Letters from James Wardrop to Alfred Fairbank

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. c. 579-80
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1931-43
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 2 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Letters from James Wardrop to Alfred Fairbank.

Administrative / Biographical History

James Wardrop (1905-1957) was Controller of the Gregynog Press. Alfred John Fairbank (1895-1982) was a calligrapher (details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography).

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 letters were given to the Library by Alfred Fairbank and Evelyn Wardrop in 1972.

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. 41557-8.