Lectures, Essays and Notes of D. Nichol Smith

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. c. 383-5, d. 539-49, d. 551-5, e. 483-4, e. 551
  • Dates of Creation
      1895-1959
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      22 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Lectures, essays and notes of D. Nichol Smith, relating to English literature and literary criticism.

Administrative / Biographical History

David Nichol Smith (1875-1962) was a literary scholar and Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

The papers were given to the Library in 1962.

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. 43873-94.

Related Material

See also Correspondence of David Nichol Smith (MSS. Eng. lett. c. 489-92).