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Hannay Papers


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS ADD 203

Held at: University College London

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

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 AND 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.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

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

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

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

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

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.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Historians | Social scientists
Naval history | History

Personal names
Hannay | David McDowall | 1853-1934 | historian and journalist

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