Papers of William Hodge Mill

Scope and Content

Papers of William Hodge Mill, including:  

  • Journals of Mill's travels in India, France, Egypt and Nubia, 1820-38
  • Miscellaneous papers written or collected by William Hodge Mill, 1753, 1815-45

Administrative / Biographical History

Dr William Hodge Mill (1792-1853) was Principal of Bishop's College, Calcutta, and Regius Professor of Hebrew Cambridge University. 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 given to the Library by C.C.J. Webb in 1914.

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. 36630-43.

Related Material

See also Collections of Dr William Hodge Mill (MSS. Mill 191-5, 202).

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