Walpole Papers of Helen Toynbee

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. c. 51-3, d. 46
  • Dates of Creation
      1896-1908
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      4 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Walpoliana, chiefly correspondence received by Helen Toynbee while engaged in editing the letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford.

Administrative / Biographical History

Helen Toynbee (d 1910) was the wife of Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855-1932), the Dante scholar. 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 presented to the Library by Paget Toynbee in 1912.

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. 36195-8.

Related Material

See also Paget Toynbee Manuscripts (MSS. Toynbee b. 1, c. 1-2, d. 1-32, e. 1-7, f. 1-2).