Correspondence of Sir John Taylor Coleridge and of members of his family.
Correspondence of Sir John Taylor Coleridge
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. c. 142-3, d. 126-37
- Dates of Creation
- 1685-1874
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 14 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Sir John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876) was a judge. 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 correspondence was given to the Library by the Pilgrim Trust in 1951.
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. 40943-56.
Bibliography
Much of the family correspondence was used in Bernard Coleridge, 2nd Baron Coleridge, The story of a Devonshire house (London, 1906).