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Edwards H. Metcalf Library Collection on T.E. Lawrence: Scrapbooks
Scrapbook 2.4

Rare Books

Scrapbook 2.4

Description

This album contains a miscellaneous assortment of materials including newspaper and periodical clippings, with some 1935 clippings related to Lawrence's death, as well as an October 1917 periodical clipping, in Arabic, and a 1967 letter from British historian Arnold Toynbee to Duncan discussing Vietnam and communism.

Album has yellow covers; with Theodora Duncan bookplate.

Type

Rare Books(Opens in new tab)

Date

1917-1967

Call number

626757

Creator

Metcalf, Edwards H(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, October 1992.

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Baxter, Frank C. (1896-1982,)

Beaumont, Tom W., (1927-1985,)

Herbring, Margaret M., (1889-1975,)

Jéhanne,

Metcalf, Edwards H.

Toynbee, Arnold,

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