Articles, lectures and talks
MS. Opie 208
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
Articles, lectures and talks
Shelfmark
MS. Opie 208
Summary
Comprises:
Peter Opie: 'The Tentacles of Tradition', Presidential Address delivered to Section H (Anthropology) of the British Association on 2 September 1963, published in The Advancement of Science, Vol.XX No.83, September 1963, and in Folklore, Vol. 74, Winter 1963. [Manuscript, typescript, offprints]
Peter Opie: 'Proposal for a Dictionary, Arranged on Historical Principles, of English Traditional Lore', Folklore, Vol.75, Summer 1964. [Manuscript, offprints]
[Peter Opie]: Review of Studies in Folk Life, Essays in Honour of Iorwerth C. Peate, c.1969. [One manuscript page only]
Peter and Iona Opie: 'Children's Sports and Games', Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition 1974. [Offprint]
Peter Opie: 'John Newbery and His Successors', The Book Collector, Summer 1975. [Notes, manuscript, typescript with corrections, offprint]
Peter Opie: 'The Value of Exhibitions', Signal. Approaches to Children's Books, Vol.19, January 1976. [Copy of the journal, offprint, correspondence]
Peter Opie: 'The Future of Children's Books Lies in the Past', The Bookseller, 12 November 1977; also address at seminar 'Children's Books Past and Present' at the Publisher's Association, October 1977. [Notes, manuscript, photocopy of article, newspaper cuttings]
Iona and Peter Opie: 'Certain Laws of Folklore', Folklore Studies in the Twentieth Century, edited by V.J. Newall, 1980. [Offprint]
Iona and Peter Opie: 'Facsimile Editions of Early English Children's Books from the Osborne Collection', Review for The Sunday Times, August 1981. [Notes and manuscript. The manuscript is on the back of pages of (transcriptions of) letters, 1926-1929, in French, addressed to 'Mon cher R' [possibly Roland Knaster?]. Notes on the back of drawings of butterflies and moths.]
[Peter Opie]: 'The Information Industry'. Article on researching for, and writing, books, n.d. [1970]. [Manuscript draft].
Date
1963-1981
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box (2 folders)
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Collection contents
Archive of Iona and Peter Opie
Publications
Other Opie publications and related material
Articles, lectures and talks
