Diaries, papers and letters of Edmund Clerihew Bentley, including:
- Diaries, 1894-1905
- Scrap-books of newspaper cuttings, ca. 1893-1914
- Drafts and notes
- Correspondence, 1890-1955
Papers of Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Archive Collection
- This material is held at
- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. a. 17, b. 139, c. 612-18, d. 930-5, e. 861-74; Eng. lett. c. 373-4; Eng. poet. f. 34
- Dates of Creation1890-1955
- Language of MaterialEnglish.
- Physical Description32 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) was a writer. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Access Information
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).
Acquisition Information
The papers were partly given to the Library in 1972 and partly bought at Sotheby's in 1973.
Note
Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
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. 42000-32.