Browning, Oscar, 1837 - 1923 (historian and educational reformer)
Dates and places
1853-1913 KCC 1856
Legal status / Nationality
British
Sphere of activity
Historian, Educational Reformer
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Abraham, Charles John, 1898-05-21 - 1902-12-25
3 ALS from Abraham to WCG.
Account of Oscar Browning's life in Cambridge
An autograph manuscript account in the form of a draft letter to the 'Editor' to comment upon Browning's 'Memories of Later Years'. Contains a note in John Saltmarsh's hand, 'Wedd on O.B. (Not part of the Memoirs). JS'.
Browning: The Papers of Oscar Browning
Correspondence between J.M. Keynes and Oscar Browning
13 autograph letters, signed, 1 typed letter, signed, and 1 autograph postcard, signed to J.M. Keynes. 1910-20.
1 carbon typed letter, signed, from J.M. Keynes. 16 Dec. 1920.
This file also contains: printed verses celebrating Oscar Browning's 70th birthday, by 'A.C.B.', 1907, and his 80th, by Claude Greening, 1917; and a typescript copy of a letter from Walter Durnford to Oscar Browning, 10 June 1920.
Extracts from letters from JHC to Oscar Browning, 1897 - 1913
The file comprises photocopies of typescript extracts from letters.
Journals, 1884 - 1941
This series comprises diary entries by Charles Ashbee and his wife Janet, letters to both, photographs, picture postcards, cartoons, poems, newspaper cuttings and other printed ephemera.
Journals, 1906 - 1938
Letter from Oscar Browning to Cambridge University Musical Club, 1893-09-14
1 typed letter signed, resigning as treasurer of the club. The file also contains a letter relating to the donation of the letter.
Letter from Oscar Browning to MRJ, 1920-02-09
1 autograph letter signed, concerning books by MRJ, Browning's world history and life in Rome; with a long postscript on the Cambridge Reform Committee, education and literature.
Letters from Oscar Browning to Edward Dent, 1919-04-22 - 1919-09-10
1 autograph letter signed and 1 autograph postcard signed.
Letters from Oscar Browning to E.M. Forster, 1923
2 typed letters to E.M. Forster.
To request these documents, please use the following call mark: vol. 8/24
Letters from Oscar Browning to GLD, 1916 - 1920
Four autograph letters signed.
Letters from Oscar Browning to HB, 1861 - 1881
4 autograph letters signed, with 1 autograph letter signed from H. Sidgwick to Oscar Browning, [1876], enclosed.
Letters from Oscar Browning to JTS, 1901 - 1922
8 autograph letters signed and 3 typed letters signed. The file also contains a menu card for a dinner given at King's College to celebrate Browning's 70th birthday, 19 Jan. 1907, and a typescript Latin verse 'Ara' by Browning, 1916.
Letters from Oscar Browning to Nathaniel Wedd, 1887-12-01 - 1923-01-15
25 autograph letters, signed, and 1 typed letter.
Manuscript papers read at meetings, 1950 - 1951
Comprise:-
- C.S. Bennett on Oscar Browning
- C.S. Bennett on gossip
- A. Caiger-Smith on patronage of fine arts
- M. Shuttleworth on the ethos of King's College in 1951
- Jasper Rose on Thackeray
- Jasper Rose on the senses
- Simon Raven on Pygmalion
- Francis Haskell on the impact of certain books on a young man
- Francis Haskell on tolerance and hypocrisy.
Papers relating to a disagreement with Oscar Browning over the office of Dean, 1877
The file comprises:-
- 4 autograph letters signed from Augustus Austen Leigh to JEN, 4 Dec. 1877 (some letters are undated), and a draft incomplete letter from JEN to Austen-Leigh, undated;
- 1 autograph letter signed from Oscar Browning to JEN, 3 Dec. 1877;
- 1 incomplete letter from JEN to [H.] Sidgwick, undated;
- 1 autograph letter signed from A. W. Verrall to JEN, 29 Nov. 1877;
- 3 formal statements/clarifications of position by JEN, Dec. 1877.
Papers relating to the 'Robbie Ross affair' and to College discipline, 1889
Papers relating to women students' degrees, 1897
Additional filters:
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- Archival Object 18
- Collection 1
- Subject
- letter 3
- Diary 1
- Memoir 1