Correspondence of Sir John Taylor Coleridge

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. c. 142-3, d. 126-37
  • Dates of Creation
      1685-1874
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      14 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Correspondence of Sir John Taylor Coleridge and of members of his family.

Administrative / Biographical History

Sir John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876) was a judge. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).

Acquisition Information

The correspondence was given to the Library by the Pilgrim Trust in 1951.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

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. 40943-56.

Bibliography

Much of the family correspondence was used in Bernard Coleridge, 2nd Baron Coleridge, The story of a Devonshire house (London, 1906).