Hannay Papers

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0103 MS ADD 203
Held at	: University College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll ›
Full title	: Hannay Papers
Date(s)	: 1882-1912
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Hannay | David McDowall | 1853-1934 | historian and journalist
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

David Hannay was born in London, the son of the novelist and critic James Hannay. He was an historian and journalist and was vice-consul at Barcelona, probably during 1897. He helped found the Navy Record Society. He wrote for the Pall Mall Gazette, the Saturday Review and St James's Gazette. His published works included the lives of Admiral Blake, Tobias Smollett, and Frederick Marryat; a short history of the Royal Navy; and a work on the great chartered companies.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Letters to David Hannay from various correspondents.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

A detailed handlist and index is available. Please contact special collections for further information.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Given to the Library in 1962 by the Hannay family through Professor Peter Foote of the Scandinavian Department, whose wife is a granddaughter of David Hannay.

Allied Materials

Related material:

University College London Special Collections also holds a diary, 1875-1880, of David Hannay among diaries and notebooks of James Hannay, 1852-1880 (Ref: MS ADD 331), and other miscellaneous papers of James Hannay (Ref: MS MISC 3C, 3H, 3T).

Other letters of David Hannay are held at University of London (Library - Senate House) and Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London. For further details see the National Register of Archives.

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:

Date(s) of descriptions:
1999, revised Oct 2001