IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP61
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: COLLINS, Dr Douglas Cecil (b 1897)
Date(s): [1935-1954]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 boxes.
Name of creator(s): Collins | Douglas Cecil | b 1897
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Student of King's College London, 1926-1932 (BA, MA and PhD in English); Lecturer, University College Exeter, 1953.
Publications: Battle of Nieuport, 1600. Two news pamphlets and a ballad. edited by Collins (Oxford University Press, London, 1935, Shakespeare Association Facsimiles. no. 9); A Handlist of News Pamphlets, 1590-1610 (Walthamstow South-West Essex Technical College and School of Art, London, 1943).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Transcriptions of source material and notes by Douglas on Elizabethan and Stuart journalism, [1935-1954], mainly comprising typed transcriptions of newspapers, pamphlets and similar sources of news, 1566-1622, with associated notes and references by Collins, and including typescript of 'Elizabethan journalism, 1590-1610' by Collins; manuscript and typescript introduction, table of contents and bibliography of A Handlist of News Pamphlets, 1590-1610 (Walthamstow South-West Essex Technical College and School of Art, London, 1943) by Collins; file of correspondence with archivists (mainly at Essex Country Record Office, the Bodleian Library and Chester City Record Office), concerning sources of Elizabethan and Stuart journalism and pamphlets, 1948-1954, with a manuscript copy of an interim report on the subject, [1949]; notebook containing research on the early modern postal service; manuscript notes on Sixteenth Century French news pamphlets and related material, including research undertaken on Collins' behalf by Robert J North, with covering letters from North to Collins, 1934.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English.
System of arrangement:
The material is arranged in 25 files.
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 provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services of King's College London.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Collection level description and handlist available in the reading room of the College Archives.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred by the Department of English.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: British Library OPAC. Compiled by Robert Baxter.
Date(s) of descriptions: July 2000