The diary records Scott’s hours of attendance at the British Museum, with brief details of his work in the Department of Manuscripts, e.g. cataloguing the Oxenden Correspondence (Add MSS 27999-28005), sorting and pasting slips for the Class Catalogue, and working on the Charter Index. Scott appea...
Letters to E. J. L. Scott, mostly from churchmen and antiquaries, relating to Scott’s antiquarian researches.
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Contents as follows: 1. Charles Barclay-Maitland, 12th Earl of Lauderdale; 1879. 2. John Campbell, 2nd Earl of Cawdor; 1884. 3. Sarah Campbell, Countess of Cawdor, wife of the 2nd Earl of Cawdor; 1869. 4. Arthur Capell, 6th Earl of Essex, a letter written on his behalf, apparently by a clerk...
Album containing cuttings of E. J. L. Scott’s contributions to The Athenaeum and other scholarly periodicals.
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At the end are pasted notices of Scott’s death from The Times (20 May 1918) and other newspapers, together with a typewritten copy of a letter to Herbert Ryle, Dean of Westminster, from Arthur Bigge, Lord Stamfordham, private secretary to King George V, 20 May 1918: ‘The King and Queen were shock...
Letters and other loose papers relating to E. J. L. Scott’s professional career and scholarly activities.
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Contents as follows: 1. Anthony Panizzi, Principal Librarian of the British Museum; on Scott’s appointment as an Assistant, 1863-1864. 2. C.R. Manning, ‘Discovery of the site of Clovesho at Mildenhall, Suffolk’, copy transcribed from The East Anglian, or Notes and Queries, 1888. 3. Note by Sc...