Correspondence, bulk: Bulk, 1924-1988, 1924-1988, 2003
File
MS. 15661/5
Held in our offsite storage facility
Comprises:
- Correspondence with R. Fortune, ‘Dot’, Julian Huxley, James Fisher, Tom [Thomas Charles] Lethbridge and Professor [William H.?] Matchett, a letter regarding the Stamford Raffles Award, and a letter by Armstrong regarding the Irish published in The Spectator, 1924-1978
- Letters to Armstrong from William Homan Thorpe, ethologist, from California and Nigeria, 1927-1929. Also includes photographs.
- Photocopies of letters between Armstrong and American ornithologist Ralph Palmer, letters between Palmer and Eunice Armstrong, and between Palmer and Patrick Armstrong, 1946-1988. Also includes E.A. Armstrong’s obituary in The Auk, 1980, obituaries for Ralph Palmer, 2003, and contact prints and negatives showing Palmer, the Armstrong family and St. Mark’s Church, Cambridge
- Photocopies of letters to Seamus Delargy of the Irish Folklore Commission, mostly regarding birds and Irish Folklore, 1955-1978
- Photocopies of letters between Armstrong and Peter Broadhurst, 1965-1978. Also covering letter to Patrick Armstrong from Broadhurst, 1988
Dates
- Creation: Creation: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1924-1988
- Creation: Creation: 1924-1988, 2003
Extent
1 box (5 folders)
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. 15661/5
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Contact:
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk