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McNeill, Dorelia, 1881-1969
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Letters A-B

The file comprises photocopies of letters from Augustus John to Kit Adeane, 1943-1957, and letters from Dorelia John to her, [1951] and [1957] and Vivien John, 1957; Michael Ayrton, 1961; Tallulah [Bankhead], 1930; Sir Herbert Barker, 1930-1944, and 1950 to his widow, with a biographical note; John Beatty, Director of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1910-1920; Lord Beaverbrook, 1918, and a letter, 1917, from Lord Beaverbrook to Sir Frederick Smith, relating to 'the greatest artist of our time'; Basil Burdett, [1935]; and typescript copies of letters to Count William de Belleroche, 1943-1961, and two letters from Dorelia John, 1960 and 1962.

Augustus John and gypsies

The file comprises 'Augustus John. Artists, anarchist and gypsy' by Horace Shipp, Everybody's Weekly, March 1954; photocopies of galley proofs corrected by Augustus John of his review of Dora E. Yates's My gypsy days: recollections of a Romani Rawnie, [1953]; Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, containing tributes to Augustus John by Sacheverell Sitwell and Walter Starkie, 1962, and Dorelia John by Joseta Jones, 1970; photocopies of Juliette de Bairacli Levy's 'Augustus John in the New Forest', Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society and a draft of the article; 'Hungarian gypsies in Comberton Camp' by the same author; book reviews of Sven Berlin, Dromengro: Man of the road (London, 1971), with references to Augustus John, and an article by Ronald Blythe, The Listener, June 1972, relating to sites for gypsies.

Baïracli-Levy, Juliette de

Letters,

Seven letters from Gwen John, comprising three, 1914-1926, to Augustus John, and four, 1904-1909, to his second wife, Dorelia McNeill. The letters contain personal news, including references to her work, and impressions of Paris during the First World War (ff. 9-10).

Draft letters,

Some forty draft letters, 1919-1939, from Gwen John to various correspondents (surnames A-N), including Chloe and Grilda Boughton-Leigh (1) ?1920s, Tom Burns (4) 1927-c. 1928-1929, Father Martin D'Arcy (1) 1933, Mary Constance Lloyd (5) c. 1920-1930, Dorelia McNeill (7) c. 1928-1936, and various members of the John family.

Letters to Augustus John,

Over one hundred and twenty letters, [c. 1904]-1961, to Augustus John from various correspondents (surnames L-Nettleship), including Henry Lamb (2) [?1907]-1935, T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia (8) 1920-1932, Percy Wyndham Lewis (18) [c. 1904]-1952, Ramsay McDonald (1) 1933, Dorelia McNeill (8) [1907]-[?1938], George Moore (2) 1927, Lady Ottoline Morrell (9) 1930-1937, and Cedric Morris (1) [1930s].

Letters to Dorelia McNeill,

Fifty-six letters, 1903-1969, to Dorelia McNeill from various correspondents including Boris Anrep (2) 1914-1920s, Dora Carrington (15) 1926-1931, Tommy Earp (7) 1929-1948, Gwen John (4) [1904-1905], Ida John (7) ?1904-1905, Dame Laura Knight (1) 1969, John Sampson (1, photocopy) 1903, Lytton Strachey (4) 1913-1931, and Dora Yates (1, photocopy) 1962.

Letters,

Thirteen letters, 1901-1943, from Augustus John to various correspondents, comprising the composer Josef Holbrooke (10) [1912]-1943; John's second wife, Dorelia McNeill (2) [?1914]-1923; and the artist Charles Conder (1) 1901. The letters contain mainly personal news and comments.

Augustus John letters

  • NLW MS 23697B.
  • File
  • 1955-1956

Seven letters, 1955-1956, from Augustus John to Mrs Edith Saunders of the Hotel Santa Clara, Torremolinos, Spain, where the artist stayed from December 1954 to March 1955 (ff. 1-7 verso), together with one letter, 1955, from Dorelia McNeill to the same (f. 8); the letters contain mainly personal news and references to John painting a portrait of Mrs Saunders.

John, Augustus, 1878-1961

Augustus John letters

Some fifty letters and postcards, [1904]-1958, from Augustus John to various correspondents, containing mainly personal news.
The correspondents include Lady Margot Asquith, [?1925]-1929 (ff. 1-3), Simon Asquith, [1948]-1958 (ff. 4-19), Nicandra McCarthy (later Hood), 1946-1953 (ff. 21-34 verso), Dorelia McNeill, [July 1904]-1923 (ff. 35-40), John Quinn, [1909]-1910 (ff. 41-48), Margaret Sampson, [March 1907] (ff. 49-50), and Stuart Wilson, [1949]-[?1958] (ff. 53-67). The volume contains poetry by John, [1904]-[1930s] (ff. 36-39 verso, 51, 68-69), including a ballad and sonnets addressed to Dorelia, [July 1904] (ff. 36-38). There are references to a visit, with John Sampson, to the family of Matthew Wood, the Welsh Gypsy (ff. 41 verso-44 verso), and to the death of Ida John (ff. 49 verso-50). For extracts from three of the letters (ff. 35-36, 42-43, 49-50) see Michael Holroyd, Augustus John (London, 1996), pp. 151, 158, 231, 233, 289-290.

Letters to Augustus John

Twelve letters, [1910]-1959, to Augustus John from various correspondents, concerning both personal matters and work.
The correspondents include Lord Beaverbrook, 26 August 1959 (f. 1), [Nora] Brownsword, [late 1920s] (f. 2), Daniel George, 10 June 1957 (f. 3), Elmer Gertz, 3 December 1932 (f. 4), Wyndham Lewis, [1910]-1952 (ff. 5-7, 12, 14-16), Dorelia McNeill, 12 November 1928 (f. 18), the Royal Academy of Arts, 6 December 1928 (f. 19), and Homer Saint-Gaudens, 7 November 1938 (f. 20). Also included are draft contracts with Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1938, for the publication of Augustus John's reminiscences (ff. 22-33); and four letters, [1931]-1935, from Mrs Vera Fearing (later Stubbs) to her mother and husband, concerning her extended stays at Fryern Court in order for John to paint her portrait (ff. 34-46), with another brief note by her concerning John, [?1950s] (f. 47). Transcripts and notes [by Michael Holroyd], [?1970s], relating to the Wyndham Lewis letters are ff. 8-11, 13, 17. The letters contain references to Frank Harris (f. 4 recto-verso) and Henry Lamb (f. 6).

Letter to Michael Holroyd,

A note, 26 July 1969, from Mary Lago to Michael Holroyd (ff. 111-112) enclosing typescript extracts, [July 1969], of a letter from Mrs George Prothero [i.e. Mary Frances Prothero] to Alice Rothenstein, Rye, 11 September [1907x1909] (f. 111).
Prothero's letter contains gossip and news concerning Roger and Helen Fry, Augustus John, Dorelia McNeill, Henry and Euphemia Lamb and Charles Conder.

Lago, Mary.

Miscellaneous letters

Miscellaneous letters, [?1912]-2017 (mostly [?1912]-1969), collected by Tristan de Vere Cole, relating mostly to the John family.
They include letters from Augustus John to Horace de Vere Cole, November 1927 (ff. 1-3), and Poppet John, [29 November 1928] (f. 4, beginning lost, sent from Boston, Massachusetts); letters to Augustus John from Arthur Symons, [?1912] (ff. 6-7), Francis Macnamara, [?1915] (ff. 8-23, incomplete), the Duke of Alba, 3 January 1945 (f. 30, partly in Caló), Jan [Sliwinski], 12 June 1945 (f. 31), and Genevieve [Banchet], [1940s] (f. 33, French); letters to Dorelia McNeill from Lytton Strachey, 12 March [1912x1916], 10 May 1918 (ff. 41-42), Michael Holroyd, 1966-1969 (ff. 43, 45-63), and Juliette [de Bairacli Levy], 19 December 1967 (f.44); letters from Henry John to Poppet John, [1927] (ff. 64-71), Romilly John to Dr [Aubrey Thomas] Westlake, 31 January 1964 (f. 73), Michael Holroyd to Tristan de Vere Cole (ff. 74-75, 77), Mavis de Vere Cole (f. 76), and Romilly John (f. 78), 1968-1969, and Meg O'Malley to [Oskar] Kokoschka, 2 February 1939 (f. 72). Also included are miscellaneous items, 1928-[?1961], in the hand of Augustus John (ff. 34-40), including poetry in English, 1928, and French, [1940s] (ff. 34-35); a photocopy of the Nettleship family tree (ff. 79-80); a photocopy, [?2000s], of a photograph published in Nova, February 1970, pp. 36-37, showing members of the John family and others (c. 1928) (ff. 81-84); cuttings, [1992], 2008, relating to Oskar Kokoschka (ff. 85-87, see also f. 72; and an anecdote regarding Augustus John, written by Lucilla van den Bogaerde, dated 12 December 2017 (f. 88).

Augustus John funeral and memorial,

  • NLW ex 2890.
  • File
  • 1954-1975.

Papers, 1954-1975, of the Rev. R. M. Verity, Vicar of St Mary the Virgin in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, relating mainly to the funeral of Augustus John in November 1961 and the unveiling of the memorial to him in Fordingbridge in 1967.
The papers include letters to Verity from the John family, comprising eight letters and a postcard from Dorelia John, 1955-1969, four letters from Admiral Sir Caspar John, 1961-1967, one letter from Romilly John, 1969, and three Christmas cards and a telegram from Augustus and Dorelia, 1956-1958. Also included are Augustus John's burial certificate, Verity's notes for the memorial service [?and funeral] and printed material including catalogues, 1954, 1975, newspaper cuttings, 1954-1970, invitations, printed orders of service and a copy of the volume The Drawings of Augustus John, introd. by Stephen Longstreet (Alhambra, Calif., 1967).

Verity, R. M. (Ronald Meysey), 1901-1974.