Series CAS/10 - Correspondence

Identity area

Reference code

GB 891 CAS-CAS/10

Title

Correspondence

Date(s)

  • 1914-1965 (Creation)

Level of description

Series

Extent and medium

5 archival folders

Context area

Name of creator

Name of creator

Name of creator

Name of creator

(1905-1969)

Name of creator

(August 7, 1918 – January 26, 2006)

Biographical history

George Michael Wickens was a distinguished Canadian-British Persianist as well as Arabist, translator and a University lecturer. Wickens was born in London, England and attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received his BA in 1939 and MA in 1946,read more

Name of creator

(1880-1973)

Biographical history

Herbert Niel Randle C.I.E. F.B.A. (1880–1973) was the librarian of the India Office Library (1933–49; assistant librarian 1927–33),pro fessor of philosophy at Queen's College, Benares, and a writer on Indian philosophy.

Name of creator

(8 May 1919 - 6 February 1998)

Biographical history

Hubert Seymour Garland Darke was a teacher and scholar of Persian and Lecturer in Persian at Cambridge University’s Faculty of Oriental Studies from 1961 to 1982.

Name of creator

(1911-1997)

Biographical history

James Douglas Pearson was a British librarian and bibliographer in the field of Islamic studies who founded the Index Islamicus. He grew up in Cambridge, where he was also educated. His first job was as a book fetcher in the Cambridge University Libraryread more

Name of creator

(1859–1933)

Biographical history

Anthony Ashley Bevan, FBA was a British orientalist and distinguished Arabist.

Name of creator

(1883-1951)

Biographical history

Ignatii Iul'ianovich Krachkovskii was an Arabist scholar, who wrote 'Among Arabic Manuscripts, Memories of Libraries and Men'. He was one of the founders of the Soviet school of Arab studies.

Name of creator

(1882 - 1939)

Biographical history

Arent Jen Wensinck, from 1912 until 1927, was professor of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac at the University of Leiden, and in 1927 he succeeded Snouck Hurgronje as professor of Arabic and Islam at the same university, at which post he remained until his death.

Name of creator

(31 December 1861 – 4 August 1948)

Biographical history

Henry Guppy CBE was Librarian of the John Rylands Library in Manchester from 1899 until his death in 1948. He was created Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1937. He was active in the Library Association of Great Britain and among hisread more

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Content and structure area

Scope and content

The correspondence contains letters concerned with publishing, with his research and work at the India Office Library and the University of Cambridge and more personal letters.

System of arrangement

The correspondence has been divided into subseries:

  • CAS/10/1 - Cambridge University Press
  • CAS/10/2 - Luzac & Company, Oriental and Foreign Booksellers and Publishers
  • CAS/10/3 - Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd., Oriental and General Printers
  • CAS/10/4 -
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gb 891 cas/10