Five guardbooks of the papers of Lord Robert Grosvenor, containing an incomplete manuscript of Grosvenor's journal of a tour in the Mediterranean area, April-December 1829, and correspondence.
Papers of Lord Robert Grosvernor, 1st Baron Ebury
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. c. 439-41; Eng. misc. c. 667-8
- Dates of Creation
- 1820-91
- Language of Material
- English, and Turkish.
- Physical Description
- 5 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury (1801-1893) was a politician. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Access Information
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Acquisition Information
The papers were bought from Mrs M.E. Dorling in 1977.
Note
Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
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