Margaret A. Gibson Letter

Collection — Box: VMF 5, Folder: 3

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf058

Staff Only

Autograph letter signed from Gibson to James Basil Oldham thanking him for his letter of sympathy after the death of her husband, Strickland Gibson, and indicating her pride in the book by Oldham [Blind Panels of English Binders] which was dedicated to her husband. 1 page

Dates

Creation: 1958 March 5

Creator

Gibson, Margaret A. (Margaret Alice), 1884-1973 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open

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Extent

1.00 items

1 folders

Additional Description

Biographical Information

Margaret Alice Clinkard Gibson was born to Richard and Mary Clinkard in Littlemore, Oxfordshire in 1884. In 1908 she married Strickland Gibson (27 January 1877-18 February 1958), an English librarian, bibliographer, and bookbinding scholar who served as Keeper of the Archives at Oxford University from 1927 to 1945. Their daughter Margaret Ada Gibson was born in 1910 and their son, Strickland Hillary Gibson, lived from 1914 to 1959. Margaret Gibson died in 1973.

Method of Acquisition

Danish Eighteenth Century Bindings, 1730-1780 by Sofus Larsen. Z270 D4 L3 4o. Accession number 1012, December 18, 1968. The book was inscribed by Strickland Gibson to James Oldham.