Papers of C.H. Pearson

Correspondence and papers of C.H. Pearson, consisting of:  

• Letters to Pearson, 1850-94
• Letters to other members of the Pearson family, 1872-1926
• Miscellaneous papers of Pearson, 1851-94, many relating to Oxford University
• Papers relating to The collected mathematical papers of H.J.S. Smith, ed. J.W.L. Glaisher (Oxford, 1894)
• Corrected proofs of C.H. Pearson, History of England in the early and middle ages (London, 1867)
• Miscellaneous papers
• Notes of lectures by Pearson
• Notes by Pearson on historical subjects
• Photograph album, 19th century

Charles Henry Pearson (1830-1894) was a colonial minister and historian. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

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).

The papers were given to the Library in 1962.

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

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. 42698-714.

Pearson's correspondence as Minister of Education in Victoria, Australia, is in the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.