Letters from Oliver Elton

Archive Unit
  • Reference
      GB 133 TFT/1/323
  • Dates of Creation
      1890-1926
  • Physical Description
      25 items

Scope and Content

  • /1 24 Jun 1890, Personal: Appointment to lectureship English literature, Owens College
  • /2 22 Jul 1890, Personal: house hunting.
  • /3 25 May 1891, Academic: Owens College department of English. Walter Raleigh.
  • /4 19 Apr 1892, Personal: tour of America.
  • /5 12 Jul 1892, Academic: Owens College; The Rowley Lectures.
  • /6-9 16 Jul-7 Sep 1892, Personal: The Rowley Lectures.
  • /10 13 Jan 1894, Academic: Owens College; A.W.Ward.
  • /11 17 May 1894, Academic: University of Glasgow ? chair of Literature.
  • /12 5 Oct 1901, Academic: C.H. Herford, C. Vaughan.
  • /13 7 Oct 1901, Academic: Victoria University School leaving examination. J.M. Mackay.
  • /14 17 Jun 1902, Academic: Victoria University.
  • /15 7 Dec 1902, Personal: illness.
  • /16 n.d. (c. Jan1903), Academic: Independent universities of Liverpool and Manchester.Conference.
  • /17 6 Jun 1905, Academic: University of Leeds. chair of Literature. F.Moorman, T.Seccombe,Nathan Bodington.
  • /18 25 Apr 1906, Scholarly: Elton's Frederick York Powell: aLife.
  • /19 16 Nov 1907, Academic: School appointment.
  • /20 17 May 1908, Personal: Death of E.H. Culley.
  • /21 14 Oct 1912, Academic: M.U.P., Liverpool University Press.
  • /22 21 May 1922, Personal: Charles Vaughan.
  • /23 12 Oct 1922, Academic: list of C. Vaughan's works.
  • /24 28 Oct 1922, Academic: C. Vaughan.
  • /25 22 Jan 1926, Personal: verse.

Administrative / Biographical History

Elton (1861-1945) was a lecturer in English at Owens College between 1890-1900. He was professorof English Literature at Liverpool between 1901-1925.