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, 1906 - 1938
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.
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