GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP70 - LOW, David Morrice (1890-1972)

Identificatie

referentie code

GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP70

Titel

LOW, David Morrice (1890-1972)

Datum(s)

  • 1911-1952 (Vervaardig)

Beschrijvingsniveau

Omvang en medium

3 boxes

Context

Naam van de archiefvormer

Biografie

Born, 1890; educated at Westminster School (scholar); Oriel College Oxford (scholar); 1st Class Moderations, 1911; 2nd Class Literae Humaniores, 1914; BA, 1914; MA, 1915; Assistant Master, Marlborough College, 1914-1918; Westminster School, 1919-1921; Rector of Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, 1921-1929; temporary Junior Assistant, Air Ministry, 1941-1943; temporary Senior Assistant, Foreign Office, 1943-1945; Lecturer in Department of Classics and Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Arts, King's College London, 1945-1957; Chairman, English Association, 1959-1964; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; died, 1972. Publications: with B V F Brackenbury, Elementary French Exercises (1917); Kelvinside Academy, 1878-1928; Gibbon's Journal (1929); Edward Gibbon (1937); London is London (1949); Virgil and the English Augustans (a paper read to the Virgil Society, 1952); Norman Douglas, A Selection from his Works (1955); A Century of Writers, 1855-1955 (1955); Essays and Studies Collected for the English Association (1955); abridged Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1960); Trends in English Pronunciation (1960). Contributor to: Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature; Encyclopaedia Britannica. Novels: Twice Shy (1933); This Sweet Work (1935). Translations: Natalia Ginzburg, Voices in the Evening (1963) and Family Sayings (1967); Ercole Patti, Roman Chronicle (1965).

Geschiedenis van het archief

GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP70 1911-1952 Collection (fonds) 3 boxes Low , David Morrice , 1890-1972 , writer
Born, 1890; educated at Westminster School (scholar); Oriel College Oxford (scholar); 1st Class Moderations, 1911; 2nd Class Literae Humaniores, 1914; BA, 1914; MA, 1915; Assistant Master, Marlborough College, 1914-1918; Westminster School, 1919-1921; Rector of Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, 1921-1929; temporary Junior Assistant, Air Ministry, 1941-1943; temporary Senior Assistant, Foreign Office, 1943-1945; Lecturer in Department of Classics and Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Arts, King's College London, 1945-1957; Chairman, English Association, 1959-1964; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; died, 1972. Publications: with B V F Brackenbury, Elementary French Exercises (1917); Kelvinside Academy, 1878-1928; Gibbon's Journal (1929); Edward Gibbon (1937); London is London (1949); Virgil and the English Augustans (a paper read to the Virgil Society, 1952); Norman Douglas, A Selection from his Works (1955); A Century of Writers, 1855-1955 (1955); Essays and Studies Collected for the English Association (1955); abridged Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1960); Trends in English Pronunciation (1960). Contributor to: Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature; Encyclopaedia Britannica. Novels: Twice Shy (1933); This Sweet Work (1935). Translations: Natalia Ginzburg, Voices in the Evening (1963) and Family Sayings (1967); Ercole Patti, Roman Chronicle (1965).

Acquired from Low's family.

Notes and papers, 1911-1952, of David Morrice Low, including scrapbook of news cuttings and pictures, 1911-1913; printed Marlborough school lists, 1914-1918, and extracts from school rules, 1916; list of Oriel men on service; notes on Italy and Latin, 1924-1925 and undated; notes on teaching classics and mathematics [1914-1921]; notes, manuscripts and typescripts for novels or short stories; material relating to Low's novel Twice Shy (1933) including notes, reviews, and a contract with Chatto & Windus; other material relating to Chatto & Windus, 1927-1933; notes on Greece and Nice; manuscript notes and letter, 1927, from V H Collins on 'Scotticisms'; manuscript personal notes on his mother, childhood, first memories, use of language and attitude to women; typescript note on role as examiner of English, 1940; notebooks on Edward Gibbon, some dated 1934-1935, from various sources including Gibbon's journal and letters; printed catalogue of Gibbon's library, 1934, and typescript essay on it; photographs of portraits of Gibbon and places associated with him; typescripts on 'The Grand Tour'; notes on aeronautical terminology in Spanish and Portuguese [1941-1943]; offprint of E M Wilson, 'La Estroga Sexta de la Cancion a la Flor de Guido', Miscelanea (1952), dedicated to Low; Enid Marx, The Pigeon Ace [undated].

The collection is arranged in the following sections: notebooks; typescript and manuscript fragment of a story concerning a teacher; notes for Twice Shy; reviews of Twice Shy; Chatto and Windus; typescripts; notes on Greece; notes on Nice; manuscript fragments concerning Albert Edward Sceefe; manuscript notes and letters from V H Collins; manuscript personal notes; notebooks on Gibbon; Gibbon's library, portraits and places; typescripts on the Grand Tour; notes on aeronautical terminology; scrapbook of news cuttings and pictures; printed material.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
Mostly English; some Latin, Greek, French, Spanish and Portuguese

Typescript list available in reading room at King's College London Archives.

Reading University Library holds letters from Low in the Chatto and Windus correspondence files, 1926-1928 (in MS2444); correspondence of Low, 1930-1935, including c14 letters from him (in Jonathan Cape General files); files of correspondence relating to works by Norman Douglas, 1951-1952, including three letters from Low to Douglas, and files of correspondence relating to works by Low, 1951-1970, including letters from Low (in Chatto and Windus and Hogarth Press General Correspondence). Sussex University Library, Manuscript Collections, holds 12 letters from Low to Kingsley Martin, 1931-1962 (Ref: SxMs11/14/1). Glasgow University Library holds a letter from Low to W R Scott, 1936 (Ref: MS.Gen.1293(0)14). Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Department of Western Manuscripts, holds correspondence with Graham Pollard, 1927-1971 (Ref: MSS Pollard). Royal Society of Literature holds nine letters from Low, 1958-1967. Buckinghamshire County Record Office, Aylesbury, holds a fragment of a letter from Low to Theodora Roscoe, 1962 (in D115/126/13).

Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: brief description in King's College London Manuscripts and Private Papers: A Select Guide (1982); Who's Who; British Library online catalogue; National Register of Archives; Location register of twentieth-century English literary manuscripts (1988). Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Feb 2001 Aeronautics Aerospace engineering Age distribution Age groups Air Ministry Authors Book reviews Chatto & Windus Ltd , publishers Childhood Collins , V H , fl 1927 Educational personnel English Europe France Germanic languages Gibbon , Edward , 1737-1794 , historian Greece Humanities education Indo-european languages Italy Language instruction Latin Literary criticism Literary forms and genres Literature Low , David Morrice , 1890-1972 , writer Marlborough College , Wiltshire Marx , Enid , fl ? 1943 , author Mathematics education Newspaper press Nice Novels Photographs Portuguese Press Press cuttings Prose Publishing Publishing industry Romance languages Schools Social science education Space technology Spanish Teachers Travel Travel abroad University of Oxford , Oriel College x Oxford University , Oriel College Visual materials Western Europe Wilson , E M , fl 1952 Writers Educational institutions Personnel People by occupation People

Directe bron van verwerving of overbrenging

Acquired from Low's family.

Inhoud en structuur

Bereik en inhoud

Notes and papers, 1911-1952, of David Morrice Low, including scrapbook of news cuttings and pictures, 1911-1913; printed Marlborough school lists, 1914-1918, and extracts from school rules, 1916; list of Oriel men on service; notes on Italy and Latin, 1924-1925 and undated; notes on teaching classics and mathematics [1914-1921]; notes, manuscripts and typescripts for novels or short stories; material relating to Low's novel Twice Shy (1933) including notes, reviews, and a contract with Chatto & Windus; other material relating to Chatto & Windus, 1927-1933; notes on Greece and Nice; manuscript notes and letter, 1927, from V H Collins on 'Scotticisms'; manuscript personal notes on his mother, childhood, first memories, use of language and attitude to women; typescript note on role as examiner of English, 1940; notebooks on Edward Gibbon, some dated 1934-1935, from various sources including Gibbon's journal and letters; printed catalogue of Gibbon's library, 1934, and typescript essay on it; photographs of portraits of Gibbon and places associated with him; typescripts on 'The Grand Tour'; notes on aeronautical terminology in Spanish and Portuguese [1941-1943]; offprint of E M Wilson, 'La Estroga Sexta de la Cancion a la Flor de Guido', Miscelanea (1952), dedicated to Low; Enid Marx, The Pigeon Ace [undated].

Waardering, vernietiging en slectie

Aanvullingen

Ordeningstelsel

The collection is arranged in the following sections: notebooks; typescript and manuscript fragment of a story concerning a teacher; notes for Twice Shy; reviews of Twice Shy; Chatto and Windus; typescripts; notes on Greece; notes on Nice; manuscript fragments concerning Albert Edward Sceefe; manuscript notes and letters from V H Collins; manuscript personal notes; notebooks on Gibbon; Gibbon's library, portraits and places; typescripts on the Grand Tour; notes on aeronautical terminology; scrapbook of news cuttings and pictures; printed material.

Voorwaarden voor toegang en gebruik

Voorwaarden voor raadpleging

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Voorwaarden voor reproductie

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

Taal van het materiaal

  • Engels

Schrift van het materiaal

  • Latijn

Taal en schrift aantekeningen

Mostly English; some Latin, Greek, French, Spanish and Portuguese

Fysieke eigenschappen en technische eisen

Toegangen

Typescript list available in reading room at King's College London Archives.

Verwante materialen

Bestaan en verblifplaats van originelen

Bestaan en verblijfplaats van kopieën

Related units of description

Reading University Library holds letters from Low in the Chatto and Windus correspondence files, 1926-1928 (in MS2444); correspondence of Low, 1930-1935, including c14 letters from him (in Jonathan Cape General files); files of correspondence relating to works by Norman Douglas, 1951-1952, including three letters from Low to Douglas, and files of correspondence relating to works by Low, 1951-1970, including letters from Low (in Chatto and Windus and Hogarth Press General Correspondence). Sussex University Library, Manuscript Collections, holds 12 letters from Low to Kingsley Martin, 1931-1962 (Ref: SxMs11/14/1). Glasgow University Library holds a letter from Low to W R Scott, 1936 (Ref: MS.Gen.1293(0)14). Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Department of Western Manuscripts, holds correspondence with Graham Pollard, 1927-1971 (Ref: MSS Pollard). Royal Society of Literature holds nine letters from Low, 1958-1967. Buckinghamshire County Record Office, Aylesbury, holds a fragment of a letter from Low to Theodora Roscoe, 1962 (in D115/126/13).

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King's College London College Archives

Toegepaste regels en/of conventies

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Status

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Verwijdering van datering archiefvorming

Taal (talen)

  • Engels

Schrift(en)

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    Voorwaarden voor raadpleging en gebruik