Includes biographical profiles of Frank Francis, papers concerning his financial affairs, correspondence relating to portraits of Francis, and the card approving Francis’s claim for the Defence Medal, with the ribbon.
Papers relating to British Union Catalogue of Music Ltd
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Contains correspondence, agenda, and minutes. The company, of which, Frank Francis was a director, was dissolved in 1974 and replaced with the British Union Catalogue of Music Association. All but one item dates from 1968-1974; the 1953 item is an offprint of an article, 'The Union Catalogue of ...
Contains rules and regulations, notices of amendments to the rules, membership lists and lists of applicants for membership, notices of dinners and meetings, correspondence, reports on the future and finances of the Society, and details of events to commemorate the Society’s 250th anniversary in ...
Papers relating to Frank Francis's professional appointments
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Contains papers relating to Francis’s rejection of the post of University Librarian at Cambridge, and his appointments as, successively, Assistant, Secretary, Keeper [of the Department of Printed Books], and Director and Principal Librarian of the British Museum. Includes correspondence, press cu...