The Gordon Bottomley Papers

This material is held atBritish Library Manuscript Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 58 Add MS 88957
  • Alternative Id.
      (ark) ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x0000ae
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1773, 1831-1958, nd
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 275 files and 1 pen

Scope and Content

Correspondence, diaries, literary materials, artwork, photographs, and printed ephemera by, relating to, or collected by Gordon Bottomley. Also contains collections of papers relating to, and collected by, Prof. Claude Colleer Abbott and Lady Mary Davis.

Access Information

Unrestricted

Not Public Record(s)

Acquisition Information

The bulk of the archive (Dep. 8612) was left as a bequest by Roger Lancelyn Green of Poulton Hall, Wirral, in May 1988. Additional material was donated by Barbara Lloyd-Evans of Stratford-upon-Avon in May 1991 and Barbara Wrenn Wright of Huntsville, Alabama in June 2001 (Deps 8974 and 10012 respectively).

Related Material

For other institutions holding Bottomley material see the National Register of Archives at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/default.asp.