'Thought books', sermons, literary works and letters of Robert Stephen Hawker, with miscellanea collected by Nicholas Ross.
Papers of Robert Stephen Hawker
Archive Collection
- This material is held at
- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. b. 93, c. 454, d. 649-51, e. 590-6; Eng. lett. d. 223-6, e. 96-7; Eng. poet. d. 190-1, e. 114; Eng. th. d. 57-8, e. 160-1, f. 54-7
- Dates of Creation1807-1965
- Language of MaterialEnglish.
- Physical Description29 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-75) vicar of Morwenstow poet and antiquary. 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 bought from Bertram Rota Ltd., in 1968.
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. 42861-98.