Contains reports, correspondence, and other papers relating to Project LOC, a collaboration between the British Museum, the Bodleian Library, and Cambridge University Library (London, Oxford, Cambridge – hence LOC) to pilot a computerised union catalogue of books printed before 1801. Frank Franc...
Contains drafts, typescripts, and printed versions of Frank Francis’s writings, with related correspondence and notes. Includes contributions to encyclopaedias and festschrifts, introductions and prefaces, journal and newspaper articles, obituaries, and letters to the press.
Contains papers relating to requests for funding for research projects. Papers relating to research projects and applications for funding that do not have a specific subject file may be found in the General correspondence files, Add MS 89010/11/4-6.
Contains research notes, papers, and correspondence relating to Frank Francis’s research at Liverpool University (1920-1923; where he took a first in Classics) and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1923-1925; where he took an MA in early Greek philosophy), and the research he undertook throughout his ...
Contains correspondence, papers relating to the opening of the NCL in 1966, and Board of Trustees minutes, agendas, and discussion papers. Many of the papers concern arrangements for responsibility for the NCL to be assumed by the British Library from 1973. Frank Francis was Chairman of the Boar...