Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Related Collections
Descriptive Summary
Title: Rom Landau Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1899-1965
Collection Number: Mss 63
Creator:
Landau, Rom, 1899-
Extent:
ca. .4 linear feet
(1 box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Annex.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Rom Landau Collection. Mss 63. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 1967.
Romauld (Rom) Landau was born in England, October 17, 1899. He was a sculptor, author, educator (including University of the
Pacific, Stockton, CA), foreign service officer, and specialist on Arab and Islamic culture. His particular area of interest
was Morocco, and he authored numerous works about Morocco, mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. He also was an art critic and book
reviewer for several newspapers and periodicals, including
The Spectator. Landau died in 1974.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection primarily contains correspondence laid in books of Landau's, which were purchased by UCSB in 1967.
There are three series in the collection: Correspondence to Rom Landau, Correspondence to
The Spectator, and Ephemera.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Landau, Romauld (Rom) -- Archives.
Authors, English.
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
Forster, E.M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970.
Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
Related Collections
Rom Landau Middle East Collection (66.8 linear feet), 1840-1970, at the Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University
of the Pacific Library.
Rom Landau Papers (11.5 linear feet), 1927-1979, at the George Arents Research Library for Special Collections, Syracuse University.