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1. Add MS 58440-58443

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BRIFFAULT PAPERS. Letters and papers of Robert Briffault, M.B., B.Ch. (b.1874, d.1948), writer on social anthropology and novelist, together with papers of the Briffault and related families; 1799-1952, n.d. A sketch of Briffault's life is given in the introduction to his The Mothers, abridged by G. Rattray Taylor (1959), pp. 21-25. For an account of part of the collection, see Arthur Searle, 'Letters of Robert Briffault', B.L.J. 3, no. 2 (1977), pp. 169-176. Presented with Add. Ch. 75840 an...
Scope & Content:
Robert Stephen Briffault, author: Correspondence and papers of Robert Stephen Briffault: 1874-1948: Partly Fr, partly Ital: Partly signed, partly copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1799-1952
Extent:
4 items

2. Add MS 58440

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BRIFFAULT PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 217). 1. ff. 1-20. Letters to his mother, Margaret Mann Moir Briffault, née Stewart; 1886, 1898-1902. 2. ff. 21-217. Letters to his daughters, Joan and Muriel; 1915-March 1917. Army; England: Letters from R. S. Briffault, R.A.M.C., in Gallipoli, France and Flan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1886-1917
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 58441

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BRIFFAULT PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 243). 1. ff. 1-210. Letters to his daughters; April 1917-1948. 2. ff. 211-243. Letters of his second wife, Herma, to Briffault and to his daughter Joan, wife of Wilhelm Hackelberg; 1945-1949. Army; England: Letters from R. S. Briffault, R.A.M.C., in Gallipoli,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917-1949
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 58443

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BRIFFAULT PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. 12). Photographs of Briffault and his parents; 1926-1935, n.d. includes: ff. 1, 2 Charles Frédéric Briffault, Chef du Secretariat du President de la République Napoléon: Photographs: 1880.f. 4 Margaret Mann Moir Briffault, née Stewart: Photograph: circa 1887....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1926-1935
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 58442

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Add MS 58442
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Scope & Content:
BRIFFAULT PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 181). 1. ff. 1-82. Letters to Brifault and personal papers; 1874-1952, n.d. Includes (f. 78) a draft preface to his translation into English of his Les Troubadours (Paris, 1945), not published in The Troubadours, ed. L. F. Koons (Bloomington, Indiana, 1965). 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1799-1952
Extent:
1 item