Letters to officers of the Bodleian Library, 1691-1926

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Shelfmark: MS. Autogr. d. 11, fols. 1-223a and 226-337

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Letters chiefly addressed to officers of the Bodleian Library, arranged in alphabetical order, including letters from:

(fol. 2) Lord Acton, n.d.
(fols. 45, 47) Benjamin Jowett, master of Balliol College, Oxford, 1882-1883
(fols. 70, 72) Friedrich Max Müller, Sanskritist and philologist, 1882
(fol. 94) James E. Thorold Rogers, political economist and politician, n.d.
(fols. 124-129) Wilfrid Bird Hornby, Bishop of Nassau in the Bahamas, including photographs of parishioners and the building of a church on Long Island and a photograph of Hornby with clergy, 1915
(fols. 154-155) Cecil Rhodes, written in code from Kimberley during the siege, 18 Nov 1899
(fols. 158-159) John Stuart Blackie, classical and Scottish Gaelic scholar, with his photograph, 1893
(fols. 182-183) Nevil Maskelyne, astronomer and mathematician, 1801

Additions (fols. 131-337): letters 17th-20th centuries including:

(fol. 335) receipt signed by Grinling Gibbons for payment for a monument to Thomas Lamplugh, Archbishop of York, 1691
(fol. 336) agreement to build an organ 'in the church of York', signed by Bernard Smith, 1691

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MS. Autogr. d. 11, fols. 1-223a and 226-337

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