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.

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

Some papers contain personal information that should be redacted before access is granted