Scholfield, Alwyn Faber, 1884-1969 (Cambridge University Librarian)
Dates
- Existence: 1884 - 1969
Biography
Alwyn Faber Scholfield (1884-1969) was Cambridge University Librarian, 1923-1949. He attended Eton before coming to King's College, Cambridge, in 1903, where he gained a second in both parts of the Classical Tripos. After his degree he travelled abroad and taught for a year at Eton. From 1911-1912 he worked in Cambridge University Library on Classical and early printed books. In 1913 he went to Calcutta as Keeper of the Records of the Government of India. During part of his time there he served as officiating Librarian of the Imperial Library, Calcutta. From 1919-1923 he worked in Cambridge as Librarian of Trinity College, until he was elected University Librarian in succession to Francis John Henry Jenkinson. He superintended the transfer of the University Library from the Old Schools to the new building in 1934, and created the Departmental organisation under which the Library functioned for many decades, laying down the Library's routine procedures with great thoroughness. He also edited Aelian, De natura animalium for the Loeb Classical Library (3 vols., 1958-1959), and Nicander: the poems and poetical fragments, with A.S.F. Gow (1953).
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
A.F. Scholfield: Letters to P.W. Filby, 26 July 1957-16 May 1962
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
A.F. Scholfield: Reference for P.W. Filby
Reference for P. William Filby, who worked in the Library from 1928; with covering letter to F.W. Ratcliffe, 9 September 1990
Alwyn Faber Scholfield: MS sheet inscribed 'Librarian, Trinity College, Cambridge c.1923'; list of books in W.11, 1923 (Circa)
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Alwyn Faber Scholfield: Papers
Includes correspondence with Montague Rhodes James, notes on classical literature and translations, correspondence and material relating to the University Library.
Bernhard Karle: Letter to A.F. Scholfield, 1924
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
“Catalogue of western manuscripts” compiled by C.E. Sayle, 1920 - 1923
Codrus Urceus: Sermones (F? Bonaniae, 1502); correspondence, 11 June 1902-2 May 1931
Correspondents include J.P. Lupton, A.F. Scholfield, Christopher Wordsworth, H.M. Bannister and M.R. James
Correspondence from Sir Stephen Gaselee to Alwyn F. Scholfield, 10 Feb. 1941-4 Aug. 1941
Fritz Johann H. Krenkow: Letter to A.F. Scholfield, 1925
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
From J. Hanna, Assistant Librarian, Trinity College Dublin, to A.F. Scholfield, 21 Apr. 1931
Sends a consignment of Irish newspapers from 'the troublesome times', set aside and overlooked until now
From John P. Gray & Son, Ltd. to Alwyn F. Scholfield, Librarian, 7 Nov. 1924
Question of additional charge for guarding plates
Gerald Patrick Moriarty: Letter to A.F. Scholfield, 1924
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Hervey W. Vaughn-Williams: Correspondence to A.F. Scholfield, 1942
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
James Wardrop: Correspondence to A.F. Scholfield, 1947
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Joan Thomson: 'A.E. Housman', with two letters from Joan Thomson to A.F. Scholfield, Librarian, 18 May 1939-30 May 1939 (Circa)
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Includes correspondence, verses, notes and miscellaneous papers.
John Perceval Postgate: Correspondence to H. Jackson and A.F. Scholfield, 1891-1925
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
John Saltmarsh: Letter to A.F. Scholfield, 1949
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Letter from A. F. Scholfield to Mr Wherry, 8 July 1924
Written from Trinity College, Cambridge, and concerning Charles Sayle. With a note (311) in the hand of David J. Hall.
Letter from Alwyn F. Scholfield to P. William Filby, 27 Nov. 1961
Thanks for ornamental specimens from Neudörffer's 'Schreibkunst'; he doubts whether Oates, Under-Librarian, could speak loudly enough to 'impress a large audience' [Baltimore Bibliophiles]; thanks for a copy of catalogue of calligraphic exhibition
Letter from A.R. Aldridge to A.F. Scholfield, 4 Dec. 1930
Information on MS Mm.2.10 ('Florarium Bartholomei' of John [...]feld'), imperfect
Letter from James F. Kellar Johnstone to A.F. Scholfield, 28 July 1927
Presenting to Library a copy of Bion's History, Paris, 1548, with inscription about presentation from William Barlow, Fellow of Trinity, to William James, Fellow of Pembroke, 1590
Letter from Sir Henry C. Darby (1909-1992) to Alwyn F. Scholfield, 1930-1990
Thanks for a piece on indexing
Letter from Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943) to Alwyn F. Scholfield, 27 June 1931
He has procured a set of Pierre Louÿ's poems and bawdy pictures; he will given the editions of 'Les fleurs du mal' to the Victoria and Albert Museum
Letters from Rupert Brooke and Sir Geoffrey Fry to A. F. Scholfield
Letters of A.F. Scholfield to P.W. (Bill) Filby, 1958-1994
Comprises:
- Card, with news-cutting, The Times, 19 Jul. 1958 on death of Herbert Claude Stanford, Secretary of Cambridge University Library
- Letter of Scholfield to Filby, 24 Aug. 1958
- Correspondence between Filby and F.W. Ratcliffe, 1994, presenting the above material to Cambridge University Library
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- Archives and MSS Dept. (GBR/0012) 34
- University Archives (GBR/0265) 1
- Type
- Archival Object 30
- Collection 5
- Subject
- Classical literature 1
- Libraries 1
- Poetry 1
- Prose 1