Correspondence between Robert Southey and Grosvenor Charles Bedford

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. c. 22-7, d. 47-57
  • Dates of Creation
      1792-1838
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      17 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Correspondence between Robert Southey and Grosvenor Charles Bedford, with some other letters, verse, and papers.

Administrative / Biographical History

Robert Southey (1774-1843) was a poet, journalist and biographer (details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography). Grosvenor Charles Bedford was Chief Clerk of the Audit Office.

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 bought at Sotheby's 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.

Custodial History

The correspondence was owned by Bedford's great-niece, Mrs Erskine, of Milton Lodge, Gillingham, Dorset.

Related Material

See also Letters of Robert Southey (MSS. Don. d. 3-5).