Ben Duncan and Dick Chapman papers, 1939-2000

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Series II: Manuscripts and Publications, 1954-1973



Box 2 Angels' Faces


Box 2 The Family


Box 2 Little Friends



Box 3 Other Ways of Living



Box 5 Folder 25 List of previous submissions of his autobiography


Box 5 Folder 22 "My Antonia," a play in one act. 15 pages


Box 5 Folder 19 Jolly Journal


Box 5 Folder 20 Truly Yours. Play scenario, 5 pages



Box 3 Printed materials:


Box 3 Reviews of Little Friends


Box 3 Reviews of The Same Language


Box 3 Printed materials, miscellaneous


Box 3 Little Friends, , (1 bound volume)


Box 3 The Same Language, , (1 bound volume)



Box 4 Short Cuts: Using Texts to Explore English by Mel Calman and Ben Duncan


Box 4 Late Starter by Ben Duncan. Bound Mss of his autobiography, 226 pages



Box 5 Folder 26 The Thunderbird and The Sunday Journal Trends, 2000 October 29, November 5


BBC Writings:



Box 4 Folder 1 The Last Yank at Oxford by Ben Duncan in The Listener Volume LI, No. 1315, 1954 May 13


Box 4 Folder 2 The Last Yank at Oxford by Ben Duncan. Mss of playscript, 17 pages


Box 4 Folder 3 A Yank Among the Debs by Ben Duncan. Mss of radio-script, 8 pages, 1955


Box 4 Folder 4 Essay on post-WWII writers by Ben Duncan. Mss, 7 pages (with German printed version), 1955


Box 4 Folder 5 Drawn From Life by Ben Duncan. Mss of radio-script, 8 pages, 1956


Box 4 Folder 6 An Innocent in Greece by Ben Duncan. Mss of radio-script, 9 pages, 1961


Box 4 Folder 7 Woman's Hour From Cambridge No. 30, 8 pages and 6 pages, 27 November 1973


Box 4 Folder 8 Woman's Hour. Quote from In Cap and Gown, 3 pages (2 copies)


Box 4 Folder 9 Woman's Hour: Poetry on a Theme: Home, 8 pages


Box 4 Folder 10 Woman's Hour , 9 May 1973