Manuscript of Thornton Leigh Hunt

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Don. d. 39-41
  • Dates of Creation
    • 19th century
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 3 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Manuscript, partly holograph, of 'Against the world', an unpublished novel by Thornton Leigh Hunt, n.d.

Administrative / Biographical History

Thornton Leigh Hunt (1810-1873) was a journalist. 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 Trevor Leigh Hunt, through the Friends of the Bodleian, in 1935.

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. 39014-16.

Subjects

Literature