Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1893-1958 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 box, 8 volumes
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
These items were given to Library by Sir Walter Greg’s family in 1969 along with other books and papers formerly belonging to him. The gift was acknowledged in a College Council minute of 21 November, and an inventory of the contents was made about the… read more
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This collection includes correspondence—mainly letters to Greg from fellow-bibliographers and literary scholars—notes, photographs of books and manuscripts, cuttings, a few small printed items, and the manuscript of part of Some Aspects of London Publishing.
System of arrangement
The papers and volumes were put into four archival boxes, and the contents of each were numbered in the order in which they lay, the letters having previously been arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent. The classes 1-4 each represent the… read more
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
This material is open for research unless otherwise stated.
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Allied materials area
Related units of description
Six manuscript volumes from the same accession are catalogued as Add. MS. c. 219-24.
Copies of books formerly belonging to Greg, including two with manuscript material inserted, were in the library of Philip Gaskell when it was sold to Keio University in… read more
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Rules and/or conventions used
The addresses of some institutions have been given in a shortened form.
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 description was created by A. C. Green in 2020.