Walpoliana, chiefly correspondence received by Helen Toynbee while engaged in editing the letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford.
Dates
- Creation: 1896-1908
Extent
0.38 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Eng. misc. c. 51, fols. 1-2].
Full range of shelfmarks:
MSS. Eng. misc. c. 51-53, d. 46
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 11812
Abstract
Walpole Papers of Helen Toynbee
Biographical / Historical
Helen Toynbee (d. 1910) was the wife of Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855-1932), the Dante scholar. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
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. VI, nos. 36195-36198.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The papers were presented to the Library by Paget Toynbee in 1912.
Topical
- Title
- Walpole Papers of Helen Toynbee
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Collection Level Description by Emily Tarrant; EAD version 2020 by Alice Whichelow
- Date
- EAD version 2020
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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