Letters to R. Payne Smith, consisting of:
- Letters to R. Payne Smith, 1860-95, mainly concerning attendance of students at his lectures as Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, 1865-70
- Miscellaneous letters collected by R. Payne Smith, 1860-95
Letters to R. Payne Smith
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. d. 171, e. 46-7
- Dates of Creation
- 1860-1895
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 3 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Robert Payne Smith (1819-1895) was Dean of Canterbury, and an orientalist and theologian. 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 letters were bought from Myers & Co. in 1957.
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. 41685-7.