The Work of Lionel Britton: Bibliography and Appendix

The Open University has now put my entire thesis online, which makes it much easier to read - without the lost attributes - here.

Please note, though, that the final paragraph of the second Introduction has now been found to be completely incorrect: Lionel Britton, the writer of Hunger and Love, never wrote a will: The University of Texas got the wrong Lionel Britton!

Key:

LBC — Lionel Britton Collection, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

HB — in the possession of Harry Berberian.

n. pg. — no page reference.

The place of publication of all reprints cited, unless otherwise stated, is the same as the first place cited.

Unless otherwise stated, all references in the ‘Southern Illinois University Sources (Unpublished)’ section are to Series 1: Correspondence.

Official Certificates — Births, Marriages and Deaths

Catherine Erskine Smith, birth certificate, 16 January 1839, 13 Caroline Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, scanned copy

John James Britton (solicitor) and Catherine Erskine Smith, marriage certificate, 20 January 1858, ‘the Parish Church’, Handsworth, Staffordshire, scanned copy

Richard Waddams Nimmo Britton, birth certificate, 28 February 1859, Gravelly Hill, Erdington, Warwickshire, certified copy

Samuel Thomas (needle manufacturer), death certificate, 6 September 1878, Prospect Hill, Redditch, Worcestershire, certified copy


John James Britton (solicitor) and Maud May Coward, marriage certificate, 13 April 1882, St Paul’s Church, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, certified copy

Richard Waddams Nimmo Britton (solicitor’s clerk) and Irza Vivian Geraldine Thomas, marriage certificate, 17 August 1885, Register Office, Birmingham, Warwickshire, scanned copy

Kathleen Ethel Ivy Britton, birth certificate, 13 June 1886, Astwood [Bank], Feckenham, Alcester, Worcestershire/Warwickshire, certified copy

Lionel Erskine Nimmo Britton, birth certificate, 4 November 1887, Astwood [Bank], Feckenham, Alcester, Worcestershire/Warwickshire, certified copy

Cyril Lancelot Douglas Britton, birth certificate, 31 May 1891, 207 Holdenhurst Road, Springbourne, Christchurch, County of Southampton, certified copy

Richard Waddams Nimmo Britton (solicitor), death certificate, 1 December 1894, Bradwardine, Branksome Terrace, Bournemouth, County of Southampton, certified copy

Francis Le Breton (gunner, Royal Navy, 3rd Company) and Irza Vivien [sic] Geraldine Britton, marriage certificate, 30 October 1897, Register Office, Portsea Island, County of Portsmouth, certified copy


Lionel Nimmo Erskine [sic] Britton (author and playwright), death certificate, 9 January 1971, Isle of Thanet District Hospital, Ramsgate, Kent, certified copy

Southern Illinois University Sources (Unpublished)

Acheson, Sinead, letter to Lionel Britton, 11 February 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 13 February 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 16 May 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 6 August 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 3


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 11 January 1941, LBC, Box 2, Folder 15


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 3 February 1941, LBC, Box 2, Folder 15


Albery, Bronson, letter to Lionel Britton, 11 June 1935, LBC, Box 2, Folder 11


Andrews, H. M., letter to Lionel Britton, 19 February 1960, LBC, Box 2, Folder 21


Angus, Alfred H., letter of reference about Lionel Britton, 4 September 1929, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


Assistant Comptroller [name obliterated], Lord Chamberlain’s Office, letter to Lionel Britton, 18 December 1933, LBC, Box 14, Folder 9


Attorney General [name illegible], letter to John Parker, House of Commons, 1 June 1970, LBC, Box 2, Folder 23


Beckett, John, letter to Lionel Britton, 24 January 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


Britton, Cyril, postcard to Irza Britton, [n. d.], LBC, Box 2, Folder 27


Britton, Irza, letter to Richard Britton, [n. d.], LBC, Box 2, Folder 29


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 6 August 1931, LBC, Box 2, Folder 4


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 18 June 1936, LBC, Box 2, Folder 13


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 17 September 1953, LBC, Box 2, Folder 18


Britton, John James, letter to Irza le Breton, 28 September 1897, LBC, Box 2, Folder 1


Britton, Lionel, ‘Caution to the Reader’, [n. d.], LBC, Box 6, Folder 1


——, ‘Hunger and Love’, mimeograph (hereafter MG), Volume 1, LBC, Series II: Drafts, Box 2, Folders 3–4


——, ‘Hunger and Love’, MG, Volume 2, LBC, Series II: Drafts, Box 3, Folders 1–3


——, ‘Hunger and Love’, MG, Volume 3, LBC, Series II: Drafts, Box 3, Folder 4 (one of two)


——, ‘Hunger and Love’, MG, Volume 4, LBC, Series II: Drafts, Box 4, Folder 1, (two of two)


——, ‘Hunger and Love’, typescript, LBC, Series II: Drafts, Box 4, Folders 2–3


——, ‘O. H. M. S.; or, How to Make God’, unpublished typescript, [n. d.], p. 15, LBC, Series II: Drafts, Box 10, Folder 9


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, 5 February 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, 11 February 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, 13 February 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, 18 February 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, 1 March 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, 2 May 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


——, letter to Herbert Marshall, 5 December 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 3


——, letter to H. G. Wells, 26 September 1931, LBC, Box 2, Folder 5


——, letter to Lord Chamberlain’s Office, 27 December 1933, LBC, Box 14, Folder 9


——, postcard to Sinead Acheson, 2 August 1934, LBC, Box 2, Folder 10


——, postcard to Sinead Acheson, 3 August 1934, LBC, Box 2, Folder 10


——, postcard to Sinead Acheson, April 1935, LBC, Box 2, Folder 11


——, postcard to Sinead Acheson, April 1935, LBC, Box 2, Folder 11


——, postcard to Sinead Acheson, April 1935, LBC, Box 2, Folder 11


——, letter to Herbert Marshall, 9 May 1935, LBC, Box 2, Folder 11


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, 17 July 1935, LBC, Box 2, Folder 12


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, 26 October 1935, LBC, Box 2, Folder 12


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, [1 November 1935], LBC, Box 2, Folder 12


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, dated 12 December 1925 [1935 (?)], Box 2, Folder 12


——, postcard to Sinead Acheson, 16 January 1936, LBC, Box 2, Folder 13


——, letter to Herbert Marshall, 18 January 1936, LBC, Box 2, Folder 13


——, postcard to Sinead Acheson, 21 March 1936, LBC, Box 2, Folder 13


——, postcard to Herbert Marshall, 25 April 1936, LBC, Box 2, Folder 13


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, 6 May 1936, LBC, Box 2, Folder 13


——, postcard to Herbert Marshall, 18 May 1936, LBC, Box 2, Folder 13


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, 26 May 1936, LBC, Box 2, Folder 13


——, letter to Herbert Marshall, [17 December 1937], LBC, Box 2, Folder 14


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, [1937 (?)], LBC, Box 2, Folder 24 (14?)


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, [1937 (?)], LBC, Box 2, Folder 24


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, [1937 (?)], LBC, Box 2, Folder 24


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, 3 May 1941, LBC, Box 2, Folder 16


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, May 1941, LBC, Box 2, Folder 16


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, 14 July 1941, LBC, Box 2, Folder 16


——, postcard to Sinead Acheson, 23 September 1941, LBC, Box 2, Folder 16


——, letter to Ivor [surname not given], 2 September 1942, LBC, Box 2, Folder 16


——, day book, 1944[–45], LBC, Box 8, Folder 2


——, scrapbook about the Society of Authors, [c. 1950s], LBC, Box 8, Folder 3


——, application for Civil List funds pension or grant, 4 January 1951, LBC, Box 13, Folder 13


——, ‘Lionel Britton’, manuscript, [c. 1960s], LBC, Box 1, Folder 1


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, 20 September 1967, LBC, Box 2, Folder 22


——, letter to the Clerk of the County Court, 9 August 1969, LBC, Box 2, Folder 23


——, letter to Sinead Acheson, [n. d.], LBC, Box 2, Folder 24


——, ‘Lionel Britton’, typescript, [n. d.], LBC, Series II: Box 6, Folder 1


Brown, A., letter to Lionel Britton, 4 February 1949, LBC, Box 2, Folder 17


Buttitta, Anthony J., letter to Lionel Britton, 5 November 1931, LBC, Box 2, Folder 5


Dubowski, A., letter to Lionel Britton, 28 June 1932, LBC, Box 2, Folder 7


Edbrooke, John, letter to Lionel Britton, 14 January 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


Edwards, Kathleen, letter to Lionel Britton, 27 March 1935, LBC, Box 2, Folder 11


Ejov, A. G., letter to Lionel Britton, 23 January 1936, LBC, Box 2, Folder 13


Foyle, Christina, letter to Lionel Britton, 3 November 1931, LBC, Box 2, Folder 5


Gielgud, Val, letter to Lionel Britton, 17 June 1947, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


Gordon–Campbell, D., letter to Lionel Britton, 16 February 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


Gorski, Rebecca, ‘Scope and Content Note’, ‘Hunger and Love Materials’, 2004, LBC


——, ‘Biographical Sketch’, p. 3, [2004], LBC


Hamilton, James, letter to Lionel Britton, 2 November 1931, LBC, Box 2, Folder 5


Heaton, S. W., letter of reference about Lionel Britton, 18 November 1918, Box 2, Folder 2


Henle, James, letter to Lionel Britton, 22 October 1931, LBC, Box 2, Folder 5


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 16 November 1931, LBC, Box 2, Folder 5


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 25 November 1931, LBC, Box 2, Folder 5


Hoare, Frederick A., letter to Lionel Britton, 6 June 1967, LBC, Box 2, Folder 22


Huntington, C. J., letter to Lionel Britton, 2 June 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 3


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 11 November 1931, LBC, Box 2, Folder 5


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 24 June 1940, LBC, Box 2, Folder 14


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 12 April 1945, LBC, Box 2, Folder 17


[Huntington, C. J.], ‘Hunger and Love’, typed Introduction (fragment), [c. 1930–1], LBC, Series II: Drafts, Box 2, Folder 2


Jones, Gwyn, letter to Lionel Britton, 29 October 1938, LBC, Box 2, Folder 14


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 27 September 1939, LBC, Box 2, Folder 14


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 29 February 1940, LBC, Box 2, Folder 14


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 5 March 1940, LBC, Box 2, Folder 14


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 31 March 1940, LBC, Box 2, Folder 14


Looker, S., letter to Lionel Britton, 19 December 1929, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


Marshall, Herbert, letter to Lionel Britton, 20 July 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 3


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 1 October 1936, LBC, Box 2, Folder 13


Martin, David, letter to Lionel Britton, 17 April 1934, LBC, Box 2, Folder 10


Mayhew, A. H., letter of reference to Irza Britton about Lionel Britton, 18 November 1918, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


Morton, A. L., letter to Lionel Britton, 27 May 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


Mourilyan, John, letter of reference, 15 March 1890, LBC, Box 6, Folder 1


Perkins, Thomas, letter of reference, 13 February 1888, LBC, Box 6, Folder 1


Richardson, Maurice, letter to Lionel Britton, 14 May 1945, LBC, Box 2, Folder 17


Rust, William, letter to Lionel Britton, 31 July 1931, LBC, Box 2, Folder 5


Sadleir, Michael, letter to Lionel Britton, 11 January 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 7 March 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


Selver, Paul, letter to Lionel Britton, 12 May 1932, LBC, Box 2, Folder 7


Shaw, Bernard, letter to Sir Barry Jackson, 16 September 1929, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


Spielmann, M. H., letter to Lionel Britton, 5 January 1932, LBC, Box 2, Folder 6


Symons, Leonard J., letter to Lionel Britton via The Film Guild of London, October 1929, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


Thomas, Cecil, letter to Lionel Britton, 6 June 1964, LBC, Box 2, Folder 21


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 16 June 1964, LBC, Box 2, Folder 21


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 7 August 1964, LBC, Box 2, Folder 21


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 12 August 1964, LBC, Box 2, Folder 21


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 3 September 1964, LBC, Box 2, Folder 21


——, letter to Lionel Britton, 18 November 1964, LBC, Box 2, Folder 21


Tilsley, Frank, letter to Lionel Britton, [1930s], LBC, Box 2, Folder 28


Tommy (‘the penny roll’), 24 April 1923, LBC, Box 2, Folder 2


Tresgrave, S. A., letter to Lionel Britton, 24 June 1932, LBC, Box 2, Folder 7


War Damage Commission, letter to Irza Britton, 24 October 1958, LBC, Box 2, Folder 20


Warman, Erik, ‘Life and Lionel Britton’, typescript, [1932(?)], [pp. 2–3], LBC, Box 6, Folder 1


Whitmore, George G., letter to Lionel Britton, 10 September 1930, LBC, Box 2, Folder 3

Southern Illinois University Sources (Published)

Acheson, Sinead, letter, ‘Is Genius Androgynous?’, Everyman, 1 April 1933, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 10


Aldington, Richard, ‘Books of the Play’, Sunday Referee, 8 June 1930, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 13, Folder 15


Alistair, cartoon, ‘Not The Editor of the Review: Comrade Lionel Britton’, Granta, 20 November 1931, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 6, Folder 11

Anonymous, ‘Dramatist Condemns his Own Play: “Back to Methuselah” Criticised by “G. B. S”: “Crude”: Young Playwright’s Name Commended in a Letter’, Sunday Referee, 16 March 1930, p. 1, Box 12, Folder 11

——, ‘Young Playwright’s Romance: Work in Factory at Age of 13; Fame at 30: Mr. Shaw’s “Find.”’, Daily News and Westminster Gazette, 18 March 1930, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, F11

——, ‘I’m Going to Be a Great Man — Greater Even than Shaw’, Pearson’s Weekly, 22 October 1930, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 11

——, flier, ‘Hunger and Love: The Great Proletarian Novel by Lionel Britton with an Introduction by Bertrand Russell’, [1931], LBC, Box 4, Folder 3

——, ‘Censorship Act: Latest List of Banned Books’, Cork Weekly Examiner, 14 March 1931, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 10

——, ‘Spate of Hate: Views of a Young Anarchist’, Morning Post, 17 March 1931, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 10

——, ‘“Hunger and Love” and the Critics’, Black Hat, May 1931, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 10

——, ‘G. B. S. and Eve in a Play: The Audience Requested to Laugh at It: Road Smash Symbol: Lionel Britton, the Author Who Won’t Be “Cut”’, Star, 3 August 1931, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 10

——, leaflet advertising Spacetime Inn, [1932], [n. pg.], LBC, Box 8, Folder 5

——, leaflet, ‘The Arts Theatre Club Presents Spacetime Inn by Lionel Britton’, [1932], [n. pg.], LBC, Box 8, Folder 11

——, ‘Mr. Lionel Britton’, Pitman’s Journal of Commercial Education, 2 June 1934, p. 395, LBC, Box 6, unnumbered folder

——, Left Theatre, [n. d.], p. [7], LBC, Box 6, unnumbered folder

——, ‘Lionel Britton Ran — P. C. Suspected’, Daily Herald, [n. d.], [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 11

——, ‘Mr. Shaw as a Critic: Cryptic Comment on Work of Fellow Author: Potted History’, [n. pub.], [n. d.], [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 10

Bennett, Arnold, ‘Young Man’s Novel Slaps your Cheek: Ferocious Hatred’, Evening Standard, 26 February 1931, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 18, Folder 3

Britton, Lionel, ‘An Errand-Boy’s Philosophy’, Star, 29 April 1930, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 11

——, letter, ‘Should Authors Be Paid?’, Everyman, 4 December 1930, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 10

——, ‘Anarchists at Whiteway’, Contempo: A Review of Books and Personalities, 15 November 1931, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 6, Folder 11

——, ‘The Mind of a Ragamuffin’, Clarion, May 31, p. 139, LBC, Box 12, Folder 10

——, ‘Hunger and Love’, Stork, [c. 1931], pp. 12–14, LBC, Box 6, unnumbered folder

——, ‘Politics for the Higher Animals’, Forge: Towards Socialist Culture, October 1932, pp. 8–10, LBC, Box 6, Folder 11

——, ‘The Theatre in Revolt’, New Clarion, 27 May 1933, p. 492, LBC, Box 7, Folder 1

——, ‘The Current Theatre’, New Clarion, 3 June 1933, p. 504, LBC, Box 7, Folder 1

——, ‘Workers’ Art on the Theatre’, New Clarion, 9 September 1933, p. 223, LBC, Box 7, Folder 1

——, ‘Lionel Britton Sees “On the Rocks” — Shaw’s New Play’, New Clarion, 9 December 1933, p. 7, LBC, Box 7, Folder 1


——, ‘Shaw’s On the Rocks II: So This Is Downing Street!’, New Clarion, 23 December 1933, p. 42, LBC, Box 7, Folder 1

‘C’, ‘Philosophic Drama: A Very Extraordinary Play’, Sheffield Telegraph, 6 June 1935, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 10

Empson, William, ‘Proletarian Literature’, Scrutiny, March 1935, 332–38, LBC, Box 12, Folder 11

The Film Guild of London, newsletter, [n. d.], LBC, Box 6, ‘other programs, newsletters’

Garry, Stephen, ‘“Hunger and Love”: The Story of a DEAD Worker’, Daily Worker, 28 March 1931, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 10

Henderson, Philip, ‘The Crisis in Twentieth-Century Literature — IV: Middle-Class Communists and Proletarian Writers’, Eleventh Hour, 12 June 1935, pp. 91–92, LBC, Box 12, Folder 11

Horrabin, J. F., letter, New Clarion, 18 November 1933, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 9

‘J. L. L.’, ‘Hunger and Love: By Lionel Britton’, Johannesburg Sunday Times, 19 April 1931, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 10

Joad, C. E. M., ‘Future of the Human Race: “Brain” — A Brilliant Dramatic Philosophy of Life’, Sunday Referee, 27 April 1930, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 11

Kelly, Harold, ‘At Spacetime Inn’, City Mid-Week, 12 October 1932, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 18, Folder 2

Languish, Lydia, ‘A New Utopia: Mr Lionel Britton’s Ideal Civilisation: All Exceptional Men: Bishops, Bourgeoisie, and Booksellers’, John O’ London’s Weekly, 21 February 1931, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 10

Marshall, H. P. J., ‘Towards the Human: Lionel Britton — A New Force in the World of Thought’, New World, May 1930, p. 10, LBC, Box 12, Folder 11 (also Box 6, unnumbered folder)

Nicolson, Harold, ‘Nightmare Novel of an Author Who “Likes to Snarl”’, Daily Express, 19 February 1931, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 11

Norman, C. H., ‘The Revolutionary Spirit in Modern Literature and Drama — xii’, Saturday Review, 26 November 1936, p. 3, LBC, Box 12, Folder 10

Porter, Vernon H., ‘Lionel Britton’, Centurion, October 1930, pp. 8–9, LBC, Box 6, Folder 11

Rees, George, ‘An Epic of Hatred’, Egyptian Gazette, 28 January 1932, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 10

‘R. H. T’, ‘Brain’, Manchester Guardian, 26 June 1930, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 13, Folder 15

Suthers, R. B., ‘Big Noises off — and on: Spacetime Inn at Hoddesdon: Lionel Britton’s Waxworks Spend a Week-end at the Youth Hostel’, New Clarion, 2 December 1933, p. 421, LBC, Box 7, Folder 1

Swaffer, Hannen, ‘Play to Be Read in Commons: Whole Action in Flash: Only Clever M. P.s Will Know What It’s About!’, [n. pub.], [c. 1932], [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 10

——, ‘Yes, I Meet Some Queer [Folk (?): cutting incomplete]: The M. P. Who Was a Lion-Tamer’, People, 14 June 1931, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 10

Swinnerton, Frank, ‘A Hero of Colossal Cheek!’, [n. pub.], [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 11

Various, flyer, ‘Lionel Britton’s Spacetime Inn’, LBC, Box 6, other programs, newsletters

West, Rebecca, ‘The Exasperating Egotism of Lionel Britton’, Daily Telegraph, 20 February 1931, [n. pg.], LBC, Box 12, Folder 11

General Sources (Unpublished)

Britton, Lionel, letter to Winifred Holtby, 29 January 1933, Winifred Holtby Collection, Hull Local Studies Library

——, note to Winifred Holtby, [c. 1933], Winifred Holtby Collection, Hull Local Studies Library

——, letter to Bertrand Russell, [n. d., 1950s (?)], HB

——, letter to Bertrand Russell, 28 November 1955, HB

——, letter to Bertrand Russell, 30 January 1956, HB

——, letter to Bertrand Russell, 11 February 1956, HB

——, letter to Bertrand Russell, 14 February 1956, HB

——, letter to Bertrand Russell, 18 February 1956, HB

——, letter to Bertrand Russell, 19 March 1956, HB

——, letter to Bertrand Russell, 21 March 1956, HB

——, letter to Bertrand Russell, 2 April 1956, HB

——, letter to Bertrand Russell, 20 April 1956, HB

——, letter to Bertrand Russell, 22 May 1956, HB

——, letter to Bertrand Russell, 10 July 1956, HB

——, letter to Bertrand Russell, 16 August 1956, HB

——, letter to Bertrand Russell, 10 June 1969, HB

——, letter to Bertrand Russell, 18 June 1969, HB

Croft, Andrew, ‘Socialist Fiction in Britain in the 1930s’ (doctoral thesis, University of Nottingham, 1985)

Macleod, Alison, letter to the present author, 2 January 2003

Morris, Mollie, ‘When All the Trees Were Green’, typescript, c. 1980, in the possession of Barbara Cast

Russell, Bertrand, letter to Lionel Britton, 6 March 1930, HB

——, letter to Lionel Britton, 26 April 1930, HB

——, letter to Lionel Britton, 21 October 1933, HB

——, letter to Lionel Britton, 23 May 1948, HB

——, letter to Lionel Britton, 16 June 1948, HB

——, letter to Lionel Britton, 21 June 1948, HB

——, letter to Lionel Britton, 3 December 1948, HB

——, letter to Lionel Britton, 13 December 1948, HB

——, letter to Miss Barber, 8 February 1956, HB

——, letter to Miss Barber, 15 February 1956, HB

——, letter to Lionel Britton, 20 March 1956, HB

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Appendix

Hunger and Love: The Chapter Titles and Numbers

Key:


TL Title list

TL(R) Title list revisions


TS Typescript

TS(R) Typescript revisions

Om. Omission

< > Deletion

Below I list the chapter titles of different states of Hunger and Love. The first of each of the titles listed, contained within the closing square bracket, is that of the chapter of the FC as it appears on the chapter header; the chapter number precedes the title. The titles outside the bracket apply to any variants of the chapter titles in earlier states of the novel, and where a state (TL, TL(R), TS or (TS(R)) is identical to the FC, it is not included in the list. Britton provisionally numbered the ‘Paradise’ chapter (later re-titled ‘Columbus of the Mind’) ‘3a’, and also omitted to re-number his chapters following the insertion of the final chapter he actually wrote, ‘Romance and Reality’, between Chapters 29 and 30, thereby giving two chapters numbered ‘30’ in both the TL(R) and the TS. For these reasons, I have numbered the earlier chapters below in accordance with their true sequence, using square brackets from Chapter 3a (now [4]) onwards. Where more that one chapter title and number is given with the FC this is usually because Britton has created one or more divisions from within the chapters of the earlier states. All significant punctuation differences have been included.


1 The Rat Comes Out of his Hole] Poetry, Pot’erbs and Smells TL

2 Mind-Mining] Mind Mining TL

3 The Sack] Om. TS The Sack. TS(R)

4 Columbus of the Mind] [4] Om. TS

5 Dust 6 Come and Kiss Me] [5] Come and Kiss Me TL Om. TS Come and Kiss Me TS(R)

7 Nose Drip and Knowledge] [6] x and y TL Om. TS x and y TS(R)

8 Into the Night] [7] Om. TS The Other World TS(R)

9 A Song of Sixpence] [8] Om. TS A Song of Sixpence TS(R)

10 Mind Where you Tread] [9] Mind Where you Tread….. TL Om. TS Mind where you Tread! TS(R)

11 The Space-Time Franchise] [10] Om. TS

12 A Couple o’ Bob] [11]

13 Knackered] [12] Where we Stand TL Where we stand TS

14 Love in the Lavatory] [13] W. C. TL Om. TS W.C. TS(R)

15 Second Order Differences] [14] Being Artful TL Om. TS Being artful TS(R)

16 The Timescape] [15]

17 Gap] [16] Om. TS

18 Pilf] [17] Om. TS

19 Fourth Dimension] [18] The Fourth Dimension TL Om. TS The Fourth Dimension TS(R)

20 That—is Life] [19] That, – is life TL Om. TS That, – is life TS(R)

21 The Gentle Dust from Heaven] [20] Four foot per century TL Om. TS Four foot per century TS(R)

22 A Bit of Cant] [21]

23 Off the Chain] [22] One Damn thing after another TL Om. TS One damn thing after another TS(R)

24 Contact] [23]

25 The Recipe for Greatness] [24] How it is done TL Om. TS How it is done TS(R)

26 Raison d’Etre] [25] If I had Dreams to sell TL TS(R)

27 Why?] [26] Dans cette galère TL Om. TS Dans cette galère TS(R)

28 Criterion] [27] Om. TS

29 The Electric Torch of Diogenes] [28] Om. TS

30 Lamp-Post Sniffing] [29] Om. TS

31 All Balls 32 Unidimensional—or Super- Dimensional? 33 Sinister] [30] Sinister TL Sinister TS

34 Romance and Reality] [31]

35 WhatEvolution is Up to] [32] Hunger & Love TL Rolls through all things TL(R) Om. TS Rolls through all things. TS(R)


36 The Origin of Will 37 The Human 38 Belly and Sex-Organ] [33] Hunger & Love TL Hunger and Love TS

39 The Mass Production of Genius] [34]

40 Lost 41 The Relativity of the Ego] [35] Relativity of the Ego TL

42 Towards Infinity] [36] Om. TL