Davis, Sir Rupert Charles Hart-, 1907-1999 (publisher and editor)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1907 - 1999
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis to Eric Bertrand Ceadel (photocopy), 1969-12-09
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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
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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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