Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1911-1952 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
3 boxes
Scope and content
Notes and papers, 1911-1952, of David Morrice Low, including scrapbook of news cuttings and pictures, 1911-1913; printed Marlborough school lists, 1914-1918, and extracts from school rules, 1916; list of Oriel men on service; notes on Italy and Latin, 1924-1925 and undated; notes on teaching classics and mathematics [1914-1921]; notes, manuscripts and typescripts for novels or short stories; material relating to Low's novel Twice Shy (1933) including notes, reviews, and a contract with Chatto & Windus; other material relating to Chatto & Windus, 1927-1933; notes on Greece and Nice; manuscript notes and letter, 1927, from V H Collins on 'Scotticisms'; manuscript personal notes on his mother, childhood, first memories, use of language and attitude to women; typescript note on role as examiner of English, 1940; notebooks on Edward Gibbon, some dated 1934-1935, from various sources including Gibbon's journal and letters; printed catalogue of Gibbon's library, 1934, and typescript essay on it; photographs of portraits of Gibbon and places associated with him; typescripts on 'The Grand Tour'; notes on aeronautical terminology in Spanish and Portuguese [1941-1943]; offprint of E M Wilson, 'La Estroga Sexta de la Cancion a la Flor de Guido', Miscelanea (1952), dedicated to Low; Enid Marx, The Pigeon Ace [undated].
System of arrangement
The collection is arranged in the following sections: notebooks; typescript and manuscript fragment of a story concerning a teacher; notes for Twice Shy ; reviews of Twice Shy ; Chatto and Windus; typescripts; notes on Greece; notes on Nice; manuscript fragments concerning Albert Edward Sceefe; manuscript notes and letters from V H Collins; manuscript personal notes; notebooks on Gibbon; Gibbon's library, portraits and places; typescripts on the Grand Tour; notes on aeronautical terminology; scrapbook of news cuttings and pictures; printed material.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born, 1890; educated at Westminster School (scholar); Oriel College Oxford (scholar); 1st Class Moderations, 1911; 2nd Class Literae Humaniores, 1914; BA, 1914; MA, 1915; Assistant Master, Marlborough College, 1914-1918; Westminster School, 1919-1921; Rector of Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, 1921-1929; temporary Junior Assistant, Air Ministry, 1941-1943; temporary Senior Assistant, Foreign Office, 1943-1945; Lecturer in Department of Classics and Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Arts, King's College London, 1945-1957; Chairman, English Association, 1959-1964; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; died, 1972. Publications: with B V F Brackenbury, Elementary French Exercises (1917); Kelvinside Academy, 1878-1928 ; Gibbon's Journal (1929); Edward Gibbon (1937); London is London (1949); Virgil and the English Augustans (a paper read to the Virgil Society, 1952); Norman Douglas, A Selection from his Works (1955); A Century of Writers, 1855-1955 (1955); Essays and Studies Collected for the English Association (1955); abridged Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1960); Trends in English Pronunciation (1960). Contributor to: Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature ; Encyclopaedia Britannica . Novels: Twice Shy (1933); This Sweet Work (1935). Translations: Natalia Ginzburg, Voices in the Evening (1963) and Family Sayings (1967); Ercole Patti, Roman Chronicle (1965).
Repository
Custodial history
Acquired from Low's family.
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.
Language of material
- English
- French
- Greek
- Latin
- Portuguese
- Spanish
Script of material
Language and script notes
Mostly English; some Latin, Greek, French, Spanish and Portuguese
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Subjects
- Aeronautics
- Aerospace engineering
- Age distribution
- Age groups
- Authors
- Book reviews
- Childhood
- Educational personnel
- English
- Germanic languages
- Humanities education
- Indo-european languages
- Language instruction
- Latin
- Literary criticism
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Mathematics education
- Newspaper press
- Novels
- Photographs
- Portuguese
- Press
- Press cuttings
- Prose
- Publishing
- Publishing industry
- Romance languages
- Schools
- Social science education
- Space technology
- Spanish
- Teachers
- Travel
- Travel abroad
- Visual materials
- Writers
- Educational institutions
- Personnel
- People by occupation
- People
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Collins, V H, fl 1927 (Subject)
- Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794, historian (Subject)
- Marx, Enid, fl 1943, author (Subject)
- Wilson, E M, fl 1952 (Subject)
- Air Ministry (Subject)
- Chatto & Windus Ltd, publishers (Subject)
- Marlborough College, Wiltshire (Subject)
- University of Oxford, Oriel College (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; British Library online catalogue; National Register of Archives; Location register of twentieth-century English literary manuscripts (1988).