Box 9

Fragment of what later became Ford's preface to Conrad's story. "The Sisters" appeared in "Bookman", January 1928. Harvey Cii(19)

Typescript of poem which appears to be a later version of the poem titled "An Inventory: With a second and third copy.

Early typescript version of a poem with the second section included in triplicate. Harvey Cvii(2)

Early typescript version of a poem, with revisions apparently in Ford's hand.

Review and copy from the "Morning Post" (Mary 28, 1934) and a notice from the "Daily Telegraph".

A fragment of an unknown text, the first sentence being: "It was towards eleven of one of those August days, when, in the neighborhood of Mark Lane...coats come off in inner offices and the distant forgotten fields call insistently."

Typescript with sections titled "The Waiter", "The Violinist and the Hotelkeeper", and "Two Very Worried Gentlemen"; with revisions apparently in Ford's hand. Plus a folder from Brandt & Kirkpatrick on which is written "Unpublished, April 1930."

Four reviews of Ford's novel, by Iris Barry, Caroline Gordon, William Rose Benet, and an unsigned review that appeared in "The American Mercury."

Typescript of an apparently unpublished article on the methodological struggles between "Literary Historians" and "Scientific Historians".

Carbon typescript of an article on H. G. Wells, with some corrections in Ford's hand. One version appeared in the "American Mercury" (May 1936), and the other as a draft of chapter seven of "Portraits from Life".