Papers of Waterfield’s antiquarian booksellers relating to the sale of Vivien Greene’s library

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Original catalogue by Judith Priestman. EAD version by Harriet Costelloe
2016

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7556, fols. 36-89
Title: Papers of Waterfield’s antiquarian booksellers relating to the sale of Vivien Greene’s library
Dates of Creation: 2004-2005
Extent: 54 leaves
Language(s) of Material: English

Biographical/Historical

Vivien Greene (1904-2003) was an authority on doll's houses, and the widow of the novelist Graham Greene.

Scope and Content

Includes:

(fols. 36-37) a photocopy of an article by Ann Gate, ‘Story of a marriage in books’, The Tablet, 18 Jun 2005
(fols. 39-40) photocopies of marginal annotations by Vivian Greene in Norman Sherry’s The Life of Graham Greene
(fols. 41-89) two Waterfield’s sale catalogues, Nov 2004 and Jun 2005

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Given by Ann Gate, 2004-2005.

Preferred Form of Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Eng. c. 7556, fol. 36

Access Point(s)

Greene | Vivien | 1904-2003 | collector

English literature -- 20th century

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