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MCKW/A/1/16 · Item · 9 Jan. 1916
Part of Papers of R. B. McKerrow

13 Norham Gardens, Oxford.—Will find out if there is someone in London who administers ‘twilight sleep’.

(With envelope.)

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9th.
13 Norham Gardens, Oxford.

Dear McKerrow

I do not know in London of a man who does the ‘Twilight Sleep’—but Iread more

MCKW/A/4/22 · Item · c. May 1936
Part of Papers of R. B. McKerrow

(Place of writing not indicated.)—Asks whether there is any difference between the Cambridge editions, and relates an amusing story of a lecturer in America.

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PPS (to my letter)

I found the enclosed card waiting for me when I went over toread more

GREG/1/28 · Item · 4 Nov. 1942
Part of Papers of Sir Walter Greg (W. W. Greg)

The British Museum.—Answers questions about The English Schoolmaster (1580) and refers to McKerrow’s books and papers.

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The British Museum, London, W.C.1
4 Nov. 1942

Dear Greg,

Had your letter been here half a day later The Englishread more

Add. MS a/355/6/3 · Item · 28 Mar. 1940
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Clarendon Press, Oxford.—Discusses arrangements connected with the Review of English Studies (following the death of her husband).

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The Clarendon Press, Oxford
28th March, 1940.

Dear Mrs. McKerrow,

Thank you for your letter of 26th March.read more

MCKW/A/4/3 · Item · 5 Mar. 1936
Part of Papers of R. B. McKerrow

2 Bankfield Lane, Southport.—Responds to his suggestions about her edition of Lodge. Offers to help with his work on Shakespeare, and reiterates her view of the importance of phonology in textual criticism.

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2 Bankfield Lane, Southport.
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Add. MS a/355/6/4 · Item · 12 June 1940
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Clarendon Press, Oxford.—The Press would still like to publish R. B. McKerrow’s ‘Elements of Bibliography’ if the MS is in a suitable state, but could not, after the war, go on with the proposal to produce a new edition of Printers’ and Publishers’read more

Add. MS a/355/6/5 · Item · 2 Jan. 1942
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

81 Marsh Lane, London, N.W.7.—He and his family hope to see Colin while he is at St Albans, and he has asked a friend to visit Malcolm. The Press still expect to print R. B. McKerrow’s small book (‘Elements of Bibliography’), but not before the end ofread more