David Nichol Smith (1875-1962) was a literary scholar and Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Lectures, essays and notes of D. Nichol Smith, relating to English literature and literary criticism.

The papers were given to the Library in 1962.

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. 43873-94.

See also Correspondence of David Nichol Smith.

English literature

Lectures and lecturing

Literature | History and criticism

Smith | David Nichol | 1875-1962 | Literary Scholar