Typescript War Memoirs by W.D. Johnston

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. d. 314-16
  • Dates of Creation
    • [?1949]
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 3 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Duplicated typescript war memoirs, 'Dionysia', by W.D. Johnston, published in revised form as Nine rivers from Jordan (London, 1953).

Administrative / Biographical History

William Denis Johnston (1901-1984) was a journalist, dramatist and broadcaster. Details are given in Who Was Who.

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 by the author in 1949.

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. 45317-19.