Papers of Richard Ellis Roberts

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. d. 446-7; MS. Eng. poet. d. 211
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1917-39, n.d.
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 3 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Papers of Richard Ellis Roberts comprising:

  • letters to Ellis and Harriet Roberts, 1927-39, n.d., including 11 letters from Florence Beerbohm to Harriet Roberts and 1 letter to Ellis Roberts, 1931-6, n.d.; 11 letters from Mary Butts to Ellis Roberts and 1 letter to Harriet Roberts, 1933-6; 10 letters from H.R.L. Sheppard, 1936-7; and 28 letters from Helen Waddell, 1927-39, n.d.
  • letters to Ellis and Harriet Roberts, 1898-1939, n.d., including a letter from Ellis Roberts to Katharine Tynan, 1923; engravings by Robert Gibbings, 1926 and a letter from Ellis Roberts to Kingsley Martin, 1932.
  • 45 poems by Richard Ellis Roberts, 1917-28, n.d., with two photographs, n.d.

Administrative / Biographical History

Richard Ellis Roberts (1879-1953) was a journalist.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Presented to the Library in 1976.

Note

Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

A description is available in the Library, where there is also a card index to unpublished catalogues.