Paris Journals of Nassau William Senior

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. hist. d. 259-60
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1853-5
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 2 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Journals of Nassau William Senior in Paris, 8-24 May 1853, 18 May-14 June 1855, in the hands of amanuenses, signed at the end by Senior.

Administrative / Biographical History

Nassau William Senior (1790-1864) was an economist. 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 given to the Library by Phoebe Marivale in 1965.

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. 40196-7.

Related Material

See also Journals of Nassau William Senior (MSS. Eng. hist. d. 245-7).

Bibliography

The journals were printed, with many omissions, in Conversations with M. Thiers, M. Guizot, etc. (London, 1878), i, 139-205, ii, 17-60.

Genre/Form

Diaries