Letters and postcards, including photocopies of 22 items from Jethro Bithell to Wilhelm Lehmann
Letters and postcards to Jethro Bithell, mainly from German writers, with other material on modern German literature
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- ReferenceGB 206 MS 386
- Dates of Creation1940-1962
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description237 items
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Jethro Bithell was Head of the Department of German at Birkbeck College from 1910 until his retirement in 1938. An obituary notice appeared in The Times for 6 March 1962
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Acquisition Information
The gifts of Mrs A.E.Bithell and Professor A.Gillies, 1972; and Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach-a.-Neckar, 1975
Note
In German
Other Finding Aids
Contents described in Handlist 32 and the Letters database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/letters/letintro.htm
Bibliography
See Festschrift issue of German life and letters; N.S. 11, July 1958, and the University of Leeds Review,8, December 1962, pp.146-153