IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 AL 133
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Lang, Andrew (1844-1912)
Date(s): [1892]
Level of description: collection
Extent: 2 leaves
Name of creator(s): Lang | Andrew | 1844-1912 | anthropologist, classicist, and historian
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Andrew Lang was born in Selkirk, Scotland in 1844, and educated at the Edinburgh Academy, the Universities of St Andrews and Glasgow, and Balliol College, Oxford. From 1875 he lived chiefly in London working as a professional journalist, critic and independent scholar. He was a prolific writer and became eminent in several fields, including prehistory, early religion, mythology and folkore, and Scottish history; he was also a novelist and poet.
Publications include 'Coloured' Fairy Books (1889-1910), 12 volumes of fairy tales intended for children.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Andrew Lang, [1892], comprise a letter to an unknown recipient, 'I am adding something on Continental Literature, which you shall have in a day or two. Your note and enclosure somehow were overlooked'.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 item.
Conditions governing access:
Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Please contact the University Archivist for details. 24 hours notice is required for research visits.
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.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Typescript catalogue available in the Library's Palaeography Room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Unknown
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Samantha Velumyl.
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: April 2008