Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- c1896-c1924 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 box
Scope and content
George Charles Moore Smith's undated transcripts, first lines and titles of 17th-century poems before 1660. The sources include British Library Additional MSS, MSS Sloane, Lansdowne, Dyce, Harleian and Egerton; Oxford University, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole, MS Malone, MS Rawlinson Poet; Corpus Christi Library, Oxford, MS 32B; Cambridge University Library, Add MS 4138; manuscripts at St John's, Emmanuel, Jesus and Corpus Christi Colleges, Cambridge; commonplace books including those by Anthony Scattergood and W E Preston; poets including Anthony Sleep, Thomas Coriat, Peter Hausted (Halstead), Edward Forset, John Eliot, Henry Molle and Thomas Masters. Much of the material is written on the reverse of examination scripts in English (some identified as University of Sheffield).
System of arrangement
The material is stored according to the source or poet in 38 files.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born, 1858; educated at Tonbridge School; St John's College, Cambridge (Foundation Scholar); 1st Class Classical Tripos, 1881; Cambridge University Extension Lecturer; Professor of English Literature, Firth College, Sheffield, 1896; retained this post in the University of Sheffield, 1905-1924; Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Sheffield; Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge; Fellow of the British Academy, 1933; died, 1940. See also John Dover Wilson, George Charles Moore Smith 1858-1940 (from the Proceedings of the British Academy; Humphrey Milford, London, [1945]). Publications: The Life of John Colborne, Field-Marshal Lord Seaton (1903); Story of the People's College, Sheffield (1912); College Plays (1923); Thomas Randolph (Warton Lecture, 1927); as editor, Autobiography of Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith (1902); Gabriel Harvey's Marginalia (1913); Henry Tubbe (1915); The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple (1928); The Early Essays and Romances of Sir William Temple (1930); Henry V (1896); King John (1900); Edward III (1897); Bacon's New Atlantis (1900); the Cambridge Plays: Club Law (1907), Pedantius (1905), Victoria (1906), Hymenæus (1908), Fucus (1909), Laelia (1910); Hemminge's Elegy on Randolph's Finger (1923); The Poems of Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1923); The Queen Bee , The Old Post (translated from the Danish of Carl Ewald, 1907, 1922); with Dr P H Reaney, The Withypoll Family (1936); contributions to the Modern Language Review , Notes and Queries , and The Genealogist . See also A bibliography of the writings of G C Moore Smith (printed for subscribers at Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1928).
Repository
Custodial history
Gift of Douglas Hamer.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.
Acknowledgement of the use of this material must be made to 'The late Professor G C Moore Smith, University of Sheffield, and to the Delegacy of King's College, London'.
Language of material
- English
- Latin
Script of material
Language and script notes
Mainly English, some Latin
Finding aids
Manuscript list (item 39) stored with the material.
Related materials
Note
Since the material is undated the dates attributed are those of Smith's professorship.
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Smith, George Charles Moore, 1858-1940, Professor of English (Subject)
- Coriat, Thomas, fl 1611, writer (Subject)
- Eliot, John, fl 1658, poet (Subject)
- Forset, Edward, fl 1624, poet (Subject)
- Hausted, Peter, d 1645, dramatist (Subject)
- Masters, Thomas, fl 1637-1641, poet (Subject)
- Molle, Henry, fl 1621, poet (Subject)
- Preston, W E, fl 17th century, poet (Subject)
- Scattergood, Anthony, 1611-1687, theologian (Subject)
- Sleep, Anthony, fl 17th century, poet (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Script(s)
Archivist's note
Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: brief description in King's College London Manuscripts and Private Papers: A Select Guide (1982); Who's Who; National Register of Archives.