Ford Madox Ford collection | WorldCat.org
Correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, broadsides, bound manuscripts, photographs, and clippings, mainly spanning the period from the maturity of Ford's grandfather, Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown, to the death of Ford himself. Material from Ford's career ranges from unpublished novels and short stories of the 1890's and early 1900's to journal articles, literary reviews, lectures, addresses, and radio talks he wrote or delivered in the last 20 years of his life, including complete manuscripts of many published and unpublished novels, nonfiction books, stories, poems, plays, essays, and musical compositions. Included are the manuscript of "Seraphina," the basis of the novel Romance which Ford wrote with Joseph Conrad; manuscripts of Ford's novels The Fifth Queen , The Privy Seal , The Heart of the Country , The Young Lovell , and Women and Men ; a complete version and a "printer's copy" of The Good Soldier ; manuscripts of a number of Ford's nonfiction works, including his biography of Ford Madox Brown; and some issues of the literary magazines he edited, the English Review and the Transatlantic Review . The collection also contains galley proofs (9 leaves) with James Joyce's corrections of his Work in Progress , a fragment of Finnegan's Wake that appeared in the Transatlantic Review