Identity area
Reference code
MSA/1/80
Title
Letter from Matthew Arnold to J. Cotter Morison concerning research on the author Edward Gibbon
Date(s)
- 21 Oct 1878 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 item, paper.
Context area
Name of creator
(1963-)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Concerns a theory of Arnold's that Gibbons' 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' was originally intended to have been written in French. Signed by creator.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English