Papers of Herbert Davis

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. c. 521-7; Eng. misc. c. 786-9
  • Dates of Creation
      1933-67
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      11 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Correspondence and papers of Herbert Davis, including correspondence relating to his edition of the works of Jonathan Swift and to the Oxford University Press series of 'Oxford English Novels'.

Administrative / Biographical History

Herbert John Davis (1893-1967) was Reader in Textual Criticism at Oxford University. Details are given in Who Was Who.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).

Acquisition Information

The papers were bequaethed to the Library by Herbert Davis in 1967.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 41471-81.

Related Material

Photocopies collected by Davis of manuscripts and printed texts of Swift are MSS. Facs. b. 47-8, c. 51.