Dictionary of Arms and Armour: correspondence - compilation and editing
Reference code
BEA/04/02
Title
Dictionary of Arms and Armour: correspondence - compilation and editing
Date
1972
1984-1994
1984-1994
Level of description
File
Extent and format
1 box, containing 3 folders
Scope and content
Green folder containing a few items of correspondence, 1972 and 1984-85.
Manilla folder: 'Beard MS', containing notes and correspondence, including between Claude Blair and Christopher King, 1980s-1990s.
Blue wallet folder: 'BEARD: Dictionary of Costume and Armour. Print-out of the only part Christopher King completed (letter A) plus his list of headings with some definitions and quotations'.
Photocopies of the drafts by Christopher King of 'A' entries, sent to Blair 7 July 1991, and annotated by Blair, with Blair's reply, 12 July 1991.
Print-out with draft title page, giving King's revised draft of 'A' in full, with headings and some short entries for the rest of the alphabet, and draft bibliography, 1994.
Manilla folder: 'Beard MS', containing notes and correspondence, including between Claude Blair and Christopher King, 1980s-1990s.
Blue wallet folder: 'BEARD: Dictionary of Costume and Armour. Print-out of the only part Christopher King completed (letter A) plus his list of headings with some definitions and quotations'.
Photocopies of the drafts by Christopher King of 'A' entries, sent to Blair 7 July 1991, and annotated by Blair, with Blair's reply, 12 July 1991.
Print-out with draft title page, giving King's revised draft of 'A' in full, with headings and some short entries for the rest of the alphabet, and draft bibliography, 1994.
Creator
Beard, Charles Relly (1891-1958), historian of costume, arms and armour
Blair, Claude (1922-2010), museum curator, scholar and antiquary
King, Christopher (d 1995)
Blair, Claude (1922-2010), museum curator, scholar and antiquary
King, Christopher (d 1995)