GB 0103 MS ADD 203 - Hannay Papers

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GB 0103 MS ADD 203 1882-1912 Collection (fonds) 1 box Hannay , David McDowall , 1853-1934 , historian and journalist

David Hannay was born in London, the son of the novelist and critic James Hannay. He was an historian and journalist and was vice-consul at Barcelona, probably during 1897. He helped found the Navy Record Society. He wrote for the Pall Mall Gazette, the Saturday Review and St James's Gazette. His published works included the lives of Admiral Blake, Tobias Smollett, and Frederick Marryat; a short history of the Royal Navy; and a work on the great chartered companies.

Given to the Library in 1962 by the Hannay family through Professor Peter Foote of the Scandinavian Department, whose wife is a granddaughter of David Hannay.

Letters to David Hannay from various correspondents.

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.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
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A detailed handlist and index is available. Please contact special collections for further information.

University College London Special Collections also holds a diary, 1875-1880, of David Hannay among diaries and notebooks of James Hannay, 1852-1880 (Ref: MS ADD 331), and other miscellaneous papers of James Hannay (Ref: MS MISC 3C, 3H, 3T).

Other letters of David Hannay are held at University of London (Library - Senate House) and Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London. For further details see the National Register of Archives.

  1999, revised Oct 2001  Hannay , David McDowall , 1853-1934 , historian and journalist Historians History Naval history Social scientists

Given to the Library in 1962 by the Hannay family through Professor Peter Foote of the Scandinavian Department, whose wife is a granddaughter of David Hannay.

Letters to David Hannay from various correspondents.

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.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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University College London Special Collections also holds a diary, 1875-1880, of David Hannay among diaries and notebooks of James Hannay, 1852-1880 (Ref: MS ADD 331), and other miscellaneous papers of James Hannay (Ref: MS MISC 3C, 3H, 3T).

A detailed handlist and index is available. Please contact special collections for further information.

Other letters of David Hannay are held at University of London (Library - Senate House) and Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London. For further details see the National Register of Archives.

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