Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley was an American writer, journalist, poet, humorist and essayist (1890–1957). He was born at Bryn Mawr and died at Roslyn Estates.

Also recorded as Christopher Darlington Morley.

Christopher Morley in brief

Born
1890
Died
1957
Known for
writer, journalist, poet, humorist, essayist, novelist and editor
Place of birth
Bryn Mawr
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Identity and origins

The authorities additionally record the heading Christopher Darlington Morley. His recorded language was English.

He was the child of Frank Morley. One child is recorded: Louise Cochrane.

Catalogued works

55 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library, The Art Institute of Chicago and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1680 to 1978.

Kitty Foyle. Parnassus on Wheels. The Haunted Bookshop. Thunder on the Left. Travels in Philadelphia. Where the Blue Begins. I Know a Secret. Pleased to Meet You. The Eighth Sin. The Christmas tobacco. BR's secret passion. Thursday evening. Letter to a gentleman who exclaimed bitterly that he would buy no books for Christmas. As Joyce Kilmer might have said. Goudiamus igitur. There is only one success ... Old thoughts for Christmas. On visiting bookshops. From Nursery rhymes for the tender-hearted. Song for a little house. The man with the hoe (press). Makers of modern American poetry (men). Christopher Morley's Swiss Family Manhattan cocktail. The tree that didn't get trimmed. Distribution of credit. Grade crossing. The grapes of wrath. More poems by A. E. Housman. Grinding teeth. Point of view. Very often conversations are better among three than between two ... Animal crackers. The plumpuppets. Six weeks old. The worst Christmas story. A national frailty. Ballade of an old friend. Reperusal. To a foreigner. In a second-hand bookshop. The Baker Street Irregulars of New York. Was Sherlock Holmes an American? The colophon. Home again. Animal farm by George Orwell. Walt Whitman in Camden, dated 1938, book with slip case; two photogravures, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1976.653. End of the Day, dated 1931, engraving in black on cream wove paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1931.224. Christopher Love Morley, M.D., dated 1878, held by Wellcome Collection. De morbo epidemico observationes ... / [Christopher Love Morley]., dated 1686, held by Wellcome Collection. Receipt for money paid by Mrs. Pyott, signed by H. Morley for Mr. Chandler, surgeon, dated 1813, held by Wellcome Collection. Poem 'The Battle of Furunculus' by Capt. R.B. Price and SBHJ. Typed carbon. 2 copies. Parody `The Lay of the Streptocok by `Dyphan' for Guy's Hospital Gazette', typed carbon. 2 copies. Extract from poem on Staphylococcus by Christopher Morley. Saturday Review 1943. Typed, dated 1909-1943, held by Wellcome Collection. A funeral sermon occasioned by the death of the late Reverend Mr. Christopher Taylor , who Departed this Life Octob. 26. Preach'd Nov. 10. 1723. By Joshua Bayes., dated 1723, held by Wellcome Collection. De morbo epidemico : tam hujus, quàm superioris, anni, id est, 1678 & 1679, narratio / auctore Ch. Love Morley ; cui accessit clarissim. & sapientiff. viri, D. Lucæ Schacht ... de eodem morbo ad auctorem epistolica narratio sanè quàm doctissima., dated 1680, held by Wellcome Collection. De morbo epidemico, tam hujus, quam superioris, anni, id est, 1678, et 1679, narratio ... / Cui accessit ... D. Lucae Schacht ... de eodem morbo ad auctorem epistolica narratio., dated 1680, held by Wellcome Collection. Brains and numbers : elitism, Comtism, and democracy in mid-Victorian England / Christopher Kent., dated [1978], held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

The Art Institute of Chicago: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 22 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

6 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Morley, Christopher Love (fl 1700), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2018. Morley, Christopher, (5 May 1890–28 March 1957), Author, Who Was Who, 2007. Morley, Christopher Darlington (1890-1957), man of letters and editor, American National Biography Online, 2000. Christopher Marlo, Marley, Marlin, Merling, Morley, Christian-Muslim Relations 1500 - 1900. Christopher Morley, The Importance of Elgar, 2026. Early Sherlockian scholarship: Non/fiction at play, Transformative Works and Cultures, 2017.

Digitised editions and texts

20 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg.

familiar quotationa : a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature (1938) — Internet Archive. Human being (1934) — Internet Archive. Safety Pins And Other Essays (1925) — Internet Archive. Thunder on the left (1925) — Internet Archive. kitty foyle (1940) — Internet Archive. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs, Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern (1951) — Internet Archive. Haunted Bookshop (1919) — Internet Archive. i know a secret (1927) — Internet Archive. The Short Stories of Saki (1943) — Internet Archive. Forty-Four Essays (1925) — Internet Archive. The Panorama of Modern Literature (1934) — Internet Archive. Thorofare (1942) — Internet Archive. Pipefuls — Project Gutenberg. The Haunted Bookshop — Project Gutenberg. Shandygaff: A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader — Project Gutenberg. Mince Pie — Project Gutenberg. Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned — Project Gutenberg. The Powder of Sympathy — Project Gutenberg. Parnassus on Wheels — Project Gutenberg. Where the Blue Begins — Project Gutenberg.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 13 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 11 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

Christopher Morley studied at Haverford College and New College. the recorded working language is English.

Membership is recorded of American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Works named in the authority record are Thunder on the Left.

Work by Christopher Morley is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago.

Distinctions recorded are Rhodes Scholarship.

Chronology

  1. 1890Christopher Morley born at Bryn Mawr.
  2. 1925Safety Pins And Other Essays digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 1925Thunder on the left digitised by Internet Archive.
  4. 1934Human being digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 1938familiar quotationa : a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature digitised by Internet Archive.
  6. 1940kitty foyle digitised by Internet Archive.
  7. 1951Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs, Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern digitised by Internet Archive.
  8. 1957Christopher Morley died at Roslyn Estates.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    “Christopher Morley”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  2. 2.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q931105: Christopher Morley

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