Letters from James Wardrop to Alfred Fairbank.
Dates
- Creation: 1931-43
Extent
0.22 Linear metres (2 shelfmarks)
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS. Eng. lett. c. 579, fols. 1-2].
Full range of shelfmarks:
MSS. Eng. lett. c. 579-80
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 13854
Abstract
Letters from James Wardrop to Alfred Fairbank
Biographical / Historical
James Wardrop (1905-57) was Controller of the Gregynog Press. Alfred John Fairbank (1895-1982) was a calligrapher (details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography).
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 41557-8.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The letters were given to the Library by Alfred Fairbank and Evelyn Wardrop in 1972.
Topical
- Title
- Letters from James Wardrop to Alfred Fairbank
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Collection Level Description by Emily Tarrant; EAD version 2019 by Alice Whichelow
- Date
- EAD version 2019
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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