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Guide to the Susan Hill Archive

MS 428

July 2009

Extent

Total Boxes: 33

Linear Metres: 3.58

Susan Hill Archive 2

Administrative Information

Provenance

The Papers were acquired from 1983 to 1992 by purchase from Bertram Rota, who had acquired them from Susan Hill. The Collection has been acquired by gift from Philip Snow and by purchase.

Ownership & Literary Rights

The Susan Hill Archive is the physical property of the Eton College Library. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the College Librarian.

Cite As

Susan Hill Archive, Eton College Library.

Restrictions on Access

This collection is open for research. The correspondence between Susan Hill and Pamela Hansford Johnson in box 31 is restricted, and may only be consulted with the permission of the College Librarian.


SUSAN HILL (b. 1942)

Susan Hill, a prolific author known primarily for her novels, was born in Scarborough on February 5, 1942. She was an only child; her mother was a dressmaker, her father held a number of jobs after serving in the RAF during the war. The family moved to Coventry in 1958, where Hill attended a girls’ grammar school. Hill began writing at an early age, and at the age of 15 she wrote to novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson asking for advice. Johnson, who was C.P. Snow’s wife and a novelist in her own right, became Hill’s mentor, and encouraged the publication of Hill’s first novel The Enclosure in 1961. Hill was at that time reading English at King’s College, University of London. After leaving university, she worked as a journalist and wrote Do Me a Favour, published in 1963. In 1968, Hill wrote later in her autobiographical Family, “a door opened.... Between 1968 and 1974…I wrote six novels, two collections of short stories and half a dozen full-length radio plays. I worked with great intensity, before I had finished one book, there was always an idea for the next, bubbling up from below.” The six novels and short story collections are Gentleman and Ladies (1968), A Change for the Better (1969), I’m the King of the Castle (1970), The Albatross (1971), Strange Meeting (1971), The Bird of Night (1972), A Bit of Singing and Dancing (1973), and In the Springtime of the Year (1974). Prizes followed: I’m the King of the Castle won the Somerset Maugham Award, The Albatross won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and The Bird of Night won the Whitbread and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Personal tragedy struck in 1972, when Hill’s partner David died suddenly of a heart attack. This loss inspired In the Springtime of the Year, a novel about a recently widowed young woman. David’s death was followed two years later by Hill’s mother’s death from cancer. Hill moved to Stratford upon Avon in 1974 and married Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells the next year. They have two children, Jessica (born 1977) and Clemency (born 1985). Another daughter, Imogen, was born prematurely in 1984 and died when she was five weeks old. Hill wrote about this experience in Family, published in 1989. After her marriage, Hill moved to Oxfordshire, where she now lives.

In 1976, Hill abandoned a novel she had begun, titled “Land of Lost Content,” and declared that she might never write again. She did not write another novel for seven years, but did continue to work as a professional writer: as a literary critic, a short story anthologist, and author of a non-fiction book about her life in an Oxfordshire village, The Magic Apple Tree (1982). Hill began writing novels again in 1983, beginning with The Woman in Black (1983), Lanterns Across the Snow (1987), Air and Angels (1991), The Mist in the Mirror (1992) and Mrs de Winter (1993). The Woman in Black was adapted as a play by Stephen Mallatratt in 1987 and has played in the West End since 1989. Hill has also written children’s stories, including Can it Be True?, winner of the Nestlé Smarties Prize in 1988. She continues to edit short story collections, and has published short story collections of her own, including The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read (2003). She has recently turned her hand to crime fiction with the Simon Serailler series. Over the years, I’m the King of the Castle, Strange Meeting, The Albatross, A Bit of Singing and Dancing, and The Woman in Black have been selected as set texts for GCSE and A level examinations. Hill maintains a website at http://www.susan-hill.com/.

http://www.susan-hill.com/


DESCRIPTION OF THE ARCHIVE

The Susan Hill Archive consists of writings, correspondence, photographs, printed material, and other material which document the early writing life of Susan Hill. The bulk of the material is writings, which occupies 29 boxes. The archive spans the years 1957-2002, but most of it dates from 1957 to 1983.

The archive is housed in 33 boxes and is organised into the Susan Hill Papers and the Susan Hill Collection. Box 33 contains Oversize material. The Susan Hill Papers consist of papers purchased from Susan Hill via Bertram Rota in several lots beginning in 1983. After they were purchased from Rota, but before they arrived at Eton, the Papers were housed in red leather backed boxes made specifically for the contents. This included four boxes labelled Miscellanea 1, Miscellanea 2, Writings for Children, and Radio Plays. In this guide, the collection has been arranged in a different order than the order found in these boxes, and for that reason the box and folder numbers will appear to jump about in the listing. The box and folder numbers are meant primarily for shelf retrieval. A box list is appended, listing items in box order.

Series I, Susan Hill Papers, 1957-[1991] (boxes 1-32), has been organised into five subseries: Writings, Correspondence, Printed Material, Photographs, and Other Material. The Writings subseries has been further organised into Novels, Plays, Short Stories, and Other Writings. Within each of these categories the works are arranged alphabetically. Correspondence is organised into General Correspondence and Letters relating to People: Essays and Poems and within these categories are arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Writings includes notebooks, holographs, typescripts, setting typescripts, production typescripts, page proofs, layouts, dust jacket mock-ups, and publicity materials. The collection contains much of Susan Hill’s published fiction between 1957 and 1983, and two novels and two children’s stories from 1984 to 1992. All novels are present for the period to 1983 except for her second novel Do Me a Favour and her fourth, A Change for the Better. Hill’s writing process is on display here: preliminary notes, often made in spiral bound notebooks, sometimes with research notes (Strange Meeting, The Bird of Night, “Consider the Lilies,” “Lizard in the Grass,” and The Magic Apple Tree), followed by holograph drafts written on lined paper, originally on pads. The draft was followed by a typescript, revised, and then setting typescripts, corrected, and other materials relating to publication. Many of the drafts are unpaginated, and some of the writings were collated in pencil by librarians at Eton in the past. Some of this collating was completed, though no attempt has been made to finish what was left incomplete. Rather, a system of gathering small amounts of material into acid-free folders has been adopted, in some cases following chapter breaks. Other manuscripts have followed other patterns: Air and Angels arrived with many pages gathered by paper clips or a rubber band; we have maintained that organisation by gathering the clipped papers into acid-free folders. The holograph draft of The Magic Apple Tree has been been kept in the order in which it was received.

Novels includes the holograph draft of Hill’s first novel The Enclosure, dated 1959, which includes an additional chapter after the original ending, and accompanied by three versions of the dust jacket (both in box 7). Extensive preliminary notes exist for In the Springtime of the Year (box 12, folder 21), working notes for The Bird of Night (box 4, folder 7) and Gentleman


and Ladies (box 9, folder 15) include several alternate ending possibilities, and The Woman in Black includes an unpublished preface (box 20, folder 34). Novels also includes two unfinished works: “Country Novel,” which consists of notes for a story featuring Tilly, a girl sent to work in a country house; and “Land of Lost Content,” the novel Hill put aside in 1976.

Plays includes the revised typescript of “The Man in the Cage,” produced at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, in 1961; three plays from the published collection The Cold Country and Other Plays for Radio, and preliminary notes for “The Cold Country” itself; and other plays produced by the BBC, whose duplicated scripts are present. Short Stories includes two published collections, The Albatross and A Bit of Singing and Dancing. Only two stories from these collections are not represented at all, though there is more material for some stories than for others. “The Albatross,” “Cockles and Mussels,” “Somerville,” “The Badness Within Him,” “The Custodian,” “Halloran’s Child,” and “The Peacock” are all represented by preliminary notes, holograph drafts, and typescripts. Two other stories here are “A Friend Forever,” which appeared in the The Walker Book of Ghost Stories, and ”Kielty’s,” a story published in Winter’s Tales 20 in 1974. Other Writings contains a miscellany of two children’s stories, notes for an anthology of Thomas Hardy short stories, the holograph draft of The Magic Apple Tree, and two other notebooks of preliminary and research notes, one labelled “Owls” in Susan Hill’s hand, and another labelled “Visions,” also in her hand, the latter found boxed with plays from The Cold Country, and given the folder title “Captured Visions” by Bertram Rota’s binder, based on unidentified information.

Correspondence includes the Pamela Hansford Johnson letters, which may only be consulted with permission of the College Librarian. These include the first letters sent by Johnson in response to Hill’s letter asking for advice on a writing career. The letters contain the advice of the mentor who becomes a friend, with a great deal of material about both Hill’s and Johnson’s books, their publishers, reviews, and writing progress, with some references to Johnson’s husband C.P. Snow. Other correspondents include Benjamin Britten, who is represented by five letters, Christopher Isherwood (two letters), and Sacheverell Sitwell (5 letters). Sitwell’s letter dated 23 Nov 1971 discusses Strange Meeting, in which he describes the death of his Eton friend Hugo Charteris in World War I (box 30, folder 83). Responses to Hill’s letters asking for contributions to her anthology People: Essays and Poems are gathered in one folder and are from well-known authors and other prominent people. Correspondents include The Hon. Edward Adeane (Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales), Kingsley Amis, Edward Blishen, Margaret Drabble, John Fowles, Elizabeth Longford, Malcolm Muggeridge, Iris Murdoch, Paul Theroux, and Auberon Waugh.

Other Material consists of the theatre set model from the first production of “The Woman in Black,” at Theatre-by-the-Sea in Scarborough.

Series II, Susan Hill Collection, 1964-2002, n.d. (part of box 30), consists of Correspondence and Printed Material acquired by gift and purchase from sources other than Susan Hill. Correspondence is organised into Outgoing Correspondence and Third Party Material, and within these categories are arranged alphabetically by correspondent.


Correspondence includes 18 letters from Susan Hill to Pamela Hansford Johnson (box 30, folder 90), providing the other side of the correspondence found in Series I, box 31. The letters found here begin in 1970 and continue to 1976. In many cases, the letters are responses to letters in box 31, and cover the same subject matter about her books, publishers, and the personal lives of both. Correspondence also contains letters from Hill to the publishing firm Hamish Hamilton, Ltd. and their carbons of outgoing correspondence, 47 items in all. This correspondence includes a letter dated 24 September 1976 from Hill to Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson in which she states that she has set aside “Land of Lost Content” and does not foresee writing any more stories (box 30, folder 89). Letters to Vernon Scannell (box 30, folder 92) include a story proposal by Hill about a teenage boy named “Noke.” In Third Party correspondence, letters between editor Gillon Aitken and John Fowles discuss a possible review of Strange Meeting (box 30, folder 94).

Printed Material consists of a story (“Sand”) which appeared in The Independent Magazine, and a review of The Bird of Night.

Oversize contains material from Series I and II, arranged in box order.


Series I. Susan Hill Papers

31.5 boxes (3.06 linear metres) 1957-[91], n.d. Series I. Susan Hill Papers, consists of Writings, Correspondence, Printed Material, Photographs, and Other Material. Writings are organized into Novels, Plays, Short Stories, and Other Writings. Within each of these categories the works are arranged alphabetically. Correspondence is organised into General Correspondence and Letters relating to People: Essays and Poems and within these categories are arranged alphabetically by correspondent. WRITINGS Novels Air and Angels (1991) 1 1 Story proposals for “Lucy Moorehead,” typescript (photocopy). Preliminary notes, holograph. 6 notebooks and loose pages [1982-83?], n.d. Story proposals accompanied by a note by Susan Hill stating that it was sent to David Puttnam as an idea for a film. One notebook contains the poem “Spring Day.” 2 Working notes and drafts, holograph n.d. 2 3 Early typescript, revised n.d. 4 Later typescript, revised, incorporating a photocopy of the revised early typescript n.d. Typescript incomplete, consists of Prologue and Part One and chapters 9-14 of Part Two. 3 5 Setting typescript, with typesetter’s and proofreader’s marks [1990] Layout of title page and first page n.d. Stored in: Oversize, box 33, folder 97 6 Publicity materials from Sinclair-Stevenson [1991] The Bird of Night (1972) 4 7 Preliminary and research notes, holograph. 2 notebooks and


loose pages 1972, n.d. One notebook titled “Francis Cruffe Notebooks & Journal Bird of Night.” This notebook includes a page of preliminary notes for “Consider the Lilies.” Preliminary notes may also be found in “The Custodian” preliminary notes notebook. See: box 25, folder 55 8-9 Preliminary notes and complete draft, holograph 1972, n.d. Some notes written on the back of a letter to Susan Hill from Laura Schreiber, Secretary to Susan Stanwood, Saturday Review Press, dated Jan 25, 1972, with a photocopied letter to Stanwood from Christopher Isherwood dated Jan 23, 1972 about Strange Meeting. 5 10 Early typescript, revised n.d. 6 11 Setting typescript, with typesetter’s and proofreader’s marks n.d. Page numbering skips from p. 202 to p. 206, without loss of text from previous version or first edition. The Enclosure (1961) 7 12 Chapters 6-end, holograph. 2 notebooks 1959-60, n.d. Accompanied by umbrella, vol 2, no 6 ( Autumn 1960) featuring an interview with Susan Hill, “A Sudden Smash of Fame.” 13 Dust jacket mock-ups. 3 different designs n.d. “Country Novel” 8 14 Preliminary notes, holograph. Spiral bound notebook n.d. “Gaily in the Green Churchyard” [published as Gentleman and Ladies] (1968) 9 15 Preliminary notes and several drafts, holograph , of chapters 1-10, and fragments of chapters 11-12 n.d. I’m the King of the Castle (1970) 10 16 Preliminary notes , draft, holograph, of chapters 1-13, and part of 15 n.d.


17 Chapter 14, holograph n.d. 18 Chapters 15-16 (in part), holograph n.d. 19 Chapters 16 (in part) and 17, holograph n.d. 11 20 Earlier typescript, revised, of chapters 1 to 14 (in part). Later typescript, revised, of chapters 1 to 3 (in part) n.d. In the Springtime of the Year (1974) See also: Clippings of reviews in Oversize, box 33, folder 99 12 21 Preliminary notes, holograph. Spiral bound notebook titled “Novella—Girl in the Country” on front cover, and loose notes n.d. Preliminary notes may also be found in “The Custodian” preliminary notes notebook. See: box 25, folder 55 22 Drafts, holograph with an occasional typescript page, revised n.d. 13 23 Early typescript, revised, lacking the last chapter n.d. 14 24 Later typescript, revised 1973 [May] “Land of Lost Content” 8 25 Draft, holograph, and typescript of chapter 1 n.d. At top of one page: “Unfinished – Land of Lost Content.” Lanterns Across the Snow (1987) 15 26 Preliminary notes, holograph, spiral bound notebook and loose pages. Draft, early and later, holograph. Early typescript, revised of Preface and part of “Christmas Eve.” Final typescript 1987, n.d. The Mist in the Mirror (1992) 16 27 Preliminary notes, holograph, spiral bound notebook and loose pages. Partial typescript, revised, original and photocopy n.d. 17 28 Draft with preliminary and working notes, holograph manuscript and occasional typescript pages n.d. 18 29 Setting typescript, with typesetter’s marks and editor’s revisions.


Final typescript with editor’s marks (photocopy) n.d. Strange Meeting (1971) 19 30 Research and preliminary notes, holograph. 2 spiral bound notebooks and loose pages n.d. 31 Research notes and draft, holograph n.d. The Woman in Black (1983) See also: Photograph of two actors in theatre production in Photographs, box 30, folder 85 and Theatre set model in Other Materials, box 32 20 32-33 Preliminary notes, holograph. 2 spiral bound notebooks n.d. In the front of the smaller notebook are notes for a radio play about two people in a nursing home. 34 Preliminary notes and draft, holograph. Preface (unpublished) and chapter 1 (in part), typescript, revised. Chapters 1-4 (in part), later typescript, revised and corrected n.d. Chapters 1-4 here are the first five chapters in first edition. Accompanied by a publicity photograph of Susan Hill, a variant of a photograph on the dust jacket of In the Springtime of the Year. Plays “Chances” (1981) 21 35 Preliminary notes and draft, holograph n.d. The Cold Country and Other Plays for Radio (1975) 22 36 Introduction, holograph and typescript, revised n.d. “The Cold Country,” preliminary notes, holograph n.d. See: “The Custodian” preliminary notes notebook, box 25, folder 55 37 “Consider the Lilies,” preliminary and research notes, holograph; draft, holograph; production typescript (photocopy) n.d. Preliminary notes may be found in a notebook of preliminary notes for The Bird of Night, See also: Box 4, folder 7


38 “Lizard in the Grass,” preliminary and research notes, holograph and typescript; draft, holograph n.d. 39 “Strip Jack Naked,” preliminary notes, holograph; production typescript (photocopy) n.d. “The Man in the Cage” (1961) 23 40 Typescript, revised n.d. “Reproduction in Colour” (n.d.) 41 Production typescript, duplicated n.d. “ Curtis Brown, Ltd.” label on front. “A Window on the World” (1974) 21 42 Draft, holograph n.d. 43 BBC duplicated typescript, revised n.d. “Winter Elegy” (1973) 44 Preliminary notes and draft, holograph n.d. 45 BBC duplicated typescript [1973] With cover page detailing schedule of read-through, rehearsal, recording, transmission, cast. Short Stories The Albatross (1971) “The Albatross” 24 46 Preliminary notes, holograph. 2 notebooks, one entitled “1st Section, Re-written” 1970, n.d. 47 Preliminary notes and draft, holograph n.d. 48 “The Elephant Man,” draft, holograph n.d. 49 “Cockles and Mussels,” preliminary notes and draft, holograph n.d. “Somerville”


50 Preliminary notes, holograph n.d. 51 Draft, holograph n.d. 52 Typescript and typescript carbon, revised n.d. A Bit of Singing and Dancing (1973) Mock-up of book layout n.d. See: Box 25, folder 56 25 53 “The Badness Within Him,” preliminary notes, holograph; typescript carbon n.d. For preliminary notes See: “The Custodian” preliminary notes notebook, folder 55 54 “A Bit of Singing and Dancing,” typescript, corrected n.d. 55 “The Custodian,” preliminary notes, holograph, spiral bound notebook; setting typescript marked up from a printed copy of “The Custodian”(Covent Garden Press) 1972, n.d. Notebook also contains preliminary notes for “The Cold Country,” “Halloran’s Child,” In the Springtime of the Year, “The Badness Within Him,” The Bird of Night, and an unidentified story about fishermen. Two other copies of the printed “Custodian” present, one marked with word count asterisks, another signed and numbered by the author. 56 “Halloran’s Child,” preliminary notes, holograph ; draft, holograph; setting typescript, corrected n.d. For preliminary notes See: “The Custodian” preliminary notes notebook, folder 55. Material accompanied by a mock-up of the book layout. 57 “How Soon Can I Leave?” typescript carbon n.d. 58 “Missy,” draft, holograph n.d. “Ossie[?]” preliminary notes, holograph n.d. For possible preliminary notes See: “Owls” notes in Other Writings, box 8, folder 73 59 “The Peacock,” preliminary notes and draft, holograph; typescript, revised n.d.


60 “Mr Proudham and Mr Sleight,” setting typescript (carbon), with typesetter’s and proofreader’s notes n.d. 61 “Red and Green Beads,” preliminary notes, holograph n.d. “A Friend Forever” (1990) 23 62 Typescript, revised n.d. “Kielty’s” (1974) 63 Preliminary notes and draft, holograph. Spiral bound notebook and loose pages n.d. Other Writings Can It Be True? [children’s story] (1988) 15 64 Early drafts, holograph. Spiral bound notebook n.d. 65 Later draft, holograph n.d. Page proofs (photocopy) [1987] Stored in: Oversize, box 33, folder 98 The Distracted Preacher and Other Stories (1979) 26 66 Notes, holograph. Spiral bound notebook n.d. The Magic Apple Tree (1982) 27 67 Book proposal, typescript. Preliminary notes, holograph, loose pages n.d. 15 68 Garden notes, holograph. Bound notebook n.d. 27 69 Draft, holograph. “Winter” (in part), typescript, corrected n.d. 28 70 Setting typescript, with typesetter’s and proofreader’s marks n.d. 29 71 Page proofs, bound copy, with proofreader’s marks; and 13 loose pages, uncorrected 1981 Dec One Night at a Time [children’s story] (1984)


15 72 “Draft 2,” holograph n.d. “Owls” 8 73-74 Research notes for an anthology[?] on Owls. 2 notebooks, holograph, typescript, clippings, photocopies [1971-74], n.d. With notes on a story set in Venice [possibly preliminary notes for “Ossie” in A Bit of Singing and Dancing?] on one page of one notebook. For newspaper clippings and photocopies of reviews of In the Springtime of the Year originally in the back of the bound notebook, see: Oversize, box 33, folder 99 “Visions” 22 75 Preliminary notes, holograph. Spiral bound notebook n.d. “Visions” written on the front of the notebook. Notes for a novel[?] Boxed with plays from The Cold Country, with the folder title “Captured Visions.” CORRESPONDENCE General Correspondence 30 76 Britten, Benjamin. 3 ALS, 2 ANS 1971-72, n.d. 77 Farrell, J. G. 1 TNS 1974 Feb 8 78 Isherwood, Christopher. 1 ALS, 1 TLS 1972 Mar, Jun See also: Box 4, folder 8 for a photocopy of an ANS to Susan Stanwood, Saturday Review Press 1972 Jan 23 enclosed in letter to Susan Hill from Stanwood’s Secretary Laura Schreiber. 31 79 Johnson, Pamela Hansford. 10 ALS, 9 ANS, 100 TLS, 1 TL (incomplete) 1957, 59-74 RESTRICTED: These letters may only be consulted with the permission of the College Librarian. See also: Series II, Outgoing Correspondence, Pamela Hansford Johnson, box 30, folder 90


30 80 Lehmann, Rosamond. 1 ALS 1973 Oct 14 81 Rattigan, Terence. 1 ALS (photocopy dated Oct 23 1971) n.d. Schreiber, Laura, Secretary to Susan Stanwood. 1 TL (photocopy, signed) ` 1972 Jan 25 With notes for The Bird of Night on verso. See: Box 4, folder 8 82 Sillitoe, Alan. 1 ALS 1974 Nov 24 83 Sitwell, Sacheverell. 5 ALS 1971, 1975 Letters relating to People: Essays and Poems 23 84 Letters 1980-83, n.d. Adeane, Edward, on behalf of the Prince of Wales. 5 TLS 1981, 1983 Allilueva, Svetlana. 2 TLS 1982 Jul, Aug Amis, Kingsley. 1 TLS 1982 Jan 27 Baker, Janet. 1 ALS [1982] Nov 23 Bell, Quentin. 1 TLS 1982 Jul 26 Berlin, Isaiah. 1 TLS 1981 Nov 2 Blishen, Edward. 3 TLS 1981-83 Blythe, Ronald. 3 ALS 1981-83 Bragg, Melvyn. 1 TLS 1981 Nov 11


Cameron, James. 1 TLS 1982 Mar 10 [Carey], John. 2 ALS 1982 Mar, Sep Causley, Charles. 2 TLS 1980, 1981 Charles, Prince of Wales See: Adeane, Edward Cleverdon, Douglas. 1 ALS, 1 TLS 1982 Jun, Nov Dennys, E. on behalf of Graham Greene. 1 TLS 1981 Nov 20 Drabble, Margaret. 1 ACS, 1 ALS [1981?]-82 Enright, D.J. 2 ALS, 1 TLS 1981-82 Fowles, John. 1 TLS 1982 Mar 25 See also: Box 30, folder 94 Fraser, Antonia. 1 ACS 1981 Nov 5 Frayn, Michael. 1 TLS 1982 Mar 17 Gielgud, John. 1 ALS 1981 Nov 6 Greene, Graham See: Dennys, E. Harewood, George Henry Hubert Lascelles, Earl of. 1 TLS 1981 Dec 29 Heaney, Seamus. 1 ACS n.d. Herriot, James. 1 TLS 1981 Nov 10


Holroyd, Michael. 2 ALS 1982, Mar, Jun Howard, Philip. 1 TLS 1982 Apr 20 Hughes, Olwyn. 1 ALS 1982 Mar 10 Ingrams, Richard. 1 ALS 1982 Jan 3 James, Clive. 1 TLS (duplicated), signed by a secretary 1981 Nov 19 Kavanagh, P.J. 1 ALS 1981 Dec 24 Kitaj, R.B. 1 ACS n.d. Laski, Marghanita. 2 ALS, 1 ACS 1982, 1983 Levin, Bernard. 1 ALS 1981 Nov 6 Longford, Elizabeth. 3 ALS, 1 ACS 1982-83 McKellen, Ian. 1 ALS 1982 Aug 30 Mahon, Derek. 1 ALS n.y. Mar 12 [Mortimer], John. 2 ALS 1981, n.y. Muggeridge, Malcolm. 4 TLS 1981-83 Muir, Frank. 1 TLS 1982 Oct 31 Murdoch, Iris. 4 ALS n.d. Pears, Peter. 1 TLS 1981 Nov 4 Peters, Lana


See: Allilueva, Svetlana Powell, Anthony. 1 TLS 1981 Nov 21 Priestland, Gerald. 1 TLS 1982 Mar 15 Raine, Craig. 1 ACS 1981 Dec 20 Ridler, Anne. 1 TCS, 1 TLS 1982 Jun, Jul Rylands, George. 1 TLS 1981 Nov 9 St John-Stevas, Norman. 1 TLS 1982 Mar 12 Stoppard, Tom. 1 TCS 1981 Nov 24 Theroux, Paul. 1 TLS, 1 ACS 1981, 1982 Toynbee, Polly. 1 ALS n.y. Apr 21 Trewin, J.C. 1 TLS, 1 ALS 1982 Jun, Sep Waugh, Auberon. 2 TLS, 1 ALS 1982 Mar, Sep Whitehorn, Katharine. 1 TLS 1982 Jul 15 Williams, Hugo. 1 ALS 1982 Apr 6 [Wilson], Angus. 1 TLS n.y. Nov 18 Wogan, Terry. 1 TLS, signed by a secretary 1982 Sep 28 PRINTED MATERIAL Clippings of reviews of In the Springtime of the Year [1974]


Stored in: Oversize, box 33, folder 99 Hill, Susan. “A Sudden Smash of Fame,” in umbrella, vol 2, no 6 (Autumn, 1960) 1960 See: Box 7, folder 12 Hill, Susan. The Custodian. Covent Garden Stories edited by Ronald Hayman. Number Two. Covent Garden Press. Three copies, one marked as a setting copy, one marked with word count asterisks, another unmarked and signed by Susan Hill and numbered 74. 1972 See: Box 25, folder 55 PHOTOGRAPHS 30 85 Photograph of two actors in stage production of “The Woman in Black” n.d. Publicity photograph of Susan Hill n.d. A variant of the photograph that appeared on the dust jacket of In the Springtime of the Year. See: Box 20, folder 34 OTHER MATERIAL 32 86 Theatre set model for “The Woman in Black” n.d. Model of the set of the first production in Scarborough. Series II. Susan Hill Collection 0.5 boxes (0.04 linear metres) 1964-2002, n.d. Series II, Susan Hill Collection consists of Correspondence and Printed Material. Correspondence is organised into Outgoing Correspondence and Third Party Material, and within these categories are arranged alphabetically by correspondent. CORRESPONDENCE Outgoing Correspondence 30 87 Anderson, W E K and Elizabeth. 2 ALS 1989 Aug, Sep


Gift of Sir Eric and Lady Anderson, 1989. Edelman, Maurice. 1 TLS [1964] Oct 12 Enclosed in letter from Hamish Hamilton, Ltd dated 1964 Oct 28, see folder 88 88-89 Hamish Hamilton, Ltd. 3 ALS, 17 TLS, 25 TLS (carbon), 1 telegram, 1 telegram (carbon) 1964, 1968-76, n.d. Letters to Hamish Hamilton, Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, Gillon Aitken and others at the firm. With carbons of letters from the firm to Hill. Includes a letter from Susan Hill to Maurice Edelman, dated Oct 12 [1964] passed on to Hamish Hamilton On permanent loan from Hamish Hamilton, Ltd. 90 Johnson, Pamela Hansford. 5 ALS, 13 TLS 1970-[76] Letter of [June 1973] encloses a photocopy of a review of The Bird of Night by Paul Theroux, New York Times Book Review, May 27 1973. See also: Series I, General Correspondence, Pamela Hansford Johnson, box 31, folder 79 Gift of Philip Snow. 91 The Literary Society Secretary, Eton College. 2 TNS, 1 ALS 1978, n.y. To Southern KS, Bindley, and Warren. Gift of the Literary Society. 92 Scannell, Vernon. 2 TLS, 2 TLS (carbons) 1969 Apr Includes a story proposal by Susan Hill, and typescript carbons of Scannell’s letters to Hill Purchase. 93 _____, Judith, editor at Penguin. 1 TLS 1975 Mar 10 Purchase.


Third Party Correspondence 94 Fowles, John and Gillon Aitken. 2 TLS, 3 TLS (carbon) 1971 May-Jul Aitken writing as editor at Hamish Hamilton, Ltd. On permanent loan from Hamish Hamilton, Ltd. See also: Letters relating to People, box 23, folder 84 95 Hamilton, Hamish to Pamela Hansford Johnson and C. P. Snow. 1 ALS 1970 Jan 4 [6?] Gift of Philip Snow. 96 [Heppenstall], Rayner to Pamela Hansford Johnson. 1 TLS 1971 Mar 24 Gift of Philip Snow. PRINTED MATERIAL Hill, Susan. “Sand.” The Independent Magazine 2002 Jul 20 Stored in: Oversize, box 33, folder 100 Theroux, Paul. “Close friends, woman’s influence, vegetarian. The Bird of Night.” New York Times Book Review, May 27, 1973. Photocopy n.d. Enclosed with letter dated [June 1973] to Pamela Hansford Johnson. See: Box 30, folder 90 Oversize 1 box (0.48 linear metres) Oversize contains material from Series I and II, arranged in box order. 33 97 Air and Angels. Layout of title page and first page n.d. 98 Can it Be True? Page proofs (photocopy) [1987 Aug 21] 99 “Owls” clippings [1971, 1974], n.d.


Includes clippings of reviews of In the Springtime of the Year removed from the Owls notebook 100 Preservation photocopies of “Owls” clippings n.d. 101 Hill, Susan. “Sand.” The Independent Magazine 2002 Jul 20 102 Preservation photocopies of “Sand” in The Independent Magazine n.d.


APPENDIX A: Sequential listing for boxes where items are not listed consecutively Box 8: [Labelled Miscellanea 2] Folder 14 “Country Novel.” Preliminary notes, holograph. Spiral bound notebook, n.d. Folder 25 “Land of Lost Content.” Draft, holograph, and typescript of chapter 1, n.d. Folders 73-74 “Owls.” Research notes for an anthology[?] on Owls. 2 notebooks, holograph, typescript, clippings, photocopies, [1971-74], n.d. Box 15: [Labelled Writings for Children] Folder 26 Lanterns Across the Snow. Preliminary notes, holograph, spiral bound notebook and loose pages. Draft, early and later, holograph. Early typescript, revised of Preface and part of “Christmas Eve.” Final typescript, n.d. Folder 64 Can It Be True? Early drafts, holograph. Spiral bound notebook, n.d. Folder 65 Can It Be True? Later draft, holograph, n.d. Folder 68 The Magic Apple Tree. Garden notes, holograph. Bound notebook, n.d. Folder 72 One Night at a Time. “Draft 2,” holograph, n.d. Box 21: [Labelled Radio Plays] Folder 35 “Chances.” Preliminary notes and draft, holograph, n.d. Folder 42 “A Window on the World.” Draft, holograph, n.d. Folder 43 “A Window on the World.” BBC duplicated typescript, revised, n.d. Folder 44 “Winter Elegy.” Preliminary notes and draft, holograph, n.d. Folder 45 “Winter Elegy.” BBC duplicated typescript,[1973] Box 22: [Labelled Cold Country] The Cold Country and Other Plays for Radio (1975) Folder 36 Introduction, holograph and typescript, revised, n..d. Folder 37 “Consider the Lilies,” preliminary and research notes, holograph; draft, holograph; production typescript (photocopy), n.d. Folder 38 “Lizard in the Grass,” preliminary and research notes, holograph and typescript; draft, holograph, n.d. Folder 39 “Strip Jack Naked,” preliminary notes, holograph; production typescript (photocopy), n.d. Folder 75 “Visions.” Preliminary notes, holograph. Spiral bound notebook, n.d. Box 23: [Labelled Miscellanea 1] Folder 40 “The Man in the Cage.” Typescript, revised, n.d. Folder 41 “Reproduction in Colour.” Production typescript, duplicated, n.d. Folder 62 “A Friend Forever.” Typescript, revised, n.d. Folder 63 “Kielty’s.” Preliminary notes and draft, holograph. Spiral bound notebook and loose pages, n.d. Folder 84 Letters relating to People: Essays and Poems, 1980-83, n.d. Box 27: [Labelled The Magic Apple Tree] The Magic Apple Tree (1982) Folder 67 Book proposal, typescript. Preliminary notes, holograph, loose


pages, n.d. Folder 69 Draft, holograph. “Winter” (in part), typescript, corrected, n.d. Box 30: Series I. Susan Hill Papers. General Correspondence Folder 76 Britten, Benjamin. 3 ALS, 2 ANS, 1971-72, n.d. Folder 77 Farrell, James T. 1 TNS, 1974 Feb 8 Folder 78 Isherwood, Christopher. 1 ALS, 1 TLS, 1972 Mar, Jun Folder 80 Lehmann, Rosamond. 1 ALS, 1973 Oct 14 Folder 81 Rattigan, Terence. 1 ALS (photocopy dated Oct 23 1971), n.d. Folder 82 Sillitoe, Alan. 1 ALS, 1974 Nov 24 Folder 83 Sitwell, Sacheverell. 5 ALS, 1971, 1975 Folder 85 Photograph of two actors in stage production of “The Woman in Black,” n.d. Series II. Susan Hill Collection. Correspondence Folder 87 Anderson, W E K and Elizabeth. 2 ALS, 1989 Aug, Sep Folders 88-89 Hamish Hamilton, Ltd. 3 ALS, 17 TLS, 25 TLS (carbon), 1 telegram, 1 telegram (carbon), 1964, 1968-76, n.d. Folder 90 Johnson, Pamela Hansford. 5 ALS, 13 TLS, 1970-[76] Folder 91 The Literary Society Secretary, Eton College. 2 TNS, 1 ALS, 1978, n.y. Folder 92 Scannell, Vernon. 2 TLS, 2 TLS (carbons), 1969 Apr Folder 93 _____, Judith, editor at Penguin. 1 TLS, 1975 Mar 10 Folder 94 Fowles, John and Gillon Aitken. 2 TLS, 3 TLS (carbon), 1971 May-Jul Folder 95 Hamilton, Hamish to Pamela Hansford Johnson and C. P. Snow. 1 ALS, 1970 Jan 4 [6?] Folder 96 [Heppenstall], Rayner to Pamela Hansford Johnson. 1 TLS, 1971 Mar 24

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