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Records relating to writings
Title: Records relating to writings
Dates of Material:
1954 – 2016
Extent:
1.23 m of textual material
Series consists of drafts, proofs, typescripts, correspondence, notes contracts, reviews, announcements, reports and other records, 1962–2016, relating to public lectures, articles, essays, books, including Blake records, and other published and unpublished writings by Bentley, predominantly on Blake; also includes Bentley's theses written and submitted for his B.Litt. (1954) and his D.Phil. (1956).
NOTE(S)
General notes
Box 17 contains “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]
| BOX | FILE | TITLE | YEAR | ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |
| 2007.10 | ||||
| 2007.10, Box 12 | ||||
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| 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 | |
| 2007.10, 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 | |
| 2007.10, 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 | |
| 2007.10, 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 | |
| 2007.10, 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 | |
| 2007.10, Box 17 | ||||
| 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 | ||
| 2012.01 | ||||
| 2012.01, Box 1 | ||||
| 1 | 2 | "William Blake and His Circle, 2009" | 2010 | |
| 1 | 3 | "William Blake and His Circle for 2010" | 2011 | |
| 1 | 5 | "William Blake's Four Zoas" - Thesis submitted for Doctorate Vol. I (annotations are not Bentley's; may be those of Dr. Herbert Davis, one of the Examiners) | 1956 | |
| 1 | 6 | "William Blake's Four Zoas" - Thesis submitted for Doctorate Vol. II (annotations are not Bentley's; may be those of Dr. Herbert Davis, one of the Examiners | 1956 | |
| 2014.08 | ||||
| 2014.08, Box 1 | ||||
| 1 | 18 | "Pictura Ignota" [typescript] | 2010 |
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| 1 | 19 | London Book Trade Cards to 1820 | 1979-1984 |
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| 1 | 20 | "English Illustrated Bibles 1530-1830" | 1989 | Includes 38 photographs : b&w and b&w negs. |
| 1 | 21 | "Robert Bowyer : The Illustration of National History" / Bowyer Notes |
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| 2014.08, Box 3 | ||||
| Art and engraving | ||||
| 3 | 4 | "Visionary Heads" [copies of plates used in book] | [200-] | Copies of images taken from Tate Modern, University of Toronto Library, and Smith College Museum of Art; plates from Joseph Holland and Vanderhoef collections; and three negatives. |
| 2017.06 | ||||
| 2017.06, Box 5 | ||||
| 5 | 1 | "A Fifth Zoa" | 1987-2000 | Multiple submissions. Includes a copy of "William Blake and Earl Spencer". |
| 5 | 2 | "A 'New' Blake Engraving in Lavater's Physiognomy" | 1972 |
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| 5 | 3 | "A Unique Prospectus for Blake's Grave Designs" | 1973 |
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| 5 | 4 | "A Year in Algiers" | 2006 | Published privately. |
| 5 | 5 | "Bibliographical Discoveries, mostly Blakean: The right way, the wrong way and Beth's way" | 2005 |
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| 5 | 6 | "A Blake Bestiary" | [between 2009 and 2017] | Unpublished manuscript, final draft version. |
| 5 | 7 | "Blake Books" — review by Robert Essick | 1977 |
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| 5 | 8 | "Blake Books" reviews | 1977, 1981 |
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| 5 | 9 | "Blake's Heavy Metal" essay addenda | 2006 |
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| 5 | 10 | "Blake Records, 2nd Edition" | 2000-2005 | Correspondence, reviews, addenda and other material. |
| 5 | 11 | "Blake Records" addenda |
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| 5 | 12 | "Blake Records Second Edition" addenda | 2004-2011 |
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| 5 | 13 | "Blake Records Second Edition" addenda and corrigenda | 2016 |
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| 5 | 14 | "Blake Records" reviews | 1971-1972 |
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| 5 | 15 | "Blake Records Supplements" reviews | 1990 |
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| 2017.06, Box 6 | ||||
| 6 | 1 | "Blake's Youth in Surrey" |
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| 6 | 2 | "Blake and the Xenoglots: Strange speaking critics and scholars of Blake" | ca. 2004 |
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| 6 | 3 | "Blake in the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue" | 1991-1992, 2000 | Essay by Bentley, with related correspondence. |
| 6 | 4 | "Boondoggles: Memoirs of a Vagrant Academic" | ca. 2011 | Manuscript. |
| 6 | 5 | "British Bible Table" |
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| 6 | 6 | "British Illustrated Bibles" | Unpublished manuscript. | |
| 6 | 7 | "The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar" reviews | 1992-1994 |
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| 6 | 8 | "Catherine Wright of Walkeringham" | 2004 | Biography of William Blake's mother. |
| 6 | 9 | "Edwards of Halifax Bindings" | 1993 |
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| 6 | 10 | "Edwards of Halifax" publishing agreement | 2011 |
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| 6 | 11 | "English Bible Illustrations" |
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| 6 | 12 | "English Illustrated Bibles, 1530-1830: introduction" |
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| 6 | 13 | "English Illustrated Bibles, 1530-1830: working notes" | 1989 |
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| 6 | 14 | "The Inscriptions on Blake's Design to Pilgrim's Progress" | 1972 |
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| 6 | 15 | "Intramuralia" revised | 2003 |
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| 6 | 16 | "Joseph Johnson in Prison: A Publisher and Pitt's White Terror" | 1996-2000 | Also contains correspondence. |
| 6 | 17 | "Leigh Hunt's Literary Pocket-Book (1818-1822): A Romantic Source Book" | 1974 |
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| 6 | 18 | "Money Flies From Me" | 1998 | Two copies with some correspondence. |
| 6 | 19 | "Romney's Legacy" | Undated essay. | |
| 6 | 20 | "Some Continental Illustrated Bibles, 1478-1830: working notes" | 1989 |
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| 6 | 21 | "Stranger from Paradise" reviews | 2001 |
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| 6 | 22 | "Stranger from Paradise" reviews | 2001-2004 | Reviews featured in various newspapers and journals. |
| 6 | 23 | "Thomas Macklin" final draft typescript | ca. 2016 |
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| 2017.06, Box 7 | ||||
| 7 | 1 | "Thomas Macklin" New DNB | [2016?] |
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| 7 | 2 | "Thomas Macklin" contract and submissions | 2016 |
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| 7 | 3 | "Thomas Macklin" review | 2016 |
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| 7 | 4 | "Thus Spake William Blake: Conversations with the Quick and the Dead and a Concordance of the Poet's Conversations" | [between 2009 and 2017] | Manuscript. |
| 7 | 5 | "Thus Spake William Blake" reviews | ca. 2009 |
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| 7 | 6 | "White on Blake" | A copy of an essay written about William Augustus White, a collector of Blake's work. | |
| 7 | 7 | "William Blake and His Circle, 2007" |
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| 7 | 8 | "William Blake and His Circle, 2008" |
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| 7 | 9 | "William Blake and His Circle, 2008" addenda |
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| 7 | 10 | William Blake's Writings addenda |
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| 7 | 11 | "William Blake's Mother and the Moravians" | 2004 | Draft. |
| 7 | 12 | "William Blake and the Empire of the Imagination" | 1989-1993 | Drafts and notes. |
| 7 | 13 | "William Blake in the Desolate Market" | 2011-2013 | Reviews, correspondence, contracts and notes. |
| 7 | 14 | "William Blake in the Desolate Market" reviews | 2014-2015 |
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| 2017.06, Box 8 | ||||
| 8 | 1 | [Dissertations and theses written about Blake] | [n.d.] | Essay and bibliography written and compiled by Bentley. |
| 8 | 2 | "A Different Face: William Blake and Mary Wollstonecraft" consent to publish | 1979 |
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| 8 | 3 | Reader's Report on "Rosenbach's Blakes[,] Especially those Bought en Bloc from W.A. White" | [n.d.] |
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| 8 | 4 | "An Astonishing Discovery" | 1994 | Correspondence regarding submission of essay to Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, essay included. |
| 8 | 5 | "Blake's Murderesses: Visionary Heads of Wickedness" | 2009 | Published in Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol 72 No. 1, 2009. |
| 8 | 6 | "Blake's Shadow" | 1978 | Published in The Times Literary Supplement newspaper. |
| 8 | 7 | "Blake's Works as Performances: Intentions and Inattentions" | 1988 | Published in Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, Vol 4, 1988. |
| 8 | 8 | "Cenci: A War of Theologies" | 1958 | Published in Chicago Maroon, 1958. |
| 8 | 9 | "Flaxman in Italy: A Letter reflecting the Anni Mirabiles, 1792-93" | 1981 | Published in The Art Bulletin, Vol LXIII No 4, 1981. |
| 8 | 10 | "Ozias Humphry, William Upcott, and William Blake" | 1975 | Offprint, published in Humanities Association Review, 1975. |
| 8 | 11 | "R.C. Jackson - A wild goose chase?" | 2001 | Submitted to and published in Camberwell Quarterly, 2001. |
| 8 | 12 | "Thomas Butts, White Collar Maecenas" | 1956 | Published in PMLA, Vol LXXI, No 5, 1956. |
| 8 | 13 | "The Vicissitudes of Vision" | 1978 | Offprint, published in Humanities, 43, 1978. |
| 8 | 14 | "William Blake and Earl Spencer" | 1989 | Offprint, published in The Aligarh Critical, Vol 2 No 2, 1989. |
| 8 | 15 | [Essays included in Minute Particulars] | 1978 | Featured in "Minute Particulars", a section of Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly. |
| 8 | 16 | [Submissions to Notes and Queries] | 2011, 2014, 2016 | Offprints. |
| 8 | 17 | Review of "A Bibliography of Jane Austen" | ca. 1982 |
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| 8 | 18 | Review of "A Catalogue of William Blake's Separate Plates" | Review of Robert Essick's work. | |
| 8 | 19 | "Blake the Professional" | 1993 | Review of Robert Essick's William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations, featured in Antiquarian Book Monthly. |
| 8 | 20 | "God's Plenty" | 1980 | Review of David Bindman's The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake. |
| 8 | 21 | Review of "Milton and English Art" | 1971 | Review of Marcia R. Pointon's work, featured in The Library. |
| 8 | 22 | Review of "William Blake's Water-colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray" | 1972 |
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| 8 | 23 | Review of "William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience" | 2009 | Review of Robert Essick's work. |
| 8 | 24 | "Blake's Murderesses — lecture |
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| 8 | 25 | Fifth Seminar on the British Book Trade: report | 1987 | Contains a short essay by Bentley, "Eighteenth Century English Illustrated Book Publishing". |
| 8 | 26 | "Mistakes, Mischief, Murder" | 1990 | Copy of a paper given at the University College Symposium. |
| 8 | 27 | "Why Edit? Fiat Lux!" | 1986 | Presented at a conference at the University of Toronto. |
| 2020.05 | ||||
| 2020.05, Box 1 | ||||
| 1 | 3 | "GEB Books" | ca. 2005 | An updated copy of Bentley's catalogue of books related to William Blake and others, "Blake Books". This version includes annotations regarding prices that were not included in previous editions. |
| 1 | 4 | "William Blake and the Alchemical Philosophers" | 1954 | Bentley's thesis submitted for his B.Litt. at Merton College, Oxford University. |
