GB 0103 CHAMBERS - Chambers Papers

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GB 0103 CHAMBERS c1894-1942 Collection (fonds) 32 boxes Chambers , Raymond Wilson , 1874-1942 , Professor of English Language and Literature

Raymond Wilson Chambers studied at University College London (UCL), 1891-1899, and was appointed Quain Student in English there in 1899. He stayed at UCL and was Librarian from 1901 to 1922. He was also Assistant Professor in the English Department, 1904-1914. In 1915 he became Reader in English. From 1915 to 1917 he served for a time with the Red Cross in France, and with the YMCA with the British Expeditionary Force in Belgium. In 1922 he became Quain Professor of English at UCL in succession to W P Ker. In 1933 he visited the USA to deliver the Turnbull lectures in Baltimore. He published Widsith: a study in Old English herioc legend in 1912, Beowulf: an introduction to the study of the poem, with a discussion of the stories of Offa and Finn in 1921, Life of More in 1932, Thomas More in 1935, and Man's unconquerable mind in 1939. Chambers retired in 1941 and died in 1942. The fullest account of Chambers' life is given by C J Sisson in the Proceedings of the British Academy, vol xxx (1944), pp 427-39, with a bibliography by H Winifred Husbands.

Presented by Chambers' executors shortly after his death. Supplemented soon afterwards by a bequest from Dr E Hitchcock, who had worked with Chambers for many years in the Department of English.

Papers, c1894-1942, of Raymond Wilson Chambers, including papers on all Chambers' major published works, and on his unpublished work with J H G Grattan on the Piers Plowman A-text. There is also a good deal of correspondence with friends, students and fellow scholars. Extensive family correspondence includes letters written home by Chambers when he was a student at UCL, and wartime letters from France and Belgium in 1916-1917. Also includes a small but valuable collection concerned with the study of Sir Thomas More.

Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Normal copyright restrictions apply.
English

The Papers of Raymond Wilson Chambers (1874-1942), compiled by Janet Percival (The Library, University College London, Occasional Publication no 4, 1978).

Special Collections holds Chambers' books comprising approx. 600 items.

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Presented by Chambers' executors shortly after his death. Supplemented soon afterwards by a bequest from Dr E Hitchcock, who had worked with Chambers for many years in the Department of English.

Papers, c1894-1942, of Raymond Wilson Chambers, including papers on all Chambers' major published works, and on his unpublished work with J H G Grattan on the Piers Plowman A-text. There is also a good deal of correspondence with friends, students and fellow scholars. Extensive family correspondence includes letters written home by Chambers when he was a student at UCL, and wartime letters from France and Belgium in 1916-1917. Also includes a small but valuable collection concerned with the study of Sir Thomas More.

Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

• English

• Latin

English

Special Collections holds Chambers' books comprising approx. 600 items.

The Papers of Raymond Wilson Chambers (1874-1942), compiled by Janet Percival (The Library, University College London, Occasional Publication no 4, 1978).

• English