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The Rom Landau Collection, 1899-1965.
Mss 63LOCAL
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Title:

The Rom Landau Collection, 1899-1965

Creator/Contributor:

Landau, Rom, 1899-1974, creator

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Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973

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Coward, Noël, 1899-1973

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Eden, Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897-1977

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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965

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Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970

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Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933

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Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963

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Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946

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Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972

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Noyes, Alfred, 1880-1958

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Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

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Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950

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Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903

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Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995

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Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965

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Toynbee, Arnold, 1889-1975

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Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941

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Walska, Ganna.

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West, Rebecca, 1892-1983

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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

Creator/Contributor:

Online Archive of California

Abstract:

The collection includes correspondence to T.S. Eliot, Eleanor Roosevelt,Adali Stevenson, and Virginia Woolf.

Date:

1899 (issued)

Subject:

Authors, English
Écrivains anglais
Authors, English
Landau, Romauld (Rom) -- Archives

Note:

Use of the collection is unrestricted.
Purchased by UCSB, 1967.
Use governed by UCSB Special Collections policy.
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library, Rom Landau Middle East Collection, (66.8 linear feet), 1840-1970.
George Arents Research Library for Special Collections, Syracuse University, Rom Landau Papers, (11.5 linear feet), 1927-1979.
Finding aid available in the Department of Special Collections.
Romuald (Rom) Landau was born in an area of Poland that was then under Tsarist Russian control on October 17, 1899. He was a sculptor, author, educator, foreign service officer, and specialist on Arab and islamic culture. His particular area of interest was Morocco, and he authored numberous works about Morocco, mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. He was an art critic and book reviewer for several newspapers and periodicals, including The Spectator. Landau died in 1974.
Cite as:[Identification of item], Rom Landau Collection, Mss 63, Department of Special Collections, Donald C. Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Type:

Photographs.
correspondence.
photographs.
Archives.
Photographs.
Photographies.

Physical Description:

.4 linear ft.

Language:

English

Identifier:

Mss 63LOCAL

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Use of the collection is unrestricted.
Use governed by UCSB Special Collections policy.