Collection Dates: 1955 - 1989
15 linear ft.
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Posted to Internet: October 1998
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Table of Contents
Box 1 "Ad Ills" -- Armies of the Raj
Box 2 Armies of the Raj -- Burton
Box 3 Burton -- Eminent Victorian Soldiers
Box 4 Eminent Victorian Soldiers -- The Great War in Africa
Box 5 The Great War in Africa -- The Man Who Presumed
Box 6 The Man Who Presumed
Box 7 "A Matter of Growing Old" -- Prisoners of the Mahdi
Box 8 Prisoners of the Mahdi -- Queen Victoria's Little Wars
Box 9 Queen Victoria's Little Wars -- Stonewall
Box
10 Stonewall -- "Women Warriors"
Byron E. Farwell was born on June 20, 1921, in Manchester, Iowa. He attended Ohio State University and the University of Chicago. In 1968 he earned his M.A. from the University of Chicago. Farwell served in the military for seven years and saw action in both World War II and Korea. After the service, he worked as the director of public relations and later director of administration for Chrysler International from 1959 -- 1971. Byron Farwell was the mayor of Hillsboro, Virginia from 1977 -- 1981. He was a member of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Literature.
A respected military historian, Farwell was the author of several books on 19th and early 20th century British military colonialism including Eminent Victorian Soldiers, Prisoners of the Mahdi, Queen Victoria's Little Wars, and Mr. Kipling's Army. He published biographies of Stonewall Jackson, Henry M. Stanley, and Sir Richard Francis Burton. His numerous articles and reviews appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, American Heritage, Harper's, Horizon, Smithsonian Magazine, and many other periodicals. Byron Farwell was also a contributing editor to Military History and World War II as well as a contributor to Collier's Encyclopedia.
Farwell died Augustu 3, 1993.
The papers of Byron
Farwell measure fifteen linear feet and date from 1955 -- 1989. Arranged alphabetically
by subject, this collection consists primarily of his literary manuscripts.
Eleven of Farwell's books are represented in great detail, from their conception
right through the various drafts and galleys to the final page proofs. Some
of the books included are: Armies of the Raj, The Man Who Presumed, Prisoners
of the Mahdi, and Queen Victoria's Little Wars. Farwell's
other writings such as his book reviews, short stories, and articles are also
included. Subject files containing biographical information, a bibliography
of his work, correspondence, literary receipts, and real estate information
make up the rest of his papers.
"Ad Ills" Typescript draft
Armies of the Raj
Holograph and typescript drafts of book ideaHolograph notes
Typescript draft (4 folders)
Corrections
Illustrative material with corresponding galley proofs
Additional material to be added to the galley
Printer's proofs with printer's marks (3 folders)
Typescript of index with printer's marks
Page proofs with printer's marks
Blue-line proofs with printer's notes
Paste-up of page proofs (3 folders)
Uncorrected proofs (2 folders)
Armies of the Raj (cont.)
Uncorrected page proofs
Ball's Bluff
Correspondence, 1975 -- 1976Research notes
Holograph and typescript drafts of book idea
Holograph draft (2 folders)
Miscellaneous pages of holograph draft
Typescript draft with corrections (3 folders)
Incomplete typescript draft with revisions (2 folders)
Incomplete typescript draft with corrections and revisions
Bibliography of Byron Farwell's writing
Biographical material
Bodeen, DeWitt. Typescript of the screen adaptation of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for Climax, 1955
"Brass and Scrambled Eggs" Typescript draft
"The British Concentration Camps: Women and Children in the Boer War" Typescript draft
Burton
Correspondence1957 -- 19591960 -- 1978
Research notes
Bibliography, 1958
Chronologies
Typescript draft with corrections and revisions (2 folders)
Burton (cont.)
Typescript draft with corrections and revisions (2 folders)Miscellaneous pages of typescript draft
Correspondence relating to the Holt, Reinhart & Winston conflict, 1971 -- 1972.
De Camoens, Luis. "The Lusaids"
"Can Hillsboro Help New York?" Incomplete typescript draft
Clippings, 1987 -- 1989
Correspondence
1957 -- 19641965 -- 1969
1970 -- 1979
1980 -- 1989 and undated
"Diary of a Small Town Mayor" Typescript draft
"Diary of Mr. O. Jacobs" 16 mm film
"The Dinner Partner" Typescript draft
"The Dogs of Hillsboro" Holograph draft
"Elections in Hillsboro" Typescript draft
Eminent Victorian Soldiers
Incomplete holograph draftHolograph draft
Typescript draft with corrections and revisions (3 folders)
Miscellaneous pages of typescript draft with corrections and revisions
Typescript draft (2 folders)
Eminent Victorian Soldiers (cont.)
Typescript draftEdited typescript with printer's marks (2 folders)
Printer's typescript
Printer's typescript
Galley proofs (photocopy)
Page proofs (photocopy)
"Exurbia: The Den and Its Denizens" Typescript draft
Floppy disks for various manuscripts (2 folders)
"The Gay Gordon: The Story of a Highland Regiment" Holograph and typescript draft of book idea
"The Great American Bus Ride" Typescript draft
The Great Anglo - Boer War Correspondence, 1976 -- 1978
"The Great Indian Mutiny" Holograph and typescript drafts
"The Great Pennsylvania Tiger Hunt" Typescript drafts
The Great War in Africa
Research notesHolograph draft with corrections and revisions (2 folders)
Incomplete holograph draft
Incomplete typescript draft (2 folders)
The Great War in Africa (cont.)
Incomplete typescript draft (3 folders)Miscellaneous pages of typescript draft
Author's copy of the index
Printer's typescript (3 folders)
Galley proofs
Page proofs
"Growth in Loudoun County" Various typescript drafts
The Gurkhas
Typescript carbon of book ideaTypescript draft (3 folders)
Miscellaneous pages of typescript draft, holograph corrections, and references
"The H.S. Newspaper as Literature" Holograph draft
"The Lady with the Lamp" Holograph and typescript draft
"Learning to Count" Typescript draft
"Let the Punishment Fit the Society" Typescript draft
"Life of General Grant" Typescript draft of book idea and correspondence, 1976 -- 1978
Literary receipts, 1971 -- 1978
"Lovely Loudoun" Typescript draft with correspondence, 1986
The Man Who Presumed
Correspondence, 1955 -- 1959, 1971Research notes
Outline (carbon typescript)
The Man Who Presumed (cont.)
Notes for the typistTentative table of contents and outlines
Tentative table of contents and early typescript pages
Original typescript draft (3 folders)
Typescript drafts with corrections and revisions (5 folders)
Typescript carbon (3 folders)
Typescript carbon of assorted chapters
Typescript draft with editor's marks (3 folders)
Galley proofs
Galley proofs - master set
Page proofs
Title page layouts
"A Matter of Growing Old" Various typescript drafts
Miscellaneous holograph research notes
Miscellaneous pages of typescript draft from various works
Mr. Kipling's Army
Correspondence, 1976 -- 1981Holograph draft with notes (3 folders)
Printer's typescript with corrections and revisions (4 folders)
Galley proof with corrections
Page and galley proofs of index with corrections
Page proofs with corrections
Blue-line proofs (2 folders)
"Our Inarticulate Soldiers" Typescript draft
"Our 'Tac Nukes': A Hair Trigger on Nuclear War" Holograph and typescript drafts
"The Phantom Confederate Officer" Holograph and typescript drafts
"A Photograph from Brian O'Neil" Typescript drafts of a poem
Photographs rejected from various works
Prisoners of the Mahdi
Research notes and correspondence, 1962 -- 1978Holograph draft of book idea
Typescript drafts (3 folders)
Prisoners of the Mahdi (cont.)
Typescript draftsMiscellaneous holograph notes from the editor
Galley proofs
Galley proofs
Page proofs (2 folders)
Queen Victoria's Little Wars
Correspondence, 1964 -- 1968Research notes
Typescript draft of book idea and introduction
Typescript draft (3 folders)
Printer's typescript draft with corrections and revisions (5 folders)
Illustrations and selected bibliography (photocopy)
Galley proofs
Galley proofs
Queen Victoria's Little Wars (cont.)
Galley proofs of indexIncomplete page proofs
Incomplete page proofs with illustrations
Dust jacket
"Readiness" Typescript draft
Real estate, 1955 -- 1962
Reviews by Byron Farwell
A -- DE -- G
H -- M
N -- P
Q -- S
T -- Z
"A Second Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women; or Right On John Knox" Typescript draft
"1776 and All That" Typescript drafts
"The Singapore Mutiny" Typescript drafts
"Small Town People and Their Ways" Holograph draft
Speech: "Military History - Pre-20th Century" Holograph and typescript drafts
"Soldiers of the Raj" Incomplete typescript
Stonewall
Typescript draft of book ideaResearch notes
Editor's typescript with corrections and revisions (6 folders)
Page proofs with corrections and revisions (Master set, 1st pass) (2 folders)
Stonewall (cont.)
Page proofs with corrections and revisions (Master set, 1st pass) (2 folders)Page proofs with printer's marks (Master set, 2nd pass) (3 folders)
Page proofs (Master set, 3rd pass) (3 folders)
Page proofs (Master set, Confirmation) (3 folders)
Typescript of index with printer's notes
"'Stonewall' Jackson: An Appreciation" Speech, 1989
"A Summing Up" Typescript draft
"The Supply Officer" Typescript draft
"Thornton Wilder"
Typescript draft
"Uncle Ed's Great Parade" A guest column by Byron Farwell, New York Times Mirror, 1981
"The Unique, Fascinating, Inexplicable You" Holograph draft
Untitled book Holograph and typescript drafts, research notes, etc. (2 folders)
"Upheaval in Hillsboro" Holograph and typescript drafts
"A Use for History" Typescript drafts
"VPI Talk" Holograph draft
"Views from the Ridge" Typescripts of Farwell's columns
"War Comes to East Africa" Typescript draft
"Who's Responsible?" Typescript drafts
"Women Warriors" Typescript draft
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