Letters to Robert B. Martin...

Collection Level Description: Letters to Robert B. Martin with Letters of Charles Kingsley collected by Martin

Reference: MSS. Eng. c. 6762-3
Title: Letters to Robert B. Martin with Letters of Charles Kingsley collected by Martin
Dates of Creation: 1847-[1850?], 1962-85, n.d.
Extent: 2 shelfmarks

Language of Material: English

Administrative/Biographical History

Robert Bernard Martin (1918-1999), scholar of English literature.

Scope and Content

Letters to Robert B. Martin, 1962-85, including letters from:

Elizabeth Bowen, 1970-2
Robert Downs, 1974-81
Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, 1962-80, n.d.
T.S. Eliot, n.d.
Sir John Gielgud, n.d.;

and letters of Charles Kingsley, 1847-[1850?], collected as autographs.

Administrative Information

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Given to the Library by Robert B. Martin in 1997.

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

A description is available in the Library, where there is also a card index to unpublished catalogues.

Access Points

Authors

Bowen | Elizabeth Dorothea Cole | 1899-1973 | afterwards Cameron, novelist

Eliot | Thomas Stearns | 1888-1965 | poet

Gielgud | Sir | Arthur John | 1904-2000 | Knight, actor

Haworth | Robert Downs | 1898-1990 | chemist

Kingsley | Charles | 1819-1875 | Canon of Westminster and author

Martin | Robert Bernard | 1918-1999

Murdoch | Dame | Jean Iris | 1919-1999 | afterwards Bayley, novelist and philosopher

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09 June 2011