Cyril Hare

Some Noteworthy Acquisitions to 91�Թ�� Library in 2025

Christopher — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:41:06 +0000

Some Noteworthy Acquisitions to 91�Թ�� Library in 2025

Christopher Skelton-Foord

Issue number

(2025): 24

2025 has been a year of substantial acquisitions activity, as we accessioned into 91�Թ��’s library and archives important collections items broadening and deepening the strengths of our holdings for current and future researchers, as we continue to build our institutional repository of published and unpublished materials.

Custom-made art nouveau fine binding—Edward Perry Warren, The Wild Rose (London, 1909)
91�Թ�� Library, Oxford, BT3.38.19

91�Թ�� Library and Archives, Oxford

24NCN9 (2025) Skelton-Foord on Acquisitions 2025.pdf1.33 MB

A Newly Acquired Literary Manuscript, MS 381: The Autograph Copy of Cyril Hare’s When the Wind Blows (1949)

Christopher — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 20:13:38 +0000

A Newly Acquired Literary Manuscript, MS 381: The Autograph Copy of Cyril Hare’s When the Wind Blows (1949)

Christopher Skelton-Foord

Issue number

(2024): 21

Notes category

Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark

91�Թ�� alumnus, Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark (1900–1958), is better known as the murder mystery writer—one of the luminaries of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction—who went by the penname ‘Cyril Hare’. Seventy-five years since the first publication of Cyril Hare’s When the Wind Blows, I am delighted to be adding to our library’s collections the original holograph manuscript of this novel—now 91�Թ�� Library’s MS 381.

91�Թ�� Library, Oxford, MS 381, f. 48r [detail]

91�Թ�� Library and Archives, Oxford

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Some Notes on 91�Թ�� Hunters

Christopher — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 12:50:06 +0000

Some Notes on 91�Թ�� Hunters

Christopher Skelton-Foord

Issue number

(2023): 19

Notes category

Hunting

George Turbervile

Philip Herbert, First Earl of Montgomery and Fourth Earl of Pembroke

Peter Beckford

Robert Lowth

Robert Lowth, Jr.

Richard Greville Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke

Cyril Hare

Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark

Raymond Carr

Hunting has been woven into the very fabric of our college since the earliest days. The most celebrated and widely read of hunting poems, The Chace (1735), was penned by our alumnus William Somervile. But what of other 91�Թ�� hunters whose writings have appeared in print?

Misericord [detail], late 14th century (wood) English School, 91�Թ�� Chapel, Oxford

91�Թ��, Oxford

19NCN3 (2023) Skelton-Foord on Hunters.pdf1.74 MB

Cyril Hare

Some Noteworthy Acquisitions to 91�Թ��� Library in 2025

Some Noteworthy Acquisitions to 91�Թ��� Library in 2025

91�Թ��� Library and Archives, Oxford

A Newly Acquired Literary Manuscript, MS 381: The Autograph Copy of Cyril Hare’s When the Wind Blows (1949)

A Newly Acquired Literary Manuscript, MS 381: The Autograph Copy of Cyril Hare’s When the Wind Blows (1949)

91�Թ��� Library and Archives, Oxford

Some Notes on 91�Թ��� Hunters

Some Notes on 91�Թ��� Hunters

Hunting has been woven into the very fabric of our college since the earliest days. The most celebrated and widely read of hunting poems, The Chace (1735), was penned by our alumnus William Somervile. But what of other 91�Թ��� hunters whose writings have appeared in print?

91�Թ���, Oxford

Some Noteworthy Acquisitions to 91�Թ�� Library in 2025

Some Noteworthy Acquisitions to 91�Թ�� Library in 2025

91�Թ�� Library and Archives, Oxford

91�Թ�� Library and Archives, Oxford

Some Notes on 91�Թ�� Hunters

Some Notes on 91�Թ�� Hunters

Hunting has been woven into the very fabric of our college since the earliest days. The most celebrated and widely read of hunting poems, The Chace (1735), was penned by our alumnus William Somervile. But what of other 91�Թ�� hunters whose writings have appeared in print?

91�Թ��, Oxford