IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS1131
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: MACAULAY, Rose (1881-1958) - letters to Eric Gillett
Date(s): c1932-c1939
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 4 items
Name of creator(s): Macaulay | Dame | Emilie Rose | 1881-1958 | author
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Rose Macaulay was born in Rugby in 1881 and educated at Somerville College, Oxford. She was a prolific writer: her first best-seller was Potterism in 1920 but she also published a biography of John Milton, and wrote verse. Her final novel, The Towers of Trezibond (1956) was especially highly regarded and created a literary sensation. She also wrote many articles for periodicals such as The Spectator and The Observer. Her correspondence with a distant cousin, the Revd. J.H.C. Johnson, was published posthumously as Letters to a Friend (1961) and Last Letters to a Friend (1962).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Letters and cards by Rose Macaulay to Eric Gillett, editor and publisher, c1932-c1939.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
4 items in a file
Conditions governing access:
Open for research
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Collection level description is also available on the ULRLS on-line archives catlaogue
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Passed on by Senate House Library
Immediate source of acquisition:
Senate House Library
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Letter by Rose Macaulay to Margaret Ritchie, 1939 (reference MS797/I/5473b)
Rose Macaulay's papers are also held at the following repositories: British Library; Bodleian Library, Oxford; King's College Archive Centre, Cambridge; National Portrait Gallery, London; Henry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas; Trinity College, Cambridge; University of Warwick, Modern Records Centre.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Richard Temple.
Date(s) of descriptions: 2006-12-22