Diaries of Aylwin Bowen, with one diary written while in Japan, 1923. Written mainly in Letts's diaries, three (1918, 1931, 1933) in the printers W. Straker's diaries, the latter interleaved with unnumbered leaves of blotting-paper. The 1950 volume contains a copy of Bowen's bookplate.
Diaries of Aylwin Bowen
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Eng. e. 2410-21
- Dates of Creation
- 1918-50
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 12 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Aylwin (formerly Alfred) Bowen, author of In New Japan (London, 1932) and other works, and printer, of Edmonton and (from 1931) Hounslow, Middlesex.
Access Information
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Acquisition Information
The diaries were bought from Henry Bristow in 1991.
Note
Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
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