Like any other author, much of what J.W. Dunne wrote never made it into print. And like any other forgotten personality, many of his more obscure writings contain fascinating insights into his life and thinking. Here is a collection of the more salient ones, both published and unpublished, that have come to my attention.
| Title and details | Date | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| General | |||
| Short story, title unknown. Pub. unknown journal, Cape Town | 1893 | Journal | Lost? |
| The Mirror | 1900 | Book | Private circulation. Science Museum archives. |
| "The Ulster Question", Letter | 1914 | Private TS | Science Museum archives. |
| Note on unprofitable pits | 1921 | Private TS | Science Museum archives. |
| The Forging Song | 1942 | Music MS | Science Museum archives. |
| Military | |||
| “Mr. Burdett-Coutts's Charges”, letter to The Times, 7 July 1900, p10. | 1900 | Journal | Concerning medical care in the Boer War. |
| A plea for the formation of a Special Corps out of the present Mounted Infantry in South Africa | 1903 | Private TS | 7pp + 3pp notes. National Army Museum. |
| “Machine Guns Up-to-Date”: comment in the subsequent debate. RUSI Journal, Vol 48, Issue 319 (1904), pp 1032-1049. | 1904 | Journal | |
| Draft letter to The Times re. bacterial warfare | 1915 | Private | Unpublished. |
| The Millennium | 1920 | Screenplay TS | Science Museum archives. |
| The Only Way Out | 1936 | Private TS | Early edition of The League... for private circulation. Science Museum archives. |
| The League of North-West Europe: A Solution to the European Crisis, Hutchinson | 1936 | Booklet | |
| Aeronautics | |||
| “Dunne Aeroplane Control”, letter to Flight, 25 June 1910, Page 493. | 1910 | Journal | |
| "Account of the Trials, Automatic Stability Machine", Aeronautical Journal, Jan 1911, p.15ff. Reprinted in Flight, 18 February 1911, pp.133-134 | 1911 | Journal | |
| "The Dunne Monoplane", letter to Flight, 21 September 1912, Page 865. | 1912 | Journal | |
| “The Theory of the Dunne Aeroplane”, Aeronautical Journal, Vol 17 No 66 April 1913 pp.83-102. Serialised in Flight, 16 Aug to 13 Sept 1913. | 1913 | Journal | |
| Letter to Science Museum, 16 February 1928. | 1928 | TS | Summary history of the Dunne aeroplanes. TS dated 1927 in error. |
| "Notes relating to drawings and photographs...", provided to Science Museum, 20 June 1928. | 1928 | MS and TS | Notes accompanying photographs of some Dunne aircraft. TS contains a significant transcription error. |
| "From Out of Retirement", Correspondence, The Aeroplane, 12 December 1941, p.664. | 1941 | Journal | |
| Fishing | |||
| "The May-Fly is Hatching". | — | Private TS | First published in Sunshine and the Dry Fly: 2024 Centenary Extended Special Edition. |
| "The Overwater Vision of Trout", The Field, 9 Dec 1922, p831. | 1922 | Journal | |
| "The Vision of Trout: I.—The Circle of Vision Fallacy", The Field, 19 April 1923, p578. | 1922 | Journal | |
| "The Vision of Trout: II.—A Simple Experiment", The Field, 3 May 1923. | 1922 | Journal | |
| Sunshine and the Dry Fly, A.&C. Black | 1924 | Book | 2nd Edn, 1950. 3rd 2024 Centenary Extended Special Edition, 2024. |
| Letter to Marston, The Fishing Gazette, 20 December 1924 | 1924 | Journal | |
| “The Fly on the Water”, Fisherman’s Pie, Ed. WA Hunter. Reprinted in C. Farlow & Co. Ltd. The Angling Specialists: Catalogue of High-class Fishing Tackle (1930) | 1926 | In book | Reprinted in Sunshine and the Dry Fly: 2024 Centenary Extended Special Edition. |
| Children's fiction | |||
| The Jumping Lions of Borneo, Faber. | 1937 | Book | American edition: pub Henry Holt (1938), illustrations by Irene Robinson. |
| An Experiment with St. George, Faber. | 1939 | Book | American edition: St. George and the Witches, Henry Holt (1939), less scary illustrations. |
| Tales Told to Rosemary. Science Museum archives. | — | Private TS | Unfinished. |
| Serialism | |||
| "The general idea of the old Time note books" | — | Private MS | Science Museum archives. |
| An Experiment with Time, A.&C. Black | 1927 | Book | Many subsequent editions and translations. |
| Letter to Cicely, 16 March 1927 | 1927 | Private TS | Plain-language account of the content and theology of An Experiment with Time. Science Museum archives. |
| "Reply to Harvey B. Lemon." | 1927 | MS/TS | Unpublished? Science Museum archives. |
| Letter to HG Wells, 4 March 1928 | 1928 | Private | Science Museum archives. |
| "Serialism - A New Theory of the Universe", The Listener, Vol IV. Part I, No.88, 17 Sept 1930, pp439-40. Part II, No. 89, 24 Sept 1930, pp482-3. | 1930 | Journal | Transcripts of BBC Radio talks, 12 and 17 Sept 1930. |
| Comments on Serialism, Nature, 15 November 1930 | 1930 | Journal | |
| Introductory note to fourth edition of Moberly and Jourdain, An Adventure. | 1931 | Book | Previous deitions published under the pseudonyms Morrison and Lamont. |
| "Can We Travel in the Time Dimension?", Armchair Science 3, No. 7, October 1931, pp 415-16. | 1931 | Journal | |
| The Serial Universe, Faber & Faber | 1934 | Book | 2nd Edn, 1942. |
| Note (in reply to criticisms). In M.F. Cleugh, Time: And its Importance in Modern Thought, 1937, p188 | 1937 | Book | |
| Speaking Personally, BBC television, 7 Dec 1937, 9:00-9:10 pm. | 1937 | Recording | |
| “The Super-Mind and the Mind of Man”, Morning Post, 18 February 1037. | 1937 | Journal | Interpreting a precognitive dream of Rudyard Kipling. |
| The New Immortality, Faber & Faber | 1938 | Book | |
| Letter to HG Wells, 1938. | 1938 | Private | Science Museum archives. |
| Nothing Dies, Faber & Faber. | 1940 | Book | Several reprints, sixth and last impression 1946. |
| Radio script, part proposal, 27 April 1940. | 1940 | TS | Unpublished. Science Museum archives. |
| Letter to Miss Rodger, 3 February 1945 | 1945 | Private TS | Concerning a spiritualist experience. Science Museum archives. |
| "A Glimpse of the Real World", Enquiry, Issue No. 1, April 1948. | 1948 | Journal | |
| Intrusions?, 1st Edn. Faber & Faber | 1955 | Book | Completed posthumously by Cecily and others. |
| “No - You Have Not Lived Before”, Daily Mail. | — | Journal | c.f. Spring 1929: preparing pieces for Daily Mail and Evening Standard. |
| "Chapter 1: The Public and Private World". | — | Private MS | Unpublished? Science Museum archives. |
| “The Challenge of Serialism”, draft. | — | Private TS | Unpublished? Science Museum archives. |
| “Why I Believe in Dreams” | — | Private TS | c.f. Spring 1929: preparing pieces for Daily Mail and Evening Standard. |
Updated 5 Jan 2024