Lascelles Abercrombie manuscripts
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Lascelles Abercrombie manuscripts
Classmark: BC MS 20c Abercrombie (2)
Creator(s): Abercrombie, Lascelles (1881-1938)()
Date(s): 1881-1940
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 bound vols, 1 envelope, 16 box files containing mainly loose-leaf material, 1 pamphlet, 15 other files, 2 notebooks, and 19 folders; manuscript, typescript, press cuttings, and printed material (some photocopy).
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8136
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Comprises: (1) Drafts of many of Abercrombie's own publications held in box files individually-labelled; (2) Drafts of literary material in folders; (3) Lecture notes, including those of his own lectures and some notes taken from the lectures of others, held chiefly in small white files, some in green files, and others in notebooks; (4) A printed order of service for his Memorial Service in 1938.
Many of the items are held in specially-made box files and some of the lecture notes are held within boards connected together by screws passing through the sheets of manuscripts between them. The latter include typed lists of their contents before the first folios.
Additional items added October 2017:
/53 Poems by Lascelles Abercrombie and other members of the Abercrombie family.
Biography or history
Lascelles Abercrombie M.A. was born in 1881, and was the sixth son of William Abercrombie of Cheshire. He was educated at Malvern College, and at the Victoria University, Manchester. His education was chiefly scientific. He soon became well-known as a poet and a man of letters. From 1919-22 he was Lecturer in Poetry at the University of Liverpool, leaving there to become Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds, where he stayed until 1929 when he left to take up a Professorship at the University of London.
System of arrangement
The MS BC MS 20c Abercrombie (2) catalogue is based on an historic inventory. The arrangement of material does not necessarily represent the original order of the archive and it is considered partly processed by an archivist. When making requests to consult, please be aware that there may be discrepancies between description and physical arrangement. The retrievable unit for this collection is file level.
Access and usage
Access
Access to this material is unrestricted.