GB 0100 KCLCA Murrell - MURRELL, Eric Sidney (d 1983)

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GB 0100 KCLCA Murrell

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MURRELL, Eric Sidney (d 1983)

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  • 1930 (Creation)

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1 volume

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Biographical history

Studied at Lincoln College, Oxford, 1922-1930; submitted thesis for the degree of B Litt, Oxford University, 1930; died, 1983. Connection with King's College London not known. Publications: "Girart de Roussillon" and the "Tristan" Poems (Bales & Wilde, Chesterfield, 1926); as editor, The Death of Tristan, from Deuce MS 189 ([New York, 1928]); For your tomorrow: a cipher-sergeant's diary, 1941-1945, by 2075687, known in civilian life as Eric S Murrell (Dorchester Plush, c1999), concerning Burma campaign, World War Two.

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GB 0100 KCLCA Murrell 1930 Collection (fonds) 1 volume Murrell , Eric Sidney , d 1983 , author
Studied at Lincoln College, Oxford, 1922-1930; submitted thesis for the degree of B Litt, Oxford University, 1930; died, 1983. Connection with King's College London not known. Publications: "Girart de Roussillon" and the "Tristan" Poems (Bales & Wilde, Chesterfield, 1926); as editor, The Death of Tristan, from Deuce MS 189 ([New York, 1928]); For your tomorrow: a cipher-sergeant's diary, 1941-1945, by 2075687, known in civilian life as Eric S Murrell (Dorchester Plush, c1999), concerning Burma campaign, World War Two.

Presented by the author. Apparently received by King's College in 1978.

Bound typescript thesis by E S Murrell, 1930, entitled 'The Tristan Legend in Medieval French Literature. A Historico-Bibliographical Survey', with manuscript annotations. The labelling of the thesis as a doctoral thesis is apparently in error.

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.
English, French

Collection level description available in reading room at King's College London Archives.

The thesis predates the requirement that Oxford B Litt theses be deposited in the Bodleian Library, which consequently does not hold a copy. Lincoln College does not hold a copy.

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); British Library OPAC; information from Rob Wilkes, Bodleian Library, Oxford, and Fiona Piddock, Librarian, Lincoln College, Oxford. 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. Jan 2001 Bibliographies French Historical periods History Indo-european languages Medieval history Murrell , Eric Sidney , d 1983 , author Romance languages Secondary documents

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Presented by the author. Apparently received by King's College in 1978.

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Bound typescript thesis by E S Murrell, 1930, entitled 'The Tristan Legend in Medieval French Literature. A Historico-Bibliographical Survey', with manuscript annotations. The labelling of the thesis as a doctoral thesis is apparently in error.

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

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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.

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  • English

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  • Latin

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English, French

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Collection level description available in reading room at King's College London Archives.

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The thesis predates the requirement that Oxford B Litt theses be deposited in the Bodleian Library, which consequently does not hold a copy. Lincoln College does not hold a copy.

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King's College London College Archives

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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.

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  • English

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