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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelItem
Reference Number MS OGDEN/99
TitleWaite Manuscript
Date[1900s]
DescriptionManuscript by Arthur Edward Waite, perhaps dating from the 1900s: 'Dealings in bibliomania: a book of the byways, including an investigation of the law of cause and effect operating therein, interpersed with remarks on the florid method and flamboyance. A ludibrium. By a lover of books'.
Extent1 volume
AdminHistoryBorn in Brooklyn, New York, of an English mother; brought in infancy to England; LittD; exponent of sacramental religion and mysticism; died, 1942. Publications: numerous poetical and prose writings, including works on freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, the Holy Grail, alchemy, the occult, magic, tarot, and various mystics, 1886-1939.
CustodialHistoryPart of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century.
AcquisitionPart of the C K Ogden Library acquired by UCL in 1953.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAidsHandlist at University College London Special Collections.
PublnNoteThis original manuscript is unpublished.
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