Falconer Madan (1851-1935) was Bodley's Librarian, a palaeographer and bibliographer. Details are given in Who Was Who.
Correspondence of Falconer Madan relating to Lewis Carroll, mainly concerning the London exhibition to mark the centenary of Carroll's birth.
The correspondence was given by F.F. Madan to C.J. Hindle for the Bodleian in 1947; and given to the Libary by Hindle on his retirement in 1963.
Access ConditionsEntry 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. 41463-6.
Related Units of DescriptionSee also Collections by Falconer Madan.
Carroll | Lewis | 1832-1898 | see Dodgson Charles Lutwidge
Dodgson | Charles Lutwidge | 1832-1898 | Author and Mathematician
Madan | Falconer | 1851-1935 | Bodley's Librarian, Palaeographer, and Bibliographer