Davis, Sir Rupert Charles Hart-, 1907-1999 (publisher and editor)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1907 - 1999
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Correspondence and papers concerning a volume of tributes to mark the eightieth birthday of Siegfried Sassoon
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10383
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and related papers concerning a volume of manuscript tributes compiled by Rupert Hart-Davis and Dennis Silk for presentation to Siegfried Sassoon on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. There are letters between the compilers discussing progress with the volume, and between Silk and a selection of those invited to contribute. The related items include photographic copies of some of the contributions.
Dates:
1964-1966
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis to Eric Bertrand Ceadel (photocopy), 1969-12-09
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7799/1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Some years before his death in 1947, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley asked the historian G.M. Young to become his official biographer, a request to which Young acceded with misgivings. Declining health and a lack of sympathy with his subject made his task increasingly burdensome to him, but he was persuaded to continue by his publisher, Rupert Hart-Davis, and the volume appeared in 1952. It received good reviews, and won the James Tait Black Prize; but ‘…it is not a satisfying book; Young’s touch...
Dates:
1969-12-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Stanley Baldwin - Final queries from R.H.D., 1952
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7799/7
Scope and Contents
Typescript sheet headed ‘Stanley Baldwin. Final queries from R.H.D.’, with Young’s answers in manuscript.
Dates:
1952
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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