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Senate House Library, University of London

Mudie's Select Library: Sara Keith collection

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS1141

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Mudie's Select Library: Sara Keith collection

Date(s): 1842-[1972]

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 3 boxes

Name of creator(s): Keith | Sara | 1923-1991 | academic

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sara Keith was born in August 1923 and did her first degree at the University of Colorado. She subsequently studied at the universities of Denver and Edinburgh. Sara Keith began her career as a librarian but changed career to become an academic in North America. She studied at the University of London on a Fulbright scholarship in 1953-4 and gained her doctorate from Royal Holloway College, University of London in 1962. Sara Keith, who was an authority on Mudie's Library, died in Canada in November 1991.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Mudie's Select Library, 1842-1888, [1955-1972], comprise title index to principal works of fiction in circulation and their occurrence in the Mudie catalogues for 1876 and 1884 (1955); bibiography of fiction in Mudie's catalogues, 1848, 1858, 1869; typescript drafts including "George Moore, Mudie's Library and Public Opinion" (1972); notes on Mudie's advertisements in The Athenaeum, 1842-1888.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Uncatalogued

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.

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Donated by Ruth Pitman.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Ruth Pitman

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Richard Temple.