Fair copies, mainly holograph, of Oxford University Chancellor's Prize essays and poems, with seventeen Newdigate Prize poems, collected by Lord Grenville as Chancellor.
Prize Essays and Poems
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- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. Don. d. 66-75
- Dates of Creation1810-33
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish.
- Physical Description10 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), statesman, was chancellor of Oxford University from 1810 to 1834. 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 collection was bought from Thomas Thorp and given to the Library by the Friends of the Bodleian in 1939.
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. 39032-41.
Custodial History
The collection was owned and arranged by George Matthew Fortescue and remained at Dropmore until 1939.
Bibliography
The English essays are printed in Oxford English prize essays (Oxford, 2nd ed., 1836).