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Box/File List

Box File Title Year & Additional Information
Series 1–Subject/correspondence files, 1968–2007
Box 1 (Accession no. 2007.10)
1 1 Various correspondence found in publications 1969–2006
1 2 Various correspondence 1976–2005
1 3 Abley, Mark—“Ivimy” manuscripts  
1 4 Abo Akademi 1973–1974
1 5 Aethered, Alexander 1980
1 6 Baine, Rodney M.—“Blake’s animal symbolism : a study of zoological symbolism… ” 1979–1982
1 7 Baine, Rodney M.—“Blake’s Dante in a different light” 1990
1 8 Bedard, Michael—“The gates of paradise : a life of William Blake” 2002
1 9 “Bibliomania” 2002
1 10 Blake collection of Raymond E. Thompson 1974–1984
1 11 Blake events 2006
1 12 Blake Society of St. James, Piccadilly 1985–1997
1 13 Bogan, James—“A guidebook to William Blake’s ‘Jerusalem’” 1981
1 14 Books owned—Blegny’s “Zodiacus Medico-Gallicus” 2002
1 15 Bowden, Betsy—“Sacred/secular/Blake/Stothard: contrasting conceptions of the Canterbury pilgrimage, 400 years along the way” 1993
1 16 Bright, John Adams—“Marriage of heaven and hell” material aspects 2004
1 17 Brown, James B.—“The history of an illusion: the meaning of the four Zoas in Blake’s “‘The fourZoas’” 1984
1 18 Brown, Judy—“The marriage of heaven and hell” manuscript novel 1981–1990
1 19 Carr, Stephen Leo—“William Blake’s print-making process in ‘Jerusalem’” 1979
1 20 Crosby, Mark—“‘A fabricated perjury’ the [mis]trial of William Blake” 2007
1 21 Davies, Keri—“The lost Moravian history of William Blake’s family: snapshots from the archive” 2006
1 22 Davies, Keri—“William Blake in contexts: family, friendships, and some intellectual microcultures of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England” thesis  
1 23 Compact disc of above  
Box 2
2 1 Deck, Raymond—“Blake and Swedenborg” dissertation 1977–1978
2 2 Deck, Raymond—“Curiouser and curiouser : “William Blake and ‘The book of Enoch’” 1978
2 3 De Luca, V.A.—“The changing order of plates in ‘Jerusalem’, chapter II” 1982
2 4 Dilworth, Tom—“‘Infant joy’, Blake’s revolutionary riddle-poem” 1999
2 5 Dorrbecker, D. W.—“Innocence lost and found: an untraced copy traced” 1981
2 6 Dorrbecker, D.W.—“‘The song of Los: the Munich copy and a new attempt to understand Blake’s images” 1988
2 7 Dowdey, Landon—“The four Zoas” 1980–1982
2 8 Eaves, Morris/Essick, Robert/Viscomi, Joseph—“The Blake archive”  
2 9 Eldridge, Aethelred and Alexandra 1968–1983
2 10 Essick, Robert N.—“Blake in the marketplace 1992”  
2 11 Essick, Robert N.—“Blake in the marketplace 2006”  
2 12 Essick, Robert N.—Proposal for William Blake commercial book illustrators 1988
Box 3
3 1 Essick, Robert N.—Sotheby sale 1989
3 2 Fitzwilliam Museum list of acquisitions 1986
3 3 Flaxman bibliography 1977–1979
3 4 Freed, Eugenie R.—“The enslavement of the daughters of Albion : Blake and Mary Wollstonecraft” 2001
3 5 Frost, E.C.—“Blake’s ‘Ancient of days’” 1979
3 6 Fry, Collin—Print of “Tyger” 1996
3 7 Frye, Northrop 1990, 2003
3 8 Frye, Northrop—Lecture notes on “Jerusalem” 1996
3 9 Fuller, David—Blake exhibition of Durham University and Cathedral Libraries 1993
3 10 Gabbett-Mulhallen, K.A.—“Blake’s ‘Night thoughts’ designs: context, Christology and composite work” 1976
3 11 Gandy, Michael—Genealogical information on Blake/Boucher  
3 12 Gardner, Stanley 1981–1982
3 13 Gardner, Stanley—“Songs of innocence and of experience” 1989
3 14 Getty Publications Program 1986
3 15 Gimeno, Francisco—“Blake in Spain” 2002
3 16 Gleckner, Robert—Blake entry for “Spenser Encyclopedia” 1983
3 17 Gleckner, Robert—Teaching “Songs of innocence and of experience” questionnaire 1984
3 18 Gleckner, Robert—“W.J. Linton, latter-day Blake” 1980
3 19 Gourlay, Alexander S.—A new colored copy of “Night thoughts” at Smith College 1993
Box 4
4 1 Gourlay, Alexander S.—“Philip D. Sherman’s Blakes at Brown University” 1992–1993
4 2 Grant, John E.—“Blake’s title pages for ‘Songs of innocence and of experience’ and other visions of the expulsion from Eden” 1980–1981
4 3 Grant, John E.—“The powers of “death” in Blake’s ‘Night thoughts’ engravings” 2002
4 4 Grant, John E.—“Who shall bind the infinite and arrange it in libraries? The use of G.E. Bentley Jr.’s ‘Blake books’ and ‘William Blake’s writing’” 1981
4 5 Grenfell, Michael—“Blake and gnosis” 1997
4 6 Heisler, Ron—“William Blake as political economist: a discovery” 1988
4 7 Hillyard, Brian—“David Steuart: man and book collector” lecture 1987
4 8 Hori, Keiko—“William Blake is Mary Wollstonecraft” 1983
4 9 Iowa videodisc Blake proposals 1984
4 10 Johnson, Mary Lynn—“Blake, Chodowiecki, Schellenberg, lips, and images for ‘The proprietors of the English Lavater” 2002
4 11 Johnson, Mary Lynn—“Effacing Chodowiecki: engravings by Blake and others for the Fuseli-Lavater Physiognomy” 1993
4 12 Johnson, Mary Lynn—“The fall and promise of redemption in Blake’s biblical watercolours for Thomas Butts” 1980
Box 5
5 1 Keynes, Geoffrey 1972
5 2 King, James—Blake biography proposals 1983
5 3 King, James—“Cowper, Hayley, and Samuel Johnson’s ‘Republican’ Milton’” 1988
5 4 Ko, So Woong—“A study of the Japanese criticism of William Blake’s poetry” 1976
5 5 Kukota, Irina 1999
5 6 La Belle, Jenijoy—Motif catalogue of Blake’s designs Guggenheim proposal 1989
5 7 Latona, Robert 1981
5 8 Lister, Antony—“George John, 2nd Earl Lister and his ‘Librarian’ Thomas Frognall Dibdin” 1987
5 9 Looper, Edna 2004
5 10 Masefield, John—“Words on the anniversary of the birthday of William Blake” 1993
5 11 Matheson, Suzanne—“Let no strangers to the Muses enter: art and the public sphere In Romantic Britain” 1998
5 12 Mee, Jon—“‘Portentous, as the written wall’: Millenarianism and politics in Blake’s ‘Night thoughts’ designs” 1994
5 13 Miner, Paul—“The Bard’s Prophetic song” 2002
5 14 Miner, Paul—“Blake and the night sky” 1985
5 15 Minney, Penny—“Job’s Gethsemane : tradition and imagination in William Blake’s illustrations for the ‘Book of Job’” 1997
5 16 Minney, Penny—“‘Rescue archaeology’ in 1800: a fourteenth century find and Blake’s ‘Job’ water-colours” 1998
5 17 Moravian Church 2004
5 18 Mulhallen, Karen—“William Blake’s designs for Edward Young’s night thoughts” Review 1981
5 19 Naunton, Stewart—Blake collection 1993
5 20 Otto, Peter 1989
5 21 Paley, Morton D.—“Why Blake?” film prospectus 1981
5 22 Phillips, Michael—Proposal for biography of Blake 1986
Box 6
6 1 Pierce, John—“Blake’s writing of ‘Vala or the four zoas’: a study of textual development” 1987, 1991
6 2 Read, Dennis 1993
6 3 Read, Dennis—“Appealing to ‘A great madjority’: Blake, Cromek, and the Chalcographic Society” 1981
6 4 Read, Dennis—“Blake’s eschatology” 1980
6 5 Read, Dennis—“The career of R.H. Cromek”  
6 6 Read, Dennis—“Cromek’s provincial advertisements for Blake’s ‘Grave’” 1976
6 7 Read, Dennis—Reviews of “The counter-arts conspiracy” by Morris Eaves/“Dangerous enthusiasm” by Jon Mee 1994
6 8 Read, Dennis—“The rival Canterbury pilgrims of Blake and Cromek: Herculean figures in the carpet”, 1987 9 Rix, Robert W.—“The Bible of Hell: William Blake and the discourses of radicalism” 2002
6 10 Rix, Robert W.—“Blake, Bacon and ‘The devils arse’” 2001
6 11 Robson, Lane/Viscomi, Joseph—“Copper intoxication—the cause of Blake’s death?” 1995
6 12 Rose, E.J.—“The grotesque in Blake and Goya” Killam Research Fellowship Proposal 1984
6 13 Sato, Hikari—“Blake in the Orient” International Conference 2003
6 14 Scroyer, Richard—“The 1788 publication date of Lavater’s ‘Aphorisms’” 1976
6 15 Schuard, Keith—various articles 2005–2006
6 16 Sklar, Susanne—“Apocalyptic wedding: Jacob Boehme’s visions and William Blake’s ‘Jerusalem’”  
6 17 Sotheby’s sale of “Urizen” 1999
6 18 Sperduti, Leonardo 1978
6 19 Stedman, John—“Narrative of his expedition against the revolted negroes of Surinam” 1985
6 20 Stothard album 1995
6 21 Suances, Francisco Gimeno 2007
6 22 Sung, Mei-Ying—“Technical and material studies of William Blake’s engraved ‘Illustrations of The Book of Job(1826)’”  
Box 7
7 1 Swinburne correspondence 1995
7 2 Taylor, Dena Bain—“Emanations of the divine: Kabbalistic elements in the Poetry and designs of William Blake” 1983
7 3 Tolley, Michael—“The annotated Blake: a new, variorum edition” 1989
7 4 Tory, Alan—“Mr. Blake’s transatlantic rainbow” a contemporary play in three acts 1976, 1979
7 5 Tyson, G.P—“Joseph Johnson : a liberal bookseller” 1974
7 6 University of California at Los Angeles 1994
7 7 Van Kleeck, Justin—“Blake’s four…‘Zoa’s’?”  
7 8 Vaulbert de Chantilly, Marc—“Property of a distinguished poisoner: Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and the Griffiths family library” 2001
7 9 Viscomi, Joseph—“Blake and the idea of the book” 1989–1990
7 10 Viscomi, Joseph—“Digital facsimiles: reading the William Blake archive” 2002
7 11 Viscomi, Joseph—“Like father like son : the unknown Blake acquisitions of Thomas Butts, Jr. and the market for Blake in 1852” 1994
7 12 Viscomi, Joseph—“William Blake’s ‘The phoenix/to Mrs. Butts’ redeux” 1994
7 13 Volger, Thomas “Intertextual signifiers and the Blake of that already” 1986
7 14 Wallace, Christina—“Illuminating Blake : a new reading of William Blake’s “The marriage of heaven and hell” thesis 2001, 2002
7 15 Ward, Aileen—“Who was Robert Blake” 1995
Box 8
8 1 Warner, Janet—“Blake’s wife: a novel” 2000–2002
8 2 Whitehead, Angus—“But, Kitty, I better love thee: George Richmond’s annotation To ‘Song [I love the jocund dance]’ in Volume II of Alexander Gilchrist’s ‘Life of William Blake (1863)” 2004
8 3 Whittingham, Selby—“The Blake Society at St. James’” 1986
8 4 Windle John, 1997
8 5 Witke, Johanne “‘Jerusalem: Blake’s epic defense of art” 1982
8 6 Wright, John—“On ‘Song of innocence’: a new Blake attribution” 1986
Series 2–Research material, 1968–2000
Box 8 (Accession no. 2007.10)
Art and engraving
8 7 Various drawings  
8 8 Various engravings  
8 9 Various engravings  
8 10 Electrotype pulls  
8 11 Blair—“The grave”  
Box 9
Art and engraving cont.
9 1 Bible—Book of Job  
9 2 Bunyan—“Pilgrim’s progress”  
9 3 Dante—“Divine comedy”  
9 4 Emlyn, Henry—“A new order in architecture”  
9 5 Gay, John—“Fables”  
9 6 Hayley, William—“Ballads”  
9 7 Hayley, William—“Little Tom the sailor”  
9 8 Josephus  
9 9 “The ladies new and polite pocket memorandum-book”  
9 10 Lavater, J.C.—“Aphorisms”  
9 11 Lavater, J.C.—“Essays on physiognomy”  
9 12 Malkin, Benjamin Heath—“A father’s memoirs of his child”  
9 13 Milton—“L’allegro/Il penseroso”  
9 14 Rees, Abraham—“Cyclopaedia”  
9 15 “The seaman’s recorder”  
9 16 Stedman, J.G.—“Narrative of a five years’ expedition against the revolted negroes of Surinam”  
9 17 Virgil  
9 18 “The wit’s magazine”  
9 19 Wollstonecraft, Mary—“Original stories from real life”  
9 20 Young—“Night thoughts”  
Box 10
Writings—Photographs for “William Blake’s writings”, edited by Bentley
10 1 “The accusers”  
10 2 “All religions are one”  
10 3 “The book of Ahania”  
10 4 “The first book of Urizen”  
10 5 “For children: the gates of Paradise”  
10 6 “Glad day”  
10 7 “The marriage of Heaven and Hell”  
10 8 “The song of Los”  
10 9 “Songs of experience”  
10 10 “Songs of innocence”  
10 11 “There is no natural religion”  
10 12 “Visions of the daughters of Albion”  
Writings—Various
10 13 “America”  
10 14 “America”  
10 15 “The book of Enoch”  
10 16 “The book of Thel”  
Box 11
Writings—Various
11 1 “Europe”  
11 2 “The first book of Urizen”  
11 3 “Jerusalem”  
11 4 “Laocoon”  
11 5 “Songs of Los”  
11 6 “Tiriel”  
11 7 “Visions of the daughters of Albion”  
General Research
11 8 Books owned by Blake  
11 9 Buttons representing Blake  
11 10 Cumberland, George  
11 11 Cumberland, George  
11 12 Residences (Blake)  
Box 12
General Research—cont.
12 1 Jenkins, Herbert  
12 2 Linnell, John  
12 3 Portraits of Blake  
12 5 “The Stranger from paradise : a biography of William Blake”  
Box 17
General research—cont.
17 1 List of books owned by Bentley 2000
Box 18
Microfilm and slides of research material
Series 3–Records relating to writings, 1962–2006
Box 12 (Accession no. 2007.10)
12 6 “The artist and the prophet : the art of William Blake”—Lecture, West Shore Graphic Arts Society, Muskegon 1996
12 7 “Blake books” 1978, 1999–2000
12 8 “Blake books supplement”—Review, Janet Warner 1989
12 9 “Blake discoveries, scholarship, and criticism 1971–1992”—Lecture, Blake Society, Durham 1993
12 10 “Blake in the art of his time”—Conference, Art Department and English Department, University of California at Santa Barbara 1976
12 11 Blake microfilm project 1981–1982
Box 13
13 1 “Blake studies in Japan : a bibliography of works on William Blake published in Japan, 1893–1993”—Review, Karen Mulhallen  
13 2 “Blake’s illuminations”—Lecture {1996?]
13 3 “Blake’s visionary heads : lost drawings and a lost book” 2001
13 4 “Blake’s visions: what he saw; how he understood his visions; and what he made of them”—Lecture Durham, 1996
13 5 “The colouring of Blake’s ‘Job’ engravings” 1974
13 6 Bible notes 1987
13 7 “Book illustration and illustrated books”—Essay 2001–2002
13 8 “Boydell’s Shakespeare”  
13 9 “The captive of the castle of Sennaar”—Typescript of book by George Cumberland, annotated by Bentley 1972–1973
13 10 “Comrades and strangers”—Typescript of book on China experiences 1985
13 11 Cumberland bibliography 1974–1975
13 12 “Edward Irving and the devil’s holocaust: Tatham’s burning of Blake’s papers” 1994
13 13 “The Edwardes of Halifax” 1985–1994
13 14 “The freaks of learning : learned pigs, musical hares, and the romantics”—Lecture, The Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H. Smith Collections, Toronto 1980
13 15 “Grave indignities : greed, hucksterism, and oblivion: Blake’s watercolours for Blair’s ‘Grave’” 2006
13 16 “The great Bible chase : great research libraries from Cologne to Canberra,”—Lecture 1992, 1993
13 17 “The holy pirates : legal enforcement of the patent in the Authorized Version of the Bible c. 1800 1993–1995
13 18 “‘I hear a voice you cannot hear’ : William Blake’s audiences”—Article 1995, 1996
13 19 “Intramuralia” 2001
13 20 “An island in the moon and other manuscripts” 1974–1975
13 21 “Jane Austen on love” by Juliet McMaster—Review 1980
13 22 “John Marsh and Peregrine Project: ‘A tour through some of the Southern counties of England’ (1904)”—Essay 1997
13 23 Lectures, various—Ephemera 1980–1997
13 24 Linnell (John) autobiography 1962–1963
13 25 “Macklin (Thomas)” 1998–2000
Box 14
14 1 “The meaning beyond the words : William Blake as an illuminated poet”—Lecture, University of Durham 1996
14 2 “My name is legion: for we are many: William Blake in London, 1740–1830”—Essay 2000–2001
14 3 “New Blake documents : ‘Job’, ‘Oedipus’, and the ‘Songs of innocence and of Experience’” with Mark Abley 1986, 1987
14 4 “New directions in Blake scholarship: mapping the Old World, the New World, and Terra Incognita”—Lecture [1989?]
14 5 “New facts in Blake’s biography”—Lecture [1963?]
14 6 “A new Shakespeare document” 1989–1990
14 7 “Of ghostly fleas and archangels: the pleasures of a Blake biographer”—Lecture [1962?]
14 8 “Patrons of Blake”  
14 9 “The peripatetic painter and the stroke of genius”—Article 1999, 2000
14 10 “Robinson (George), bookseller” 2001
14 11 Robson, John—Obituary 2002
14 12 “The sources of serendipity : George Cumberland’s ‘Captive of the Castle of Sennaar in the Mortlake Collection of the Australian National University—Lecture  
14 13 “The stranger from paradise”—Correspondence 2000–2003
Box 15
15 1 “The stranger from paradise”—Proofs 1999
15 2 “Strangers and comrades : letters from China 1982–1983” 1984
15 3 “Strangers in the world : Blake, Cowper, and madness”, 1991—Lecture, University Of Toronto 1991
15 4 Toronto Blake Symposium—Proposed volume  
15 5 “‘The tyger’ and ‘The lamb’ : easy questions and impossible answers”—Lecture, University College 1996
15 6 “The unrecognized first printing of Flaxman’s ‘Iliad’ (1793)” 1995–1997
15 7 “What is the price of experience? William Blake and the economics of illuminated printing” 1998, 1999
15 8 “What is the price of experience? William Blake and the economics of illuminated Printing”—Lecture, Toronto Society for the Book 1998
15 9 “William Blake and his circle” 1998
15 10 “William Blake and the Sophcles enigma” 1996–1997
15 11 “William Blake: prophet of the New Age”—Transcript of CBC radio program “Ideas” (with Northrop Frye and four others) 1987
Box 16
16 1 “William Blake’s ‘The song of Los’: a bibliographical introduction” 1975
16 2 “William Blake’s ‘Visions of the daughters of Albion’: a reproduction of copy F” 1975
16 3 “William Blake’s visual arts” 1983–1985
Box 17
“Blake records : documents (1714–1841) concerning the life of William Blake (1757–1827) and his family, incorporating Blake records (1969), Blake records supplement (1988), and extensive discoveries since 1988” corrected typescript, [ca. 2004]
17 2 Part V 1818–1827  
17 3 Appendix  
17 4 Preliminaries  
17 5 Prelude  
17 6 Part I 1757–1779  
17 7 Part II 1779–1799  
17 8 Part III 1500–1505  
17 9 Part VI 1827–1831  
17 10 Postscript 1831–1833  
17 11 Appendix IA Malkin  
17 12 Appendix 1C J.T. Smith  
17 13 Appendix 1E Tatham  
17 14 Appendix 1F HCR Reminiscences  
17 15 Appendix 1G Strange  
17 16 Appendix II Residences  
17 17 Appendix III Accounts  
17 18 Appendix IV Engravings  
17 19 Appendix V Reprints  
17 20 End notes  
Series 4–Ephemera relating to William Blake, 1955–2007
Box 16 (Accession no. 2007.10)
16 4 Exhibitions/Symposia 1969–2006
16 5 Conferences 1976–2006
16 6 Lectures 1969–2007
16 7 Blake Society 1986–2007
16 8 Performances/Celebrations 1955–2007
Box 1 (Accession no. 2012.01)
1 1 Various correspondence 1997-2011
1 2 "William Blake and His Circle, 2009" 2010
1 3 "William Blake and His Circle for 2010" 2011
1 4 Various ephemera 2003-2011