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Identity statement
- Reference code(s)
- GB0100 KCLCA Aitken
- Title
- AITKEN, William Francis (fl 1900-1936)
- Date(s)
- 1919-1936
- Level of description
- Collection (fonds)
- Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk, or size)
- ½ box
Context
- Name of creator(s)
Aitken, William Francis, fl 1900-1936, author and editor.
- Administrative / Biographical history
Editor of The Children's Friend .
Publications: Baden Powell, the hero of Mafeking (S W Partridge & Co, London, 1900); Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (S W Partridge & Co, London, 1901); Lord Kitchener of Khartoum and of Aspall (H J Drane, London, 1901); The Marquess of Salisbury, K.G.; his inherited characteristics, political principles, and personality (S W Partridge & Co, London, 1901); Victoria, the well-beloved (S W Partridge & Co, London, 1901); Canon Barnett, Warden of Toynbee Hall: his mission and its relation to social movement (S. W. Partridge & Co, London, 1902); The Boy's Life of Greatheart Lincoln, the Martyr President (S. W. Partridge & Co, London, [1910]); Follow my Leader! (S W Partridge & Co, London, [1910]); The Chief Scout, Sir Robert Baden-Powell (S W Partridge & Co, London, [1912]); Come out to Play (S W Partridge & Co, London, [1913]); Happy all Day! (Pictures & stories for the little ones) (S W Partridge & Co, London, [1911]); Happy Days (S W Partridge & Co, London, [1913]); King of the Castle! (S W Partridge & Co, London, [1913]); Queen of the Daisies! (S W Partridge & Co, London, [1913]).
- Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Presented to the Library of King's College London in 1937, following Aitken's death, by his sister-in-law Mrs E M Parsons.
Content & structure
- Scope and content
Notebook entitled 'Literature' with alphabetical bibliography and shorthand notes on Hatfield House, Hatfield, Hertfordshire; letter from Helen Waddell to Aitken, 11 Apr 1933, about a poem of Peter Abelard; manuscript and typescript notes on William Shakespeare; fragments of an article on an edition of Michel de Montaigne; file of printed material, mostly comprising undated lectures on Shakespeare by Cumberland Clark, article on Shakespeare's London by Wilson Benington, Pall Mall Magazine , Aug 1912, and related ephemera; file of press cuttings, mainly relating to book reviews on the works of Shakespeare and Shakespeare's London, 1919-1936.
- System of arrangement
Arranged in files as described in scope and content.
Conditions of access & use
- Conditions governing access
- Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services of King's College London.
- Language/scripts of material
English.
- Finding aids
Collection level description.
Allied materials
- Existence and location of originals
King's College London College Archives
Description control
- Archivist's Note
Sources: British Library OPAC. Compiled by Robert Baxter
- Rules or conventions
National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000.
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- Date(s) of descriptions
May 2000
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Subjects
- English literature
- European literature
- National literatures
- Newspaper press
- Press
- Press cuttings
Personal names
- Aitken, William Francis, fl 1900-1936, Author and Editor
- Benington, Wilson, fl 1912, Author
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Dramatist, Poet and Actor
- Waddell, Helen, 1889-1965, Historian and Author
Corporate names
- King's College London College Archives
Places
- Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England
- London, England
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