Box 2

Scope and Contents 1 Autograph Manuscript notebook dated from 02/14/1923 to 08/22/1924 containing dated entries chronicling Chesson's personal, professional, and dream life, including his friendship with author M. P. Shiel, his marriage to his second wife, Daisy (Green) Chesson [p. 35], and the birth of his son Shirley Chesson [p. 224]. Also notable are a lecture delivered by Chesson before the Irish Literary Society on the subject of Nora Hopper [p. 97], his first wife, his presentation of a paper before the...

Scope and Contents 1 Autograph Manuscript Signed notebook dated from 08/24/1924 to 09/27/1926 recording Chesson's dreams and events in his household, including the increasing difficulties of his second marriage to Daisy (Green) Chesson, his publishing work for the "Occult Review" and "G.K.'s Weekly", and his continued relationships with Ralph Shirley, Meredith Starr, and Clara Jane Watts-Dunton. Reference to Nora (Hopper) Chesson, Julia Eastwood Chesson, Dermot Chesson Spence, Ann (Chesson) MacCormack, Dagmar...

Scope and Contents 1 Autograph Manuscript notebook dated from 09/29/1926 to 07/10/1928 composed of diary entries by Chesson recording dreams, household events, and literary work. Notable entries record the sale of Chesson's "copyright edition" of Joseph Conrad's "The Nigger of the Narcissus" with the help of Edward Garnett, news of the death of Chesson's eldest child, Ann (Chesson) MacCormack, and a reading by Chesson before the John Payne Society. There are also references to the difficulties of his second...

Scope and Contents 1 Autograph Manuscript notebook dated from 01/03/1931 to 07/01/1934 recording Chesson's activities and associations in and around his home called "Childwall" in Richmond, England. Chesson chronicles the death of his youngest sister Julia Eastwood Chesson (on 03/17/1931), who lodged at Childwall, the degenerating conditions of his second marriage to Daisy Green Chesson and the birth of their third child, Douglas, on 04/17/1931, his attendance on a meeting of the John Payne Society, a...

Scope and Contents 1 Autograph Manuscript Signed notebook containing various vignettes, character sketches and other excercises by W. H. Chesson, some of which are dated between 12/06/1896 and 06/09/1903, labeled on the cover "CONFESSION, ETC." In addition to the title piece are others, perhaps chapters, titled "Franklin", "Lust", "The Lover", "The Middle-Aged Man", "A Rainbow", "The New Clerk", "A Note on the Vanishing Aquarium", "Touching Handel", "SYNONYM", "Love's Way into Delight", "The Wall", "Overheard...