'Prominent persons' correspondence

George Watson described the correspondents (or, on occasion, subjects) of this sequence as 'prominent persons'. It should be noted that correspondence from a number of these figures appears in other series of the Watson papers: in the case of the subject-specific series the reasoning is obvious, but it is less so in the case of the 'ex libris' items. Watson's separation has been maintained, and his alphabetical sequencing tidied. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list of correspondents/subjects follows. The preface of ::: indicates that the file in question does not contain correspondence between George Watson and the named person. Other correspondents included in individual files are listed in parentheses.
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ACKROYD, Peter
ACTON, Harold
ADAMS, Douglas Noel
ALMANSI, Guido
ALMOND, Mark
ALVAREZ, Al
AMIES, Hardy
AMIS, Kingsley William
AMIS, Martin Louis
ANNAN, Noel Gilroy
AUDEN, Wystan Hugh (Harry KEMP; Edward MENDELSON; Wogan MILFORD; Stephen SPENDER; James STERN; Francesca WILSON)
BARNES, Jonathan
BARNES, Julian Patrick
BARSTOW, Josephine
BATE, Walter Jackson
BATESON, Frederick Wilse
BELL, Daniel
BENN, Anthony Neil Wedgwood
BERLIN, Isaiah
BEVERIDGE, William
BLOCH, Michael
BLOOMFIELD, Morton W
BLUNDEN, Edward (Claire BLUNDEN)
BLUNT, Anthony
BOLT, Ranjit
BONNEFOY, Yves Jean
BOOTH, Wayne
BOSTON, Lucy M
BOYLE, Edward
BOYS SMITH, John Sandwith
BRADBURY, Malcolm Stanley
BRADEMAS, John
BREARLEY, John Michael
BRETT, Simon Anthony Lee
BRIGGS, Asa
BRITTAN, Samuel
BRODRIBB, Arthur Charles Conant
BROOKE-ROSE, Christine
BROOKNER, Anita
BROWN, Christopher
BROWN, Peter W H
BURKE, Kenneth Duva
BUTLER, Henry Montagu
BUTLER, R A
Cambridge English: Circus 1988
:::CAMPBELL, Ignatius Royston Dunnachie ‘Roy’
CANNAN, Denis
CARLETON, Janet
CARO, Anthony
CARTER, Mary
CAUSLEY, Charles Stanley
CHOMSKY, Noam
CICESTER, George
CLARK, Colin
COBB, Richard
COBBOLD, David
COGGAN, David
COLLINS, Philip
CONRAD, Peter
H M Consul, Madrid
CORE, George
COWEN, Zelman
CRAIG, Hardin
CRANE, Ronald Salmon
CRICK, Bernard Rowland
CRICK, Francis Harry Compton
CROSSMAN, R H S
DAHRENDORF, Ralf
DAVIE, Donald Alfred
DAVIES, Hugh Sykes
DESAI, Anita
:::DIRAC, Paul Adrien Maurice
DOBREE, Bonamy
DONOGHUE, Denis
DUNN, Douglas
EBERHART, Richard
EHRMAN, John
:::ELIOT, Thomas Stearns and Jean :::VERDENAL (Conrad AIKEN; J BARBE; Joan BENNETT; John K BOAZ; Valerie ELIOT; Nancy D HARGROVE; Lionel Charles KNIGHTS; Yves MARTIAL; Leslie A MORRIS; Samuel Gorley PUTT; Ivor Armstrong RICHARDS; George Humphrey Wolferstan ‘Dadie’ RYLANDS; A SCHLEMMER; Ronald SCHUCHARD; John STALLWORTHY; Pierre VERDENAL; Enid WELFORD)
ELVIN, Lionel
:::EMPSON, William (Hugh Sykes DAVIES; Christopher RICKS)
ENGELL, Jim
EVANS, Edith
EWART, Gavin
EZRA, Derek
FENTON, James
FERGUSON, Howard
FLEW, Antony
FOOT, Michael Mackintosh
FORD, Brinsley
FRAYN, Michael
FREUD, Clement Raphael
FRY, Christopher
FURBANK, Philip Nicholas
GARDNER, Helen Louise
GAY, Peter
GOLDING, John
GOOCH, George Peabody
GRAUBARD, Stephen Richards
GRAVES, Robert and Laura (RIDING) JACKSON (Noam CHOMSKY; R A GEKOSKI)
GRAY, Simon
GREER, Germaine
GRIMOND, Joseph
HALL, Peter (Max RAYNE)
HARE, David
HART-DAVIS, Rupert
HARWOOD, Ronald
HAYEK, F A
HAYES, John
HEATH, Edward Richard George
HILL, Archibald A
HOBSBAWM, Eric John Ernest
HOOK, Sidney
HOWARD, Anthony
HOYLE, Fred
:::HULME, Thomas Ernest (Ebenezer CUNNINGHAM)
JACKSON, Robert
JACOBSON, Dan
JEBB, Hubert Miles Gladwyn
JENKINS, Roy
JOSIPOVICI, Gabriel
KERMODE, John Frank
KEYNES, Geoffrey
KEYNES, John Maynard
KING, Francis
KOESTLER, Arthur
KRISTOL, Irving
LAMBERT, Jack Walter
LANCASTER, Anne
:::LANDOR, Walter Savage
LARKIN, Philip
LEHMANN, Rosamond
LEVIN, Bernard
LEWIS, Clive Staples (Owen BARFIELD; Jill FREUD; Douglas GRESHAM; Walter HOOPER; Harry Lee POE)
LINDSAY, Robert Alexander, Lord Crawford
LODGE, David John
LYONS, John
MacBETH, GEORGE
:::MacDONELL, Archibald Gordon
MANN, Golo
MANNING, Olivia
MARTZ, Louis L
McCARTHY, Mary
McGUINNESS, Brian
McKELLEN, Ian Murray
McNAIR, Arnold Duncan
MEADE, James
MEHTA, Ved
MERRILL, James Ingram
MIDGLEY, Mary Beatrice
MIKES, George
MILLER, Jonathan
MINOGUE, Kenneth
MITCHELL, Julian
MONTGOMERY, Marian
MOORMAN, Mary
MOOS, Siegfried
MORTIMER, Raymond
MURDOCH, Jean Iris
NEFF, Michael
:::‘Neue Zürcher Zeitung’ 6 June 1944 (N.B. It is unclear why this newspaper was filed with the correspondence, but as this was largely a well-ordered series on receipt its presence has been taken as significant.)
NICOLSON, Nigel
NOWOTTNY, Winifred
O’BRIEN, Conor Cruise
OLLARD, Richard
ORIGO, Iris
ORWELL, Sonia
OWEN, David
OWEN, Gwylim
PAKENHAM, Francis Aungier, Lord Longford
PASCAL, Roy
PATON, Alan
PAULIN, Thomas Neilson
PELLING, Henry Mathison
PINTER, Harold (Joseph BREARLEY)
POPPER, Karl Raimund
PORTER, Peter
POWELL, Anthony Dymoke
POWELL, John Enoch
PRITCHARD / de PERTINEZ, Chloe ‘Clover’
PRITCHARD, William H
PRITCHETT, Victor Sawdon
PRYNNE, Jeremy Halvard
PUTT, Samuel Gorley
QUINTON, Anthony Meredith
RAPHAEL, Frederic
REES-MOGG, William
RICHARDS, Ivor Armstrong
RICKS, Christopher Bruce
RICKWORD, Edgell
ROBSON, William Wallace
ROSKILL, Elizabeth
ROSKILL, Stephen
RUNCIMAN, James Cochrane Stevenson ‘Steven’
RUSSELL, Conrad
RUSSELL, John
RYLANDS, George Humphrey Wolferstan ‘Dadie’
SAUNDERS, James
SAVAGE, Derek S
SCHUCHARD, Ronald
SEITZ, Raymond
SETH, Vikram
SIMPSON, Frederick Arthur
SKINNER, Quentin Robert Duthie
SMITH, Janet Adam
SMITH, Reginald D
SNOW, Charles Percy
STAFFORD, William Edgar
STANSKY, Peter
STEEL, David Martin Scott
STEINER, Francis George
STEVENSON, Anne
STOPPARD, Tom
STORR, Anthony
SYME, Ronald
TATE, John Orley Allen
TAYLOR, Alan John Percivale
THOMAS, D M
THOMAS, Keith
THORPE, John Jeremy
TILLYARD, Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall
:::TOLLER, Ernst
TOLSTOY, Nikolai
TOMLINSON, Alfred Charles
TRAPP, Joseph Burney
:::TREVELYAN, J
TREVOR-ROPER, Hugh Redwald (Alexandra TREVOR-ROPER)
TRILLING, Diana
TRILLING, Lionel Mordecai
TUVE, Rosamond
VINCENT, John R
WAIN, John Barrington
WAIN, Marianne
WALLACE, Elizabeth
WARNOCK, Mary
:::WAUGH, Evelyn (William Francis DEEDES; Frances DONALDSON)
WEDGWOOD, Veronica
WELLEK, René
:::WENDELL, Barrett
:::WHITE, Terence Hanbury (Elsie Elizabeth DUNCAN-JONES; Sylvia Townsend WARNER)
WHITEHORN, Katharine
WILLIAMS, Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain
WILSON, Angus
WILSON, David Clive
WIND, Edgar
WISDOM, John
WOODCOCK, George
WRIGGLESWORTH, Ian

George Grimes Watson was born in Brisbane, Australia, on 13 October 1927. He was educated at Brisbane Boys' College and the University of Queensland, where he graduated in 1948 with a degree in English. He secured a scholarship for a second degree and received an English degree from Trinity College, Oxford in 1950; he worked for the European Commission as an interpreter before becoming a lecturer in English at Cambridge in 1959 and a Fellow of St John's College in 1961. He remained at St John's until his death in 2013.
Watson edited 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. As well as producing wide-ranging literary and cultural criticism, he was involved in leftist politics, campaigning as a Liberal candidate in 1959 and 1979 and working as Editor for the Unservile State Group; his political writing often critiques socialism from a liberal perspective.

George Grimes Watson was born in Brisbane, Australia, on 13 October 1927. He was educated at Brisbane Boys' College and the University of Queensland, where he graduated in 1948 with a degree in English. He secured a scholarship for a second degree and received an English degree from Trinity College, Oxford in 1950; he worked for the European Commission as an interpreter before becoming a lecturer in English at Cambridge in 1959 and a Fellow of St John's College in 1961. He remained at St John's until his death in 2013.
Watson edited 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. As well as producing wide-ranging literary and cultural criticism, he was involved in leftist politics, campaigning as a Liberal candidate in 1959 and 1979 and working as Editor for the Unservile State Group; his political writing often critiques socialism from a liberal perspective.

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