Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1867 - 1941 (Accumulation)
Level of description
Archive Collection
Extent and medium
34 boxes (7 linear metres)
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Frederick Whyte's archive was deposited in the University Library by his son in 1972.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The papers of Frederic Whyte (1867-1941) form a literary archive although it contains a large amount of correspondence. The letters date largely from the late-Nineteenth and early-Twentieth Centuries and include correspondence with publishers, editors and literary agents. Correspondence also includes letters from Arthur Conan Doyle, George Bernard Shaw and correspondence with H.G. Wells.There are articles, notes and draft translations (including a manuscript draft and copy of an article 'Portrait of Cecil Rhodes' and correspondence about M.G. Sarfatti's biography of Mussolini); material for Whyte's Life of W.T. Stead, miscellaneous photographs, cuttings (including a scrapbook of press cuttings on the Boer War), book reviews, manuscript diaries, some publications and material relating to Sweden.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
No further material is expected to be added to the collection
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open
Conditions governing reproduction
Standard copyright restrictions apply.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Whyte, Frederic, 1867-1941, author and journalist. (Accumulator)
Genre access points
Description control area
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Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Final
Level of detail
Full
Dates of creation revision deletion
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Date first made available to the public: unknown