Letters and postcards to Jethro Bithell, mainly from German writers, with other material on modern German literature

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 MS 386
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1940-1962
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 237 items

Scope and Content

Letters and postcards, including photocopies of 22 items from Jethro Bithell to Wilhelm Lehmann

Administrative / Biographical History

Jethro Bithell was Head of the Department of German at Birkbeck College from 1910 until his retirement in 1938. An obituary notice appeared in The Times for 6 March 1962

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

The gifts of Mrs A.E.Bithell and Professor A.Gillies, 1972; and Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach-a.-Neckar, 1975

Note

In German

Other Finding Aids

Contents described in Handlist 32 and the Letters database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/letters/letintro.htm

Related Material

See MS 199 and Handlist 11

Bibliography

See Festschrift issue of German life and letters; N.S. 11, July 1958, and the University of Leeds Review,8, December 1962, pp.146-153