Vandervelde(?), 1916.
Box 7
Vermice(?), 1949.
Box 7
Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1932.
Box 7
Victoria and Albert Museum, 1933.
Box 7
W. A.(?), 1928.
Box 7
Walker, Martineau & Co., 1927.
Box 7
Wallace, Mary, 1917.
Box 7
Watson, Alfred Henry, 1921.
Box 7
Webster, May Whitty, 1933.
Box 7
West, M. I., 1931.
Box 7
West, Rebecca (Cicely Isobel Fairfield), undated.
Box 7
Whitman, Julia, undated.
Box 7
William, 1931.
Box 7
Williams, Iolo Aneurin, 1920.
Box 7
Williams-Ellis, Annabel, 1928.
Box 7
Willis, Dorothy, undated.
Box 7
Willis, Olive M., undated.
Box 7
Wills, A. H., 1904.
Box 7
Wilson, Fredeline, 1918-1934.
Box 7
Winter, Nelly, 1895.
Box 7
Wolfe, Humbert, 1926.
Box 7
Wright, J. Courtenay, 1914-1919.
Box 7
Wylie, Ida Alexa Ross, undated.
Box 7
Young, Sidney, 1940-1955.
Box 7
Yung, Julie, 1896.
Box 7
Zangwill, Israel, 1894.
Box 7
Z. K. E., 1927.
Box 7
Unidentified (22 folders), 1896-1954, undated.
Box 7

Scope and Contents

Series 3, Manuscripts and working papers, contains manuscripts and working papers arranged into published works, translations, unpublished works, and miscellaneous manuscripts. Royde-Smith used numerous copy books or exercise books for her writings; many of the manuscripts in this collection are her handwritten exercise books. Occasionally Royde-Smith used, at least on manuscripts, the pseudonyms A. N. Jawnes, Jownes, or Jones.

Published work: All Night Sitting, typed manuscript with corrections, 1954.
Box 11 Folder 1
Published work: All Night Sitting, typed manuscript with corrections, 1954.
Box 11 Folder 2
Published work: All Night Sitting, typed manuscript, 1954.
Box 11 Folder 3
Published work: All Night Sitting, typed manuscript with corrections, 1954.
Box 11 Folder 4
Published work: All Star Cast, proof copy with corrections, 1936.
Box 8
Published work: All Star Cast, proof copy with corrections, 1939.
Box 8
Published work: The Altar-piece, printed manuscript with corrections, 1939.
Box 8
Published work: The Double Heart: A Study of Julie de Lespinasse, handwritten manuscript with corrections, in exercise book, 1931.
Box 10 Folder 3
Published work: For Us in the Dark, proof copy with corrections, 1936.
Box 8
Published work: Jake, handwritten list of corrections, postcard, and business cart with notation. Removed from Temple's copy of Jake (PR6035.O86 J34x 1935), 1935.
Box 10 Folder 7
Published work: Love at First Sight, handwritten manuscript with corrections, in 15 exercise books, 1956.
Box 9
Published work: Love at First Sight, author's advance proof copy with corrections, 1956.
Box 9
Published work: Love at First Sight, typescript with corrections. Part 1: Mattie, 1956.
Box 11 Folder 5
Published work: Love at First Sight, typescript with corrections. Part 2: Ceridwen, 1956.
Box 11 Folder 6
Published work: Love at First Sight, typescript with corrections. Part 3: Dilys-Matilda, 1956.
Box 11 Folder 7
Published work: Love at First Sight, handwritten mock-ups of title page, contents, and dedications. Handwritten list of characters. List of questions and corrections, in another's hand, answered by Royde-Smith, 1956.
Box 11 Folder 8
Published work: Love in Mildensee, handwritten manuscript with corrections, in 19 exercise books numbered 2-8, 10-19, 21, 22, 1948.
Box 9
Published work: The Lover, typescript with corrections, June 1928.
Box 10 Folder 1
Published work: Mafro, Darling, typescript, 1929.
Box 10 Folder 2
Published work: Outside Information, proof copy with corrections, 1941.
Box 8
Published work: Private Room, typescript with corrections and notes, 1934.
Box 10 Folder 4
Published work: Private Room, typescript, 1934.
Box 10 Folder 5
Published work: Private Room, typescript with corrections, 1934.
Box 10 Folder 6
Published work: The Queen's Wigs, proof copy with corrections, 1934.
Box 8
Published work: Rosy Trodd, handwritten manuscript with corrections, in 20 exercise books numbered 1, 7-22, 31-32, 34. Title Mrs. Boghurst and Miss Trodd appears on manuscript, 1950.
Box 9
Published work: Rosy Trodd, proof copy, 1950.
Box 9
Published work: Skin Deep, proof copy, some passages marked in pencil, 1927.
Box 8
Published work: Van Lords, proof copy, 1934.
Box 8
Published work: The Whistling Chambermaid, typescript with corrections. Author listed as A. N. Jawnes, 1957.
Box 11 Folder 9
Published work: The Whistling Chambermaid, typescript with corrections. Author listed as A. N. Jownes, 1957.
Box 11 Folder 10
Published work: Winchester and the Broderers, handwritten manuscript with corrections, and 2 copies of published article both with corrections, used in writing expanded article. 1 copy is Time and Tide (Dec. 27, 1947), intact, other is article cut and pasted in large exercise books, 1947.
Box 9
Published work: The Younger Venus, postcards of paintings by Botticelli, news photo of sculpture by Michelangelo, 1938.
Box 10 Folder 8
Published work: The Younger Venus, proof copy with corrections, 1938.
Box 8
Published work: In a Great City, by Arnold Bender, handwritten manuscript with corrections. (Royde-Smith translated poetry for Arnold Bender). With list of letters/packages mailed in 1948, undated.
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Unpublished work: David and Susan, or, Should a Poet Marry, typescript play with corrections, undated.
Box 12 Folder 1
Unpublished work: The Eighth Flat; A Novel of Today, handwritten manuscript listing contents only, in exercise book, undated.
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Unpublished work: Emancipation, by Mrs. Sherwood, handwritten manuscript with corrections, in exercise book. Also contains notes on Wagner, undated.
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Unpublished work: George Desmond and Rudyard Kipling, or Seed and Some Young Corn, typescript with corrections. Introduced by Royde-Smith, undated.
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Unpublished work: Ghost Royal: A True Story, handwritten manuscript with corrections, in exercise book. In book labeled Nine Lives, undated.
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Unpublished work: The History of George Desmond, by Mrs. Sherwood Houlston, with introduction and notes by Royde-Smith, typescript with corrections, undated.
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Unpublished work: The History of George Desmond, typescript with corrections. Manuscript is labeled Part II, binder labeled Part II and III, undated.
Box 12 Folder 5
Unpublished work: The History of George Desmond, typescript with corrections. Manuscript is labeled Part III, binder is labeled Part II, undated.
Box 12 Folder 6
Unpublished work: Margaret Anwyl, handwritten manuscript with corrections, undated.
Box 13 Folder 1
Unpublished work: My Most Unforgettable Character, typescript with corrections. Re: Mademoiselle Chantal, undated.
Box 13 Folder 2
Unpublished work: The Newspaper Cutting: A Short Story, typescript with corrections. Labeled in type on page 1 "by A. N. Jones, " that crossed out and Naomi handwritten. Signed "A. N. Jones" at end, undated.
Box 13 Folder 3
Unpublished work: Nine Lives, handwritten manuscript with corrections, in 2 exercise books. One book contains Ghost Royal: A True Story, undated.
Box 13 Folder 4
Unpublished work: Study of a Prophetess, typescript and handwritten manuscript with corrections, undated.
Box 13 Folder 5
Unpublished work: Three Women: A Study, handwritten manuscript with corrections, in one exercise book labeled I, undated.
Box 13 Folder 6
Unpublished work: To "A New Love, " handwritten manuscript, undated.
Box 13 Folder 7
Unpublished work: Verdict for Mary: A Play in Three Parts, typescript. Cover title: Darnley, undated.
Box 13 Folder 8
Unpublished work: Walter De la Mare, handwritten manuscript with corrections, in exercise book, undated.
Box 13 Folder 9
Miscellaneous Manuscripts: List of corrections for unnamed manuscript, pages 290-514, handwritten manuscript, undated.
Box 14 Folder 1
Miscellaneous Manuscripts: Copy book with name list, For Us in the Dark, and Vedict for Mary, handwritten manuscript with corrections, in spiral bound copy book, undated.
Box 14 Folder 2
Miscellaneous manuscripts: Modern German Literature, Copybook 2, and other notes, handwritten manuscript with corrections, in exercise book, undated.
Box 14 Folder 3
Miscellaneous manuscripts: Copy with notes on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and miscellaneous writing, handwritten manuscript with corrections, in homemade copy book, undated.
Box 14 Folder 4
Miscellaneous manuscripts: handwritten, some with corrections, 7 items, undated.
Box 14 Folder 5
Miscellaneous manuscripts: Poems by various authors, printed, typed, and handwritten manuscripts in binder. Labeled Anthology of Versicles. Works possibly submitted to the Westminster Gazette or sent to Royde-Smith for an anthology, undated.
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Series 4, Articles written by Naomi Royde-Smith, contains articles and reviews that were published in Blackfriars, a monthly magazine, and Time and Tide. Entire magazines have been preserved here.

"Fruits of Adversity, " Blackfriars, March 1953.
Box 15 Folder 1
"Heigho, the Holly!" Time & Tide (Re: the Sitwells), June 4, 1949.
Box 15 Folder 2
Review of Saint Catherine of Siena by Sigrid Undset, Blackfriars, July-August 1954.
Box 15 Folder 3
"The Secrets of Wardour, " Blackfriars, with corrections in Royde-Smith's hand, March 1951.
Box 15 Folder 4
Review of Thomas Hardy: A Critical Biography by Evelyn Hardy, Blackfriars, May 1954.
Box 15 Folder 5
"Winchester and the Broderers, " Time & Tide, December 27, 1947.
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Series 5, Advertisements and reviews of works by Naomi Royde-Smith, contains publishers' advertisements announcing forthcoming books and plays by Royde-Smith, and reviews of her works from England and America; press service cuttings as well as actual newsclippings saved by Royde-Smith or sent to her by friends. Some of the advertisements contains one-line blurbs and quotes from reviews.

The Altar-Piece, 1939.
Box 15 Folder 7
David, January 20, 1934.
Box 15 Folder 8
The Double Heart, 1932-1934.
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For Us in the Dark, September 14, 1937.
Box 15 Folder 10
For Us in the Dark, 1937-1940.
Box 15 Folder 11
John Fanning's Legacy, April 14, 1928.
Box 15 Folder 12
Love at First Sight, 1956.
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Melilot, 1955.
Box 15 Folder 14
Mrs. Siddons (play), November 28, 1933.
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Mrs. Siddons (book), May 1, 1933.
Box 15 Folder 16
Portrait of Mrs. Siddons (book), 1933.
Box 15 Folder 17
Private Life of Mrs. Siddons (book), 1933.
Box 15 Folder 18
Summer Holiday or Gibraltar, 1929.
Box 15 Folder 19
Van Lords, January 11, 1935.
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Series 6, Works by other authors, contains poems and articles by other authors as well as reviews of their works. It is possible that some of these were considered for publication in the Westminster Gazette or in an anthology; see Series 3, Manuscripts and working papers, for other works published and/or considered for publication in her anthologies.

Bahr, Hermann. Review of Bahr's Play "Josephine, " New Yok Times, removed from correspondence with Emma Ashton, October 14, 1934.
Box 16 Folder 1
Beerbohm, Max. "Mr. Max Beerbohm's Victorian Memories, " review by Jasper Pendlethwaite of Beerbohm's Seven Men, typed manuscript, undated.
Box 16 Folder 2
Bender, Arnold. In Einer Grossen Stadt. Inscribed "For George Davies! Arnold Bender 2/10/1934" on front free flyleaf. Poems in German, 1934.
Box 16 Folder 3
De la Mare, Walter. Poem "Ad Infinitum, " printed, proof of review by Royde-Smith, titled "The Perfect Critic, " on Forrest Reid's book, Walter De la Mare: A Critical Study, undated.
Box 16 Folder 4
Gray, G. H. Printed Poems, The Home Guard, The Policeman, To Greece, The Woman of Our Land, all signed; The Housewife, unsigned, undated.
Box 16 Folder 5
Gudenian, Haig. "About Violin Playing, " carbon copy of typescript with envelope. Also reproduction of a portrait, apparently by Gudenian, and marked 1925 on verso, 1925.
Box 16 Folder 6
Huxley, Elspeth. "Collectives Without Tears, " Time & Tide, September 3, 1949.
Box 16 Folder 7
Milton, Ernest. Review of To Kiss the Crocodile, Times of India, September 21, 1928.
Box 16 Folder 8
Parsons, Mrs. Clement. Review, titled "The Last of Mrs. Siddons, " of The Incomparable Siddons, undated.
Box 16 Folder 9
Quirk, Diana. Poems. Typescript with corrections, some poems are carbon copies, undated.
Box 16 Folder 10
Sidgwick, Frank. Printed poem, "The Modern Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo, " printed chapbook, "Finest Wiltshire Chaps", undated.
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Series 7, Newsclippings, booklets, etc. about people, contains clippings of friends, acquaintances, and newsworthy people. Royde-Smith particularly kept the published obituaries of friends, oftentimes tipping such items into her diaries. Those items listed here were loose clippings, many of which had been placed, not glued, into the diaries.

Ian Akers-Douglas; Percy Shelley Freeze Claridge; R. M. Y. Gleadowe; Margaret Hamilton Hamilton-Fellows; Colin Shaw Hodgkinson; Lady Jebb; Maria Belloc Lowndes; Harold Macmillan; Richard Henry Malden; G. Grimwood Mears; Diana and Yehudi Menuhin; Helen Munro; Graham Beauchamp Coxeter Rees-Mogg; Kathleen Mary Christina Hamilton Rees-Mogg; Arthur Robert; royal family; Robert H. J. Stewart; Ethel Marion Urwick; Samuel Webster, undated.
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Ernest Milton, undated.
Box 16 Folder 13
Naomi Gwladys Royde-Smith, undated.
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Naomi Gwladys Royde-Smith; Sitwell family (oversize), undated.
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Series 8, Personal files, contains collected miscellaneous clippings, sayings, notices, and receipts. Among the more important items are a book dealer's catalog, library call slips, and a catalog of books at Primrose Hill, apparently the collection of Naomi Royde-Smith and Ernest Milton. Also, a short compiled book of teachers'(?) criticism of Royde-Smith's writing, probably a gift from one of her sisters. Additionally, there are ticket stubs and clippings on subjects that interested Royde-Smith: religion, music, and the theater.

Book catalog and request slips from library, undated.
Box 16 Folder 15
Catalog of books at Primrose Hill, collection of Royde-Smith and Ernest Milton, undated.
Box 16 Folder 16
Book of extracts: criticism of Royde-Smith's writings compiled in notebook form, probably largely the criticisms of teachers, undated.
Box 16 Folder 17
Business cards, undated.
Box 16 Folder 18
Maps, undated.
Box 16 Folder 19
Music: Items about Yehudi Menuhin and other miscellaneous clippings, undated.
Box 16 Folder 20
Name list, undated.
Box 16 Folder 21
Receipts: rent records and various other receipts, 1912-1914, undated.
Box 16 Folder 22
Religion: clippings, undated.
Box 16 Folder 23
Theater: playbills, reviews, ticket stubs, undated.
Box 16 Folder 24
Miscellaneous: cards, bookmarks, sayings, short poems, notices, etc., undated.
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Series 9, Photographs, covers the lifespan of Naomi Royde-Smith: infant, young woman, and adult are represented. Some pictures are identified, but few are dated. Some may have been publicity photographs and were used on the dust jackets of her books. There are also photographs of Ernest Milton, her husband; 3 photos of Aldous Huxley and family; many shots of unidentified people; and a few unidentified interior views. Some photographs were removed from diaries in Series 1. A more detailed list of photographs can be found in the collection control file in the Special Collections Research Center.

Ernest Milton portraits; group party indoors; Royde-Smith as a child; Royde-Smith headshots and writing shots; Royde-Smith and Ernest Milton; unidentified seated child, woman labeled "Ryde 1916", 1916-1952, undated.
Box 17 Folder 1
Royde-Smith portraits, undated.
Box 17 Folder 2
Woman labeled "Katey March 1861"; seated solider; interior view; unidentified woman; standing soldier, 1861, undated.
Box 17 Folder 3
Sitting woman with dog; photo labelked "road to Castletan"; seated nanny with bayby; sea captain; woman knocking on door; seated baby; winter landscape with dog; stone house with two women looking from upstairs, 1910, undated.
Box 17 Folder 4
Interior views; seated woman by fireplace, undated.
Box 17 Folder 5
Sea captain with woman; pencil sketch of sea captain signed "E. T. R", undated.
Box 17 Folder 6
Marjorie Hamilton-Fellowes, undated.
Box 17 Folder 7
Aldous Huxley and son photographed by Dorothy Wilding; Cover of The Tatler, January 20, 1932 with photograph of Huxley and his wife and son by same photographer, circa 1932.
Box 17 Folder 8
Woman with lace collar, undated.
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Series 10, Prints and oversize items, contains art prints, and magazine and newspaper pieces.

Art prints, magazine articles, and newspaper, 1926, undated.
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Series 11, Accession 1884-1785, contains correspondence and legal agreements related to Royde-Smith's writings, as well as two letters to author Sylvia Lynd.

Letters to Sylvia Lynd, 1924.
Box 18 Folder 1
The Bridge, 1932.
Box 18 Folder 2
The Delicate Situation, 1929-1932.
Box 18 Folder 3
Madame Julia's Tale, 1932-1966.
Box 18 Folder 4
The Mother, 1931-1978.
Box 18 Folder 5
Mrs. Siddons, 1931.
Box 18 Folder 6
Picture and People, 1930.
Box 18 Folder 7
Private Life of Mrs. Siddons, 1932-1976.
Box 18 Folder 8
The Queen's Wigs, 1934-1976.
Box 18 Folder 9

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