Identity area
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Date(s)
- 1983-2016 (Creation)
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1.6 m of textual records
Context area
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Scope and content
Professor Bliss describes his scrapbook project in this way: “In 1983 I began keeping a "scrapbook" folder, in which I deposited copies of all my newspaper and magazine articles, reviews of my books, programmes of meetings, invitations, tickets, and other personal and family memorabilia. A few years later I employed daughter Laura to do occasional secretarial work for me, and she became the keeper and organizer of the scrapbook file into formal scrapbooks, ten of which were filled. After Laura moved away, my secretary, Andrea Clarke, kept scrapbook folders, the results of which are in my 2006 Donation [B2006-0015]. I also kept a personal scrapbook file, which, after retirement from the university in 2006, became my only scrapbook file.”
From 1994 on, the “scrapbooks” consist of loose material of the same type of as in the previous volumes, only now the storage medium is archival folders.
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Accruals
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The arrangement of this series is chronological.
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Open
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Notes area
Note
Newspaper columns and letters to the editor also appear in Series 8: Manuscripts and publications, and possibly elsewhere. Some of them may not be present in these scrapbooks.