MSS 45
Rex Warner Papers
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Special Collections
Michigan State University Libraries
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East Lansing, MI 48824
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Preferred citation:
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information:
Box number, Folder number and/or title, Rex Warner Papers, MSS 45, Special Collections, Michigan State University Main Library
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Collection Summary:
Correspondence (1936-1970), autobiographical materials, photograph; draft manuscripts, galley and page proofs for twelve of Warner’s published works.
Historical Background:
British novelist, Greek scholar, poet, translator, and critic. Born March 9, 1905, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Eng. Died June 24, 1986, Wallingford, Oxfordshire. After graduating from Wadham College, Oxford (1928), Warner was a schoolteacher in England and Egypt. In the 1940s he served as director of the British Institute in Athens. He moved to the United States in 1961 and was professor of English at the University of Connecticut from 1964 to 1974. (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Processing Note:
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Arrangement:
| Box | Folder | Description |
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| 1 | 1 | Autobiographical materials, photograph. n.d. |
| 2 | Notes on letters from Rex Warner to C. J. Greenwood | |
| 3 | Correspondence, 1936-1937 | |
| 4 | Correspondence, 1938 | |
| 5 | Correspondence, 1939 | |
| 6 | Correspondence, 1940 | |
| 7 | Correspondence, 1941-1942 | |
| 8 | Correspondence, 1943-1944 | |
| 9 | Correspondence, 1945-1946 | |
| 10 | Correspondence, 1947-1949 | |
| 11 | Correspondence, 1950 | |
| 12 | Correspondence, 1951 | |
| 13 | Correspondence, 1952-1954 | |
| 14 | Correspondence, 1960-1970 | |
| 15 | Notebook. Draft mss. of | |
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| 16-18 | Notebooks. Continuation of draft ms. of “Why Was I Killed?” [Ch. 4-8] | |
| 19 | Why Was I Killed? Marked proof. | |
| 20 | The Medea of Euripides. 1944. (Translation and Introduction) |
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| Draft manuscript (two notebooks) and marked copy. | ||
| The Wild Goose Chase. 1944. | ||
| 21 | Draft ms. Part I | |
| 22 | Draft ms. Part II | |
| 23 | Galley proofs | |
| 24 | Marked proofs | |
| 25 | Poems 1937. | |
Draft mss (three notebooks) |
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| Author’s corrected proof | ||
| 26 | Poems and Contradictions (Working title: “Poems, 1937-1945”) | |
| Marked proof, author’s notes | ||
| The Professor | ||
| 27 | Author’s summary of the novel, | |
Draft manuscript in bound notebook (Book 1) |
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| 28 | Draft manuscript (Book 2) | |
| 29 | Typescript | |
| 30 | Author’s marked copy | |
| Box | Folder | Description |
| 2 | 1 | The Cult of Power [1946] |
| Draft Ms – notebook | ||
| Chapter 5 – The Allegorical Method – typescript | ||
| Page proofs | ||
| 2 | The Hippolytus [1947] | |
| Author’s marked copy | ||
| 3 | Men of Stones | |
| Galley proofs | ||
| The Aerodrome | ||
| 4-5 | Draft ms – notebook | |
| Notes and poems | ||
| Galley proofs | ||
| 6 | Xenophone. Manuscript translation | |
| 7 | “Freedom of Expression” | |
| Draft manuscript – notebook. ca. 1945. | ||
| 8 | Ovid’s Metamorphoses – Introduction. |