Journals of Travels with Samuel Rogers

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. e. 230-1
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1821-7
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 2 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Journals of travels with Samuel Rogers, consisting of:

  • Journal of Sarah Rogers, sister of Samuel, in France and Switzerland, 1821, and travelling through Belgium, 1827
  • Journal of Mary Rogers, niece of Samuel, in Paris, 1825

Administrative / Biographical History

Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) was a poet. 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 journals were bought from H.F.B. Brett-Smith in 1938.

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. 45752-3.

Genre/Form

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