G.K. Chesterton Papers, Undated

Summary

Creator:
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936.
Abstract:

G.K. Chesterton was an English essayist, literary and social critic, novelist, and poet.

The collection includes 26 loose drawings, two small sketchbooks, an illustrated poem, and a separate single page of verse, all in Chesterton's hand. The drawings on the loose sheets are in pencil, colored pencil, pen, and charcoal; they are chiefly of fantasy figures, fairy tale subjects, and faces and heads. One of the sketchbooks contains thirty-three drawings of members of imaginary families, most of which are captioned with the names of characters and other information. The other sketchbook contains twelve drawings of miscellaneous figures in colored crayon or chalk with no captions. The illustrated poem is titled "The Discovery of Pine"; it consists of about seventy lines of verse with crayon and watercolor illustrations, on six pages. The separate single page of verse consists of dialog between "St. George" and two characters, "The Ruby King" and "The Emerald King."

Extent:
30 items
Language:
Materials in English
Library Catalog Link:
View UNC library catalog record for this item

Background

Biographical / historical:

G.K. Chesterton was an English essayist, literary and social critic, novelist, and poet.

Scope and content:

The collection includes 26 loose drawings, two small sketchbooks, an illustrated poem, and a separate single page of verse, all in Chesterton's hand. The drawings on the loose sheets are in pencil, colored pencil, pen, and charcoal; they are chiefly of fantasy figures, fairy tale subjects, and faces and heads. One of the sketchbooks contains thirty-three drawings of members of imaginary families, most of which are captioned with the names of characters and other information. The other sketchbook contains twelve drawings of miscellaneous figures in colored crayon or chalk with no captions. The illustrated poem is titled "The Discovery of Pine"; it consists of about seventy lines of verse with crayon and watercolor illustrations, on six pages. The separate single page of verse consists of dialog between "St. George" and two characters, "The Ruby King" and "The Emerald King."

Acquisition information:

Purchased from Peter Eaton, Booksellers, London, England, in 1966; transferred from the Rare Book Collection in 1981 and 1982.

Processing information:

Processed by: Tim West, July 1992

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, December 2020; February 2021

Sensitive materials statement:

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Access and use

Restrictions to access:

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to use:

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], in the G.K. Chesterton Papers #11029-z, Rare Book Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
200 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
(919) 962-3765
wilsonlibrary@unc.edu