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LevelSub-fonds
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS190/3
TitlePapers of Evan Humphreys
Extent8 items
Date1882-1914
DescriptionComprise solely his writings. Contains two published stories and six draft writings, largely fairy stories or accounts of holidays.
Access StatusOpen
Administrative HistoryEvan Griffith Humphreys (1853-1917) was the second son of John and Ann Humphreys, the younger brother of John Humphreys (1850-1937) and uncle of Humphrey Humphreys. Evan Humphreys was a journalist, printer and bookseller who lived in Bromsgrove. Humphreys and Co. are listed as printers in College Street, Worcester in 1895. He married Ann (Nancy) Woodhead. The couple had no issue. He became Honorary Secretary of the Stratford-on-Avon Literary Society in 1883 and died on 1 March 1917.

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