E.V. Lucas Papers

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Introduction

	E.V. Lucas
	Contents
	Bibliography

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Catalogue

• Add. MSS 887/1/1-34
• Add. MSS 887/2/1-26
• Add. MSS 887/3/1-26
• Add. MSS 887/4
• Add. MSS 887/6/1-15
• Add. MSS 887/7-15
• Add. MSS 887/16-32
• Add. MSS 887/33-34
• Loose material found in volumes

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E.V. Lucas

A prolific essayist and author of almost one hundred books, E.V. Lucas was also a publisher, who in 1924 became chairman of Methuen & Co. Born of Quaker stock, he was educated at Friends Public School, Saffron Walden, and apprenticed to a Brighton bookseller, before moving into journalism. For many years he contributed more articles than any other writer to Punch, and he also had a long association with the Sunday times, in which his widely read weekly column “A wanderer's notebook” appeared. His publications ranged widely, including travel books, children's books, books on art, reminiscences, belles lettres, and writings on cricket, one of his foremost enthusiasms. He was also responsible for a three volume edition of the letters of Charles Lamb, whom he greatly admired, and it is as an essayist that he may himself be best remembered.

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Contents

A small collection of short published pieces by the author, publisher, and lover of cricket, Edward Verrall Lucas (1868-1938), letters from him to his sister and nephew, other family papers, pictures of him, recollections, correspondence, articles, extracts and cuttings about him, and lists of publications by him, gathered up by his nephew Colonel Andrew Man (1907-2000).

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Accession details

Part of a bequest of publications and other material by and about E.V. Lucas collected by his nephew Col. Andrew Man, and received via Col. Man's executor, Nicholas Man (accession Misc. 2001/2002:114). The bequest was primarily of books by and about EVL. Only books not already held by the University Library were acquired, and these have been incorporated in the Library's printed collections, and are listed in an appendix to the catalogue of the contents of Add.MS 887. Manuscript material found loose in the books has been added to the sequence after 887/35.

Access

One small group of family papers (Add. MS 887/7-14) is closed to consultation until 2021
Books by and about E.V. Lucas received in the bequest of Colonel Andrew Man (these have been incorporated in the Librarys printed collections)
Books with contributions by EVL
The Book of the Queen's Dolls' House, 2 vols (London, 1924), no. 593 of an edition of 1500 sets. Volume 1, ed. A.C. Benson & Sir Lawrence Weaver, with, loose inside, an autograph letter of thanks from Queen Mary to all the contributors, April 1924. Volume 2, “The Book of the Queen's Dolls' House Library ”, ed. by EVL.

Farmiloe, Edith, All the World Over, with verses by E.V. Lucas (London, 1898). Inscribed "Andrew Morrice Man, June 1911, in memory of his dear Uncle Alfred Lucas".

Fenwick, Mrs., The Bad Family and Other Stories, Second Edition, Dumpy books for children, 3 (London, 1900). [The series was ed. by EVL].

Lamb, Charles, The King and Queen of Hearts: an 1805 book for children, illustrated by William Mulready, facsimile edition with introduction by E.V. Lucas, (London, 1902). 2 parts. (EVL's introduction is bound separately, in paper wrappers). The facsimile is entitled The King and Queen of Hearts: with the Rogueries of the Knave who stole the Queen's Pies (London, printed for M.J. Godwin, at the Juvenile Library ...,1809). Imprint inside front cover 'Printed for Thomas Hodgkins Hanway Street Novr 18 1805.'

A Petworth Posie, arranged by Lady Leconfield for the Petworth Park Fete, 5th August, 1918, in aid of the Sussex County Prisoners of War Fund, pp. 29-31 (London, 1918). Includes (pp. 29-31) poem by EVL entitled “A letter to the editor ” and photograph of him. Also includes, loose inside front cover, plea from Lady Leconfield for subscriptions to the fund, and for 'adopters' of friendless prisoners.

Sussex County Cricket Club: Hove 1872-1972 (Hove, 1972). Includes, pp. 12-13, EVL's “County cricket at Hove”. Inscription of A.M. Man, EVL's nephew

Books by, or edited by EVL
Adventures and Misgivings (London, 1938)

Advisory Ben, A Story (London, 1923)

All of a Piece: New Essays (London, 1937).

---- And Such Small Deer (London, 1930).

Anne's Terrible Good Nature and other Stories for Children (London, 1908). Pictorial binding.

As the Bee Sucks: essays by E.V. Lucas , chosen and illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard (London, 1937).

The Barber's Clock, A Conversation Piece (London, 1931). With ms note on half title, identifying "Uncle Dan" on p.39 with Samuel Sceverts Drewett, EVL's uncle.

Bernard Barton and his Friends: A Record of Quiet Lives (London, 1893). With, on a loose leaf inside front cover, an extract copied from EVL's Reading Writing and Remembering (1932), providing background information about this book

A Boswell of Baghdad, with Diversions (London, 1917). Inscription of Beatrice Beaupré Dickson, Buenos Aires, 1918, and stamp of Mitchell's Book Stores, Buenos Aires.

The British School: An Anecdotal guide to the British Painters and Paintings in the National Gallery (London, 1913).

A Cat Book, portraits by H. Officer Smith, characteristics by EVL, Dumpy books for children, 6 (London, 1902).

Character and Comedy (London, 1907). Inscribed "To my dear Dora with love EVL" [Dora was EVL's youngest sister, and the mother of Colonel Andrew Man] and with her ownership inscription 'E.D. Man, the Vicarage, Tenterden'.

Chardin and Vigée-Lebrun (London, 1924).

Cloud and Silver (London, 1926). Ownership inscription of E.D. Man.

Cricket all his Life, Cricket writings in Prose and Verse by E.V. Lucas, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis (London, 1950). With editor's presentation inscription to Andrew Man, EVL's nephew, 1981

The Debt (London, Methuen, undated). [4 pp]

Down the Sky: An Entertainment (London, 1930).

Encounters and Diversions (London, 1924).

E.V. Lucas's London, Being “A Wanderer in London” and “London Revisited” in one volume, rearranged with new matter and new pictures, with coloured plates by H.M. Livens (London, 1926).

Events and Embroideries , Second Edition (London, 1928).

Forgotten Tales of Long Ago, selected by EVL, with illustration by F.D. Bedford. (London, 1906). Pictorial binding.

Frans Hals (London, 1926). With inscription of A.M. Man.

French Leaves (London, 1931).

The Friendly Town: A Little Book for the Urbane (London, 1905).

Genevra's Money, Fourth and Cheaper Edition (London, 1924).

The Gentlest Art: A Choice of Letters by Entertaining Hands, ed. by EVL (London, 1907).

Giorgione (London, 1926).

Giving and Receiving, Essays and Fantasies (London, 1922).

Good Company: A Rally of Men, ed. by EVL (London, 1909).

The Hambledon Men, being a new edition of John Nyren's “Young Cricketer's Tutor”, together with a collection of other matter drawn from various sources, all bearing upon the great batsmen and bowlers before round-arm came in, ed. by EVL (Oxford, 1952).

Harvest Home , Fourth Edition (London, 1919).

Her Infinite Variety: A Feminine Portrait Gallery , Fifth Edition (London, 1910).

A Hundred Years of Trent Bridge, ed. EVL (Worcester & London, 1938).

Hustled History or, As It Might Have Been, by the Authors of Wisdom While You Wait & Signs of the Times, illustrated by George Morrow (Bath, 1908).

If Dogs could Write, 5th Edition (London, 1930).

Introducing London, Second Edition (London, 1925).

Landmarks (London, 1914). With ms annotation by Andrew Man (EVL's nephew) on page 65, identifying "Uncle Ben" with Samuel Drewett, EVL's uncle. Flyleaf inscription of Sidney Penney, a relation of EVL.

Leonardo da Vinci (London, 1926). Inscribed "Christmas gift from M.B.S., December 15th, 1931".

Listener's Lure: An Oblique Narration, Eighth Edition (London, 1911).

A Little of Everything, Fourth Edition (London, 1913).

Loiterer's Harvest: A Book of Essays (London, 1913).

London Afresh , Second Edition (Illustrated), (London, 1937). Inscribed 'Andrew's from EVL Christmas 1937' in EVL's hand [i.e. gift to his nephew, Andrew Morrice Man], and with EVL inscription also on the title-page.

London Lavender (London, 1912).

Luck of the Year: Essays, Fantasies and Stories (London, 1923).

Masterful Wilhelmine, by Julius Stinde, presented to English Readers by E.V. Lucas, second and Cheaper Edition (London, 1927)

Michael Angelo (London, 1924). Inscribed "To Andrew [M. Man] from Uncle Edward", in EVL's hand.

Mixed Vintages: A Blend of Essays Old and New (London, 1919).

Old Fashioned Tales, selected by EVL, with illustrations by F.D. Bedford (London, undated). Pictorial binding.

Old Lamps for New, New and Cheaper Issue (London, 1915).

One Day and Another, Second Edition (London, 1909).

Only the Other Day: A Volume of Essays (London, 1936).

The Phantom Journal and other Essays and Diversions, Second Edition (London, 1920).

Pleasure Trove (London, 1935).

Post-Bag Diversions, ed. by EVL (London, 1934).

Quoth the Raven: an Unofficial History of the War, by EVL and G.M. With illustrations. (London, 1919).

Rembrandt (London, 1924).

A Rover I would be: Essays and Fantasies, Second Edition (London 1928).

Roving East and Roving West, Second Edition (London, 1921).

Saunterer's Rewards (London, 1933). With ownership inscription of E. Dora Man [EVL's sister] and, loose inside front cover, manuscript note in EVL's hand, later overwritten in another hand after a wetting which has faded the original ink “Corot lived to be 79 & his last words, late at night, Feb. 23 1875 were these 'Look! How lovely! I never saw such exquisite landscapes'. And so he entered Heaven where he is now, I trust, painting them”.

The Second Post: A Companion to "The Gentlest Art", Second Edition (London, 1910).

Signs of the Times; or, The Hustler's Almanack for 1907 , by the authors of Wisdom While You Wait [EVL and C.L.G.], with illustrations (London, 1907).

The Slowcoach (New York, 1930).

Some Friends of Mine (New York, 1909).

Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days and One More, being selections for every morning of the year from the writings of E.V. Lucas (London, 1926).

Traveller's Luck: Essays and Fantasies (London, 1930).

Twelve Songs From Playtime & Company, verses by EVL, music by Herman Finck, with dust jacket illustrations by E.H. Shepard (London, 1926). [Score]

'Twixt Eagle and Dove (London, 1918).

Van Dyck (London, 1926).

Variety Lane (London, 1916).

Velasquez (London, 1926).

Verena in the Midst, A Kind of a Story (London, 1920). Inscription of S. Penney, a relation of EVL.

Vermeer the Magical London, 1929).

The Vermilion Box London, 1916).

Visibility Good: Essays and Excursions, Second Edition (London, 1933).

A Wanderer in Holland , Seventeenth Edition (London, 1920).

A Wanderer in Venice, Sixth Edition (London, 1923).

Windfall' an Entertainment London, 1929).

Wisdom on the Hire System, Being a Supplement to “Wisdom While You Wait”. Containing Full Details of the 'Insidecompletuar Britanniaware' Prize Competition, by EVL and C.L.G. (London, 1903).

Zigzags in France and Various Essays (London, 1925).

Other associated volumes (Audrey Lucas was EVL's daughter)
Lucas, Audrey, E.V. Lucas: A Portrait (London, 1939). With inscription of A.M. Man.

Lucas, Audrey, Old Motley (London, 1938).

Summary catalogue of Additional Manuscripts

Bibliography

Lucas, Audrey, E.V. Lucas: a portrait (London, 1939)
Prance, Claude, E.V. Lucas and his books (West Cornwall, Conn., 1988)

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Catalogue

Add. MSS 887/1/1-34
Pieces by EVL, or edited by him

Add. MSS 887/2/1-26
Dates of creation: 1907-1938
Letters from EVL to his sister E. Dora Man, and one to her husband
Family news, affection for his sister and her children.
Includes:

Add. MSS 887/3/1-26
Dates of creation: undated and 1918-1935
Letters from EVL to his nephew Andrew Man, and related cards and correspondence kept with these by Andrew Man
Family news, encouragement with hobbies and invitations to shows in the school holidays, interest in his army career. Includes:

Add. MSS 887/4
Dates of creation: 1937-1938
EVL's death, 1938
Includes:

Add. MSS 887/5/1-14   1897-1935
Miscellaneous family papers and memorabilia
Includes:
Add. MSS 887/6/1-15
Photographs and caricatures of EVL
Includes:

Add. MSS 887/7-15
Recollections of EVL and correspondence about him

Add. MSS 887/16-32
Articles, cuttings and extracts about EVL

Add. MSS 887/33-34
Bibliographical lists

Loose material found in volumes