Frances White Emerson correspondence with Geoffrey Keynes, 1919-1944.

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Frances White Emerson correspondence with Geoffrey Keynes, 1919-1944.

Primarilycorrespondence concerning publication and donation of William Blake manuscripts,between British scholar Sir Geoffrey Keynes and American bibliophile, Frances WhiteEmerson.

1 box (.3 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6385022

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Emerson, Frances White, 1860-1957.

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William Augustus White (1843-1927) was an American investment banker, book collector, and a great collector of William Blake and of Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights. Upon his death in 1927, his daughter, Frances White Emerson (1860-1957), inherited his collection. Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes (1887-1982) was a British surgeon and literary scholar, and was the brother of the economist John Maynard Keynes. Geoffrey Keynes published on and collected materials of William Blake. It was this intere...

Frances White Emerson

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Keynes, Margaret Elizabeth

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White, William Augustus, 1843-1927

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White was the senior partner in a firm of New York City investment bankers, who began serious book collecting in 1885. He collected works by William Blake, Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights and created important collections of Shakespeare and Americana. From the description of Library accession books, manuscript, 1863-1927. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612236412 Epithet: of Brooklyn British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Des...

Keynes, Geoffrey, 1887-1982

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Epithet: surgeon and bibliophile British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x00009b ...

Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir, 1863-1952

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Sir Frederic George Kenyon, British paleographer, biblical and classical scholar, and director of the British Museum. From the description of Sir Frederic George Kenyon manuscript material : 2 items, 1902-1907 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 506582796 ...

British Museum.

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Microfilms of British Museum class catalogues of manuscripts. The British Library, established in 1973, is now responsible for manuscript collections previously held by the library of the British Museum. From the guide to the Microfilms of British Museum class catalogues of manuscripts, 20th century, (University of Oxford, Bodleian Library) ...