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Senate House Library, University of London

Francis Bacon Society


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS1151

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Francis Bacon Society

Date(s): 1938

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Francis Bacon Society

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Francis Bacon Society, which was founded in 1886, is best known for its campaigning on the issue of the authorship of plays attributed to Shakespeare. The Society's range of interests also includes Elizabethan history, philosophy, and cryptography.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Francis Bacon Society comprise a letter from Alfred Dodd to Mrs Bayley regarding his Francis Bacon scholarship, 1938.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 item

Conditions governing access:

Open for research.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original and to the provisions of copyright law. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Fonds level description

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Items found in books belonging to the Bacon Society.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Senate House Library

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Senate House Library also holds a copy of a Bacon Society scrapbook, 1937-1938 (reference DLL/2/15).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Richard Temple.

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: 2007-07-05


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Letter writing | Writing | Communication skills | Communication process
Scholarships | Educational grants
Societies | Associations | Organizations

Personal names
Dodd | Alfred | fl 1918 | literary historian

Corporate names
Francis Bacon Society

Places