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Handley-Taylor, Geoffrey

Geoffrey Handley-Taylor fonds. -- [1916?]-1981. -- 3.6 m of textual records and graphic material.

Geoffrey Handley-Taylor was born in 1920 in Horsforth, Yorkshire, England. Known primarily for his specialist bibliographies, he compiled the standard bibliographies of Winifred Holtby, John Masefield and C. Day-Lewis, and the Authors of Today checklists of counties. Handley-Taylor was also responsible for several select national bibliographies of Monaco and Iran. He was founder-donor of the Winifred Holtby Memorial Collection, Fisk University, Nashville, 1955. He was also a member of numerous English literary societies.

The fonds is arranged into nine series consisting of: general correspondence--incoming; general correspondence--outgoing; publications; subject files; publications produced and/or signed by others; clippings; associations; personal; photographs.

Title based on contents of the fonds.
Purchased from Bertram Rota on May 28, 1975.
Finding aid available in hard copy and electronically.
There are no access restrictions.
No further accruals are expected.

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