GILBERT K. CHESTERTON COLLECTION, 1900-1974, undated (bulk ca. 1922-1936)

A collection of items by and about the British author (1874-1936), including 6 literary manuscripts (5 in his hand), several letters, articles and pamphlets, and a run of G.K.'s Weekly.

Series Box Folder Contents
1 1 - Edited by GKC or short printed works by GKC
1 1 1
"The So-called Belgium Bargain," Searchlights, no. 22 (London, W.H. Smith & Son), n.d.
1 1 2
 The Distributist, Volume 3: No. 1-12, May 1934-April 1935
1 1 3
 Gloria in Profundis (New York: Willam Edwin Rudge, 1927)
1 1 - Holographs by GKC
1 1 4
"The Childish Talk about Children," n.d.
1 1 5
"The Crime of Being Inefficient," (letter to the editor of Nation), published 15 June 1912
1 1 5
"The Danger in Female Labour," (letter to the editor of Nation), n.d.
1 1 6
"Stop Press News," (verso note: G.K. Weekly, November 5, 1927)
1 1 7
"To St. Michael in Time of Peace," first published in The Legion, 1929
1 1 8
"The New Power of the Police," n.d.
1 1 - Letters
1 1 9
GKC to R.M. Sherman, 1912 (holograph and typescript)
1 1 9
Edward Chesterton to Grant Richards regarding The Wild Knight, 4 letters, 1900, 1903-1904, n.d.
1 1 10 "Mr. Chesterton at Holy Cross: His Lecture in Mechanics Hall, " commemorative program (Worcester: Holy Cross College, ca. 1931). (2 copies)
1 1 11 Newspaper and magazine clippings about GKC, 1922-1974 (bulk, 1936)
1 1 12 Half-tone images and sketches of GKC, 5 items.
- - Shelf G.K. Weekly, Volume 1: No. 1 (1925) - Volume 32 (1941). Missing volumes 9-14, 17.