MACAULAY, Rose (1881-1958) - letters to Eric Gillett

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0096 MS1131
Held at	: Senate House Library, University of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections ›
Full title	: MACAULAY, Rose (1881-1958) - letters to Eric Gillett
Date(s)	: c1932-c1939
Level of description	: Fonds
Extent	: 4 items
Name of creator(s)	: Macaulay | Dame | Emilie Rose | 1881-1958 | author
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Rose Macaulay was born in Rugby in 1881 and educated at Somerville College, Oxford. She was a prolific writer: her first best-seller was Potterism in 1920 but she also published a biography of John Milton, and wrote verse. Her final novel, The Towers of Trezibond (1956) was especially highly regarded and created a literary sensation. She also wrote many articles for periodicals such as The Spectator and The Observer. Her correspondence with a distant cousin, the Revd. J.H.C. Johnson, was published posthumously as Letters to a Friend (1961) and Last Letters to a Friend (1962).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Letters and cards by Rose Macaulay to Eric Gillett, editor and publisher, c1932-c1939.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

4 items in a file

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.

Finding aids:

Collection level description is also available on the ULRLS on-line archives catlaogue

Archival Information

Archival history:

Passed on by Senate House Library

Immediate source of acquisition:

Senate House Library

Allied Materials

Related material:

Letter by Rose Macaulay to Margaret Ritchie, 1939 (reference MS797/I/5473b)

Rose Macaulay's papers are also held at the following repositories: British Library; Bodleian Library, Oxford; King's College Archive Centre, Cambridge; National Portrait Gallery, London; Henry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas; Trinity College, Cambridge; University of Warwick, Modern Records Centre.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry 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:
2006-12-22