Elizabeth Bowen CollectionElizabeth Bowen Letter

Repository: UCC Library Archives Service

Identity Statement

TitleElizabeth Bowen Collection Elizabeth Bowen Letter
Archive ReferenceIE BL/L/EB
Web Link to this Entryhttps://iar.ie/archive/elizabeth-bowen-collection
Creation Dates1953
Extent Medium1 item

Context

Creator(s): Elizabeth Bowan

  • Administrative History ↴

    Elizabeth Bowen was an Irish novelist and short story writer. She was born Elizabeth Dorothea Cole in Dublin in 1899, and took her literary name from the family home Bowen’s Court, in County Cork. She died in London in 1973 and is buried in Cork.
  • Archival History ↴

    IE BL/L/EB is a letter from Elizabeth Bowen held in UCC Library. This item was acquired by Mr. Crónán O Doibhlin, Head of Special Collections, Archives and Repository Services in December 2006.
  • Immediate Source Acquisition ↴

    Donation

Content & Structure

  • Scope & Content: Elizabeth Bowan ↴

    Letter from Elizabeth Bowen, Hunts House, Hopewell, New Jersey to a Mr. Hoffma, thanking him for his letter and arranging to meet him in Philadelphia. Details arrangements for contacting her. Refers to arrangements for a dinner and agrees it is an excellent idea that [Curtis Books] and Catherine [D.B.] should be invited to come to the party “after I speak”. Refers to “Monsoon Quarter”. 2pp

  • Appraisal Destruction ↴

    Permanent Retention
  • Arrangement ↴

    Single item

Conditions of Access & Use

Access Conditions Available by appointment with the Archives Service to holders of UCC Readers tickets.
Conditions Governing ReproductionBy application to the Archivist only.
Creation Dates1953
Extent Medium1 item
Material Language ScriptEnglish

Allied Materials

There are no Allied Materials

Descriptive Control Area

Archivist NoteEmer Twomey
Rules/ConventionsISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description. 2nd ed. Ottawa: International Council on Archives, 2000.
Date of Descriptions40179