| Reference Number | DSCAM/1/2/4 |
| Title | Material relating to W.C. Camm's interest in literature, history and culture |
| Description | DSCAM/1/2/4/1: File letters and telegrams received by Camm replying to his invitations on the part of the Dudley Literary Society to take part in its Shakespeare Commemoration, 2 Mar.-6 Apr. 1911; from Henry B. Irving, John Hare, Ellen Terry's secretary, Arthur W. Pinero, the Bishop of Birmingham, and George Bernard Shaw's secretary; copy of Camm's letter to Shaw. |
| DSCAM/1/2/4/2: File of letters and telegrams received by Camm replying to his invitations on the part of the Dudley Literary Society to take part in its Shakespeare Commemoration, 23 Feb.23 Mar. 1912; from Ellen Terry, Pinero and Hare; copy of Camm's letter to Hare; draft and copy of his letter to Pinero. |
| DSCAM/1/2/4/3-7: 'Dudley Shakespeare Commemoration and Presentation to Mr J.F. Timmins, 1906', reprinted from the 'Advertiser' of 28 Apr. and 5 May.; menu card for the Dudley Shakespeare Commemoration - dinner at the Station Hotel, 23 Apr. 1910, chaired by Camm as President of the Dudley Literary Society; notes for lectures and speeches concerning Shakespeare. |
| DSCAM/1/2/4/8: File of 3 letters from Martin Harvey, actor, to Camm, accepting invitation from Camm's Committee [Literary Society/ Shakespeare Commemoration], 6-12 Mar. 1912. |
| DSCAM/1/2/4/9-10: Letter to Camm from John Drinkwater [President of the Dudley Literary Society 1912-37], 38 Drayton Road, King's Heath, Birmingham, 4 May 1911; and postcard from Drinkwater in Los Angeles, California, 29 Dec. 1925. |
| DSCAM/1/2/4/11-12: Correspondence received by Camm from the Revd S.J. Marriott, Netherton (1906, 1917 and n.d.) re the Literary Society and Camm's lectures; translations by from Euripedes (Chorus from Alcestis) etc. |
| DSCAM/1/2/4/13: Camm's funeral oration 'A Remembrance' for the Revd S.J. Marriott, Vicar of Netherton, 1878-1923; 1923. |
| DSCAM/1/2/4/14: 'A View of the Renaissance' by Camm, read at a meeting of the Dudley Instituet Literary Society, 17 Nov. 1904; printed. |
| DSCAM/1/2/4/15-27: Fiction, prose and poetry by Camm (some dated). 'Wreckage'; 'The Match-Maker'; 'Slips up to Date or Paradise Lost re-written'; 'Two Musicians'; 'A Thread of Life'; 'A Desperate Flirt'; 'A Modern Courtship'; 'To Byron', various versions; 'Written after reading a summary of Mr H.H. Chilton's paper on Rudyard Kipling'; 'Words of Comfort'; 'A Poetical Epistle to the author of the verses "To Gertie"'; untitled, 1897. |
| DSCAM/1/2/4/28-53: Lecture notes of Camm (some dated). 'Matthew Arnold and Social Ideals'; 'The Poetry of Matthew Arnold'; 'Mr J.M. Barrie'; 'Byron: A Biographical Sketch'; 'Byron's "Child Harold's Pilgrimage"'; 'Carlyle's Heroes and Hero-worship'; 'A Fourteenth Century Collector' (Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham); 'Two Stories of M. Anatole France'; 'Mr John Galsworthy: Novelist and Dramatist' (two versions); 'The Novelsof Mr Thomas Hardy', note on 'Mr Hardy's "A Laodicean"', "A Pair of Blue Eyes", biographical notes on Hardy; notes on Samuel Johnson; 'An Evening with Keats'; Milton, incomplete; 'A New Poet: Mr Stephen Phillips'; 'Robert Louis Stevenson: An Appreciation'; 'The Dramas of J.M. Synge'; 'The Poetry of Lord Tennyson'; 'An Evening with Tennyson'; 'The Poetry of Tennyson'; 'Mary Webb'; 'The Stories of Sir Frederick Wedmore'; 'Mr H.G. Wells's "A Modern Utopia"'. |
| DSCAM/1/2/4/54-75: Lecture notes of Camm (some dated). 'A Chapter in the History of the Reformation'; 'Elizabethan England. Epilogue: Tendencies and Achievements'; 'Contributions to the Civilisation of Western Europe. Athens'; 'Europe's Debt to Athens'; 'The Fourth Gospel'; 'The French Revolution in English Literature'; 'The Function of Fiction'; 'A View of the Renaissance'; 'The Interpretation of Literature'; 'Literary Criticism'; 'Novels and Novel Reading'; 'The Personal Element in Literature' (Presidential Address to the Dudley Literary Society, 29 Oct. 1908); 'Persimion'; 'Phases of 19th Century England: The Essay'; 'The Poet and Poetry'; 'Some Aspects of Contemporary Fiction'; 'Some old Letters'; 'The Study of History'; 'The Study of Literature'; 'Victorian Literature: A Survey'; 'Words'; miscellaneous notes on words and their use. |
| DSCAM/1/2/4/76: 'Tossed on the Waves, or, a widow's trials and how she bore them', by the Revd Charles Dudley (London, John Dickenson, 1879); presented by the author to Mrs William Camm, 26 May 1880. |
| Date | 1880-1936 |
| Related Material | DL - records of Dudley Literary Soc. |
| Physical Description | acc. 681, 682, 684, 687, 688, 689 part, 690 |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 76 items |
| Level | Item |