MS 678 03
MS 678 03
Robert McCrum archive: Personal papers
Series
1970-2012
31 boxes: 93 files, 69 volumes
The personal papers of Robert McCrum comprise family papers, items from his schooldays, university years, documents and certificates, diaries, address books, personal stationery, commonplace books and notebooks, lectures and speeches, articles written about himself and personal correspondence. The roughly annual correspondence files maintained, were marked by McCrum as personal, and while they contain a certain amount of personal papers, particularly correspondence relating to his family and friends, they are principally made up of miscellaneous papers relating to his literary, publishing and journalistic work.
The papers in this series overlap with MS 678 01: Working papers for literary work’ and MS 678 02: Working papers for journalistic work.
The papers in this series overlap with MS 678 01: Working papers for literary work’ and MS 678 02: Working papers for journalistic work.
In order to integrate closely related personal papers from the 1st and 2nd tranches with the 3rd and 4th tranches, additional sub-series were created and some items were moved from original sub-series to the newly created sub-series as necessary. An artificial arrangement has been imposed.
The sub-series arrangement:
01: Family papers
02: School days
03: University years
01: Academic papers
02: Early writing at university
03: University journalism
04: University theatrical production
04: Documents and certificates
05: Personal diaries
06: Personal address book and lists
07: Personal stationery
08: Commonplace book and notebooks
09: Lectures and speeches
10: Articles written about Robert McCrum
11: Personal orrespondence and related papers
12: Correspondence relating to Robert McCrum's published work
The sub-series arrangement:
01: Family papers
02: School days
03: University years
01: Academic papers
02: Early writing at university
03: University journalism
04: University theatrical production
04: Documents and certificates
05: Personal diaries
06: Personal address book and lists
07: Personal stationery
08: Commonplace book and notebooks
09: Lectures and speeches
10: Articles written about Robert McCrum
11: Personal orrespondence and related papers
12: Correspondence relating to Robert McCrum's published work
Some papers contain personal information that should be redacted before access is granted
- Robert McCrum archive: Personal papers relating to Robert McCrum's family, MS 678 03 01, (1987-2000)
- Robert McCrum archive: Personal papers relating to Robert McCrum's school days, MS 678 03 02, (1969)
- Robert McCrum archive: Personal papers relating to Robert McCrum's university years, MS 678 03 03, (1968-1969)
- Robert McCrum archive: Documents and certificates, MS 678 03 04, (1960-2013)
- Robert McCrum archive: Personal diaries, MS 678 03 05, (1973-2020)
- Robert McCrum archive: Personal address books and lists, MS 678 03 06, (c.1970-c.1990)
- Robert McCrum archive: Personal stationery, MS 678 03 07, (c.1990s)
- Robert McCrum archive: Commonplace books and notebooks, MS 678 03 08, (1970-2019)
- Robert McCrum archive: Lectures and speeches, MS 678 03 09, (1986-2019)
- Robert McCrum archive: Articles written about Robert McCrum, MS 678 03 10, (1996-2018)
- Robert McCrum archive: Correspondence and related papers, MS 678 03 11, (1969-2020)
- Robert McCrum archive: Correspondence relating to Robert McCrum's published work, MS 678 03 12, (1979-2021)