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Subject/correspondence files
Title: Subject/correspondence files
Dates of Material:
1954 – 2017
Extent:
1.22 m of textual records
1 compact disc
1 compact disc
Series consists of subject/correspondence files relating predominantly to William Blake scholarship, 1968–2013, including typescripts and drafts of articles, bibliographies, theses, thesis proposals, fiction and other writings with accompanying correspondence sent by students and academics for Bentley’s appraisal, and containing his annotations made on the material; proposals and applications for grants and potential publications with requests for Bentley’s assessment; correspondence/acquisition lists re collecting material; as well as correspondence re various academic matters.
NOTE(S)
General notes
Records in this series are a representative sampling of a much larger extent of material accumulated by Bentley
| BOX | FILE | TITLE | YEAR | ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |
| 2007.10 | ||||
| 2007.10, Box 1 | ||||
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| 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 | Davies, Keri—“William Blake in contexts: family, friendships, and some intellectual microcultures of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England” thesis | Compact disc | |
| 2007.10, 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 | |
| 2007.10, 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 | |
| 2007.10, 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 | |
| 2007.10, 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 | |
| 2007.10, 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)’” | ||
| 2007.10, 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 | |
| 2007.10, 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 | |
| 2012.01 | ||||
| 2012.01, Box 1 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | Various correspondence | 1997-2011 | |
| 2014.08 | ||||
| 2014.08, Box 1 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | Blake in Spanish [correspondence] | 2012 |
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| 1 | 2 | Essick, Robert—"Blake in the Marketplace" | 2012 |
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| 1 | 3 | Grant, Mary Lynn—"Thomas Butts insures his art collection' | 2012 |
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| 1 | 4 | Greg, Andrew—"Spurious issues of Lavater" | 2012 |
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| 1 | 5 | Miner, Paul—"Blake: The metaphors of generation" | [2012?] |
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| 1 | 6 | Pyle, Eric—"Illustrations for the 'Divine Comedy'" | 2012 |
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| 1 | 7 | Cumberland Conference | 2006 |
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| 2014.08, Box 2 | ||||
| 2 | 11 | [Various correspondence] | 1982-2013 |
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| 2 | 12 | Forster, E.M. | 1964 |
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| 2 | 13 | Rosenwald, Lessing J. | 1957-1964 |
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| 2014.08, Box 3 | ||||
| 3 | 1 | [Invoices for rare books] | 1966-1996 | Also includes a ticket for a William Blake exhibition in Japan from September 22-November 25, 1990. |
| 3 | 2 | [Correspondence with colleagues] | 1978, 2009, 2010 | Correspondence with colleagues including D.H. Weinglass, Rumyana Hristova, and Dennis M. Read. |
| 2017.06 | ||||
| 2017.06, Box 1 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | "The Accuracy of the Blake Trust Gray Catalogue" | 1974 |
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| 1 | 2 | "Almost Blake" | 1974 |
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| 1 | 3 | Bain, Iain | 1978-1979 |
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| 1 | 4 | "Blake Bibliography" | 2001 |
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| 1 | 5 | "Blake's Shadow" | 1978-1979 |
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| 1 | 6 | "Blake's Stolen Pride" | 2005-2006 |
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| 1 | 7 | Cambridge University Press | 2002-2005 |
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| 1 | 8 | "The Colouring of Blake's Job Engravings" | 1973-1974 | Includes copy of article. |
| 1 | 9 | Davids, Roy | 1993 |
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| 1 | 10 | Eaves, Morris | 1974, 1979 |
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| 1 | 11 | Edwards, Anne | 2017 |
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| 1 | 12 | Edwards, Rosa | 1985 | Includes her article “James Edwards, Giambattista Bodoni, and the Castle of Otranto: some unpublished letters” published in Publishing History, XVIII, 1985 and 2 photographic prints. |
| 1 | 13 | Essick, Robert — "2008 Checklist" | 2009 |
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| 1 | 14 | Essick Robert — "William Blake and His Circle and Followers" | 2008 |
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| 1 | 15 | Essick, Robert — "William Blake Printmaker" | 1978 |
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| 1 | 16 | Essick, Robert — Various correspondence |
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| 1 | 17 | Essick, Robert/Windle, John | 2015 |
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| 1 | 18 | "Ged" [Gerald Eades Bentley Sr.] | 1965, 1992 |
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| 1 | 19 | "Georghiou, George | 1990 |
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| 1 | 20 | Halliday, Robert | 1994 | Correspondence regarding Learned Pigs. Contains excerpts of Pigs from other sources sent by Halliday. |
| 1 | 21 | Ivusic, Christine | 1978 |
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| 1 | 22 | Jones, Sarah | 2009 |
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| 1 | 23 | Marks, Philippa — "The Edwards of Halifax Bindery" | 1992-1995 | Written by Marks to accompany The Edwards of Halifax. Also includes drafts and an offprint of The British Library Journal, Vol 24 No 2, 1998, in which the article first appeared. |
| 1 | 24 | Paley, Morton | 1974, 1978, 2011 |
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| 1 | 25 | Pausch, Peter | 1983-1984 |
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| 1 | 26 | Ringler, Susan | 1982-1983 |
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| 1 | 27 | Tyson, Gerald P. | 1981 |
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| 1 | 28 | University of Toronto Press | 2004-2007 | Correspondence regarding Edwards of Halifax publication. |
| 1 | 29 | Watkinson, Raymond | 2000-2004 |
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| 1 | 30 | Weber, Jeff | 1985 |
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| 2017.06, Box 2 | ||||
| 2 | 1 | "William Blake and the Alchemical Philosophers" | 1954, 1993 | Correspondence regarding Bentley's B.Litt. thesis. |
| 2 | 2 | [Various correspondence] | 1958, 1966-2016 |
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| 2020.05 | ||||
| 2020.05, Box 1 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | Mulhallen, Karen | 1993 |
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| 1 | 2 | Richmond, Anthony W. | 1969 | Found inside Volume 1 of Blake Supplementary no. 1110. |
