IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA Murrell
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: MURRELL, Eric Sidney (d 1983)
Date(s): 1930
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Murrell | Eric Sidney | d 1983 | author
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Studied at Lincoln College, Oxford, 1922-1930; submitted thesis for the degree of B Litt, Oxford University, 1930; died, 1983. Connection with King's College London not known. Publications: "Girart de Roussillon" and the "Tristan" Poems (Bales & Wilde, Chesterfield, 1926); as editor, The Death of Tristan, from Deuce MS 189 ([New York, 1928]); For your tomorrow: a cipher-sergeant's diary, 1941-1945, by 2075687, known in civilian life as Eric S Murrell (Dorchester Plush, c1999), concerning Burma campaign, World War Two.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Bound typescript thesis by E S Murrell, 1930, entitled 'The Tristan Legend in Medieval French Literature. A Historico-Bibliographical Survey', with manuscript annotations. The labelling of the thesis as a doctoral thesis is apparently in error.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English, French
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Collection level description available in reading room at King's College London Archives.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by the author. Apparently received by King's College in 1978.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
The thesis predates the requirement that Oxford B Litt theses be deposited in the Bodleian Library, which consequently does not hold a copy. Lincoln College does not hold a copy.
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: brief description in King's College London Manuscripts and Private Papers: A Select Guide (1982); British Library OPAC; information from Rob Wilkes, Bodleian Library, Oxford, and Fiona Piddock, Librarian, Lincoln College, Oxford.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2001