Papers of S.G. Dunn

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. d. 615-17, d. 625, e. 564-7, f. 384-91; Top. Oxon. e. 387-401
  • Dates of Creation
    • 19th-20th century
  • Language of Material
    • English, Latin, Ancient Greek (to 1453), and Hindi.
  • Physical Description
    • 31 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Papers of S.G. Dunn, consisting of:

  • Notebooks as an undergraduate at Jesus College, Oxford, 1898-1902
  • Pocket diaries, containing brief entries, with some details of journeys made in India, 1924-30, and South Africa, 1935
  • Notebooks containing notes and drafts, n.d.
  • Notebook containing vocabulary of, and notes on, Hindi, n.d.
  • Volume containing Latin and Greek verse exercises by pupils at Eton, ca. 1770-85
  • Journal of a tour in the Wye valley by G. Fisk, 1821
  • Album of extracts in prose and verse belonging to Mrs Henry Windle, early 19th century
  • Album of photographs of the Windle family of Walsall, Staffordshire, 19th-20th century

Administrative / Biographical History

Stanley Gerald Dunn (1879-1964) was Professor of English literature at Allahabad, India, and Witwatersrand, South Africa. Details are given in Who Was Who.

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 bequeathed by S.G. Dunn in 1964.

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. 45408-38.