Mudie's Select Library: Sara Keith collection

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0096 MS1141
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	: Mudie's Select Library: Sara Keith collection
Date(s)	: 1842-[1972]
Level of description	: Fonds
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 & 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.

Finding aids:

Collection-level description

Archival Information

Archival history:

Donated by Ruth Pitman.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Ruth Pitman

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

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:
2007-04-27