Letters and papers of B.H. Streeter concerning his work on chained libraries, and the restoration of the chained library in Hereford cathedral. The collection includes photographs, drawings and plans of chained libraries and their fittings.
Papers of B.H. Streeter
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- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. c. 305-7; Eng. misc. b. 111
- Dates of Creation[ca. 1928-1931]
- Language of MaterialEnglish.
- Physical Description4 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Burnett Hilman Streeter (1874-1937) was Canon of Hereford and a biblical scholar. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
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 given to the Library in 1972.
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. 41377-80.
Bibliography
Some of the visual material was used in B.H. Streeter, The chained library (London, 1931).