Sir Adolphus William Ward: Correspondence

Scope and Content

Correspondence, mainly concerning the Cambridge Modern History series of volumes. Letters are addressed to Ward unless otherwise stated.

Access Information

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Acquisition Information

The letters catalogued below were presented to the University Library in 1984 by Ward's grandson, Sir John Barnes.

Other Finding Aids

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

Related Material

Ward's own letters to Acton are among the Acton papers in the University Library (MS Add.8119/I/60-160) A large collection of Ward's correspondence, notebooks and papers are at Peterhouse College, Cambridge (MS 953).

Bibliography

See Sir John Barnes' article, 'Acton, Ward and the Cambridge Modern History' (Cambridge Review, 26 February 1982)