Correspondence of William Hayley

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. c. 19, d. 41
  • Dates of Creation
      1774-1815
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      2 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Correspondence of William Hayley, with some verse.

Administrative / Biographical History

William Hayley (1745-1820) was a poet. 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 papers were bought from Bernard Halliday in 1932.

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. 40767-83.