Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives. Archie Henderson

      [0532] Anna Chennault Papers, 1939-2004, MC 552

      Location: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 3 James St, Cambridge, MA 02138

      Description: Anna Chennault (1923- ) is an author, lecturer, business consultant, and citizen-diplomat. Series IV, Correspondence, 1940-1998, n.d. (#36.13-45.4, 80.3-85.15), contains correspondence with Gerald Ford, Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Strom Thurmond. Series V, Alphabetical Files, 1941-2001, n.d. (45.5-79.13, 79.15), contains files on Barry Goldwater, Orrin Hatch, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Republican Party: National Republican Heritage Groups, Strom Thurmond, Voice of America, and World Anti-Communist League.

      Websites with information:

      http://guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_republican

      http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/allFindingAids?_collection=oasis

      Finding aids:

      http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch01118

      http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=sch01118

      [0533] Arthur Kenneth Chesterton Papers, ca 1880-2012, GB 1128

      Location: University of Bath Library, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom

      Description: A.K. Chesterton (1899-1973) was a British politician, journalist, and solider. By 1933, fully committed to extreme right-wing politics, Chesterton joined the British Union of Fascists quickly becoming one of its leading spokesman and editor of Blackshirt. Critical of the methods employed to attain its ideals, and of what he saw as weak leadership, Chesterton resigned from the Union in 1938. On the outbreak of World War II, he volunteered for active service and was sent to northern Kenya. In 1954 Chesterton established the League of Empire Loyalists, a political pressure group whose direct action stunts and 'interventions' received widespread publicity and attracted the attention of a new generation of fascists, nationalists and right-wing extremists. In 1967 when the League merged with the British National Party, the Greater Britain Movement, and the Radical Preservation Society to form the National Front, Chesterton was invited to become its first chairman. The collection contains material relating to various aspects of Chesterton's later life including interviews with colleagues and his widow, examples of his literary, journalistic and political writings, and copies of his view-sheet, Candour. Correspondents include the British Union of Fascists, Britons Publishing Company, Rosine De Bounevaille, Aidan Mackey, Oswald Mosley, The National Front, Douglas Reid, and Thomas Serpico (Omni Publications). Includes publications of the League of Empire Loyalists.

      Reference:

      Paul Stocker, "'Dark and Sinister Powers': Conspiracy Theory and the Interwar British Extreme Right," CFAPS Newsletter (Centre for Fascist, Anti-Fascist and Post-Fascist Studies, Teesside University), Volume 2 (Summer 2015), pp. 6-7, https://www.tees.ac.uk/docs/DocRepo/Research/­CFAPS%20Newsletter%20­2015.pdf.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/services/archives/chesterton.html

      https://web.archive.org/web/20131003052431/http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/about/collections/archives/c

      hesterton.html

      https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/ead-display/-/ead/pl/aicode/GB-1128/type/fa/id/gb1128chesterton

      http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/accessions/2009/09digests/politics.htm

      http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb1128-chesterton

      http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb1128-chesterton.txt

      http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb1128-chesterton.pdf

      Finding aid:

      http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/services/archives/chesterton-complete-catalogue.pdf

      [0533a] G.K. Chesterton Autobiography [1936], GKC

      Location: University of Notre Dame Archives, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556

      Description: Bound typewritten manuscript of Chesterton's autobiography, with autograph corrections.

      Finding aid:

      http://archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/xml/gkc.xml

      [0533b] G. K. Chesterton Collection, 1889-1944 (bulk 1905-1936)

      Location: Archives and Manuscripts, John J. Burns Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3801

      Description: G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English author and artist who edited the New Witness and later founded G.K.'s Weekly. The contents include sketches (by Chesterton and others), sketchbooks, typescripts and manuscripts of Orthodoxy and other essays, poetry, non-fiction, novels, short stories, plays, book reviews, and autobiographical works. The collection also has correspondence, both personal and professional, exchanged between Chesterton and a variety of correspondents, including Hilaire Belloc. Other documents include programs of lectures given by Chesterton, sheet music with words by Chesterton, an exercise book, and a G.K.'s Weekly stock certificate.

      Reference:

      "G. K. Chesterton: the Catholic Apologist," John J. Burns Library's Blog, July 18, 2016, https://johnjburns­library.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/g-k-chesterton-the-catholic-apologist/.

      Websites with information:

      http://bc-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/bclib:lib_BURNS:ALMA-BC21360409690001021

      [0533c] G. K. Chesterton Collection, 1893-1977, MSE/MD 3718

      Location: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, 102 Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556

      Description: G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an artist, poet, dramatist, novelist, philosopher, biographer, literary and art critic, Christian apologist, and journalist. The collection includes letters, manuscripts, published articles by Chesterton, published articles about him, photographs, drawings and sketches by Chesterton, and such miscellaneous items as a recording of some of Chesterton's verse.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.wheaton.edu/wadecenter/Authors/GK-Chesterton/GKC-Resources

      https://rbsc.library.nd.edu/

      Finding aid:

      https://rbsc.library.nd.edu/finding_aids/und:ks65h990t9n

      [0533d] G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton Collection, 1906-1944, undated, Manuscript Collection MS-0769

      Location: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 300 West 21st Street, Austin, Texas 78712

      Description: The collection of British writer G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) includes manuscripts for several works, including his best-known novel The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), a few letters written by Chesterton, and a few letters written by others about Chesterton.

      Websites with information:

      http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/curatorial.cfm

      Finding aids:

      http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/pdf/00724.pdf

      http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00724/hrc-00724.html

      http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00724

      [0533e] The G.K. Chesterton Family Correspondence Collection

      Location: The Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, 351 E. Lincoln Ave., Wheaton, IL 60187

      Description: Correspondents include Hilaire Belloc, John Buchan, T.S. Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and W.B. Yeats.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.wheaton.edu/wadecenter/Collections-and-Services/Collection-Listings/Letters

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