Identificatie
referentie code
Titel
Datum(s)
- 1858–1945 (Vervaardig)
Beschrijvingsniveau
Omvang en medium
12 boxes
Context
Naam van de archiefvormer
Biografie
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 a period of intense literary and bibliographical study, largely at the British Museum, two important results of which were his edition of the works of Thomas Nashe (1904-10) and his Notes on Bibliographical Evidence (1914). The latter, revised as An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students (1927), became a standard work. From 1914 McKerrow also gave lectures in English literature, and later bibliography, at King’s College, London. In 1917 he was appointed managing director of the publishers Sidgwick & Jackson, and this was his main occupation till his death, but he was also honorary secretary of the Bibliography Society from 1912 to 1934, editor of the Review of English Studies (which he founded) from 1925 to 1940, and editor of The Library from 1934 to 1937. In 1929 he accepted an invitation to prepare an edition of Shakespeare for the Clarendon Press, but, though he prepared a good deal of material, only a general textual introduction ever saw print.
archiefbewaarplaats
Geschiedenis van het archief
Directe bron van verwerving of overbrenging
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 accessions and they have been catalogued as a single archive.
Inhoud en structuur
Bereik en inhoud
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 family papers, including papers relating to the firm of Brunlees & McKerrow and the estate of Sir James Brunlees, and letters written by McKerrow’s son Malcolm during the Second World War, describing his experiences with the Non-Combatant Corps and the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps.
Waardering, vernietiging en slectie
Aanvullingen
Ordeningstelsel
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.
Voorwaarden voor toegang en gebruik
Voorwaarden voor raadpleging
This material is open for research unless otherwise stated.
Voorwaarden voor reproductie
Taal van het materiaal
Schrift van het materiaal
Taal en schrift aantekeningen
Fysieke eigenschappen en technische eisen
Toegangen
Verwante materialen
Bestaan en verblifplaats van originelen
Bestaan en verblijfplaats van kopieën
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 Add. MS a. 460.
Notitie Publicaties
Aantekeningen
Aantekening
Alternative identifier(s)
Trefwoorden
Onderwerp trefwoord
Geografische trefwoorden
Naam ontsluitingsterm
Genre access points
Identificatie van de beschrijving
Identificatiecode van de instelling
Toegepaste regels en/of conventies
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.
Status
Niveau van detaillering
Verwijdering van datering archiefvorming
This catalogue was compiled by A. C. Green in 2007.