Fair copies, mainly holograph, of Oxford University Chancellor's Prize essays and poems, with seventeen Newdigate Prize poems, 1810-33, collected by Lord Grenville as Chancellor.
Dates
- Creation: 1810-1833
Extent
0.50 Linear metres (10 boxes)
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS. Don. d. 66, fols. 1-2].
Full range of shelfmarks:
MSS. Don. d. 66-75
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 13359
Abstract
Prize Essays and Poems
Biographical / Historical
William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), statesman, was chancellor of Oxford University from 1810 to 1834. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 39032-41.
Custodial History
The collection was owned and arranged by George Matthew Fortescue and remained at Dropmore until 1939.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was bought from Thomas Thorp and given to the Library by the Friends of the Bodleian in 1939.
Bibliography
- The English essays are printed in Oxford English prize essays (Oxford, 2nd ed., 1836).
Topical
Subject
- Grenville | William Wyndham | 1759-1834 | Baron Grenville | statesman (Person)
- University of Oxford (Organisation)
- Title
- Prize Essays and Poems
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Collection Level Description by Emily Tarrant; EAD version 2019 by Alice Whichelow
- Date
- EAD version 2019
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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