Collection Level Description: Records of the Circus Club
Reference: MSS. Eng. misc. c. 526, d. 708-12
Title: Records of the Circus Club
Dates of Creation: 1920-71
Extent: 6 shelfmarks
Language of Material: English
Administrative/Biographical History
The Circus Club was a London dining club founded in 1920.
Scope and Content
Records of the Circus Club, consisting of:
- Candidates' book, ca. 1920-56
- Attendance books, 1920-71
- Miscellaneous papers, including: printed pamphlet, War aims (London, n.d.); printed
Rules of the Circus (London [1924]); xerographic copy of typescript account of the club by H.G.
Strauss, 1st Baron Conesford, 1971; and typescipt list of members, 1959
Administrative Information
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The papers were given to the Library in 1972.
Access Conditions
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a
valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).
Further Information
Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the
Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 44140-5.
Access Points
Clubs
Strauss | Henry George | 1892-1974 | 1st Baron Conesford
Circus Club, London
Enquiries
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09 June 2011