St John‘s College Personal Collections

Papers of Ernest Alfred Benians

Benians
Fonds
1901-1983

The papers include Benians's correspondence, papers, lecture notes, and notes for speeches.

Benians, Ernest Alfred (1880-1952) historian and Master of St John's College, Cambridge

Letters to and from contributing historians to Cambridge Medieval History

Camb. Medieval History/Box 1-2
Series
1911–1930 (Mainly dated between 1920 and 1930. A few dating from 1911.)

Part of Papers relating to the Cambridge Medieval History Series

Letters relating to the contributions to volumes III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII of Cambridge Medieval History

Autograph letter, signed, to C. W. Previté-Orton from Freda Abrahams, Cambridge

Camb. Medieval History/Box 1-2/Box 1/1
Item
30 September 1925

Part of Papers relating to the Cambridge Medieval History Series

Writes on behalf of her husband. Sends apologies for his inability to complete a forthcoming chapter for the Cambridge Medieval History due to illness and suggests another historian for the task.

Autograph letter, signed, to J. R. Tanner from F. E. Adcock, Cambridge

Camb. Medieval History/Box 1-2/Box 1/2
Item
26 March 1926

Part of Papers relating to the Cambridge Medieval History Series

Discusses Volume IV of the Cambridge Medieval History and a chapter concerning the dispersal of the Jews.

Autograph letter, signed, to 'Dear Sir', from Rafael Altamira, London

Camb. Medieval History/Box 1-2/Box 1/3/1
Item
8 May 1922

Part of Papers relating to the Cambridge Medieval History Series

Apologises for having to refuse invitation to visit Cambridge.

Autograph letter, signed, in French to J. R. Tanner from Rafael Altamira, Den Haag

Camb. Medieval History/Box 1-2/Box 1/3/2
Item
30 July 1922

Part of Papers relating to the Cambridge Medieval History Series

Is looking forward to writing the chapter on Spanish History for the Cambridge Medieval History. Has been using a collaborator who has specialized in Spanish Arabic history who has since left. Asks for information as to which chapter is required first and discusses practical concerns regarding publishing rights.

Autograph letter, signed, to J. R. Tanner from Rafael Altamira, Madrid

Camb. Medieval History/Box 1-2/Box 1/3/3
Item
18 September 1922

Part of Papers relating to the Cambridge Medieval History Series

Discusses chapter on fourteenth and fifteenth century Spain he is due to write for CMH. Suggests that he needs more pages than originally intended as this is an important topic. Includes note by Tanner? suggesting a reassessment.

Autograph letter, signed, to J. R. Tanner from Rafael Altamira, Madrid

Camb. Medieval History/Box 1-2/Box 1/3/4
Item
4 October 1922

Part of Papers relating to the Cambridge Medieval History Series

Suggests that including Portugal in the chapter on Spain for the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries will be historically possible but this treatment of Portugal for the fifteenth century onwards may prove insensitive. Suggests that Portugal's travellers in Africa were important in their own right as was the diplomatic maneuverings between Portugal and Spain. He knows many 'manifestations of these sentiments'

Autograph letter, signed, to J. R. Tanner from Rafael Altamira, Madrid

Camb. Medieval History/Box 1-2/Box 1/3/5
Item
14 November 1922

Part of Papers relating to the Cambridge Medieval History Series

Agrees to Tanner's last suggestion and to the arrangement of the new chapters.

Autograph letter, signed, in French to J. R. Tanner from Rafael Altamira, Madrid

Camb. Medieval History/Box 1-2/Box 1/3/6
Item
24 May 1923

Part of Papers relating to the Cambridge Medieval History Series

Elections in Madrid have taken up time and therefore will not be able to send his copy in at the time asked. Hopes to send it by June.

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