| Description | Notes and memoranda, including some ideas for stories and plays, all written on scraps of paper.
Some of the items used for scrap paper include:
- A letter to RC Lamburn [Richmal Crompton Lamburn, also known as Richmal Crompton] from AP Watt and Son, London, [literary agents], regarding an offer for new novels, a tour, and contact with the BBC [British Broadcasting Corporation]; letter dated 1947.
- An invitation to a garden meeting of the Bromley Auxiliary United Society for Christian Literature, [Kent], addressed to GPLH [full name not given], 1950.
- A letter to RC Lamburn [Richmal Crompton Lamburn, also known as Richmal Crompton] from AP Watt and Son, London, [literary agents], regarding the publication of "Jimmy Sets Things Going"; letter dated 1950.
- Part of a letter from WG Bebbington, requesting that [Richmal Crompton] visit a school [name of school not stated], c1952.
- A letter to Richmal Crompton from the Rochdale Observer [newspaper], asking Richmal Crompton to suggest a competition for their "Young Readers' Page", 1954.
- A section of a draft copy of a William story.
- A poem "Lost and Found: Lost - White Cat, Near Burnham Lighthouse" by HM Wilson.
- A poem titled "Projections" by [EG?].
The file also includes:
- A letter to R Lamburn [Richmal Lamburn or Richmal Crompton Lamburn, also known as Richmal Crompton] from Patience Darton, Welfare Officer, regarding a friend [of Richmal Crompton's] who has polio, 1951.
- The poem "Farewell, My Haute Cuisine" transcribed from the "Sunday Telegraph", 22 November 1964, [author's name not given].
- A card containing a reproduction of a picture of [Jesus? -perhaps a stylised depiction of the Turin Shroud?].
- A press cutting containing the article "The Banana: From an Essay by a Japanese Schoolboy" [author's name and name of newspaper not stated]. |
| Related Material | Further documents relating to Richmal Crompton's literary work and public life can be found in RC/1
In particular:
- Further draft copies of Richmal Crompton's William stories can be found in RC/1/1/1/2/1, RC/1/1/1/2/2 and RC/1/1/1/2/3.
Further collected poems can be found in RC/1/1/1/1/2, RC/1/1/1/1/4, RC/2/6/3, RC/2/16 and RC/4/3.
Further correspondence from literary agents can be found in RC 7, RC 21, RC 35, RC 46, RC 48, RC 81, RC 105, RC 106, RC 107, RC 108, RC 110, RC test 1, RC test 2, RC test 4, RC 120, RC 121, RC 122, RC 123, RC 124, RC 125, RC 126, RC 127, RC 128, RC 129, RC 131, RC 133, RC 139, RC 200, RC 208, RC 212, RC 217, RC 227, RC 231, RC 275, RC 337 and RC 350.
Further notes containing ideas for stories can be found in RC 10, RC 26, RC 35, RC 37, RC 49, RC 52, RC 83, RC 98, RC 105, RC 106, RC 107, RC 116, RC 230 and RC 275. They may also be unidentified within notes that are found throughout the collection.
Further notes containing ideas for plays can be found in RC 50 and RC 79.
Further documents relating to the United Society for Christian Literature can be found in RC 5, RC 37, RC 105, RC 107, RC 108 and RC 266. |