Fonds MCKW - Papers of R. B. McKerrow

Identity area

Reference code

MCKW

Title

Papers of R. B. McKerrow

Date(s)

  • 1858–1945 (Creation)

Level of description

Fonds

Extent and medium

12 boxes

Context area

Name of creator

(1872-1940)

Biographical history

Ronald Brunlees McKerrow was born in Putney in 1872, the son of a civil engineer, and was educated at Harrow, King’s College, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge. After leaving university he spent three years teaching English in Tokyo before beginningread more

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

The collection came into the library as two separate accessions—the first from McKerrow’s family in the 1990s; the second, though ultimately from the same source, from an auction sale about 2005. No records were kept of the respective contents of the tworead more

Content and structure area

Scope and content

This collection contains correspondence of McKerrow, mainly relating to bibliography and English literature, with various writings by him on the same subjects; early attempts at fiction, verse, and drama; and some personal papers. There are also someread more

System of arrangement

The collection has been divided into four main classes—correspondence, writings, personal papers, and family papers. Some of the files within these classes represent original groupings of documents; others are artificial. See the notes at file-level.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

This material is open for research unless otherwise stated.

Allied materials area

Related units of description

Another accession of McKerrow papers is catalogued as Add. MS a. 355. The Library also holds McKerrow’s own annotated copies of some of his publications (Adv. c. 25. 72–82), and loose papers extracted from these have been catalogued as Add. MS a. 457 andread more

Rules and/or conventions used

In descriptions of ‘extent and medium’, a ‘single sheet’ is a single unfolded leaf of paper comprising 2 pages; a ‘folded sheet’ is a sheet of paper folded once, comprising 2 leaves and 4 pages.

Dates of creation revision deletion

This catalogue was compiled by A. C. Green in 2007.