J W Dunne Archive: JWD Box 4, containing: Complete manuscript of ‘An Experiment With Time’, mostly autograph with some typescript material

JWD Box 4, containing: Complete manuscript of ‘An Experiment With Time’, mostly autograph with some typescript material, with numerous deletions, insertions and additions (in wrappers marked ‘J.W. Dunne, Hotel Montfleuri, Territet’); typescript and autograph draft headed ‘This is a copy of the first rough draft of the book which I generally speak of as the ‘Time Book’ [‘An Experiment With Time’]. I have not yet found a satisfactory title’ and beginning ‘In the event of my death before the book is completed, it would be best, I think, to send one copy to Sir Oliver Lodge, and another to H.G. Wells, and be guided by their advice as to what should be done with the manuscript…’; 19 pocket books and a bundle of loose sheets containing notes for a projected book, with autograph note dated 3 July 1923 stating that the ‘memoranda contained in this packet of note-books relate to a once projected book which has now been abandoned …’, with page proofs of part of the first edition of ‘An Experiment With Time’ with a few authorial and proof-reader’s corrections, stamped 24 November 1926; Carbon-copy typescript of the French translation of ‘An Experiment With Time’, with covering letter by the translator Eugene de Veauce, 1945; typescript of T’he Serial Universe’, 116 pp. (incomplete); typescript of ‘The Only Miracle’ (article for the Daily Mail), with autograph notes on ‘return theories’; autograph draft of the ‘Miller Effect’, 1937, with note marked ‘Very Important’ and ‘This has been rewritten for “The New Immortality” and mistakes corrected’; accounts of dreams by correspondents, written in response to reading ‘An Experiment With Time’ 1938; bundle of letters sent to Dunne in response to his article on Dreams in the Daily Mail, 1938; two folders of correspondence with Dunne’s agents A.P. Watt and others regarding copyright, royalties, articles (mostly 1940s, including Cecily Dunne’s correspondence after Dunne’s death); correspondence including long letter by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. about ‘An Experiment With Time’, 5 December 1941, with autograph draft reply by Dunne; also draft letters by Dunne to various correspondents; correspondence with The Society for Psychical Research, 1932; folder of correspondence with A.P. Watt, Faber and others regarding ‘An Experiment With Time’, 1930s; file of correspondence between Cecily Dunne and Faber and others regarding Nothing Dies, 1949-50; correspondence with Eugene de Veauce and other translators of Dunne’s work; miscellaneous loose drafts and notes on various subjects (mostly Time), with numerous formulae (e.g. ‘coincidence formulae’), some marked ‘Very Important’ or ‘Possibly Very Important’; folder marked ‘Serialism – Notes of importance’ containing typescript and autograph draft notes; folder of typescripts and autograph notes for lectures (including television lectures) and isolated book chapters; folder containing autograph and typescript notes and drafts for the third edition of ‘An Experiment With Time’; small collection of printed material including journals, off-prints and a proof copy of a later edition of ‘An Experiment With Time’, 1939; other miscellaneous material, including a few letters, page proofs of ‘A Serial Universe’, drafts for ‘An Experiment With Time’ (some with numerous comments in blue and red pencil e.g. ‘Check and alter’ and notes on the second edition of ‘An Experiment With Time’