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Call Number:
Ms. Coll. 184
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Extent:
52 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
May Sinclair papers, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
Date:
circa 1863-1963 (inclusive)
Creator:
Sinclair, May
Form:
Correspondence, Photographs, Manuscripts, English -- 20th century, and Manuscripts, English -- 19th century
Abstract:
Personal papers of May Sinclair, including letters; manuscripts, typescripts, and galleys of her writings; workbooks; works by her friends; biographical information; photographs and illustrations; and miscellaneous items. The collection also includes the research correspondence and miscellaneous items of Theophilus Boll, May Sinclair's biographer.

May Sinclair was a popular British author of novels, poems, stories, essays, and philosophical studies. Between 1897 and 1927 she published twenty-four novels, two novellas, five volumes of short stories, two collections of verse, two volumes of philosophy, and many essays. Her work reflects the cutting edge in literature of her time. In 1918 Sinclair coined the phrase stream-of-consciousness in an essay, "The Novels of Dorothy Richardson." Sinclair pioneered the development of the psychological novel. The Three Sisters, published in 1914, is recognized as her first attempt at this form, although capturing the unconscious motivations of her characters is evident in her published writings of the 1890s.

Mary Amelia (May) St. Clair Sinclair was born August 24, 1863, to William and Amelia Sinclair. She was their last child and the only girl in a family of five boys. William Sinclair was a well-to-do shipowner, whose ships sailed from Belfast to the West Indies, Bombay, Barbados, the Baltic Sea, Leghorn, Aden, Malaya, China, Ceylon, and Australia. Around 1870, when May was seven years old, her father's business failed and he and his wife separated. As a result of the financial losses, the family scattered. The boys, now young adults, went out on their own, and Sinclair and her mother lived together in straitened circumstances. They relied on relatives and friends for assistance and moved frequently. Mr. Sinclair died of complications of alcoholism in 1881.

Mrs. Sinclair encouraged her sons (by now young adults) to regard themselves as gentleman and to pursue all the luxuries entitled to them. Despite her impoverished conditions, Mrs. Sinclair contributed to her sons' support and would make any financial sacrifice necessary to ensure their status as gentleman, and she expected her daughter to do the same. Sinclair's early education was a result of her active curiosity and self teaching. Using books and materials left behind by her brothers, she mastered Greek and German and developed a passion for philosophy. Sinclair's life with her mother was not easy. By all accounts, Mrs. Sinclair was a demanding, unyielding, and pious woman. Battles over Sinclair's philosophical beliefs and her repudiation of organized religion fostered frequent disagreements between mother and daughter, and although Sinclair acquiesced outwardly to her mother's expectations of social decorum, her inner self was untouchable. May's formal education consisted of one year at Cheltenham's Ladies College in 1881. Eighteen at the time, Sinclair was older than most students and her mind already opened to philosophical works and languages. The Cheltenham experience marked two critical milestones for Sinclair: she was separated from her mother for the first time and she met a woman who would become her mentor, Miss Dorothea Beale.

Dorothea Beale was Cheltenham's headmistress. An innovative educator, Beale argued for equal educational opportunities for women before the Royal Commission on Education in the late 1860s. Cheltenham offered history, literature, English language, geography, arithmetic, geometry, algebra, natural science, physics, physiology, chemistry, French, German, Latin, Greek, and calisthenics. Music, singing, dancing, drawing, and painting were offered as optional subjects. Miss Beale introduced Sinclair to idealism, a philosophy she would be committed to for the remainder of her life. Sinclair wrote two books on the subject, A Defence of Idealism (1917) and The New Idealism (1922). Miss Beale encouraged Sinclair to pursue the study of philosophy at Oxford. Although family obligations abruptly ended Sinclair's formal education after one year at Cheltenham, the friendship continued. After her departure from Cheltenham in 1882, Beale published May's essays in the Cheltenham Journal, promoted publication of her verse, and fostered her intellectual life through correspondence encouraging philosophical studies. In the 1890s Beale offered May a lectureship at the college, but by that time her writing and care for mother precluded accepting the offer.

At nineteen, Sinclair returned home to live with her mother. Despite Mrs. Sinclair's disapproval, she sustained a private intellectual life. In 1887 a book of verse, Nakiketa and Other Poems, was published under the pseudonym, Julian Sinclair. In 1892 another book of poems, Essays in Verse, was published. Neither book was successful, and to augment her meager income Sinclair translated German manuscripts for publication. Her transition from poet to novelist occurred in 1897 with the publication of Audrey Craven.

On 22 February 1901, Mrs. Sinclair died at the age of seventy-nine. The death coincided with Sinclair's rise as a successful novelist and marked a turning point in her life. For the next thirty years, she lived as a self-supporting woman, alone and in control of her social and artistic life. Sinclair established herself in British literary circles through membership in organizations like the Women's Writers Society and the Society for Authors. Sinclair developed friendships with female authors Violet Hunt, Evelyn Underhill, and Katherine Tynan Hinkson. The relationships provided a personal and literary support system. Sinclair mentored young artists like Ezra Pound, Rebecca West, Charlotte Mew, and Richard Aldington and provided financial assistance and artistic support to T. S. Elliot. A feminist, she actively campaigned for women's suffrage, drove an ambulance in Belgium during the first World War, and was a founding member of the Medico-Psychological Clinic of London, the first facility in England to include psychoanalysis among the broad choice of methods of treatment of mental illness.

Sinclair's involvement in the feminist movement extended beyond participating in suffrage demonstrations and authoring published articles in support of the cause. Through her fiction she exposed the Victorian tenets of family and self-sacrifice, as a system of female oppression. A proponent of psychoanalysis, Sinclair believed that the "new psychology" could be put to use as a catalyst of revolt against the tyrannical principles of "Victorian Puritanism." She authored three psychological novels, The Three Sisters (1914), Mary Olivier (1919), and Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1920), under the influence of the theory. Current feminist studies recognize her for the use of this form to reveal the destruction of the female psyche caused by the hypocrisies of Victorian social structure.

In the early 1920s, at the height of her career, May Sinclair developed Parkinson's disease. By 1930 the progression of the illness forced her into seclusion. Sinclair lived in a vegetative state with her nurse companion until her death in 1946.

Sinclair's life reflects a quest for intellectual and literary freedom. She survived an emotionally repressive childhood and young adulthood and emerged in mid-life to become a successful author with an independent lifestyle. But today her work is almost entirely forgotten. Also lost is the story of a unique personality and rebellious spirit that sustained her intellectual, social and artistic ambition through difficult circumstances.

    Missing Title
  1. Sinclair, May, 1863-1946Boll, Theophilus Ernest Martin, 1902-

The May Sinclair Papers housed at the University of Pennsylvania Library were discovered in 1959 by Theophilus Boll in a garage in Bierton, Great Britain. Boll, an associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, was in the midst of researching the details of the life of the late author for a possible biography. Letters to Sinclair's publishers led him to Harold L. Sinclair, the author's nephew and literary executor. Boll learned much about May Sinclair's personal life listening to the reminiscences of Harold and his wife, Muriel. From the initial visit a lasting friendship developed between Boll and Sinclair's surviving relations. The visit proved to be a momentous occasion for Boll, because it steered him to The Gables, a little cottage in Bierton, where May Sinclair lived for the last ten years of her life. The cottage was still occupied by Florence Bartrop, Sinclair's companion of twenty-seven years. Miss Bartrop led Boll to an outbuilding that had once been a stable and then a garage. The garage contained a number of cardboard cartons and an iron trunk, originally used by May Sinclair's brother Frank when he traveled to India as an artillery captain. Boll carried the boxes and trunks to the drying room of the cottage and for two weeks examined, organized, and labeled the papers. Boll convinced the Sinclairs to allow him to work with the materials in the United States, to see if there was enough material for a book about May Sinclair.

The product of Boll's work—Miss May Sinclair, Novelist—was published in 1972. The papers found in Bierton provided Boll with the core material for the biography. Subsequently, Boll contributed his own notes, letters, and documents derived from the research to accompany the collection.

May Sinclair published twenty-four novels, two novellas, five volumes of short stories, numerous essays and introductions to novels of other authors between 1895 and 1930. The Sinclair Papers include the author's work, from all of these areas. Among the papers are manuscripts of unpublished verse created by Sinclair as early as 1893; her first published short story, A Study from Life (1893); introductions to the work of the Brontës, novels created and published after 1914, and philosophical and psychological papers and articles. The papers also contain glimpses of Sinclair's personal life through correspondence, photographs, and financial statements.

The May Sinclair Papers comprises personal and professional correspondence; manuscripts, typescripts, and galleys of published and unpublished novels, short stories, critical reviews, and poetry. Sinclair's literary, philosophical, and psychological writings represent the majority of the collection. Also included is a series of workbooks containing Sinclair's work in the planning stages.

Gift of Harold L. Sinclair and Theophilus Boll, 1959 and 1976.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Finding Aid Author
Diane Sweeney
Finding Aid Date
1998
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research use.

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Copyright restrictions may exist. For most library holdings, the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania do not hold copyright. It is the responsibility of the requester to seek permission from the holder of the copyright to reproduce material from the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.

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Scope and Contents

Arranged alphabetically by correspondent and then chronologically within each correspondent's file, Sinclair's correspondence spans the years from 1893 through 1930 and contains letters from Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Katharine Tynan Hinkson, Evelyn Underhill, and Gwendoline Keats, who published under the pen name "Zack." The letters of Hinkson, Underhill, and Keats are significant because of the insight provided about the personal and professional challenges confronting Sinclair from 1890 to 1903.

Adcock, Arthur St. John (1864-1930) (28 items), 1913-1927.
Box 1 Folder 1
Aldington, Richard (1892-1962) (8 items), 1921-1924.
Box 1 Folder 2
American, Joseph (1 item), 1920.
Box 1 Folder 3
Archibald Constable & Co. (2 items), 1905.
Box 1 Folder 17
Bate, Florence E. (3 items), 1905.
Box 1 Folder 4
Beale, Dorothea (1831-1906) (4 items), 1897-1899.
Box 1 Folder 5
Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931) (3 items), 1911-1913.
Box 1 Folder 6
Beresford, J.D. (John Davys) (1873-1947) (1 item), 1920.
Box 1 Folder 7
Bisland, Mae (1 item), 1905.
Box 1 Folder 8
Blackwood, George W. (1 item), 1905.
Box 1 Folder 9
Blake, Fanny (1 item), undated.
Box 1 Folder 10
Bossehère, Jean de (4 items), 1909.
Box 1 Folder 11
Brown, Curtis (5 items), 1905-1913.
Box 1 Folder 12
Brown, W. Carnegie (4 items), 1912-1913.
Box 1 Folder 13
Burroughs, John (1837-1921) (1 item), 1883.
Box 1 Folder 1
Bynner, Witter (1881-1968) (3 items), 1905.
Box 1 Folder 14
Cape, Herbert Jonathan (1879-1960) (1 item), 1922.
Box 1 Folder 15
Cooke, Ellen N. (1 item), 1905.
Box 1 Folder 18
de Comminges (1 item), 1921.
Box 1 Folder 16
Dimnet, Ernest (1866-1954) (2 items), 1912.
Box 1 Folder 20
Deane, Anthony C. (Anthony Charles) (1870-1946) (72 items), 1893-1925.
Box 1 Folder 21-22
Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns) (1888-1965) (5 items), 1922-1924.
Box 1 Folder 19
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) (1 item), 1855.
Box 1 Folder 2
English Association (1 item), 1924.
Box 1 Folder 23
English Review (London, England: 1908) (10 items), 1915.
Box 1 Folder 24
Fields, Annie (1834-1915) (13 items), 1905-1912.
Box 1 Folder 26-27
Fitzgerald, M. (1 item), 1919.
Box 1 Folder 25
Garnett, Edward (1868-1937) (4 items), 1902-1910.
Box 1 Folder 28
Garnett, R.S. (Robert Singleton) (1866-1932) (1 item), 1914.
Box 1 Folder 29
Garnett, Richard (1835-1906) (20 items), 1900-1906.
Box 1 Folder 30-31
George, W. (1 item), undated.
Box 1 Folder 32
Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909) (1 item), 1909.
Box 1 Folder 33
Gissing, George (1857-1903) (1 item), 1897.
Box 1 Folder 34
Great Britain. Royal Mews Department (1 item), 1938.
Box 1 Folder 35
Hamilton, Jean (1 item), 1919.
Box 1 Folder 36
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) (10 items), 1908-1910.
Box 1 Folder 37
Hatch, Ida B. (1 item), 1920.
Box 1 Folder 38
Hertland, Marjaree (1 item), 1905.
Box 1 Folder 39
Hewlett, Maurice Henry (1861-1923) (5 items), 1910-1913.
Box 1 Folder 40
Hiplop, James (1 item), 1912.
Box 2 Folder 42
Holt, Henry (1840-1926) (14 items), 1904-1905.
Box 2 Folder 43-44
Hooper, S.E. (2 items), 1924.
Box 2 Folder 45
Hunt, Violet (1862-1942) (1 item), 1913.
Box 2 Folder 45
Institut Littérature et Artistique de France (2 items), 1934.
Box 2 Folder 45
James, Henry (1843-1916) (1 item), 1912.
Box 2 Folder 46
James, William (1842-1910) (1 item), 1908.
Box 2 Folder 47
Jewett, Rutger B. (1 item), 1905.
Box 2 Folder 48
Jordan, Elizabeth Garver (1867-1947) (1 item), 1905.
Box 2 Folder 49
Keats, Gwendoline (68 items), 1898-1903.
Box 2 Folder 50-55
Knopf, Alfred A. (1892-1984), letter from May Sinclair (1 item), 1924.
Box 2 Folder 56
Latimer, Margery (1899-1932) (1 item), 1920.
Box 2 Folder 56
Liveright, Ada F. (1 item), 1923.
Box 2 Folder 57
Logé, Marc (1 item), undated.
Box 2 Folder 58
London, Jack (1876-1916) (1 item), 1905.
Box 2 Folder 59
Lynch, Bohun (1884-1928) (1 item), 1920.
Box 2 Folder 60
MacArthur, James (3 items), 1905.
Box 2 Folder 61
McClure, S.S. (Samuel Sidney) (1857-1949) (2 items), 1904-1905.
Box 2 Folder 62
Marsh, E. (1 item), 1922.
Box 2 Folder 63
Milne, James (1 item), 1924.
Box 2 Folder 63
Monroe, Harriet (1860-1936) (2 items), 1924.
Box 2 Folder 64
Montgomery, Betty (2 items), 1919.
Box 2 Folder 65
Moore, Leonard (1 item), 1905.
Box 2 Folder 66
Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith) (1856-1948) (1 item), 1904.
Box 2 Folder 67
Morros, William (1 item), 1905.
Box 2 Folder 68
Muirhead, John H. (John Henry) (1855-1940) (1 item), 1923.
Box 2 Folder 69
Ostmaster, F. (3 items), 1922.
Box 2 Folder 70
Otto, Curt (1 item), 1905.
Box 3 Folder 71
Pawling, Sydney (1 item), 1905.
Box 3 Folder 72
Pinker, James B. (1 item), 1905.
Box 3 Folder 73
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) (12 items), 1909-1912.
Box 3 Folder 74
Renshaw, Paul (1 item), 1908.
Box 3 Folder 75
Rhys, Grace Little (1865-1929) (1 item), undated.
Box 3 Folder 77
Roberts, Morley (1857-1942) (2 items), 1906.
Box 3 Folder 76
Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935) (2 items), 1922-1924.
Box 3 Folder 78
Rodker, Mary (1 item), 1920.
Box 3 Folder 79
Roth, Samuel (1 item), 1922.
Box 3 Folder 80
Russell, Bertrand (1872-1970) (1 item), 1922.
Box 3 Folder 81
Seaman, Owen (1861-1936) (1 item), 1905.
Box 3 Folder 82
Sessions, A.L. (1 item), 1904.
Box 3 Folder 83
Sinclair, May (1863-1946), miscellaneous correspondence (6 items), 1904-1912.
Box 3 Folder 84
Skrine, Mary J.H. (Mary Jessie Hammond) (born 1856) (1 item), 1919.
Box 3 Folder 85
Stern, G. B. (Gladys Bronwyn) (1890-1973) (1 item), undated.
Box 3 Folder 89
Stevens, B.F. (2 items), 1905.
Box 3 Folder 85
Syrett, Netta (died 1943) (1 item), 1922.
Box 3 Folder 86
Tagore, Rabindranath (1 item), 1912.
Box 3 Folder 87
Torrener, Ridgely (2 items), undated.
Box 3 Folder 88
Tynan, Katharine (1861-1931) (26 items), 1900-1912.
Box 2 Folder 41
Underhill, Evelyn (1875-1941) (12 items), 1907-1922.
Box 3 Folder 90
Universal Pictures (Firm) (1 item), 1922.
Box 3 Folder 94
Walpole, Hugh (1884-1941) (14 items), 1912-1924.
Box 3 Folder 91
Wells, H.G. (Herbert George) (1866-1946) (1 item), undated.
Box 3 Folder 92
Whitehead, Eleanor (1 item), 1922.
Box 3 Folder 93
Willcox, Louise Collier (6 items), 1883.
Box 3 Folder 93

Series Description

Manuscripts and typescripts of Sinclair's writings are arranged chronologically within each group by date of first publication. Galleys for all writings are contained in a separate section, to optimize storage space. Unpublished writings are noted and listed at the end of each section.

Description & Arrangement

The post-1914 novels in the collection include The Three Sisters (1914), The Belfry (1916), The Tree of Heaven (1917), Mary Olivier: A Life (1919), The Romantic (1920), Mr. Waddington of Wyck (1921), Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922), Ann Severn and the Fieldings (1922), The Allinghams (1927), Arnold Waterlow (1924), Far End (1926) and History of Anthony Waring (1927). The novels are arranged chronologically by date of first publication, and can be examined from the workbook planning stage, to manuscript development, typescript edits and galley mark-ups.

Between 1914 and 1921 Sinclair published three psychological novels exposing the hypocrisy of Victorian values and revealing how the repressive environment emotionally ravaged women. The novels—The Three Sisters (1914), Mary Olivier: A Life (1919), and Life and Death of Harriet Frean (1922)—are part of the collection. Sinclair worked meticulously at planning and background development of her novels. In her words, Sinclair describes how, "‥ I must know my characters before I begin. I must see their faces and hear their voices. ‥ I make a careful scenario of the novel, of every chapter in it." The original manuscript of Life and Death of Harriet Frean demonstrates the depth of Sinclair's development of the psyche of her characters. The manuscript reveals how Sinclair works out the details and events contributing to the hysterical paralysis of Priscilla.

The Three Sisters. London: Hutchinson and NY: MacMillan. Manuscript, 1914.
Box 4 Folder 95-108
The Three Sisters. Typescript.
Box 4 Folder 109-112
The Three Sisters. Typescript.
Box 5 Folder 113-122
The Three Sisters. Annotated Typescript.
Box 5 Folder 123-128
The Three Sisters. Annotated Typescript.
Box 6 Folder 129-135
The Three Sisters. Annotated Typescript Carbon.
Box 6 Folder 136-147
The Three Sisters. Annotated Typescript Carbon.
Box 7 Folder 150
The Three Sisters. Typescript Fragments.
Box 7 Folder 151
The Three Sisters. Annotated Page Proofs.
Box 7 Folder 152-156
The Belfry. New York: Boni & Liveright. Manuscript, 1916.
Box 7 Folder 157-159
Description

Published in Great Britain as Tasker Jevons.

The Belfry. Annotated Typescript Carbon.
Box 7 Folder 160-162
The Belfry. Annotated Typescript Carbon .
Box 8 Folder 163-165
The Tree of Heaven. London: Cassell and New York: MacMillan. Manuscript, 1917.
Box 8 Folder 166-173
The Tree of Heaven. Annotated Typescript.
Box 9 Folder 174-181
Mary Olivier: A Life. London: Cassell and New York: MacMillan. Title Pages, 1919.
Box 9 Folder 182
Mary Olivier. Manuscript.
Box 9 Folder 183-189
Mary Olivier. Manuscript.
Box 10 Folder 190-196
Mary Olivier. Annotated Typescript.
Box 10 Folder 197-205
Mary Olivier. Page Proofs.
Box 10 Folder 206
The Romantic. London: Collins Sons & Co. And New York: MacMillan. Manuscript Fragments, 1920.
Box 11 Folder 207
The Romantic. Manuscript.
Box 11 Folder 208-211
The Romantic. Annotated Typescript.
Box 11 Folder 212-215
The Romantic. Annotated Typescript Carbon .
Box 11 Folder 216-223
Mr. Waddington of Wyck. London: Cassell and New York: MacMillan. Manuscript , 1921.
Box 12 Folder 224-227
Mr. Waddington of Wyck. Annotated Typescript.
Box 12 Folder 228-231
Life and Death of Harriett Frean. London: Collins Sons & Co. Draft, 1922.
Box 12 Folder 232
Life and Death of Harriett Frean.
Box 12 Folder 233-236
Anne Severn and the Fieldings London: Hutchinson and New York: MacMillan. Annotated Typescript, 1992.
Box 12 Folder 237-238
Anne Severn and the Fieldings. Annotated Typescript .
Box 13 Folder 239-242
Anne Severn and the Fieldings. Annotated Typescript Carbon.
Box 13 Folder 243-248
The Allinghams. London: Hutchinson and New York: MacMillan. Manuscript, 1927.
Box 13 Folder 249-256
The Allinghams. Annotated Typescript. English Edition.
Box 14 Folder 257-264
The Allinghams. Annotated Typescript. American Edition.
Box 14 Folder 265-272
Arnold Waterlow. London: Hutchinson and New York: MacMillan. Manuscript and Typescript Scenario, 1924.
Box 15 Folder 273
Arnold Waterlow. Manuscript.
Box 15 Folder 274-276
Arnold Waterlow. Annotated Typescript.
Box 15 Folder 277-287
Arnold Waterlow. Annotated Typescript Carbon.
Box 15 Folder 288-291
Arnold Waterlow. Annotated Typescript Carbon .
Box 16 Folder 292-297
Far End. London: Hutchinson and New York: MacMillan. Manuscript, 1926.
Box 16 Folder 298-301
Far End. Annotated Typescript.
Box 16 Folder 302-305
History of Anthony Waring. London: Hutchinson and New York: MacMillan. Manuscript, 1927.
Box 17 Folder 306
History of Anthony Waring. Typescript.
Box 17 Folder 307
Description

The papers contain manuscripts, typescripts, or published versions of twenty-seven short stories published between 1893 until 1931, including "A Study from Life" (1893), "The Return of the Prodigal" (1902), "The Judgement of Eve" (1907), "The Intercess or" (1911), "The Flaw in the Crystal" (1912), and "Fame" (1920).

"The Judgment of Eve." The Lady's Realm. Tear-out , 1907 December.
Box 17 Folder 308
"The Flaw in the Crystal." Dutton. The English Review. Manuscript, 1912 September.
Box 17 Folder 309
"The Flaw in the Crystal." Annotated Typescript.
Box 17 Folder 310
"A Study from Life." Black and White. Photocopy, 1895 November 2.
Box 17 Folder 311
"A Servant of the Earth." The Woman at Home. Typescript Carbon, 1899.
Box 17 Folder 312
"A Servant of the Earth." Photocopy.
Box 17 Folder 313
"The Return of the Prodigal." Blackwood's Magazine. Manuscript Fragments, 1902 January.
Box 17 Folder 314
"The Return of the Prodigal." Annotated Typescript Carbon.
Box 17 Folder 315
"The Fault." Century Magazine. Typescript, 1908 January.
Box 17 Folder 316
"Wilkinson's Wife." McClure's Magazine. Tear-out, 1908 February.
Box 17 Folder 317
"The Intercessor." English Review. Manuscript (incomplete), 1911 July.
Box 17 Folder 318
"The Intercessor." Annotated Typescript Carbon.
Box 17 Folder 319-321
"Miss Tarrant's Temperament" Harper's. Manuscript, 1911 September.
Box 18 Folder 322
"Miss Tarrant's Temperament." Tear-out.
Box 18 Folder 323
"Between the Lines." Harper's. Manuscript (incomplete), 1911 December.
Box 18 Folder 324
"Between the Lines." Annotated Typescript.
Box 18 Folder 325
"Compensation." Good Housekeeping. Typescript Carbon, 1913 October.
Box 18 Folder 326
"The Wrackam Memoirs." Harper's. Typescript, 1913 December.
Box 18 Folder 327
"The Collector." Century Magazine. Tear-out, 1914 January.
Box 18 Folder 328
"Red Tape." The Queen, The Lady's Newspaper. Tear-out, 1914 November 14.
Box 18 Folder 329
"The Pin-Prick." Harper's. Annotated Typescript, 1915 February.
Box 18 Folder 330
"Portrait of My Uncle." Century Magazine. Manuscript, 1917 January.
Box 18 Folder 331
"The Frewin Affair." The Woman at Home. Tear-out, 1917 January.
Box 18 Folder 332
"The Bambino." Athenaeum. Manuscript, 1920 September 24.
Box 18 Folder 333
"The Bambino." Annotated Tear-out.
Box 18 Folder 334
"Fame." The Pictorial Review. Manuscript, 1920 May 10.
Box 18 Folder 335
"Fame." Annotated Typescript.
Box 18 Folder 336
"Lena Wrace." The English Review. Annotated Typescript, 1921 February.
Box 18 Folder 337
"The Return." Harper's Magazine. Photocopy, 1921 May.
Box 18 Folder 338
"The Victim." Criterion. Annotated Typescript Carbon, 1922 October.
Box 18 Folder 339
"The Victim." Annotated Tear-out .
Box 18 Folder 340
"The Nature of Evidence." Fortnightly. Annotated Typescript, 1923 May.
Box 18 Folder 341
"The Intercession." Two Worlds. Photocopy, 1926 September.
Box 18 Folder 342
Description

Reprint of "The Intercessor." The English Review, July, 1911

"The Villa Desirée." The Ghost Book. Annotated Typescript Carbon, 1926 October.
Box 18 Folder 343
"The Pictures" in Tales Told by Simpson. London: Hutchinson and New York: MacMillan. Annotated Typescript Carbon., 1930.
Box 18 Folder 344
"The Mahatma's Story." The Intercessor and Other Stories. Manuscript, 1931 September.
Box 18 Folder 345
"The Sacking of Dusseldorf". Annotated Typescript, undated.
Box 18 Folder 346
Description

Contains manuscripts or typescripts of seven unpublished plays developed from 1894 through 1927. The unpublished plays are "A Debt of Honor," "Miss Tarrant's Temperament," "Tancred of Adam," "The Divine Fire: A Play in Four Acts," "The Helpmate: A Play in Four Acts," "The Pilgrim's Way, A Musical Drama," and "The Immortal Moment, A Tragedy in Three Acts."

"A Debt of Honour." Verse play, unpublished. Manuscript, 1894.
Box 18 Folder 347
"A Debt of Honour." Manuscript.
Box 19 Folder 348-349
"Miss Tarrant's Temperament." Typescript, unpublished, undated.
Box 19 Folder 350
"Tancred of Adan." Verse play, unpublished, unfinished. Manuscript , circa 1894.
Box 19 Folder 351
"The Combined Maze." Theater program from play version, 1927.
Box 19 Folder 352
"The Divine Fire: A Play in Four Acts." Typescript, unpublished, undated.
Box 19 Folder 353
"The Divine Fire: A Play in Four Acts." Typescript Carbon.
Box 19 Folder 354
"The Helpmate, A Play in Four Acts," written with Louis N. Parker. Manuscript, unpublished, 1907.
Box 20 Folder 355-356
"The Helpmate, A Play in Four Acts." Typescript Carbon.
Box 20 Folder 357
"The Helpmate, A Play in Four Acts." Typescript.
Box 20 Folder 358-360
"The Pilgrim's Way, A Musical Drama." Typescript Carbon, unpublished, undated.
Box 20 Folder 361
"The Immortal Moment, A Tragedy in Three Acts." Typescript, unpublished, post 1908.
Box 20 Folder 362
"The Immortal Moment, A Tragedy in Three Acts." Typescript Carbon.
Box 20 Folder 363
Description

Manuscript, typescripts and photocopies of twenty-three verses written by Sinclair from 1892 through 1924 are found in this subseries.

"After the Retreat." Typescript Signed, 1915.
Box 20 Folder 364
"Ave! (To a Field Ambulance in Flanders)." Manuscript and Typescript, 1915.
Box 20 Folder 365
"Childhood." Voices, Chapman and Hall. Manuscript and Typescript Proof, 1920.
Box 20 Folder 366
"Das Lied Des Spasses." Typescript and Typescript Carbon, undated.
Box 20 Folder 367
"1895." Manuscript, undated.
Box 20 Folder 368
"Field Ambulance in Retreat Via Dolorosa, Via Sacra." King Albert's Book. Typescript and Typescript Carbon, undated.
Box 20 Folder 369
"Helen in Lence." Manuscript, 1894 December 20.
Box 20 Folder 370
"Hymn to Apollo." Manuscript, undated.
Box 21 Folder 371
"The Galilee of the Gentiles." Manuscript, 1895 May 2.
Box 21 Folder 372
"In Memoriam." Manuscript, 1892 April.
Box 21 Folder 373
"Invocation." Manuscript, 1893-1895.
Box 21 Folder 374
"Mary Magdalene." Manuscript, 1895 April 27.
Box 21 Folder 375
"Pictor Ignotus to the Original of his Madonna", undated.
Box 21 Folder 376
"Sappho." Manuscript, 1892-1898.
Box 21 Folder 377
"Song." Manuscript, 1892-1898.
Box 21 Folder 378-379
"Sonnet." The Cambridge Review. Photocopy, 1893 November 23.
Box 21 Folder 380
"Sonnets." Typescript of an unpublished collection , circa 1898-1899.
Box 21 Folder 381
"Tancred of Adan." Tear-out (only published portion), circa 1894.
Box 21 Folder 382
"The Dark Night." London: Cape and New York: MacMillan. Annotated Typescript, 1924.
Box 21 Folder 383
"The Nineteenth Century." Manuscript, 1892-1898.
Box 21 Folder 384
"To Victor Love." Manuscript, 1898.
Box 21 Folder 385
"To Ideal Beauty." Manuscript, 1892-1898.
Box 21 Folder 386
Writings, Fragments and Unidentified.
Box 21 Folder 387
Description

In August 1914 Sinclair traveled to Belgium with Dr. Hector Monro, a specialist in Psychotherapy at the Medico-Psychological Clinic, to serve the war effort in a volunteer ambulance corps. During her seventeen-day tour of duty, she became packer to the commandant, assistant to the doctors, stretcher bearer, and nurse to the wounded. The corps was forced to retreat from Ghent to Bruges, from Bruges to Ostend. As the money was running out, Dr. Monro suggested that she return home to replenish the funds. Upon arrival in England, May learned that the commandant requested the War Office not allow her to rejoin the corps.

Sinclair's experiences are recounted in A Journal of Impressions of Belgium. Her journals reveal an inability to subordinate herself to military authority. The incident precipitating Sinclair's removal from Belgium was her insistence that the corps pick up wounded German soldiers. To Sinclair, there was no difference among the wounded.

Journal of Impressions in Belgium . London: Hutchinson and New York: MacMillan. Manuscript, 1915.
Box 21 Folder 388-391
Journal of Impressions in Belgium. Annotated Typescript.
Box 21 Folder 392-397
Journal of Impressions in Belgium. Annotated Typescript.
Box 22 Folder 398
"From a Journal." English Review. Manuscript, 1915 May-July.
Box 22 Folder 399
Description

Excerpts from Journal of Impressions in Belgium.

"From a Journal." Typescript.
Box 22 Folder 400
A Defence of Idealism. London and New York: MacMillan. Annotated Typescript, 1917.
Box 22 Folder 401-413
A Higher Pragmatism. Typescript.
Box 22 Folder 414
The New Idealism. London and New York: MacMillan. Manuscript, 1922.
Box 22 Folder 415-419
The New Idealism. Manuscript.
Box 23 Folder 420-423
Notes, hand-written.
Box 23 Folder 424
The New Idealism. Manuscript of Index.
Box 23 Folder 425
The New Idealism. Typescript.
Box 23 Folder 426-429
The New Idealism. Page Proofs.
Box 23 Folder 430
Description

Freud and Jung confirmed Sinclair's beliefs that sexual drives were important and that repression of desire was harmful to the psyche. She was a proponent of the psychoanalytic movement and in 1916 published an essay, "Symbolism and Sublimation." Also in the collection is the unpublished essay, "The Way of Sublimation," in which Sinclair offers her theory of how repression can be channeled into meaningful channels through the process of sublimation.

"Primary and Secondary Consciousness." Lecture presented before the Aristotelian Society. Typescript, 1923 February 5.
Box 23 Folder 431
"Symbolism and Sublimation." The Medical Press. Annotated Typescript, Published Article, 1916 August 9.
Box 23 Folder 432
The Way of Sublimation. Manuscript/Typescript, unpublished.
Box 23 Folder 433-434
The Way of Sublimation. Manuscript.
Box 23 Folder 435
The Way of Sublimation. Typescript.
Box 23 Folder 436-438
The Way of Sublimation. Annotated Typescript Carbon.
Box 24 Folder 439-441
The Way of Sublimation. Typescript Fragments .
Box 24 Folder 442
Unidentified Typescript (Philosophy), Rough Notes (Psychology).
Box 24 Folder 443
Description

This subseries contains the typescript of Sinclair's introductions to the 1914 publication of Anne Brontë's, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and the manuscript of the introduction to the 1921 publication of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.

Brontë, Anne, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Annotated Typescript of Introduction, 1914.
Box 24 Folder 444
Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights. Manuscript of Introduction, 1921.
Box 24 Folder 445
Richardson, Dorothy M., The Pointed Roofs. Albert A. Knopf, 1919.
Box 24 Folder 446
Contents

* Photocopy of Introduction by May Sinclair.
* Reprint of "The Novels of Dorothy Richardson"
* The Egoist, 1918 April
* The Little Review, 1918 April

Scott, Dawson, Mrs. Unpublished volume on psychic communication. Annotated Typescript of Introduction.
Box 24 Folder 447
Description

Twenty-one Sinclair essays are available in manuscript, typescript, photocopy or published form. The essays include "Descartes" (1882), Sinclair's feminist work, "How It Strikes a Mere Novelist" (1908), "Women' s Sacrifices for the War" (1915), "The Poems of F. S. Flint" (1921), and "Psychological Types" (1923).

"Descartes." The Cheltenham Ladies' College Magazine. Printed Article, 1882 February.
Box 24 Folder 448
"Man and Superman: A Symposium." The New York Times. Photocopy of Published Essay, 1905 December 1.
Box 24 Folder 449
"How It Strikes a Mere Novelist." Votes for Women. Photocpy of Published Essay, 1908 December 24.
Box 24 Folder 450
"A Defence of Man." The Forum Magazine. Photocopy of Published Essay (printed as "A Defence of Men." English Review, July, 1912), 1912 October.
Box 24 Folder 451
"Women's Suffrage." Typescript Fragments.
Box 24 Folder 452
"Chauffeurs at The Front." The New Statesman. Photocopy of Published Essay, 1914 December 26.
Box 24 Folder 453
"Women's Sacrifices for the War." The Woman at Home. Manuscript, 1915 February.
Box 24 Folder 454
"Worse Than War." English Review. Typescript Proof and Photocopy , 1920 August.
Box 24 Folder 455
"Reminiscences of Professor H.M. Gwatkin." Annotated Typescript.
Box 24 Folder 456
"Who Wrote Wuthering Heights?" Manuscript.
Box 24 Folder 457
Answers to questions on the writing of poetry. Manuscript.
Box 24 Folder 458
Untitled essay addressing America's entry into WWI, circa 1917.
Box 24 Folder 459
"Britain's Most Lovely Walk." Comments on a Symposium.
Box 24 Folder 460
Appeal for the E.G.A. Hospital Extension Fund.
Box 24 Folder 461
The 'Gitanjali': or Song-Offerings of Rabinra Nath Tagore. The North American Review. Photocopy, 1913 May.
Box 24 Folder 462
"The New Brontë Letters." The Dial. Photocopy, 1913 November.
Box 24 Folder 463
"Two Notes: I. On H.D. II. On Imagism." The Egoist. Photocopy, 1915 June 1.
Box 24 Folder 464
"Prufrock: And Other Observations." The Little Review. Typescript Carbon and Photocopy, 1917 December.
Box 24 Folder 465
"The Novels of Dorothy Richardson." The Little Review, and The Egoist, 1918 April.
Box 24 Folder 466
"The Repuation of Ezra Pound." The English Review, and The North American Review.
Manuscript, Annotated Typescript Carbon and Photocopy, 1920 April-May.
Box 24 Folder 467
"The Poems of F.S. Flint." The English Review. Manuscript, Annotated Typescript Carbon , 1921 January.
Box 24 Folder 468
"The Poems of Richard Aldington." The English Review. Manuscript, Photocopy, 1921 May.
Box 24 Folder 468
"The Poems of H.D." The Dial. Annotated Typescript, Tear-out and Photocopy, 1922 February.
Box 25 Folder 470
Letter to The Medical Press and Circular, responding to Sir Oliver Lodge. Clipping, 1917 August 8.
Box 25 Folder 471
"The Novels of Violet Hunt." The English Review. Photocopy, 1922 February.
Box 25 Folder 472
"The Man From Main Street." The New York Times Book Review and Magazine.
Manuscript with original title, "Mr. Sinclair Lewis' Last Novel" and Photocopy, 1922 September 24.
Box 25 Folder 473
"Psychological Types." The English Review. Typescript and Photocopy, 1923 May.
Box 25 Folder 474
Letter to The Spectator, responding to "The Great Adult Review". Photocopies, with Boll's notes, 1911 June 10.
Box 25 Folder 475
Letter to The Author, responding to attack on literary agents, 1911 December 1.
Box 25 Folder 476
Letter to The New York Times, in reference to The Flaw in the Crystal. Annotated Typescript Carbon, 1912 November 3.
Box 25 Folder 477
Letter to The London Times, in reference to illness among military recruits. Manuscript, 1915 January 23.
Box 25 Folder 478
"Note from an Article by May Sinclair in The English Review."The Little Review. Photocopy, 1920 July-August.
Box 25 Folder 479
Letter to The London Bookman: "Unpleasant Fiction." Photocopy, 1925 April.
Box 25 Folder 480
"Influence of the War on 'Life and Literature'." Annotated Typescript.
Box 25 Folder 481
The Belfry. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1916.
Box 26
Note

Published in Great Britain as Tasker Jevons.

Mary Olivier: A Life. London: Cassell and New York: MacMillan, 1919.
Box 27
The Allinghams. London: Hutchinson and New York: MacMillan, 1927.
Box 27
The Romantic. London: Collins Sons & Co. and New York: MacMillan, 1920.
Box 28
Anne Severn and the Fieldings. London: Hutchinson and New York: MacMillan, 1922.
Box 29
A Cure of Souls. London: Hutchinson, 1924.
Box 30
Uncanny Stories.
Box 31
Fame and Other Stories, London: Hutchinson.
Box 32
Short Stories.
Box 33
"The Gift".
Box 34
A Defence of Idealism. London and New York: MacMillan, 1917.
Box 35
The New Idealism. London and New York: MacMillan, 1922.
Box 36
Journal of Impressions in Belgium. London: Hutchinson and New York: MacMillan, 1915.
Box 37
"Worse Than War." English Review, 1920 August.
Box 38
"The Poems of F.S. Flint." The English Review, 1921 January.
Box 38
"The Repuation of Ezra Pound." The English Review, and The North American Review, 1920.
Box 38
"Symbolism and Sublimation." The Medical Press, 1916 August 9.
Box 38
"Psychological Types." The English Review, 1923 May.
Box 38
In the Cause of Causation.
Box 38
Dr. Charles Mercier.
Box 38
Description & Arrangement

Sinclair's workbooks are numbered one through forty-eight and the contents of each workbooks is documented in the container list. The workbooks contain much of Sinclair's post-1914 works in the earliest stages. Novels appearing in first draft format are Mary Olivier, Uncanny Stories, Ann Severn and The Fieldings, and The Rector of Wyck. Drafts of Sinclair's short story, Finding the Absolute, appears in one of the workbooks. Researchers are encouraged to refer to the contents of the workbooks when examining Sinclair's writings.

"Reminiscences of Professor H.M. Gwatkin" .
Box 39 Workbook 1
Description

Manuscript draft.

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights, 1921.
Box 39 Workbook 1
Description

Manuscript draft of Introduction.

The Romantic. London: Collins Sons & Co. and New York: MacMillan, 1920.
Box 39 Workbook 2
Description

Manuscript draft, chapter 1-14 plan, notes, fragments, paging calculations, rectos numbered 1-26, verses (unnumbered).

The Romantic.
Box 39 Workbook 3
Description

Manuscript draft fragments and notes.

"The Bambino" published in Athenaeum, 1920 September 24.
Box 39 Workbook 3
Description

Manuscript draft fragments and notes.

The Romantic. London: Collins Sons & Co. and New York: MacMillan, 1920.
Box 39 Workbook 4
Description

Manuscript draft fragments and notes, chapters 11-14, rectos 69-92, versos irregularly numbered.

The Romantic.
Box 39 Workbook 5
Description

Manuscript draft fragments and notes, calculations of paging.

The Illusions of Alfred Horridge.
Box 39 Workbook 5
Description

Fragmentary plan of manuscript of projected novel.

Ann Severn and The Fieldings. London: Hutchinson and New York: MacMillan, 1922.
Box 39 Workbook 5
Description

Characters outlined, chapter plan, chronology, Manuscript draft, rectos numbered 112-117, versos unnumbered.

Letter to Mrs. Conant.
Box 39 Workbook 5
A Cure of Souls. London: Hutchinson, New York: MacMillan, 1924.
Box 39 Workbook 6
Description

Manuscript sketches, draft fragments, rectos 82-134, versos 82-134.

"The Bankrupt".
Box 39 Workbook 7
Description

Manuscript scenario of projected short story.

"The Rivalry between Mr. Charles Torrence and Mr. Oliver Ballman".
Box 39 Workbook 7
Description

Manuscript synopsis of projected short story.

The Rector of Wyck published as Mr. Waddington of Wyck. London: Cassell and New York: MacMillan, 1921.
Box 39 Workbook 8
Description

Manuscript draft and chapter scenarios: rectos 1-56, versos 57-104.

The Rector of Wyck.
Box 39 Workbook 9
Description

Manuscript draft and chapter scenarios: rectos 105-219, versos 220-268.

Review of Sudden Wealth, a novel by Mr. (?) Forman.
Box 39 Workbook 9
Description

Manuscript draft: rectos 316-319.

Arnold Waterlow. London: Hutchinson and New York: MacMillan, 1924.
Box 39 Workbook 10
Description

Manuscript draft and scenarios beginning with chapter 19: rectos 1-117, versos 118-201b.

Arnold Waterlow.
Box 39 Workbook 11
Description

Manuscript draft and scenarios beginning with chapter 14: rectos 132-318, versos 319-420.

A Cure of Souls. London: Hutchinson; New York: MacMillan, 1924.
Box 39 Workbook 11
Description

Manuscript draft, chapter XIV - chapterXXI: rectos 132-235.

"Psychological Types" published in The English Review, 1923.
Box 39 Workbook 11
Description

Manuscript draft: recto 235.

"The Dark Night" London: Cape and New York: MacMillan, 1924.
Box 39 Workbook 11
Description

Manuscript draft: verso 421.

Appeal for the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital Extension Fund, 1926.
Box 39 Workbook 11
Description

Draft: versos 431-432.

Letter to Mr. Komai.
Box 39 Workbook 11
Description

Draft: recto 240.

"What My Public Tells Me".
Box 39 Workbook 11
Description

Contribution to a symposium. Draft: verson 429.

The Allinghams. London: Hutchinson, New York: MacMillan, 1927.
Box 39 Workbook 12
Description

Manuscript draft and scenarios.

The Allinghams.
Box 40 Workbook 13
Description

Manuscript draft and notes.

"How I Write My Novels".
Box 40 Workbook 13
Description

Manuscript.

"The Mahatma's Story." The Intercessor and Other Stories, 1931.
Box 40 Workbook 14
Description

Manuscript synopsis.

"The Man Who Dreamed".
Box 40 Workbook 14
Description

Manuscript synopsis.

"Possession".
Box 40 Workbook 14
Description

Manuscript synopsis.

"Finding the Absolute".
Box 40 Workbook 14
Description

Manuscript plan and fragment draft of short story.

Ann Severn and The Fieldings. London: Hutchinson and New York: MacMillan, 1922.
Box 40 Workbook 15
Description

Manuscript draft and notes, chapters 4-9.

Ann Severn and The Fieldings. London: Hutchinson and New York: MacMillan, 1922.
Box 40 Workbook 16
Description

Manuscript draft and notes, chapters 9-13.

Ann Severn and The Fieldings. London: Hutchinson and New York: MacMillan, 1922.
Box 40 Workbook 17
Description

Manuscript draft and notes, chapters 14-17.

Ann Severn and The Fieldings. London: Hutchinson and New York: MacMillan, 1922.
Box 40 Workbook 18
Description

Manuscript draft and notes, chapters 17-20.

Notes on Farming.
Box 40 Workbook 19
Uncanny Stories. London: Hutchinson, 192 and New York MacMillan, 1923.
Box 40 Workbook 19
Description

Notes on plan to publish collection of stories on page 4.

Mary Olivier: A Life. London: Cassell and New York: MacMillan, 1919.
Box 40 Workbook 20
Description

Manuscript draft and notes, chapters 20-21.

Mary Olivier: A Life. London: Cassell and New York: MacMillan, 1919.
Box 40 Workbook 21
Description

Manuscript draft and notes, chapter 20 (cont.).

Mary Olivier: A Life. London: Cassell and New York: MacMillan, 1919.
Box 40 Workbook 22
Description

Manuscript draft and notes, chapter 22.

Mary Olivier: A Life. London: Cassell and New York: MacMillan, 1919.
Box 40 Workbook 23
Description

Manuscript draft and notes of chapter 23; notes on characters in chapters 20-29. Plans on Morfe House.

Mary Olivier: A Life. London: Cassell and New York: MacMillan, 1919.
Box 40 Workbook 24
Description

Manuscript notes, summaries, draft of chapters 24-26.

Mary Olivier: A Life. London: Cassell and New York: MacMillan, 1919.
Box 40 Workbook 25
Description

Manuscript notes, summaries, draft of chapter 26.

Mary Olivier: A Life. London: Cassell and New York: MacMillan, 1919.
Box 40 Workbook 26
Description

Manuscript notes, summaries, draft of chapters 28-30.

Mary Olivier: A Life. London: Cassell and New York: MacMillan, 1919.
Box 40 Workbook 27
Description

Manuscript notes, summaries, draft of chapters 31-33.

The Intercessor and Other Stories, 1931.
Box 40 Workbook 28
Description

Manuscript plan and draft.

"The Wife".
Box 40 Workbook 29
Description

Manuscript draft.

"Finding the Absolute".
Box 40 Workbook 29
Description

Manuscript draft of short story, pp 3-7, opposite leaf, marked "FA."

"The Bambino." Athenaeum, 1920 September 24.
Box 40 Workbook 30
Description

Manuscript draft.

"The Poems of F. S. Flint" published in The English Review, 1921 January.
Box 40 Workbook 30
Description

Manuscript draft.

"The Poems of H. D." published in The Dial, 1922 February.
Box 40 Workbook 31
Description

Manuscript plan and draft.

"The Poems of H. D." published in The Dial, 1922 February.
Box 40 Workbook 31
Description

Manuscript draft (cont.).

"The Victim" published in The Criterion, 1922 October.
Box 40 Workbook 31
Description

Manuscript draft.

"The Poems of H. D." published in The Dial, 1922 February.
Box 40 Workbook 32
Description

Manuscript draft (cont.).

"Finding the Absolute".
Box 40 Workbook 32
Description

Manuscript draft fragment.

Uncanny Stories. London: Hutchinson, ; New York: MacMillan, 1923.
Box 40 Workbook 33
Description

Manuscript draft of "Jone's Karma."

"The Villa Desirée." The Ghost Book, 1926 October.
Box 40 Workbook 33
Description

Manuscript draft.

"Miss Tarrant's Temperament".
Box 41 Workbook 34
Description

Draft of a play.

With a Motor Ambulance in Belgium.
Box 41 Workbook 34
Description

Manuscript draft (contains key to fictitious names).

"The Dark Night." London: Cape and New York: MacMillan, 1924.
Box 41 Workbook 34
Description

Manuscript plan, sketches and drafts.

Review of Babbit.
Box 41 Workbook 34
Description

Draft.

Sir A. Wright's Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage.
Box 41 Workbook 34
Description

Manuscript notes and draft.

The New Idealism. London: Hutchinson and New York: MacMillan, 1922.
Box 41 Workbook 35-47
Description

Manuscript drafts, quotations, notes and queries.

History of Anthony Waring London: Hutchinson and New York: MacMillan, 1927.
Box 41 Workbook 48
Description

Manuscript.

Aldington, Richard. "Letters to Unknown Women." Presentation Typescript.
Box 42 Folder 482
de Briand, Eugenia Vrevski. "The Pool in the Pinewood." Presentation Typescript (original and carbon).
Box 42 Folder 483
Deane, Mrs. Anthony C. (Edith Maud). Muscial score to Tennyson's "Song of Love and Death".
Box 42 Folder 484
H. D. "Choruses from Iphigeneia in Aulis." Translated by H. D. The Poet's Translation Series No. 3.
Box 42 Folder 485
Harrison, Jane. "Rationalism and Religious Reaction" Conway Memorial Lecture. Watts & Co., London, 1919.
Box 42 Folder 486
Maeterlinck, Maurice. "My Dog".
Box 42 Folder 487
Meynall, Alice and Tynan, Katherine. The Cradle of the King, A Christmas Anthology. Burns and Oates, London, undated.
Box 42 Folder 488
Underhill, Evelyn. "The Cant of Unconventionality", circa 1908 February 8.
Box 42 Folder 489
Description

Contains Boll's notes.

Miscellaneous envelopes and notes.
Box 42 Folder 490

May Sinclair's Will.
Box 42 Folder 491
William Sinclair, Sr.'s Will.
Box 42 Folder 492
Birth, Death and Marriage Certificates of the Sinclair Family.
Box 42 Folder 493
Description

Includes Boll's inquiries; Sinclair family tree by Harold Sinclair; marriage certificate for William Sinclair and Amelia Hind; birth certificates for the Sinclair children; and death certificates.

Financial statements, 1905.
Box 42 Folder 494
Financial statements, 1908-1912.
Box 42 Folder 495
Financial correspondence and literary contracts, 1915-1916.
Box 42 Folder 496
Financial correspondence and literary contracts, 1918-1920.
Box 42 Folder 497
Financial correspondence and literary contracts, 1921-1922.
Box 42 Folder 498
Financial correspondence and literary contracts, 1923-1924.
Box 42 Folder 499
Financial correspondence and literary contracts, 1925-1926.
Box 42 Folder 500
Financial correspondence and literary contracts, 1927-1929.
Box 42 Folder 501
Financial correspondence and literary contracts, 1932.
Box 42 Folder 502
Miscellaneous financial statements.
Box 42 Folder 503

de Bosschere, Jean.
Box 43
Contents

* Original pen and ink caricatures of May Sinclair
* Original pen and ink drawings for Uncanny Stories
* Proof drawings for Uncanny Stories
* Original pen and ink drawings for The Intercessor and Other Stories
* Illustrations for "Radha" and The Egoist

Biographical photographs.
Box 44-46

Kiernan, Jas. G. "Is Genius a Sport, a Neurosis or a Child Potentiality Developed?" Alienist and Neurologist, 1909 August-1910 May.
Box 47 Folder 504
The Anglo-French Society, Bulletin No. 4, 1921 April.
Box 47 Folder 505
Aristotelian Society, 1918 July 5-1922 July 3.
Box 47 Folder 506
Aristotelian Society, 1922 November 6-1924 January 21.
Box 47 Folder 507
Roback, A. A. "Behaviorism and Psychology", 1922.
Box 47 Folder 508
Journal of Philosophy, 1922 August 31.
Box 47 Folder 509
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 1920 October-1923 June.
Box 47 Folder 510
Fawcett, Douglas. "Some Observations Touching the Cosmic Imagining and Reason." Mind, 1917 October.
Box 47 Folder 511
Montague, W. P. and Parkhurst, P. P. "The Ethical and Aesthetic Implications of Realism." Mind, 1920.
Box 47 Folder 511
Goldsbrough, G. F. "Recent Discussions on Time".
Box 47 Folder 512
Bonucci, Alessandro. "Soggetto e Spazio-Tempo." Rivista trimestrale di studi filosofici e religiosi, 1922.
Box 47 Folder 513
"Philosophers in Council." School and Society, 1923 March 24.
Box 47 Folder 514
Clarke, George Herbert. "Joseph Conrad and His Art." The Sewanee Review, 1922 July.
Box 47 Folder 515
Montague, W. P. "The Antinomy and its Implications For Logical Theory." Studies in the History of Ideas, 1918.
Box 47 Folder 516
Kiernan, James G. "Ozolagny." The Urologic and Cutaneous Review, 1922.
Box 47 Folder 517

Series Description

Accompanying the Sinclair papers is research conducted by Theophilus T. E. Boll, author of Sinclair's biography, Miss May Sinclair, Novelist. As he searched for information about Sinclair's life and career, Boll establis hed long-standing relationships with Sinclair's surviving family and friends. The correspondence spans from 1953 to 1976 and contains insightful information about Sinclair's personality and life.

Bartrop, Florence, 1859-1962.
Box 48 Folder 518-519
Description

Correspondence between Bartrop and Boll; Ms. Bartrop was May Sinclair's companion from 1919 until Sinclair's death, November 14, 1946.

Boll, Theophilus E. M.
Box 48 Folder 520
Description

Boll's notes and miscellaneous correspondence to inquiries about possible contacts for information about May Sinclair.

Chauncey, Lucy A., 1959-1961.
Box 48 Folder 521
Description

Correspondence between Chauncey and Boll; Chauncey was a close friend of Canon Anthony Charles Deane and Maude Deane. Includes a letter from Reid Sharman, solicitor for the Deane family.

Durand, Brigadier, Sir Alan and Wilmont, A. Josephine, 1967.
Box 48 Folder 522
Description

Correspondence associated with Boll's inquiries about May Sinclair's 1906 visit to the United States.

Gibbens, Deirdre, 1964-1965.
Box 48 Folder 523
Description

Correspondence associated with Boll's inquiries into the location of the Sinclair home, Brook Farm, Salcombe Regis, Sidmouth; Also included is a map of the Sidmouth area and photographs of Salcombe Regis.

Glen, J. Haydon W., 1960.
Box 48 Folder 524
Description

Correspondence associated with Boll's inquiries about William Sinclair.

Hyde, Dorothy E., 1966-1973.
Box 48 Folder 525
Description

Correspondence associated with Boll's inquiry into May Sinclair's friends; Also includes Hyde's detailed account of Sinclair's physical appearance and personality traits.

Howman, Jessie, 1966-1967.
Box 48 Folder 526
Description

Correspondence associated with Boll's inquiries about May Sinclair during her time of residence at the White Hart Hotel, Stow-on-Wold.

International P.E.N. , 1959.
Box 48 Folder 527
Description

Correspondence associated with Boll's attempt to gain information on Sinclair's membership in the International P.E.N.

Low, Olive, 1959.
Box 48 Folder 528
Description

Correspondence with Boll.

McNeile, Mrs. Wilda St. Clair, 1959-1964.
Box 48 Folder 529
Description

Correspondence associated with Boll's inquiries about the life of May Sinclair; Mrs. McNeile was Sinclair's niece, daughter of brother William.

Price, Laura, 1959-1963.
Box 48 Folder 530
Description

Correspondence associated with Boll's inquiries about the origins of the Medico-Psychological Clinic, London and Sinclair's involvement with the organization.

Rose, Pamela A., 1962.
Box 48 Folder 531
Description

Letter to Laura Price, addressing May Sinclair's participation in the Coronation Women's Suffrage Procession of 1911.

Royal Society of Literature.
Box 48 Folder 532
Description

Correspondence associated with Boll's inquiries into Sinclair's membership in the Royal Society of Literature.

Sinclair, Harold Lumley, 1959-1976.
Box 48 Folder 533
Description

Correspondence associated with Boll's inquiries about the life of May Sinclair; Mr. Sinclair was May Sinclair's nephew, son of brother William.

Speirs, William C., 1964.
Box 48 Folder 534
Description

Correspondence with Boll on May Sinclair in Reeth.

Storey, Gladys, 1960.
Box 48 Folder 535
Description

Correspondence with Boll on May Sinclair and Janet Elizabeth Hogarth Courtney.

Thorley, L. J., 1960.
Box 48 Folder 536
Description

Correspondence with Boll on B. D. Scott (B. Dorothy).

Wilkinson, Gillian A., 1959-1963.
Box 48 Folder 537
Description

Correspondence with Boll on Evelyn Underhill.

Woollatt, Randolph, 1964.
Box 48 Folder 538
Description

Correspondence with Boll on the Cheltonian Society.

Aristotelian Society.
Box 49 Folder 539
Description

Inquiries and notes about Sinclair's membership.

Borough of Ilford.
Box 49 Folder 540
Description

The Borough of Ilford, Official Handbook (2nd Edition).

Cheltenham Ladies' College.
Box 49 Folder 541
Description

Boll's inquiries and notes about the school during Sinclair's attendance; typed copies of Sinclair's articles as published in the Cheltenham Ladies' College Magazine; Boll's inquiry about St. Hilda's East, response and photograph.

Courtney, Janet Elizabeth Hogarth.
Box 49 Folder 542
Description

Copies of published articles about Sinclair's work and private life. Hogarth attended Cheltenham Ladies' College with Sinclair. Articles transcribed by Laura Price.

The Criterion, A Quarterly Review.
Box 49 Folder 543
Description

Announcement of the publication of the review; May Sinclair identified as a contributor.

Deane, Anthony C.
Box 49 Folder 544
Description

Printed verse and newspaper clippings, Boll's notes and inquiries.

Garnett, Richard.
Box 49 Folder 545
Description

Thoreau quote in manuscript found in Sinclair's diary.

Hedges, H. W.
Box 49 Folder 546
Description

Correspondence regarding Boll's inquiries into May Sinclair's burial place.

Lewis, Wyndam.
Box 49 Folder 547
Description

Boll's handwritten copy of Wyndham's poem, "To Suffragettes." The Blast, June, 1914. Also, a copy of the magazine's table of contents as well as Boll's notes and inquiry.

Medico-Psychological Clinic of London.
Box 49 Folder 548
Description

Annual reports, financial records, prospectus, Boll's inquiries and note.

Sinclair, May.
Box 49 Folder 549
Description

Boll's copies of reviews of Mary Olivier, copy of an article from The Bookman entitled, "Dreams, Ghosts and Fairies."

Sinclair, William, Sr.
Box 49 Folder 550
Description

Boll's notes, correspondence and printed material.

Index Card Catalogue.
Box 50 Folder unknown container

Music books.
Box 51-52

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