Garvin Papers

Papers of James Louis Garvin (b.1868, d.1947) and his family; 1884-2001, n.d. They include material relating to Garvin's official and private interests, and to his family from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The Garvin Papers are divided into three sections.

• 'James Louis Garvin Papers', contains official and personal material relating to James Louis Garvin. It is divided into Official Material, Writings and Literary Material, Correspondence, Diaries, Pamphlets, etc., Press Cuttings, Photographs, and Legal, Biographical, and Miscellaneous Material. The Official Material includes material relating to James Louis Garvin's roles as editor of 'The Observer' and editor-in-chief of the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica'.
• 'Garvin Family Papers', includes material relating to individual family members, in addition to general family, family-related, and unattributable material. Where possible, the papers within each of the sub-sections in this section have been organised on the model of the 'James Louis Garvin Papers' section, ie. Official Material, Writings and Literary Material, Correspondence, Diaries, Pamphlets, etc., Press Cuttings, Photographs, and Legal, Biographical, and Miscellaneous Material.
• 'Material Relating to the Garvin Papers', comprises later papers related to the archive.

Arranged as follows:

Unrestricted

Purchased from Professor John Ledingham, grandson of James Louis Garvin, Aug. 2003

Paper

For further papers of James Louis Garvin in the British Library, see especially Add. 74108, 74126-74128, 74135, and 74149 (correspondence with H. Wickham-Steed), Add. 51166-51167 (correspondence with Lord Cecil), Add. 62236-62237 (correspondence with Lord Northcliffe), Add. 46391 and 46394 (correspondence with J. A. Spender), and Add. 46452-46253 (correspondence with Mary Gladstone).

For works relating to James Louis Garvin and 'The Observer', see

• Katherine Garvin, J. L. Garvin: A Memoir (London: William Heinemann, 1948),
• Alfred M. Gollin, The Observer and J. L. Garvin 1908-1914: A study in a great editorship (London: Oxford University Press, 1960),
• David Ayerst, Garvin of the Observer (London: Crook Helm, 1985).