David Holbrook Papers

Scope and Content

The collection includes manuscripts, typescripts and word-processed scripts of novels, poems, critical essays and other writings; correspondence; and files of mixed items on various subjects.

Access Information

The collection contains personal correspondence. The provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) apply to access. Two files are restricted on grounds of confidentiality, and a number of files are not available for research on account of the poor physical condition of the documents they contain.

Acquisition Information

Donated, July 2012, with additional donations in November 2012 and January 2014.

Other Finding Aids

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

Conditions Governing Use

For information concerning the holder of copyright in Holbrook's writings, see the Writers Artists and Their Copyright Holders website, http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/watch/.

Related Material

For the location of other archival material relating to Holbrook, see the Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts, http://www.reading.ac.uk/library/about-us/projects/lib-location-register.aspx.