Arquivo CHIL - Papers of Erskine Childers

Zona de identificação

Código de referência

CHIL

Título

Papers of Erskine Childers

Data(s)

  • 1880-1922 (Produção)

Nível de descrição

Arquivo

Dimensão e suporte

4 boxes

Zona do contexto

Nome do produtor

(1870-1922)

História biográfica

Robert Erskine Childers was born in 1870, the son of Robert Caesar Childers, a Pali scholar, and was educated at Haileybury and Trinity College, whence he graduated BA in 1893. From 1895 to 1910, with a period absent to serve in the South African War, heread more

História do arquivo

A box list was created in 1977. This is accompanied by an undated box list for the material that arrived in 1981.

Fonte imediata de aquisição ou transferência

Gift of Col. Robert Alden Childers, June 1977. The reviews of 'The Times History of the War in South Africa', 'The HAC in South Africa', 'War and the Arme Blanche', and 'German Influence on British Cavalry' which had been intended to be part of the giftread more

Zona do conteúdo e estrutura

Âmbito e conteúdo

The papers consist of correspondence, printed material, writings, personal papers, and photographs documenting the English life of Erskine Childers. The correspondence includes incoming letters to Erskine and to Molly Childers, copies of letters sent byread more

Zona de condições de acesso e utilização

Condições de acesso

The collection has not yet been catalogued, and items may be arranged in a different order in future.

Zona de documentação associada

Unidades de descrição relacionadas

Letter from Robert Erskine Childers to Ivor Lloyd-Jones, with provenance letter, ADD.Ms.a.599, Trinity College Library, Cambridge.
The Papers of Robert Erskine Childers (1870-1922) and of his wife Mary Alden Childers (née Osgood), MSS 7781-7931, Trinityread more

Zona das notas

Nota

Cite as: Trinity College Library Cambridge, Papers of Robert Erskine Childers, CHIL.

Pontos de acesso

Pontos de acesso - Nomes

Nota do arquivista

Collection level description created by Diana Smith in June 2019, using the preliminary box lists.