Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1858–1945 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
12 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
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 beginning… read more
Repository
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 two… read 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 some… read 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 and… read 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.