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KING'S COLLEGE LONDON

LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES

Papers of Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant (1899-1985) and Lady Bryant (1874-1958): professional, family and married life, 1877-1938

BRYANT: ADD 1-5 Bryant addenda

BRYANT: ADD/1 [1950-1985]

Diplomas, certificates etc. awarded to Sir Arthur Bryant, including royal grants of honours (CH and CBE) and honorary degrees (LL.B., St. Andrews and Edinburgh).

BRYANT: ADD/2 1985

Various photographs (including those intended as illustrations for books). Printed notices of lectures by Arthur Bryant. Services Christmas cards, 1940-45. Cassette of Silver Jubilee service, 1977, presented to Arthur Bryant. Letters of condolence to Lady Bryant and Pamela McCormick on Arthur Bryant's death, and service sheet from his Memorial Service

BRYANT: ADD/3 1937-54

Drama, Films etc.:
a. Scripts of Passing By, an unfinished Peter Warlock opera or musical play based on traditional songs collected by Arthur Bryant, adapted by Alfred Chenhalls (see E/50), in numerous manuscript and typescript versions, some clearly by Arthur Bryant, c. 1937-38
b. Two typescripts of The English Opera by Matthew Locke (17th cent)
c. Various manuscript and typescript copies of All in a Garden Green - a Restoral (sic) Pastoral, probably c.1930
d. Programmes of Pan and the Young Shepherd (1925) and The Countess Cathleen (1926), acted at King's Beeches, Sunning-hill as an amateur production including Arthur Bryant, Sylvia Bryant and Philip Bryant
e. Typed notes for a film scenario based on the Napoleonic War
f. Duplicated typescripts of two radio productions: England, a programme for St. George's Day, 1939, devised by Arthur Bryant and Stanford Robinson, and A Tower Unto Heaven, by Robin Whitworth assisted by Arthur Bryant, 1946
g. Manuscript and typescript versions of The King's Escape, an apparently unperformed radio play about Charles II by Arthur Bryant
h. Manuscript and typescript versions of Ninety Sail by William Lipscomb, a play based on Arthur Bryant's biography of Pepys, with notes and script in Arthur Bryant's hand and correspondence with Lipscomb, 1934-38
i. Correspondence about projected films with Charles Laughton and others, 1937-54.

BRYANT: ADD/4 [1937-9]

MS and typescript material for A Policeman's Lot, a documentary film for the Mayflower Corporation, late 1930s

BRYANT: ADD/5 [1974-1985]

Draft chapters and notes for an unpublished life of Samuel Johnson, with related correspondence.

BRYANT: MISC I-VII Bryant Miscellaneous material

BRYANT: ADD/MISC I 1979-85

Publishing correspondence mainly with Collins

BRYANT: ADD/MISC II [no date]

Xerox copies of Pepys biographical volumes, and manuscripts of articles on Pepys and other Pepys material (mainly spin-offs from the published volumes).

BRYANT: ADD/MISC III c. 1939-40

Box of material on the Union & Reconstruction movement

BRYANT: ADD/MISC IV [no date]

Manuscript miscellanea.

BRYANT: ADD/MISC V [no date]

Manuscript miscellanea.

BRYANT: ADD/MISC VI [no date]

Miscellaneous manuscripts and correspondence.

BRYANT: ADD/MISC VII [no date]

Various items, including some printed pamphlet material, correspondence about dogs and medical matters etc.


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