Zone d'identification
Cote
GB 891 BQ-BQ/7
Titre
Correspondence from Edwin Arnold
Date(s)
- 12th Oct 1888 - 12th Aug 1899 (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Série
Étendue matérielle et support
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
(1832-1904)
Notice biographique
Sir Edwin Arnold was an English poet and journalist. He was born in Gravesend, Kent, and educated in Rochester and Oxford before becoming a schoolmaster in Birmingham. In 1856 he went to India as Principal of the Government Sanskrit College at Poona. He returned to England in 1861 and worked as a journalist for the Daily Telegraph. He was best known as a poet and specifically for interpreting Eastern philosophy and life in English verse. His chief work with this object is "The Light of Asia", or "The Great Renunciation", a poem of eight books in blank verse.
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
A series of four letters from Edwin Arnold to Bernard Quaritch, concerned with the obtaining and selling of books.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
The letters were arranged chronologically.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
Conditions de reproduction
Langue des documents
- anglais