Collins, A. Jefferies

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Epithet: Keeper of Manuscripts British Museum

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Arthur Jefferies Collins was born on 30 September 1893. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA in 1915. After serving with the Royal North Devon Hussars during the First World War he became Assistant Keeper at the British Museum in 1919. From 1944 to 1947 he was Keeper of the Manuscripts at the British Museum. He was lecturer in Palaeography to the School of Librarianship at University College London between 1947 and 1955. In 1947 he returned to the British Museum to become the Keeper of Manuscripts and Egerton Librarian. He remained in this post until 1955.

From the guide to the Collins, Arthur Jefferies, c1948, (Senate House Library, University of London)

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referencedIn NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE relating to 'Pictor in Carmine', collected by John Walter Hely-Hutchinson whilst the MS. was in his possession. The names of the writers of individual letters are given in the Index to the present Catalogue. Included are type... British Library
creatorOf Correspondence concerning the library and archives; 1914-15, 1923-62.ff. 258. Various sizes.includes:f. 2 Ludwig van Beethoven, composer: Stanley Hawley, Secretary, Royal Philharmonic Society: Arthur T. Cummings, hon. solicitor, Philharmonic Societ..., 1914-1962 British Library
creatorOf WILFRED PARTINGTON PAPERS. Vol. II A (ff. 302). Correspondence, papers, and miscellaneous material, etc., of Wilfred Partington; circa 1886-1947. Folios 125-143 are three sets of printed proofs of the Appendix to Thomas Wise in the Original Cloth (1..., approximately 1886-1947 British Library
creatorOf JOSEPH AMES: twenty-six business letters from Joseph Ames (b.1619, d.1695), formerly a naval commander under the Commonwealth, as Master of 'The Returne', to Thomas Pengelly, London agent of her owners; 1663-1674. Together with a printed assurance po..., 1663-1674 British Library
creatorOf IDRIS BELL PAPERS. Vol. XIX (ff. 228). Andrew Ewbank Burn -W. R. Dunstan.includes:f. 1 Andrew Ewbank Burn, Dean of Salisbury: Letter to H. I. Bell: 1925.f. 2 John Bagnell Bury, classical scholar and historian: Letter to H. I. Bell: 1910.ff. 4-10... British Library
creatorOf JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXIV (ff. 154). 1. ff. 1-16. 'War orders and Dispositions', compiled by Jellicoe as commander of the 2nd Division, Home Fleet; 1912. Typewritten draft, with autograph corrections and additions. 2. ff. 17-154. Papers relating to ..., 1912-1915 British Library
creatorOf Collins, Arthur Jefferies, c1948 Senate House Library (University of London)
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS. Paper; ff. 162. British Library arrangement. A. Bruno Walter: letter in German to H. Hinrichsen, director of C. F. Peters & Co., concerning that firm's publication of Mahler's Fifth Symphony, together with a copy of ..., 1700-1972 British Library
creatorOf 2 letters: 1. from Blakeney to Wise, 27 March 1930, sending him 'something (2 copies) of mine -the Three Poems of Austin Dobson', and thanking him for the loan of the MSS (ff. 173-173b). 2. from A. T. A. Dobson, son of Austin Dobson, to A. J. Collin..., 1930-1954 British Library
creatorOf PETRE PAPERS. Vol. XV (ff. 147). 1. ff. 1-77. General correspondence of Miss Petre; 1909-1942. 2. ff. 78-89. Letter of Mrs Katherine Pirenne, niece of Miss Petre, to Rev. Alexander Roper Vidler, D.D., 1962, enclosing a memorandum by her brother, Sir ..., 1909-1962 British Library
creatorOf Vol. XIX B (ff. 257-516). 17 Sept. 1946-7 Sept. 1950.includes:f. 257 H. Gray Jones, proprietor of Heath (Health) Mill, Worplesdon, county Surrey: Letter to G. B. Shaw of H. Gray Jones: 1946: Signed.f. 258 Charles A. Smith, of Hearst Newspapers, L... British Library
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Death 1976

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