Eric Rücker Eddison (1882-1945) was an author. Details are given in Who Was Who.

Papers of E.R. Eddison, including:

• Letters, 1922-45, concerning The worm Ouroboros, published 1922, and A fish dinner in Memison, published 1941
• Correspondence and agreements with Jonathan Cape, 1921-41, concerning the publication of The worm Ouroboros (1922) and Styrbiorn the Strong (1926)
• Correspondence with English and American publishers, 1940-5, concerning A fish dinner in Memison, published by E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., New York, May 1941
• Letters from friends, with some draft replies, 1939-45
• Literary papers, including papers relating to 'The saga of Vemund Kögur Fjorleif's son', The Mezentian Gate, Egil's saga, and stories written by Eddison as a young man, ca. 1900-45
• Drawings by Eddison, some of which were used in his published works, 1892-1958
• Notebook containing words and phrases from 16th-and 17th-century authors, collected while writing The Mezentian Gate, 1941
• Albums containing newspaper cuttings of reviews, 1922-41, including reviews of The worm Ouroboros, 1922

The papers were given to the Library in 1968.

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/).

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. 42941-52.

The manuscripts of Eddison's published works are in Leeds Public Library.

Authors | 20th century

Fantasy fiction, English

Eddison | Eric Rucker | 1882-1945 | Author

Cape | Herbert Jonathan | 1879-1960 | Publisher

EP Dutton & Co | New York | publishers