Guide to the Eric Walter Bligh Collection
Processed by Arrangement and description by Special Collections staff; latest revision by D. Tambo
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Fax: (805) 893-5749
Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
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© 2001
Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Guide to the Eric Walter Bligh Collection, ca. 1886-1965
Collection number: Mss 8
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara
Contact Information:
- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
- Fax: (805) 893-5749
- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
- Processed by:
- Arrangement and description by Special Collections staff; latest revision by D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
-
21 September 2001
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
© 2001 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.
Box 1: 1
Fuller, Ronald - to Bligh, 1934 - 1960
Box 1: 2
Various - to Bligh, 1946 - 1965
Box 1: 3
Various - to others, 1886 - 1961
Box 1: 4
Cards, Book Tokens, and Keepsakes, 1892 - 1963
Box 1: 6
Photos and Picture Postcards, n.d.
Box 1: 7
Printed Matter (leaflets, flyers, reprints, advertisements), 1955 - 1962
Box 1: 8
World Digest (includes Eric Bligh's "Victorian Drawing-room," condensed from
Tooting Corner), Aug.,
1946
