MS 340
Reference code
MS 340
Title
Frederic Kenyon: Browning papers
Level
Sub-fonds
Administrative / Biographical history
Sir Frederic Kenyon (1863-1953) was a biblical scholar and Director of the British Museum.
He was educated at Winchester school before going on to study at Magdalen College, Oxford. While at school he was introduced to the poems of Robert Browning and by the time Kenyon reached Oxford he had read all of Browning's works apart from Sordello. He became one of Browning's chief promoters in the early twentieth century and the first important editor of Browning's poems.
He was educated at Winchester school before going on to study at Magdalen College, Oxford. While at school he was introduced to the poems of Robert Browning and by the time Kenyon reached Oxford he had read all of Browning's works apart from Sordello. He became one of Browning's chief promoters in the early twentieth century and the first important editor of Browning's poems.
Date
1897-1913
Extent & medium
3 boxes; 7 series
Content description
The papers consist of working papers and correspondence relating to Kenyon’s publications and the Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning ‘Love Letter’ controversy.
Associated material
The Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barratt-Browning collection is catalogued as MS 682.
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- Frederic Kenyon’s Browning papers: Frederic Kenyon’s Browning papers, MS 340 01, (1897-1918)
- Frederic Kenyon’s Browning papers: correspondence relating to ‘Robert Browning and Alfred Domett’ publication by Frederick Kenyon, MS 340 02, (1906)
- Frederic Kenyon’s Browning papers: correspondence and papers relating to Frederick Kenyon’s revision and partial rewriting of Mrs Sutherland’s Orr’s ‘Life and Letters of Robert Browning’, MS 340 03, (1908)
- Frederic Kenyon’s Browning papers: correspondence and papers relating to Frederick Kenyon’s ‘The Centenary Edition of the Poems of Robert Browning’, MS 340 04, (1912)
- Frederic Kenyon’s Browning papers: correspondence and papers relating to Frederick Kenyon’s involvement with the 'Browning Sale' and the 'Love Letters controversy', MS 340 05, (1913-1914)
- Frederic Kenyon’s Browning papers: miscellaneous correspondence and papers, MS 340 06, (1893-1941)
- Frederick Kenyon’s Browning papers: printed material and ephemera, MS 340 07, (1902-1947)