Papers of Kenneth Grahame

Reference: GB 0161 MSS. Eng. misc. c. 379-81, c. 720-3, d. 524-37, d. 1098-1102, e. 480-2, e. 1132-4, f. 174-6, f. 639-41
Title: Papers of Kenneth Grahame
Dates of creation: 19th-20th century
Held at: University of Oxford, Bodleian Library
Extent: 38 shelfmarks
Level of Description: fonds
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Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Language of Material: eng

Administrative/Biographical History

Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) was an author and the Secretary of the Bank of England. He married Elspeth Thomson in 1899. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography .

Scope and Content

Papers and letters of Kenneth Grahame, his wife Elspeth and his sister-in-law Winifred Hope Thomson, including papers relating to The Wind in the Willows , correspondence with publishers, letters from Grahame to his wife, and photographs of and by Winifred H. Thomson.

Administrative Information

Custodial History

The papers were left by Elspeth Grahame to her brother Courtauld, Baron Courtauld-Thomson, in 1946.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The papers were bought from the Dorneywood Trust in 1961.

Access Conditions

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

Further Information

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. 43834-71.

Publication Note

The papers were used in P.R. Chalmers, Kenneth Grahame: life, letters and unpublished work (London, 1933) and in P.M. Green, Kenneth Grahame: a biography (London, 1959).