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Guide to the Eric Walter Bligh Collection
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  • Descriptive Summary
  • Administrative Information
  • Scope and Content of Collection
  • Indexing Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Eric Walter Bligh Collection,
    Date (inclusive): ca. 1886-1965
    Collection Number: Mss 8
    Creator: Bligh, E. W.
    Extent: .4 linear feet (1 box)
    Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
    Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
    Physical Location: Del Sur.
    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

    Eric Walter Bligh Collection. Mss 8. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

    Acquisition Information

    Purchase, 1965.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    Correspondence, cards, notes, photographs, and printed ephemera of English author Eric Walter Bligh, whose works included Sir Kenelm Digby and his Venetia (1932), Tooting Corner (1940), and Faintly Smiling Mouth (1961). Acquired by the UCSB Library in 1965, with Bligh's book collection of several hundred volumes focusing primarily on latter nineteenth century British writers. Many of the items were laid in books from the collection.

    Indexing Terms

    The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
    Bligh, Eric Walter -- Archives.
    Authors, English.
    Photographs.
    Correspondence.