The correspondence, dispatches and papers of Col. Nathaniel Hooke

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The correspondence, dispatches and papers of Col. Nathaniel Hooke, agent from the court of France to the Scottish Jacobites, 1703-1707, copied by his nephew Nathaniel Hooke the Roman historian, for his uncle, and arranged in chronological order, the volumes containing:

Feb. 18, 1703-end of 1705;
1706-Dec. 26, 1707.

The whole of these volumes was edited for the Roxburghe Club by the rev. W. D. Macray, with preface and notes (Correspondence of col. N. Hooke, 2 vols., 1870-71).

Dates

Creation: about A.D. 1730

Extent

0.22 Linear metres (2 boxes)

Language of Materials

English
French

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS. Add. D. 25, fols. 1-2].

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MSS. Add. D. 25-26

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 18533

Additional Description

Abstract

The correspondence, dispatches and papers of col. Nathaniel Hooke, copied by his nephew Nathaniel Hooke in about A.D. 1730.

Biographical / Historical

Nathaniel Hooke (d. 1763) was a writer and Roman historian.

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, nos. 28094-28095.

Custodial History

These volumes seem to have passed at the transcriber's death in 1763 to his daughter Jane Mary, who bequeathed them at her death in 1793 to the Rev. J. Tickell, son of the poet.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The manuscripts came to the Library by the bequest of the rev. J. Tickell at the death of his widow, and were 'plac'd in the Bodl. Library Dec. 5, 1816.'