Letters between William Cuming, M.D., and Richard Gough, esq., chiefly relating to Hutchins's History of Dorsetshire: with others on miscellaneous subjects, written in A.D. 1770-1790, by W. Cuming, R. Gough, etc.
File
MS. Top. gen. c. 8
'Letters between William Cuming, M.D., and Richard Gough, esq., chiefly relating to Hutchins's History of Dorsetshire: with others on miscellaneous subjects.' There are about 197 letters from Cuming to Gough, 1770-87 (fol. 6, etc.), about 112 drafts of letters from Gough to Cuming, 1770-87 (fol. 8, etc.). There are also about thirty-two letters from Cuming to John Nichols (1773-5; fols. 10, 52, etc.), Emmanuel Mendes Da Costa (1776-83; fol. 383, etc.), and others, with ten replies (some copies) from Nichols, and sixteen, all unsigned, from Da Costa. There are formal documents about Hutchins's Dorset at fols. 20, 362.
Dates
- written in A.D. 1770-1790, by W. Cuming, R. Gough, etc.
Extent
634 Leaves
Language of Materials
English
Shelfmark
MS. Top. gen. c. 8
Other Finding Aids
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. V, no. 25525.
Custodial History
Lot 1104 in the Gough Nichols sale, 1874. Fols. 624-31 (four letters from Gough to J. C. Walter, 1788-90) were purchased in April, 1885.
Gough Nichols coll. vol. no. 16 (from 1874 to about 1884).
Gough Nichols coll. vol. no. 16 (from 1874 to about 1884).
Physical Facet
On paper
Dimensions
14 × 8 3/8 in.
Repository Details
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