Walpoliana, chiefly correspondence received by Helen Toynbee while engaged in editing the letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford.
Walpole Papers of Helen Toynbee
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. c. 51-3, d. 46
- Dates of Creation
- 1896-1908
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 4 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Helen Toynbee (d 1910) was the wife of Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855-1932), the Dante scholar. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Access Information
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Acquisition Information
The papers were presented to the Library by Paget Toynbee in 1912.
Note
Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. VI, nos. 36195-8.