Catalogue description Papers of James Hanley

920 HAN/1 Correspondence from Richard Aldington to James Hanley. 12 docs., 1930-31, 1935

920 HAN/2 Correspondence from John Cowper Powys, Theodore Francis Powys and Llewelyn Powys to James Hanley. 76 docs., 1930-1940

920 HAN/3 Correspondence from E.M. Forster to James Hanley. 35 docs., 1933-1944

920 HAN/4 Correspondence from Storm Jameson to James Hanley. 9 docs., 1933-1935

920 HAN/5 Correspondence from Herbert Read to James Hanley. 11 docs., 1936-1938

Reference to the following works by James Hanley appear in the present collection:

Boy The Secret Journey

The Furys Hollow Sea

Resurrexit Dominus Broken Water

Men in Darkness Our Time is Gone

The Last Voyage Soldier's Wind

The German Prisoner A Passion Before Death

Ebb and Flood Sailor's Song

Captain Bottell Stoker Bush

At Bay

Hanley, James, 1901-1985, novelist and playwright

Records previously catalogued at Hq 920 HAN and under the old library classification system, at Dq 2589, the number for the old, artificial "Autograph Letters" sequence. These records appear in Stock Books under the dates 30 January and 1 March, 1945. No trace of original dates of acquisition or provenance.

James Hanley was born in Dublin in 1901, but moved to Liverpool with his family at an early age. His father was a sailor and James himself left school to go to sea as a ship's boy, shortly before the outbreak of war in 1914. At 16, Hanley deserted his ship in Canada and joined the Canadian Army under an assumed name. He served in France and was discharged in Canada in 1918. After one more voyage, he returned to Liverpool and became a railway storeman, writing short stories, which were consistently rejected by publishers for some years. It was not until 1930 that Drift was published. Hanley established a reputation amongst his fellow novelists and the prosecution of his second published work : Boy, was a cause célèbre of the 1930s.

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