Typescript copies of papers of Sydney Spencer during the First World War, including letters and extracts from his diary.
Copies of the Papers of Sydney Spencer
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. d. 522; Eng. misc. d. 1250
- Dates of Creation
- 1914-18
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 2 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Sydney Spencer was an undergraduate at the University of Oxford and was in active service during the First World War.
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 copies were given to the Library by Spencer's sister, Mrs Florence Image, in 1941.
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. 41791-2.