Sir Herbert Butterfield: Papers

Notes and drafts in Butterfield's hand concerning sixteenth and seventeenth century historiography, with particular reference to writing on Magna Carta and the reign of King John. No date, 211 sheets + covers + blanks, some of them in notebooks. With a typed transcript of the title page and extracts from Degory Wheare, The method and order of reading both civil and ecclesiastical histories. In which the most excellent historians are reduced into the order in which they are successively to be read..., 7pp., and an envelope addressed to Mrs J. M. Y. Bogle with a note in the hand of Pamela Butterfield on the reverse.