University of Sheffield Library. Special Collections and Archives
Ref: MS 425
Title: Literary remains of the writer Arthur Eaglestone aka Roger Dataller
Scope: Papers from the life and works of Arthur Eaglestone (1892-1980), worker in the
Yorkshire steel and mining industries, Oxford scholarship student, author, and adult educator
with the WEA and the University of Sheffield’s Department of Extramural Studies. The material
includes both manuscript and printed works, scripts for radio broadcasts, correspondence, and
personal and family papers
Dates: 1920s-1990s
Level: Fonds
Extent: 10 boxes and 19 books
Name of creator: Arthur A Eaglestone, 1892-1980; later items from family members
Administrative / biographical history:
Arthur Eaglestone was born in Parkgate, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, in 1892. His father had
a soft drinks business, which the young Arthur worked in after he left school at the age of 13.
After a short while in the family business, Arthur spent 12 years employed in a steel works,
followed by several years as a timekeeper in the underground office of New Stubbin Colliery.
While he was working there, he wrote “From a pitman’s notebook”, which was published in
1925 under the pseudonym Roger Dataller. On the strength of this, Arthur Eaglestone won a
Miners’ Welfare Scholarship to New College, Oxford, which he attended as a student from
1928-1931.
After leaving Oxford with a BLitt degree, Eaglestone returned to South Yorkshire to work first
of all for the WEA as a lecturer in English literature, and then as a staff tutor for the Extramural
Department of the University of Sheffield. During this time he pursued a writing career,
producing works of fiction, drama, literary criticism and history, as well as two further
autobiographical works. He wrote many short stories and articles for newspapers, and some
scripts for radio broadcasts. For a number of years he served as President of the Association of
Yorkshire Bookmen.
After retirement in 1957, Arthur Eaglestone published a book on the history of Rockingham
pottery, co-written with his son-in-law. He also worked on a further autobiography called “A
Yorkshire Lad”, but this was never published. He died in 1980.
Related collections: Tom Hague Papers; Sheffield Voices Project
Source: From two family donors in 2011, and accrual in 2016
System of arrangement: By category as loosely arranged by Andrew Lockett; material from
Ruth Hunt incorporated into the same scheme
Subjects: Literature & drama – England – South Yorkshire – 20th century; Coal mines and
mining – England – South Yorkshire; Adult education; Rockingham pottery
Names: Eaglestone, Arthur A (Arthur Archibald), 1892-1980; Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980
Conditions of access: Available to all researchers, by appointment
Restrictions: None
Copyright: According to document
Finding aids: Listed
Literary remains of the writer Arthur Eaglestone aka Roger Dataller
Outline listing
Books
425/1 Published books : accompanying material
425/2 Other published material
425/3 Unpublished manuscripts
425/4 Loose-leaf short stories, scripts, broadcasts
425/5 Poetry
425/6 Rockingham pottery
425/7 Cartoons
425/8 Miners’ Welfare National Scholarship Scheme
425/9 Legal agreements
425/10 Testimonials and employment
425/11 Membership of societies
425/12 Miscellaneous
425/13 Correspondence
425/14 Newspaper cuttings
425/15 Family papers
Literary remains of the writer Arthur Eaglestone aka Roger Dataller
Itemised listing
Each item has the donor’s initials in brackets as follows:
AL Andrew Lockett
RH Ruth Hunt
Abbreviations:
AAE Arthur A Eaglestone
EME Muriel Eaglestone, Arthur Eaglestone’s wife
RH Ruth Hunt, Arthur Eaglestone’s elder daughter
IL Isabel Lockett, Arthur Eaglestone’s younger daughter
Books
1
An anthology of modern prose. Edited by A J J Ratcliff. London : Thomas Nelson and Sons
Ltd, [1936]. (Modern Anthologies ; no 1)
Contains three pieces by Roger Dataller, pp 104-121:
“Water in the mine”, from Uncouth swain, October 1933
“Leaving the mine”, from A pitman looks at Oxford, February 1933
“A mining girlhood”, from Oxford into coalfield, 1934
(AL)
2
More modern short stories. London : Lovat Dickson Ltd, [1936]
Contains a piece by Roger Dataller, pp 292-308:
“Gemini”
(AL)
3
New English short stories. Edited by E J O’Brien. London : Jonathan Cape, [1935]
Contains a piece by Roger Dataller, pp 58-71:
“Prince of Obolo”
Inscribed Roger Dataller, 1936
(AL)
4
The worker’s point of view : a symposium. With a preface by C T Cramp. London : Leonard
and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1933
Contains a piece by Roger Dataller, pp 151-160:
“The individual employer versus the Joint Stock Corporation”
Inscribed AA Eaglestone, 1933
(AL)
5
Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. The prince of Obolo : a comedy. [A play in four acts]. London : J
M Dent and Sons Ltd, 1935
(AL)
6
Dodds, Ruth, 1890-1976. The pitman’s pay : a historical play in four acts. London : The Labour
Publishing Co Ltd, 1923
Inscribed by the author, 1927
(AL)
7
Boden, Frederick C. Miner. London : J M Dent and Sons Ltd, 1932
Inscribed C [or O] M Foster
Additional copy in Western Bank Library, 3B 823.91 (B), copy number 146302101
(AL)
8
Boden, Frederick C. Pit-head poems. With a preface by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London ;
Toronto : J M Dent and Sons Ltd, 1927
Inscribed Arthur A Eaglestone, 1928
Additional copy in Western Bank Library, 3B 821.91 (B), copy number 146300901
(AL)
9
Lawson, Jack [John James Lawson, Baron Lawson, 1881-1965]. A man’s life. London :
Hodder and Stoughton, 1932
Inscribed A A Eaglestone, 1933
(AL)
10
Harrison, Norman. Once a miner. London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1954
(AL)
11
Tomlinson, G A W. Coal-miner. With a preface by Arthur Bryant. (2nd impression) London :
Hutchinson & Co Ltd, [1937]
Inscribed F Sokell
Additional copy in Western Bank Library, 338.272 (T), copy number 200127890
(AL)
12
The best British short stories 1933, and the yearbook of the British, Irish, and colonial short
story. Edited by Edward J O’Brien. Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933
Inscribed Roger Dataller, Dec 1933
(AL)
13
Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Three industrial plays. London : Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd,
1936 (The Nelson Theatre. Section 4. Miscellaneous plays ; no 2)
(AL)
14
Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. A pitman looks at Oxford. London : J M Dent and Sons Ltd, 1933
(AL)
15
Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Uncouth swain. London : J M Dent and Sons Ltd, 1933
Inscribed Roger Dataller 1933
(AL)
16
Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Steel saraband. London : Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1938
(AL)
17
Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Drama and life. London : Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1938
(Series: Discussion books ; no 3)
(AL)
18
Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. The plain man and the novel. London : Thomas Nelson and Sons
Ltd, 1940 (Series: Discussion books ; no 44)
(AL)
19
Eaglestone, Arthur A (Arthur Archibald), 1892-1980. Forward, the baggage. Marple, Cheshire
: Overdale Publications, 2004
(AL)
425/1 Published books: accompanying material
1/1 3 items found loose inside More modern short stories:
Poem “Song”, by Arthur A Eaglestone
Poem “Music”, by Arthur A Eaglestone
Poem “Performance”, by Svengali
Printed and ts. 3 l. (AL)
1/2 Photocopied pages, clipped together:
From Boden’s “Miner”: pp 98-101 and 138-141
Part of the poem “Hady bells” from Boden’s “Pithead poems”: page 9 only
Part or whole of a poem from Boden’s “Out of the coalfields : further poems” (NB not in this
collection. Publication details: London : J M Dent and Sons Ltd, 1929): page 25.
Printed. 5 l. (AL)
1/3 Correspondence and draft review, regarding request to Roger Dataller from
Workers’ Educational Association, for a review of Norman Harrison’s “Once a miner”. Found
inside the book. Ts. 3 l. (AL)
1/4 Boden, Frederick C. A pitman at Oxford (review of Dataller’s “A pitman looks
at Oxford”). From an unknown publication, annotated “All Souls Mag, Sept ‘33”. Printed. 1 l.
(AL)
1/5 Correspondence (undated, but 1988 or later), and notes regarding John
Betjeman’s review of Dataller’s “A pitman looks at Oxford”, May 1933. Ts. 2 l. (AL)
1/6 Newspaper review by B Ifor Evans of Dataller’s “From a pitman’s notebook”.
Undated. (AL)
1/7 Photocopied pages from: Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. From a pitman’s note
book. New York : The Dial Press, 1925. Pages 5-271; p 148-9 duplicated, pp 268-9 missing.
(AL)
1/8 Manuscript: Forward, the baggage, by Arthur Eaglestone. Title page,
Foreword, Chapters I to XXII. Ts with annotations. Over 500 pages, most numbered. (AL)
425/2 Other published material
2/1 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. The outlaw snatchers. From: The World’s Best
Boys’ Annual (undated). Manchester : Allied Newspapers Limited. Cover, contents pages, and
pp 57-69. Printed. 9 l. (AL)
2/2 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Mr Flame takes a holiday. Printed. 4 l. (AL)
2/3 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. The watchman. From: The Bermondsey Book
(undated). Printed. 3 l. (AL)
2/4 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Prince of Obolo. From: The London Mercury
(undated). Printed. 6 l. (AL)
2/5 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Mr Lawrence and Mrs Woolf. From Essays in
Criticism, vol 8, no 1, January 1958. Oxford : Basil Blackwell. 3 copies of reprint. (AL)
2/6 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Elements of D H Lawrence’s prose style. From:
Essays in Criticism, vol 3, no 4, October 1953. Oxford : Basil Blackwell. 2 copies of reprint; 1
copy of journal issue, but with Dataller article missing. (AL)
2/7 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. The after-meeting. From: The Adelphi, vol 2, no
8, January 1925. 1 copy of reprint; 1 copy of complete journal issue, including Dataller short
story, pp 659-665. (AL)
2/8 The Adelphi, vol 1, no 8, January 1924. Includes: Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980.
From a miner’s journal (autobiography), pp 711-718. (AL)
2/9 The Adelphi, vol 28, no 4, 3rd quarter 1952. Includes: Dataller, Roger, 1892-
1980. Eastwood in Taos (literary criticism), pp 673-681. (AL)
2/10 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Yogi (incomplete). From: The Adelphi
[December 1933], pp 189-192. Printed. 2 l. (AL)
2/11 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. The inquiry. From: The Adelphi [undated], pp
129-135. Printed. 4 l. (AL)
2/12 The Highway : the journal of the Workers’ Educational Association, vol 44,
December 1952. Includes: Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. D H Lawrence and the collier, pp 104-
109. (AL)
2/13 The Highway : the journal of the Workers’ Educational Association, vol 44,
January 1953. Includes: Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. D H Lawrence and the collier (continued),
pp 149-154. (AL)
2/14 The Highway : the journal of the Workers’ Educational Association, vol 47,
December 1955. Includes: Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Intuitional history, pp 42-45. 2 copies.
(AL)
2/15 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. How to make history “real”. [From: The
Highway?], pp 20-21. Printed. 2 l. (AL)
2/16 Newspaper cuttings from the Manchester Guardian, of short stories by Roger
Dataller. (AL):
2/16/1 The greasers. 3/1/1928
2/16/2 Thus to revisit. 10/2/1928
2/16/3 Nail day. 2/3/1928
2/16/4 The scholarship. 10/10/1928
2/16/5 The pumpman. 29/1/1929
2/16/6 The shot-firer. 4/9/1929
2/16/7 Matches. 24/9/1929
2/16/8 Children of light. 28/11/1929
2/16/9 The winder. 3/3/1931
2/16/10 The disc. 20/6/1933
2/16/11 The bloodstone. Undated
2/16/12 The box-hole. Undated
2/16/13 The last word. Undated
2/17 Newspaper cuttings from The Methodist Recorder, of short stories by Roger
Dataller (AL):
2/17/1 Old Abraham’s centenary : another Havertown story. 20/8/1925
2/17/2 In Havertown : Martin Wainwright. 24/9/1925
2/17/3 In Havertown : ploughman’s rise. 10/12/1925
2/17/4 The jumble sale. 10/6/1926
2/17/5 “Methody” : a visionary story. 5/8/1926
2/17/6 Flotsam. 2/9/1926
2/17/7 Cottage night. 16/9/1926
2/17/8 The festival. 28/10/1926
2/17/9 Disaster. 4/11/1926
2/17/10 The prizes. 2/12/1926
2/17/11 The tryst : a night in old Flanders. 9/12/1926
2/17/12 New lamps. 23/12/1926
2/17/13 The cripple. 30/12/1926
2/17/14 The glutton. 6/1/1927
2/17/15 Three men. 20/1/1927
2/17/16 God’s adjustment. 27/1/1927
2/17/17 The breaking point. 23/6/1927
2/17/18 The little white duck. 11/8/1927
2/17/19 Landmarks and memories. 15/9/1927
2/17/20 The price of wax : an old-time story. 29/9/1927
2/17/21 Afternoon at Cloomber : a local preacher’s idyll. 13/10/1927
2/17/22 Gervase Barlow. 27/10/1927
2/17/23 Time’s fool : a locksmith’s Christmas romance. 8/12/1927. 2 l.
2/17/24 The second daughter of Seth Carrington : the story of a Christmas party.
22/12/1927
2/17/25 The heritage : a story of the “forty-five”. 12/1/1928
2/17/26 As unto one of these : how the storm brought Jemmy Todhunter home.
2/2/1928
2/17/27 Glimmering wicks : a fireside chat about folk who are too slow for a wedding.
23/2/1928
2/17/28 Under the arch : a story of two points-of-view. 8/3/1928
2/17/29 Ah Foo : a Chinese exile in an English village. 12/4/1928
2/17/30 The castle hill. 17/5/1928
2/17/31 The recitation. 16/8/1928
2/17/32 The pedlar : a story of early Methodism. 13/9/1928
2/17/33 A bit o’ lace. 4/10/1928
2/17/34 Ronald Burbage’s night out. 29/11/1928
2/17/35 Miss Brennan’s ghost. 6/12/1928
2/17/36 The substitute : the story of a village concert and what came of it. 10/2/1929
2/17/37 The farm that Jack kept. 17/1/1929
2/17/38 Buried talent. 24/1/1929
2/17/39 David Selman’s idea. 31/1/1929
2/17/40 A night at Bruges. 7/2/1929
2/17/41 Anne’s fortune. 7/3/1929
2/17/42 Mrs Dumble’s reconciliation. 4/4/1929
2/17/43 Carriage and pair. 25/4/1929
2/17/44 Breaking through. 16/5/1929
2/17/45 Honeymoon. 8/8/1929
2/17/46 The capture of Jeremy Bolter. 22/8/1929
2/17/47 The secret room. 29/8/1929
2/17/48 The birthday party. 12/9/1929
2/17/49 The watchman : the story of a man of action. 26/9/1929
2/17/50 My son Ralph : the story of a father’s hope. 3/10/1929
2/17/51 “In such a night” : the story of a debtor. 17/10/1929
2/17/52 The friendly house : the story of an ancestor’s example. 28/11/1929
2/17/53 A squire of dames : a story of Methodism in its early days. 12/12/1929. 2 l.
2/17/54 On eagles’ wings : the story of a trusted miner. 6/2/1930
2/17/55 The proud man. 6/3/1930
2/17/56 The signal. 27/3/1930
2/17/57 Living alone. 1/5/1930
2/17/58 He also serves … . 8/5/1930
2/17/59 The one talent : a true story. 29/5/1930
2/17/60 Judy. 19/6/1930
2/17/61 Boulton and son. 10/7/1930
2/17/62 The life-line. 11/9/1930
2/17/63 Old John’s “Bunyan”. 18/9/1930
2/17/64 Abner’s chimney. 25/9/1930
2/17/65 Samuel’s way. 2/10/1930
2/17/66 “That flieth by night”. 9/10/1930
2/17/67 Unfinished symphony. 23/10/1930
2/17/68 The old horse. 6/11/1930
2/17/69 Experience. 20/11/1930
2/17/70 The weighing clerk’s midnight visitor : the story of “a very perfect gentle
knight”. 27/11/1930
2/17/71 The fortune of the Perrivales : a Christmastide story. 4/12/1930
2/17/72 The preceptor. 18/12/1930
2/17/73 The fog. 1/1/1931
2/17/74 ‘Gene ‘Rasmus Robinson. 8/1/1931
2/17/75 The “rent-man” : the chronicle of a day’s collection. 5/2/1931
2/17/76 The piano. 5/3/1931
2/17/77 Seth Wooler’s redemption. 19/3/1931
2/17/78 The plumbline : the story of a trial sermon. 25/6/1931
2/17/79 The ambulance man. 9/7/1931
2/17/80 The pattern. 20/8/1931
2/17/81 By bread alone … . 27/8/1931
2/17/82 The revelation : the story of a man who sang. 24/9/1931
2/17/83 Active service : the record of an eerie hour. 1/10/1931
2/17/84 The revelation. 22/10/1931
2/17/85 The cry : the story of an interrupted meeting. 29/10/1931
2/17/86 The bag. 12/11/1931
2/17/87 The indispensable. 26/11/1931
2/17/88 God rest you merry, gentlemen! : the story of a bygone Christmas. 3/12/1931
2/17/89 The Christmas present. 17/12/1931
2/17/90 The secret of Barstable Farm. 7/1/1932
2/17/91 The kindly light. 21/1/1932
2/17/92 The bookstall. 11/2/1932
2/17/93 First offender : a night story. 25/2/1932
2/17/94 The unforeseen event. 10/3/1932
2/17/95 Where your treasure is. 31/3/1932
2/17/96 The extra shift. 7/4/1932
2/17/97 The extra mile : the story of a Sunday night ride. 14/4/1932
2/17/98 The soft answer. 28/4/1932
2/17/99 The lovely thing : a story of two choirmasters. 26/5/1932
2/17/100 The last word. 2/6/1932
2/17/101 The trust. 9/6/1932
2/17/102 The fourth evening : a seaside story. 11/8/1932
2/17/103 The human document. 25/8/1932
2/17/104 God’s deputy. 8/9/1932
2/17/105 An exceeding great haul. 6/4/1933
2/17/106 The bluebell wood : a tale of nature’s “soft answer”. 25/5/1933
2/17/107 The substitute : a tale of a Sunday School procession. 22/6/1933
2/17/108 Billy Emery – Cupid : the tale of a Christmas tree. 7/12/1933
2/17/109 The new road. 4/1/1934
2/17/110 The knocker-up. 10/5/1934
2/17/111 The final voice. 31/5/1934
2/17/112 The custodian. 14/6/1934
2/17/113 The locked door. 28/6/1934
2/17/114 The quiet garden. 12/7/1934
2/17/115 The burning bush. 11/10/1934
2/17/116 The “messenger”. 25/10/1934
2/17/117 The dark stairway. 3/1/1935
2/17/118 The irreconcilable. 24/1/1935
2/17/119 The prodigal. 14/2/1935. 2 l.
2/17/120 Jane Hopkins – that’s all. 7/3/1935
2/17/121 The little cottage. 4/4/1935
2/17/122 The strange rocket. 13/6/1935
2/17/123 The Pine Mount mystery : a tale of holiday adventure. Chapter 1. 1/8/1935
2/17/124 The Pine Mount mystery : a tale of holiday adventure. Chapter 2. 8/8/1935
2/17/125 The Pine Mount mystery : a tale of holiday adventure. Chapter 3. 15/8/1935.
[Further chapter(s) missing]
2/17/126 The reunion. 3/10/1935
2/17/127 No wreckage! 6/8/1936
2/17/128 The mighty man : a mining story. 20/8/1936
2/17/129 The dark lane. 8/10/1936
2/17/130 The grandfather : a story of a mining village. Undated
2/17/131 The hallowed garden : a story of early Methodism. Undated
2/17/132 Extra help. Undated
2/17/133 The god-father. Undated
2/17/134 Canning Row. Undated
2/17/135 In Havertown : that boy of Morrison’s. Undated
2/17/136 [In] Havertown : how Mrs Worrall got her shilling. Incomplete and undated
2/18 Other newspaper cuttings, of pieces by Roger Dataller, AAE, or where author
is unnamed. (AL):
2/18/1 The pony, by Roger Dataller. Short story in Lansbury’s Labour Weekly,
20/6/1925
2/18/2 The headstone, by Roger Dataller. Short story in Lansbury’s Labour Weekly,
4/7/1925
2/18/3 Elder, by Roger Dataller. Short story in Lansbury’s Labour Weekly, 18/7/1925
2/18/4 The last witness, by Roger Dataller. Short story in Lansbury’s Labour Weekly,
22/8/1925
2/18/5 The numbers, by Roger Dataller. Short story in Lansbury’s Labour Weekly,
3/10/1925
2/18/6 Book review, by Roger Dataller, of Raymond W Postgate’s “Murder, piracy
and treason”. Lansbury’s Labour Weekly, 31/10/1925
2/18/7 Betty Swallow, by Roger Dataller. Short story in Lansbury’s Labour Weekly,
2/10/1926
2/18/8 In the coalfields : how it looks to the miner, by Roger Dataller. Article in The
Manchester Guardian, 30/11/1927
2/18/9 Yorkshire pudding : the genuine thing, by RD. Article in a Manchester paper,
25/3/1930
2/18/10 The fiddler, by Roger Dataller. Short story in The Methodist Times, 9/8/1928
2/18/11 The miner in literature, by Roger Dataller. Article in The Miner, 16/7/1927. 2
copies
2/18/12 Mary’s lamb, by Roger Dataller. Short story in The Miner, 27/8/1927
2/18/13 Review, by Roger Dataller, of Frederick C Boden’s “Pit-head poems”.The
Miner, 24/9/1927
2/18/14 The absentee, by Roger Dataller. Short story in The New Leader, 20/2/1925
2/18/15 Michael’s luck, by Roger Dataller. Short story in The New Leader, 16/4/1926
2/18/16 In a mining village, by Roger Dataller. Short story in The New Leader,
4/6/1926
2/18/17 The piano, by Roger Dataller. Poem in The New Leader, 5/8/1927. [See
425/5/1/1 for manuscript copy of the poem “At the piano”]
2/18/18 Furnaces, by Roger Dataller. Poem in The New Leader, 8/10/1926
2/18/19 Are mining villages immoral?, by Pitman. Article in The Sheffield
Independent, 17/12/1929
2/18/20 Steel or wood? Two sides of pit prop problem, by Pitman. Newspaper is
probably The Sheffield Independent, 18/10/1929
2/18/21 The pit-prop problem : why miners object to steel, from a mining
correspondent [not named]. Newspaper unknown; dated 26/10/1929
2/18/22 Reformer and his wife : the wind below Hathersage, by Roger Dataller.
Unnamed newspaper, but probably a local Sheffield paper. 26/7/1929
2/18/23 Ordeal by combat, by Roger Dataller. Series: Sketches from life, in The
Westminster Gazette, 6/10/1927
2/18/24 The bearded miner’s story, by Roger Dataller. Series: Sketches from life [The
Westminster Gazette], undated
2/18/25 The pit-bottom boy, by Roger Dataller. Series: Sketches from life [The
Westminster Gazette], undated
2/18/26 Hugo the rat-catcher, by Roger Dataller. Series: Little interviews. Newspaper
unnamed (but could be The Westminster Gazette). Undated
2/18/27 Rabindranath Tagore : the unfolding of a religious life, by AAE. Report on
talk by Tagore in Oxford. Unnamed newspaper (but could be The Methodist Recorder?),
12/6/1930
2/18/28 The stranger, by Roger Dataller. Short story. Newspaper unnamed and undated
2/18/29 Job Sergeant’s way, by Roger Dataller. Short story. Newspaper unnamed, and
undated
2/18/30 Articles in The Church Times, on the Oxford University Mission; authors
unnamed. 13/2/1931
425/3 Unpublished manuscripts
3/1/a-b Dear Miss Burney by Roger Dataller. Play based on the life of Fanny Burney.
Front sheet; 4 unnumbered pages; Scene 1, pp 1-14; Scene 2, pp 15-22; Scene 3, pp 23-35;
Scene 4, pp 36-48; Scene 5, pp 49-60. Ts (with a few annotations). Original and photocopy of
the original. (RH, AL)
3/2 Alice Hepplewhite
3/2/1 The journal of Alice Hepplewhite 1786-1795 (as transcribed by A A
Eaglestone). Cover; Title page; Preface; each year 1786 to 1795 in a separate enclosure;
handwritten notes with title page The journal of Alice Hepplewhite 1786-1795 : an imaginative
exercise (as transcribed by Arthur A Eaglestone). Most pages numbered. Ts (annotated) and
ms. (AL)
3/2/2 The journal of Alice Hepplewhite 1786-1795. Title page, then divided into 10
sections, one for each year. Most pages numbered. Ts (with some annotations). [Original was
in a blue plastic folder, with the title page, and the 10 sections, each in folders.] Photocopied
from the original. (RH)
3/2/3 The journal of Alice Hepplewhite 1786-1795: an imaginative exercise as
transcribed by Arthur A. Eaglestone. Cover; Title page; (suggestions) Illustrations; Foreword;
each year 1786 to 1795; Appendix. Most pages numbered. Ts with ms annotations. (AL, 2016)
3/3 Cartwright family
3/3/1 Major John Cartwright : his place in contemporary radical movements by A A
Eaglestone. All enclosed in torn brown paper cover: Title page; Contents; Chapter 1 to part
way through chapter 8, pp 1-237; 7 unnumbered pages; Bibliography, 7 pages. Incomplete. Ts
(with some annotations). (AL)
3/3/2 Wool Knowledge : the journal of wool education, Summer 1953. Includes:
Chaloner, W H (William Henry). The Cartwright brothers : their contribution to the wool
industry, pp 15-21; together with letter from Chaloner to AAE, 20 Oct 1953. (AL)
3/4 A Yorkshire Lad by Roger Dataller. Title page; Contents page; Chapters 1-8,
pp 1-97; Chapters 9-14, 68 unnumbered pages. Ts. (RH)
3/5 Steel Saraband screen play
3/5/1 Hard steel. Screen play by Lydia Hayward, adapted from the novel Steel
Saraband by Roger Dataller. G H W Productions, D & P Studios, Denham, Middlesex. Ts in
black cover. (AL)
NB Further copy of the screen play (which is more or less the same text, but with some
additions and other small differences) is at 425/16/2/2.
3/5/2 Material found together with the screen play (AL):
5 photographs from the film, with folder;
2 letters dated 1941, G H W Productions to AAE
425/4 Loose leaf short stories, scripts, broadcasts
4/1 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. The metal masters : a chronicle play of steel, to a
background of Sheffield and district. Ts. 24 l. (AL)
4/2 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980 and Machin, Frank. The machine makers : a
dramatic exercise in three episodes. Ts. 47 l. (AL)
4/3 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. The Maltese cross : a play based upon the novel,
The Spoils of Poynton, by Henry James. Ts script in a handwritten folder. (AL)
4/4 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Honeymoon express. A drama. 2 copies. Ts. 2 sets
of 8 l. (AL)
4/5 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Holiday reading. BBC talk, August 1937, Ts with
annotations. 13 l. (AL)
4/6 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Authorship and industry. Ts with annotations and
notes. 13 l. (AL)
4/7 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. A pitman looks at Oxford. Ts with annotations. 4
l. (AL)
4/8 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. The deputy : the man and his work. Ts with
annotations. 5 l. (AL)
4/9 [Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980]. The watched lamp. Ts with annotations. 10 l.
(AL)
4/10 Radio series Pithead chronicles, in 6 parts, about the mining industry. Some
dialect material. Incomplete.
4/10/1 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Pit-head chronicles : synopsis. Ts. 5 l. (AL)
4/10/2 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Pit-head chronicles : II Seth Burgin’s match. Ts
with annotations. 10 l. (AL)
4/10/3 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Pit-head chronicles : III Sam – his bath. Ts with
annotations. 10 l. (AL)
4/10/4 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Pit-head chronicles : V Ranskill’s retirement. Ts
with annotations. 11 l. (AL)
4/10/5 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Pit-head chronicles : VI Rube’s extra shift. Ts
with annotations. 11 l. (AL)
4/11 Radio series: Northern programme, Pithead stories, in 6 parts
4/11/1 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Pithead stories: 1 The manager’s tale. Broadcast
from Sheffield 25/7/1936. Ts. 11 l. (AL)
4/11/2 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Pithead stories: 2 The deputy’s tale. Broadcast
from Sheffield 1/8/1936. Ts. 10 l. (AL)
4/11/3 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Pithead stories: 3 The collier’s tale. Broadcast
8/8/1936. Ts. 11 l. (AL)
4/11/4 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Pithead stories: 4 The dataller’s tale. Broadcast
from Sheffield 15/8/1936. Ts. 11 l. (AL)
4/11/5 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Pithead stories: 5 The stableman’s tale. Broadcast
from Leeds 19/8/1936. Ts. 12 l. (AL)
4/11/6 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Pithead stories: 6 The watchman’s tale. Broadcast
from Leeds 29/8/1936. Ts. 14 l. (AL)
4/12 Radio series: Northern programme, Northern portrait gallery
4/12/1 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Northern portrait gallery: Ebenezer Elliott.
Broadcast from Sheffield 27/12/1936. Ts. 6 l. (AL)
4/12/2 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Northern portrait gallery: Samuel Bamford.
Broadcast from Sheffield 2/5/1937. Ts. 11 l. (AL)
4/13 Radio series: Northern programme, Pit Lane Tales
4/13/1 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Pit lane tales: 1 Gone west. Broadcast 9/9/1937.
Ts. 10 l. Further copy of this item. Ts. 12 l. (AL)
4/13/2 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Pit lane tales: 2 Seccombe’s box. Broadcast from
Sheffield, announced at Manchester, 19/9/1937. Ts. 9 l. Further copy of this item. Ts. 10 l.
(AL)
4/13/3 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Pit lane tales: 3 Star chimney. Ts. 10 l. (AL)
4/14 Radio series: Northern programme, Told on the night shift, about the steel
industry. Read by Wilfred Pickles
4/14/1 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Told on the night shift: 1 The furnaceman.
Northern Programme and National Programme (repeat), broadcast 9/7/1938 and 30/7/1938. Ts.
12 l, and a compliment slip. (AL)
4/14/2 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Told on the night shift: 2 The grasped nettle.
Broadcast 3/8/1938. Ts. 12 l. (AL)
4/14/3 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Told on the night shift: 3 God rest ye merry
gentlemen! Broadcast 14/8/1938. Ts. 12 l, and a compliment slip. (AL)
4/14/4 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Told on the night shift: 4 The rhubarb leaf.
Broadcast 28/8/1938. Ts. 12 l, and a compliment slip. (AL)
4/14/5 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Told on the night shift: 5 After midnight. Northern
Programme and Regional Programme (repeat), broadcast 14/9/1938 and 15/9/1938. Ts. 12 l,
and a compliment slip. (AL)
4/14/6 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Told on the night shift: 6 The mechanical muse.
Northern Programme and Regional Programme (repeat), broadcast 25/9/1938 and 29/9/1938.
Ts. 12 l, and a compliment slip. (AL)
4/15 Radio series: History into news [sometimes News into history]. Eye-witness
accounts of historical events
4/15/1 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. The eye-witness : 1 The great Sheffield flood.
Rough script of broadcast. Ts with annotations. 13 l. (AL)
4/15/2 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. News into history: IV John Wesley is here. Ts
with annotations. 11 l. (AL)
4/15/3 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. News into history: V T’county election. Ts with
annotations. 13 l. (AL)
4/15/4 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. History into news: VI Mr Branwell Brontë revisits
the Black Bull, Haworth. Ts with annotations. 13 l.
Found together with this item: an untitled piece, beginning on page 2, about a Luddite attack
on William Cartwright’s mill at Rawfolds, near Huddersfield, in 1812. Note that this incident
was described by Charlotte Brontë in her novel “Shirley”. Ts with annotations. 11 l. (AL)
4/15/5 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. History into news: 7 Marston Moor. Ts with
annotations. 13 l. (AL)
4/15/6 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. History into news: 8 Mr Clarkson would like to
know. North Regional Talk, broadcast from Sheffield studio, 29/7/1935; includes additional
notes. Ts with annotations, and ms. 13 l. (AL)
4/15/7 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. History into news: 9 Mary, Queen of Scots.
Broadcast August 17th, year unknown. Two versions of the script; additional notes. Ts with
annotations, and ms. 24 l. (AL)
4/15/8 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. History into news: The first St Leger. Broadcast
September 10th, year unknown. Ts with annotations; newspaper cutting. 13 l. (AL)
4/15/9 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. History into news: Mr Nevison reappears on the
Great North Road, 1683. Broadcast November 25th, year unknown; includes additional notes.
Ts with annotations, and ms. 20 l. (AL)
4/15/10 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. History into news: Mr Stephenson tries his new
safety lamp. Broadcast October 25th, year unknown; includes additional notes. Ts with
annotations, and ms. 17 l. (AL)
4/15/11 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. History into news: The Rev Sydney Smith
chooses a text. Broadcast December 14th, year unknown; includes additional notes. Ts with
annotations, and ms. 18 l. (AL)
4/16 Broadcasts by North of England Home Service
4/16/1 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Rod and the night watchman. Broadcast
24/10/1946. Ts. 7 l. (AL)
4/16/2 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. The last deputation. Series: The Wednesday
Story, broadcast 5/2/1947. Ts. 7 l. (AL)
4/16/3 Dataller, Roger, 1892-1980. Steel saraband : adapted for broadcasting by
James L Scott; produced by James R Gregson. Broadcast 24/9/1948. Ts. 54 l, and a compliment
slip. (AL)
425/5 Poetry
5/1 3 poems (photocopies):
5/1/1 “At the Piano”. With date: “The morning – Sept 27 1921”. Ms. 1 l. (RH)
[See 425/2/18/17 for copies of this poem published as “The piano” in The New Leader]
5/1/2 “To You”. Undated. Ms. 1 l. (RH)
5/1/3 “For Muriel. On Her Birthday”. Undated. Signed “A”. Ms. 1 l. (RH)
5/2 Exercise book, with items loose inside
5/2/1 Book of handwritten poems by Dataller, date unknown. [Includes text of the
“Three mining poems” – see 425/5/2/2.] (AL)
5/2/2 List of contents of book. Ts. 1 l.
5/2/3 Found loose in the book: “Three mining poems” by Roger Dataller
(“Mortgage”; “The deserted workings”; “A small leaf growing underground”). [See 425/5/2/1
for manuscript copies of these poems.] Ts. 4 l. (AL)
5/2/4 Found loose in the book: Poem with first line “I have drawn down into my
lute”. [This is possibly AAE’s first published work – see page 73 of “A Yorkshire Lad”, which
describes how this poem, with the title “Music”, was submitted to a monthly poetry
competition, and was published in the January 1921 issue of The Bookman. See also 425/1/1
for printed copy of the poem “Music”.] Ms. 1 l. (AL)
5/3 Notebook, with items loose inside. Some of the poems are fair copies; others
have corrections. Some are dated, and have details of when and where published
5/3/1 Book of handwritten poems with title page POEMS 1919-23 by “Roger
Dataller”. (AL)
5/3/2 List of contents of book. Ts. 1 l.
5/3/3 Found loose in the book: Manuscript copes of poems “The Court of Love”;
“Cythera” (similar to poem on P 37 of notebook); “The Amatuer (sic) Harlequin”; “A Fighting
Man “ (Part I is similar to P 39; Part III is similar to P 44 of notebook); “Jilted!”; “The Painted
Muse”; “After Rome!”. Ms. 8 l. (AL)
5/3/4 Found loose in the book: Printed material: Poem with title “Evening –
Sheffield” (published copy of P 22, from Sheffield Weekly News); Copy of Northern
Broadsheet, no 2, Winter 1956, The Sea, containing poem by Roger Dataller “Ballade of the
S.S. Bickerstaffe”, and associated newspaper cutting. Printed booklet and 2 l. (AL)
425/6 Rockingham pottery
6/1 Photocopy of spiral bound book with cover title “The Rockingham Collectors
Book of Grandchildren”. 16 l. (RH)
6/2 Eaglestone, Arthur A (Arthur Archibald), 1892-1980. Four versions of an
article or talk on porcelain, two with the title Romantic porcelain; additional pages with
handwritten notes. Ts and ms. 28 l. (AL)
6/3
6/3/1-8 Photocopies of 7 letters, and drawings, from Rosamond (Mollie) Crumby (?),
1965. Ms. 16 l. (RH)
6/4 Letter. 18/4/1974. From John P Cushion, Victoria and Albert Museum, re
Rockingham pottery. Ts. 1 l. (AL)
425/7 Cartoons
7/1 Photocopies of a set of 14 cartoons, drawn by AAE in ink. Originals were on
separate pieces of card. Some are annotated “age 15”. 4 l.(RH)
425/8 Miners’ Welfare National Scholarship Scheme
8/1 Instructions for making applications for scholarship, and regulations for the
scheme. Printed. 2 l. (AL)
8/2 Letter. 13/9/1928. From South Yorkshire District Miners’ Welfare Committee,
about the award of a special grant. Ts. 2 l. (AL)
8/3 Photocopy of letter. 20/11/1929. From South Yorkshire District Miners’
Welfare Committee, about the award of a special grant. Ts. 1 l. (RH)
8/4 Photocopy of letter. 20/11/1929. From A M Anderson, Miners’ Welfare
National Scholarship Scheme. Ts. 1 l. {RH)
NB Other correspondence relating to starting at Oxford University (from A M Anderson,
Reginald Bassett, H A L Fisher, W Gawthorpe, Rev Dennis Kemp, F Machin and W Parkinson,
all from 1928) is at 425/13
425/9 Legal agreements
9/1 Between AAE and Jonathan Cape Ltd, 11/11/1924, for “A pitman’s journal”.
(AL)
9/2 Between AAE and J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 6/6/1932, for “A pitman looks at
Oxford”; includes letter from Curtis Brown Ltd to AAE, 27/6/1932. (AL)
9/3 Between AAE and J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 19/6/1933, for “Uncouth swain”;
includes letter from Curtis Brown Ltd to AAE, 21/6/1933. (AL)
9/4 Between AAE and J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 8/6/1934, for “Oxford into coalfield”.
(AL)
9/5 Between AAE and J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1/9/1934, for “The prince of Obolo”.
(AL)
9/6 Photocopy of counterpart of agreement between AAE and Thomas Nelson and
Sons Ltd, 17/6/1938, for “Figs and thistles”. 3 l. (RH)
9/7 Between AAE and Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, 5/5/1939, for “The plain man
and the novel”; includes letter from the publisher to AAE, 19/5/1939. (AL)
9/8 Photocopy of agreement between AAE and GHW Productions, 2/4/1941,
regarding making a film out of AAE’s Steel Saraband. 3 l. (RH)
425/10 Testimonials and employment
10/1 Testimonials
10/1/1 18/6/1931 from H A L Fisher. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
10/1/2 12/1/1933 from G D H Cole. Ts. 1 l. (AL)
10/1/3 11/1/1933 from E Fisher (WEA). Ts. 1 l. (AL)
10/1/4 5/1/1949 from E Fisher (WEA). Ts. 1 l. (AL)
10/2 Employment
10/2/1 Letter of appointment and information, 24/5/1949, for the position of Staff
Tutor in the University of Sheffield’s Department of Extramural Studies. Printed and ts. 2 l.
(AL)
10/2/2 Contract of employment, 14/11/1949, between the University of Sheffield and
A A Eaglestone, for the position of Staff Tutor in the Department of Extramural Studies. Ts. 1
l. (AL)
425/11 Membership of societies
11/1 The Association of Yorkshire Bookmen
11/1/1/a-b Membership booklet for The Association of Yorkshire Bookmen. Original
and photocopy. 6 l. (AL, RH)
11/1/2 Association of Yorkshire Bookmen, Rotherham Branch, 1st annual dinner,
23/4/1947: programme; newspaper cutting. 2 l. (AL)
11/1/3 Association of Yorkshire Bookmen, Leeds Branch, 11th annual dinner,
4/2/1959: programme; invitation (2 copies). Printed. 3 l. (AL)
11/1/4 Association of Yorkshire Bookmen, Morley Branch, birthday dinner,
15/1/1960: programme. Printed. 1 l. (AL)
11/1/5 Association of Yorkshire Bookmen, Leeds Branch, 17th annual dinner,
5/2/1965: programme. Printed. 1 l. (AL)
11/1/6 Notes (in AAE’s handwriting), on the formation of the Association of
Yorkshire Bookmen in 1943, and something of its subsequent history. Ms. 4 l. (AL)
11/1/7 The bookmen’s broad sheet. Association of Yorkshire Bookmen
2 copies: 1951-52; 1952-53. (AL)
11/2 Other groups and societies
11/2/1 Signed menu, dated 24/5/1933. 1 l. (AL)
11/2/2 Yorkshire Authors’ Dinner, 8/10/1938: invitation; list for toasts. Printed and
ts. 2 l. (AL)
11/2/3 Newspaper cutting from The Yorkshire Post, 12/1/1962, on the Yorkshire Post
Literary Luncheon. (AL)
11/2/4/a-b Membership card for The International PEN Club. Original and photocopy.
1 l. (AL, RH)
11/2/5/a-b Postcard for New College, Oxford. Original and photocopy. 1 l. (AL, RH)
425/12 Miscellaneous
12/1 Photograph from 1901, found with the screenplay for Steel Saraband (see
425/3/5), but not related to it. (AL)
12/2 Compliments card from A A Eaglestone’s marriage to E Muriel Greaves, 2
Aug 1926. (AL)
12/3 Compliments card from A W Mayers’ marriage to Agnes Mary Bradwell,
26/7/1926. (AL)
12/4 Photocopy of AAE’s matriculation certificate, presented to him, autumn 1928,
as part of the formal process of his acceptance into membership of Oxford University as an
undergraduate student. (RH)
12/5 Flyer for Oxford Union Debate, 18 Oct 1928. Printed. 1 l. (AL)
12/6 Account for board and lodging, 19/11/1928 to 2/12/1928. [Some history notes
on verso.] Ms. 1 l. (AL)
12/7 Printed postcard to say that [George] Bernard Shaw does not carry out any
public engagements, and rarely gives lectures. Date from postmark: Dec 1931. (AL)
12/8 Two programmes for performances in April and May 1934, by the St
Michael’s Players, Castleford, of Roger Dataller’s “The prince of Obolo”. Printed and ts. 2 l.
(AL)
12/9 Pencil drawing: Roger Dataller, Mount Hawk, Cornwall, 1935, by A Geddes
Cruickshank (AL)
12/10 Postcard, from AAE to EME, showing people attending a summer school at
Aberystwyth (date from postmark: Aug 1936) (AL)
12/11 Order of service in memory of Rev Fred Sokell (8/2/1889 – 30/4/1960), at The
Old Chapel, Fulwood, Sheffield, 4 May 1960. Printed. 1 l. (AL)
12/12 Ticket for University of Manchester degree day, 3 July 1953. (AL)
12/13 Headed notepaper for Penny-a-Week Fund, Rawmarsh Committee (treasurer
and secretary: Mrs E M Eaglestone). Printed. 1 l. (AL)
12/14 Printed letter from E M Eaglestone, Patrons’ secretary, of Rawmarsh and
Parkgate District Nursing Association, 1948. Printed. 1 l. (AL)
425/13 Correspondence
13/1 Letters from AAE, when at Oxford, to EME
13/1/1 Undated and incomplete. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/1/2 Undated and incomplete. Ms. 3 l. (AL)
13/1/3 Undated and incomplete. Includes matriculation. Photocopy. Ms. 2 l. (RH)
13/1/4 Undated. Photocopy. Ms. 2 l. (RH)
13/1/5 Undated and incomplete. Photocopy. Ms. 2 l. (RH)
13/1/6 Undated. Photocopy. Ms. 1 l. (RH)
13/1/7 4/6/1929. Incomplete. Photocopy. Ms. 2 l. (RH)
13/1/8 June 1929. Photocopy. Ms. 4 l. (RH)
13/1/9 Undated. Photocopy. Ms. 4 l. (RH)
13/1/10 13/6/1929. Photocopy. Ms. 2 l. (RH)
13/1/11 18/10/1929. Photocopy. Ms. 2 l. (RH)
13/1/12 29/11/1929. Ms. 4 l. (AL)
13/1/13 26/5/1930. Incomplete. Photocopy. Ms. 2 l. (RH)
13/1/14 21/10/1930. Ms. 2 l. (AL)
13/1/15 2/11/1930. Incomplete. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/1/16 11/11/1930. Ms. 2 l. (AL)
13/1/17 25/11/1930. Ms. 2 l. (AL)
13/1/18 20/2/1931. Photocopy. Ms. 2 l. (RH)
13/1/19 9/3/1931. Photocopy. Ms. 1 l. (RH)
13/1/20 2/6/1931. Photocopy. Ms. 2 l. (RH)
13/2 Letters from EME to AAE, while he was a summer school tutor in
Aberystwyth. Probably all date from 1938
13/2/1 Two envelopes, undated, addressed to AAE. Ms. 2 l. (AL)
13/2/2 Undated. Ms. 4 l. (AL)
13/2/3 Undated, but refers to broadcast on 3/8/1938 of “The grasped nettle”. Ms. 1 l.
(AL)
13/2/4 Undated. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/2/5 Undated. Ms. 2 l. (AL)
13/2/6 Tues July 26 [1938]. Ms. 3 l. (AL)
13/2/7 Mon Aug 1 [1938]. Ms. 2 l. (AL)
13/3 Letters to AAE, in alphabetical order of writer
13/3/1 OS. 14/4/1931. Photocopy. Ms. 2 l. (RH)
13/3/2 A M Anderson. 9/7/1928. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/3 Reginald Bassett. 3 letters: 20/6/1928, 30/7/1928, 8/8/1928. Ms and ts. 7 l.
(AL)
13/3/4 Phyllis Bentley. 7 letters: 7/2/1939 (also a transcribed copy; see 425/13/4);
25/4/1939 (also a transcribed copy; see 425/13/4); 14/7/1949; 9/12/1949; 24/4/1951; 8/7/1954;
12/7/1954. Ts and ms. 7 l. (AL)
13/3/5 F C Boden. 2 items: undated letter; newspaper cutting of review of Boden’s
“Out of the coalfield”. Printed and ms. 3 l. (AL)
13/3/6 Fred Brameld. 17/8/1926, with “Sonnet : To Mr and Mrs Arthur Eaglestone on
their marriage” on verso. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/7 S H Brown [New College, Oxford]. Undated. Photocopy. Ms. 1 l. (RH)
13/3/8 Harry Casey. 21/1/1933, Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/9 Richard Church. 26/2/45. Photocopy. Ms. 2 l. (RH)
13/3/10 John Coghlan. 24/2/1934, re “A pitman looks at Oxford”. Ms. 2 l. (AL)
13/3/11 G D H Cole. 2 letters: 28/2/1930; 22/1/1933 (also a transcribed copy of full
letter, and of part of it; see 425/13/4). Ts and ms. 3 l. (AL)
13/3/12 Lettice Cooper. 4 letters: 9/9/1928; 13/9/1948 (also a transcribed copy; see
425/13/4); 2 Oct [no year]; undated. Ts and ms. 4 l. (AL)
13/3/13 Lena (?) Crowder. 9/10/1933, re “A pitman looks at Oxford”. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/14 Cecil Day Lewis. 7 Feb [no year] (also a transcribed copy; see 425/13/4). Ms.
1 l. (AL)
13/3/15 Doncaster Gazette. 17/2/1933. Ts. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/16 William Empson. 27/9/1954. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/17 B Ifor Evans. 4 letters: 5/7/1927 (also a transcribed copy; see 425/13/4);
7/7/1927 (also a transcribed copy; see 425/13/4); 27/8/1927 (also a transcribed copy; see
425/13/4); 22/12/1948. Ms. 4 l. (AL)
13/3/18 H A L Fisher. 4 items: 19/6/1928 (also a transcribed copy; see 425/13/4) (AL);
17/7/1928 (AL); 30/5/1929 (RH); 25/4/1931 (AL). Ms. 5 l.
13/3/19 John Galsworthy. 2 letters: 12/10/1928; 7/12/1931. Ms. 2 l. (AL)
13/3/20 W Gawthorpe. 3 letters: --/5/1928 (to EME); --/6/1928; 16/6/1928. Ms. 3 l.
(AL)
13/3/21 L Barbara Hammond. 13/8/1933 (also a transcribed copy; see 425/13/4). Ms.
1 l. (AL)
13/3/22 William Henderson, South Yorkshire Coalfields Mission. 27/3/1936, re
“Oxford into coalfield”. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/23 Raymond Holt. 2 letters: 21/1/1933; 18/2/1933. Ms. 2 l. (AL)
13/3/24 Storm Jameson. 9/11/1950. Ts. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/25 C M Joad. 2 letters: 7/3/1933; 13/3/1933. Ms. 2 l. (AL)
13/3/26 Rev Dennis Kemp. 1/9/1928. Ts. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/27 Fred Kitchen. 2/6/1947. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/28 S Koteliansky (The Adelphi). 31/5/1924. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/29 C S Lewis. Undated. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/30 F Machin. 19/6/1928. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/31 Manchester Guardian. 2 letters: 20/10/1927; 24/4/1936. Ts. 2 l. (AL)
13/3/32 H M Margoliouth [University Registry, Oxford]/ 15/11/1929. Ts. 1 l. (RH)
13/3/33 Violet Markham. 25/2/1926 (also a transcribed copy; see 425/13/4). Ms. 2 l.
(AL)
13/3/34 Mrs A Moss. Undated, re Sheffield Flood. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/35 K Muir. Undated, re “A pitman looks at Oxford”. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/36 Gilbert Murray. 15/10/1933 (also a transcribed copy; see 425/13/4). Ts. 1 l.
(AL)
13/3/37 Mary Murray. 15 items (includes one Christmas postcard jointly from Gilbert
and Mary Murray, and several letters addressed to EME): undated; 22/12/1930; 27/5/1931;
31/12/1931; 14/12/1932; 9/3/1933; 21/8/1933; 11/10/1933; 14/1/1934; Christmas 1934;
7/8/1936; 23 May [no year]; 25 Nov [no year]; 28 Feb [no year]; 22 Nov [no year]. Ms and ts.
19 l. (AL)
13/3/38 John Middleton Murry. 17 items: 31/7/1923; 15/10/1923; 27/10/1923;
19/11/1923; 27/1/1924; 19/2/1924 (also part of this has been transcribed; see 425/13/4);
17/3/1924; 3/6/1924; undated, but postmark is 28 Ju 1924; 4/11/1924; 2/1/1925; 5/1/1925;
7/3/1925; 12/6/1925; 14/3/1926; one dated 1 July; one undated. Ms and ts. 19 l. (AL)
13/3/39 Beverley Nichols. 28/1/1935. Ts. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/40 W Parkinson. 21/8/1928. Ms. 2 l. (AL)
13/3/41 E C A Pilkington. Undated. Ms. 1 l. (RH)
13/3/42 Rev R Martin Pope. 11/9/1929. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/43 J B Priestley. 2 letters: 9/2/1939 (also a transcribed copy; see 425/13/4);
12/4/1950 (also a transcribed copy; see 425/13/4). Ts. 2 l. (AL)
13/3/44 Arthur Quiller-Couch. 5/10/1934 (also a transcribed copy; see 425/13/4). Ms.
1 l. (AL)
13/3/45 A J J Ratcliff. 5 letters: 14/3/1935 (AL); 31/3/1935 (AL); 22/1/1939 [with
photocopy of figures and address from the back of page 2] (RH); 26/1/1939 (RH); 31/8/1939
(AL). Ms. 8 l.
13/3/46 Nora Ratcliff (wife of A J J Ratcliff). 2/3/1936. Ms. 3 l. (AL)
13/3/47 Dorothy Una Ratcliffe. 15/11/1938. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/48 Richard Rees (The Adelphi). 3 letters: 21/4/1931; 19/6/1931; 24/7/1931. Ms.
3 l. (AL)
13/3/49 A L R[owse]. 3 letters: July 7 [no year] (also a transcribed copy; see 425/13/4);
17 July [no year] (also a transcribed copy; see 425/13/4); 12 Oct [no year] (also a transcribed
copy; see 425/13/4). Ms. 3 l. (AL)
13/3/50 A Scott-Coates. 2 items: undated letter(AL); photocopy of undated postcard
(RH). Ms. 2 l.
13/3/51 Edith Sitwell. 19/7/1944 (also a transcribed copy; see 425/13/4). Ts. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/52 Osbert Sitwell. 6 letters: 17/6/1947; 21/6/1947; 25/6/1947; 29/6/1947;
1/7/1947; 2 Dec [no year]. Ms and ts. 6 l. (AL)
13/3/53 Alec H Smith. Letter re exemption from Responsions, 23/9/1928. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/54 B H Sumner. 29/7/1929. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/55 Frank Swinnerton. 11/5/1946 (also a transcribed copy; see 425/13/4). Ms. 1 l.
(AL)
13/3/56 R H Tawney. 3 letters: 7/9/1934; 17/11/1936 (also 2 transcribed copies; see
425/13/4); 27/11/1936. Ms. 4 l. (AL)
13/3/57 T Thompson. 2 letters: 6/7/1949; 8 July 1949. Ts. 2 l. (AL)
13/3/58 Geo[rge?] F Timpson. 30/3/1934. Ms. 2 l. (AL)
13/3/59 Philip Tomlinson (The Adelphi). Undated. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/60 Harry Walker. 25/11/1928. Ms. 2 l. (RH)
13/3/61 Joseph Whitehead. 14/3/1960. Ms. 1 l. (RH)
13/3/62 W E W[illiams] (The Highway). 22/2/1933. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/3/63 M(?) Wood. 2/8/1938. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/4 Envelope of notes and transcriptions
13/4/1 Envelope, with title “Copies of letters to AAE. Handwritten by IL [Isabel
Lockett] and EME”. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
13/4/2 List of items, mainly letters. Ms. 3 l. (AL)
13/4/3 Transcribed letters, with a few annotations. Ms. 17 l. (AL):
R H Tawney. 17/11/1936. See 425/13/3/56 for original
Edith Sitwell. 19/7/1944. See 425/13/3/51 for original
Lettice Cooper. 13/9/1948. See 425/13/3/12 for original
C Day Lewis. 7 Feb (no year). See 425/13/3/14 for original
R H Tawney. 17/11/1936 See 425/13/3/56 for original
Arthur Quiller-Couch. 5/10/1934. See 425/13/3/44 for original
Phyllis Bentley. 7/2/1939 (date given here incorrectly as 19/2/1939). See
425/13/3/4 for original)
G D H Cole. Fragment, undated. This is the last part of the letter dated
22/1/1933; the full letter has been transcribed later in these pages. See 425/13/3/11 for original
Frank Swinnerton. 11/5/1946. See 425/13/3/55 for original
H A L Fisher. 19/6/1928. See 425/13/3/18 for original
John Middleton Murry. 19/2/1924. Part only has been transcribed. See
425/13/3/38 for original full letter
Violet Markham. 25/2/1926. See 425/13/3/33 for original
A L R[owse]. 3 letters: 7 July; 12 Oct; 17 July. No year, but annotated
“Probably late 40s”. See 425/13/3/49 for originals
L Barbara Hammond. 13/8/1933. See 425/13/3/21 for original
G D H Cole. 22/1/1933. Transcription of full letter. See 425/13/3/11 for
original
Gilbert Murray. 15/10/1933. See 425/13/3/36 for original
J B Priestley. 2 letters: 12/4/1950 (date given incorrectly here as 18/4/1950);
9/2/1939. See 425/13/3/43 for originals
Phyllis Bentley. 25/4/1939. See 425/13/3/4 for original
B Ifor Evans. 3 letters: 7/7/1927; 27/8/1927; 5/7/1927. See 425/13/3/17 for
originals.
425/14 Newspaper cuttings
14/1 Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings. (AL)
14/2 Loose cuttings, found with the scrapbook:
14/2/1 Cuttings about AAE’s writings, including “The machine master”, “Steel
Saraband”, and broadcasts. Photocopies. [One article duplicated at 425/15/6/7] 5 l. (AL)
14/2/2 Cuttings about Yorkshire authors. Photocopies. 4 l. (AL)
14/2/3 Cuttings about Rockingham pottery. Photocopies. 3 l. (AL)
14/2/4 Originals of the loose cuttings found with the scrapbook. Copied, and at
425/14/2/1-3. (AL)
14/3 Further cuttings about Rockingham pottery, dating from November 1978.
Photocopies. 3 l. (RH)
425/15 Family papers
15/1 AAE’s library (for disposal)
15/1/1 List of books. Ms. 2 l. (AL)
15/1/2 Books selected by Ecclesfield bookseller. Ts and ms. 2 l. (AL)
15/1/3 Books sent to Oxford. Ms. 2 l. (AL)
15/1/4 Book information. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
15/2 AAE’s life and works
15/2/1 Envelope. (AL)
15/2/2 List of AAE’s works. Ms. 3 l. (AL)
15/2/3 Brief autobiography and list of works. Ts. 3 l. (AL)
15/2/4 List of works, compiled after his retirement from the post of Staff Tutor in
Literature with the Extramural Department of the University of Sheffield. Ts and ms. 1 l. (AL)
15/2/5 Bruce, Maurice. “A fair field full of the folks” : reflections on working-class
education in South Yorkshire. An extended version of the lecture delivered in the University
[of Sheffield] on 13 Nov 1974 by Professor Maurice Bruce, BA, FRHistS, Director of
Extramural Studies, the University of Sheffield. [AAE is mentioned on p 22] (AL)
15/3 Photocopy of “Notes on Roger Dataller, following ‘Booksearch’ enquiry in
The Guardian Weekly, 19/20 May 1990”, and letter to IL from Joan Robinson. Ts. 4 l. (RH)
15/4 Correspondence regarding Pat Gensavage, a student from Northern College,
Barnsley, and his project on Roger Dataller
15/4/1 Letter to EME from Dr John L Field, Northern College. 12/3/1984. Ts. 1 l.
(RH)
15/4/2 From the student to Mr Luckett (sic). Undated. Ms. 3 l. (AL)
15/4/3 From Isabel Lockett to the student. Undated. Ms. 3 l. (AL)
15/4/4 From the student to Mrs Luckett (sic). Undated. Ms. 2 l. (AL)
15/5 Correspondence, 1985, with Sunderland Polytechnic, regarding Dataller’s “A
Yorkshire Lad”
15/5/1 From Sunderland Polytechnic, 2/9/1985, to Andrew [Lockett]. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
15/5/2 From IL to Sunderland Polytechnic. Undated. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
15/5/3 From Sunderland Polytechnic, 3/10/1985, to IL. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
15/6 Further correspondence regarding “A Yorkshire Lad”
15/6/1 Rejection letter from The Bodley Head, 9/8/1985. Printed and ts. 2 l. (AL)
15/6/2 Note of the address of the Editorial Dept, Jonathan Cape Ltd. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
15/6/3 Notes on making the manuscript available at Rotherham Library. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
15/6/4 Correspondence, 1993, between Rotherham Central Library and IL, re an
approach by Crys Salt for information about South Yorkshire miners. Ts and ms. 3 l. (AL)
15/6/5 Correspondence, 1993, between Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum and IL,
re Rawmarsh Carnegie Library, and AAE’s connection with it. Ts and ms. 2 l. (AL)
15/6/6 Pages from Dataller’s “A Yorkshire Lad”, with annotations by IL: pp 24-25
(from Chapter 3, about working for his father); pp 47-54 (from Chapter 5, about working in the
steel works). [Possibly these are copies of material sent to Andrew Carnegie Birthplace
Museum. See 425/15/6/5] Ts with annotations. 11 l. (AL)
15/6/7 Newspaper cutting [Dec 1964]: Farnsworth, Keith. Breaking a long silence, a
local man once hailed as a second Dickens. 1 l. [Possibly this is a copy of the article sent to
Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum. See 425/15/6/5. Duplicate of item in 425/14/2/1] (AL)
15/7 Ray Hearne, WEA tutor/organizer, 1984: University of Leeds, Department of
Adult and Continuing Education dayschool, 12/5/1984, on Major Miner Writers
15/7/1 Correspondence regarding the dayschool. Ts and ms. 2 l. (AL)
15/7/2 Programme for the dayschool. Ts. 1 l. (AL)
15/7/3 Notes by IL on the talk by John Field on the Arthur Markham Prize, and the
talk by Anthony Grey on Fred Boden, Chesterfield miner and lyric poet. Ms. 1 l. (AL)
15/7/4 Notes by IL on the talk by Ray Hearne on The autobiographies of Roger
Dataller from Rotherham. Four copies, more or less identical, of the notes. Ts and ms. 5 l. (AL)
15/8 Ray Hearne, 1995: contribution to “Aspects of Rotherham”
15/8/1 Letter. 20/6/1995. Ray Hearne to IL, enclosing his chapter on Dataller, to be
included in Aspects of Rotherham, ed Melvyn Jones (published in Barnsley by Wharncliffe
Publishing). Ts. 10 l. 2 copies of this item. (Original donated by AL; photocopy donated by
RH)
15/8/2 Comments by IL on reading “Roger Dataller of Rawmarsh” by Ray Hearne,
for the forthcoming book “Aspects of Rotherham”. Dated 22/6/1995. Ms. 3 l. (AL)
15/8/3 Copy of letter. 22/6/1995. IL to Ray Hearne; includes copy of IL’s comments
[see 425/15/8/2]. Ms. 5 l. (RH)
15/8/4 Copy of letter. Undated. IL to RH. Ms. 1 l. (RH)
425/16 Addenda
16/1 CD of Ruth Hunt, oral history interview, undertaken by Hugh Escott,
24/10/2011.
Copyright granted – permission is in the correspondence file
16/2 Photocopies from folder held by Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield, with label
“C Boot. Sheffield Film. 506”
16/2/1 Newspaper cuttings and correspondence regarding the making of the film Hard
Steel. Dates 23/7/1937 to 10/4/1942. Printed, ts and ms. 57 l.
16/2/2 Hard steel. Screen play by Lydia Hayward, adapted from the novel Steel
Saraband by Roger Dataller. G H W Productions, D & P Studios, Denham, Middlesex. Ts. 115
l.
NB There is another copy of the screen play (which is more or less the same text, but with
some omissions and other small differences) at 425/3/5/1.
Items in exercise book at 425/5/2
The Old Foudroyant
Ballade of the S.S. “Bickerstaffe”
The Lay of the Last Echo
Voyage to Elysium
Second Visit to Renishaw
The Wentworth Sale
The Final Cabinet
The Deserted Workings
Mortgage
The Descent
A Small Leaf Growing Underground
The Coal Hisses
Sam’s Leg
Isolation
The Pottery (First Phase 1780; Second Phase 1820; Third Phase 1940)
The Vaubon Statuette
Legree (?) in Cortworth
Ballade of the Bold Musketeer
Five Characters in Search of an Author (Madame Schwellenburg speaks; Long John’s plaint;
The Man With No Name; In the Wilderness; An Eminent Augustan)
I Saw Irving
View From My Window
Night Shift
Saturday Afternoons
Wind in the Works
The Converted Cinema
Nocturne
A Contemporary Poet
Old Staffordshire
Dresden
The Sherwood Tale
[Untitled]
Items in notebook at 425/5/3
Page Title Notes
10 And even...
12 Music Dec 1920; “The Bookman” Jan 1921
14 Rondeau No 2 Steel Mill 3 am 1921
16 Vagrant Oct 1922; The Quarry
18,20 Furnaces “The New Leader” 1926
22 Sheffield – evening The Rotherham Car; Sheffield Weekly News
24 The Lady Evangelist
26,28 The Shanghai Consignment The Miner, 1923(or 1929) [date unclear]
30 The Piano “New Leader” Aug 1927
32 Night
34 Omniscient
36 Ballade of Good Sheffield Men
37 Cytheré [sic] Floreamus
38 Triolet The Evening School 1920
[Untitled, but also a triolet] The Pictures 1921
39 Return
40 The Wind in the Works
41 Le Concert : after Watteau
42 L’Indifferent : after Watteau Sunday Chronicle Journal 1927
43 L’Escamatuer (sic) : after Watteau
44 Sydney’s Song
45 Dresden
46 Les Huguenots Jan 1919
47 Triolet : a platonic credo
48 To a Certain Poet
49 Unaware
50 Metal
52 Invocation
54 She smiled this eve
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