Papers of Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943)

Stein's papers consist of:

• Letters to P.S. Allen and Helen Allen, 1898-1943
• Correspondence with F.H. Andrews, 1899-1943
• General correspondence
• Family correspondence
• Notebooks, field diaries, personal diaries and 'personal narratives', 1889-1943
• Miscellaneous and personal papers, including catalogue of Stein's library
• Correspondence and papers concerning expeditions, mainly in Central Asia, and to archaeology and survey work in India
• Drafts of, and papers and correspondence concerning, publications
• Maps and photographs

Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943) was an archaelogist and explorer. 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 bequeathed by Stein to the Indian Institute, Oxford, 1943

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. II, nos. 53042-520

A fuller description is available in the Library.

Oriental manuscripts collected by Stein are in the Department of Oriental Collections, Bodleian Library.

The Bodleian Library also holds the Papers of P.S. Allen.

The biography by Jeanette Mirsky, Sir Aurel Stein, archaeological explorer (Chicago & London, 1977) is based partly on these papers.