Papers of Hastings Rashdall

Letters and papers of Hastings Rashdall, including:  

• Letters to Rashdall's mother, 1869-79, 1907
• Letters to Rashdall from H. Montagu Butler, 1875-1917
• Diary kept by Rashdall at Harrow school, 1874
• Letters to Rashdall, with copies of some replies, 1871-8, 1882-1924
• Drafts of lectures on medieval universities
• Papers and some correspondence about ecclesiastical and theological matters, 1891-1922
• Miscellaneous papers
• Letters and papers about Rashdall's life collected by his widow, Constance Rashdall, 1924-53

Hastings Rashdall (1858-1924) was Dean of Carlisle and a historian. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

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).

The papers were given to the Library by Hastings Rashdall's widow in 1953.

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

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. 41396-422.

Further correspondence is in New College, Oxford.