Stanley Family Papers

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. e. 52, Eng. poet. e. 21/1-2, e. 22
  • Dates of Creation
      1820-30
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      4 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Stanley family papers, mainly poems by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley.

Administrative / Biographical History

The Stanley family included Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815-1881), Dean of Westminster. 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 purchased from Bertram Dobell, bookseller, in 1908.

Note

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

Other Finding Aids

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. VI, nos. 34067-70.

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