Papers of Rev. Philip Bliss

Collections of printed and written papers of the 18th and 19th centuries made by Rev. Philip Bliss, comprising:

• letters, notes (chiefly biographical), printers' proposals, etc.
• papers relating to University business, including agenda for Congregation, lists of delegates of privileges and of regent masters, supplicants etc., 1836-53.

Rev. Philip Bliss (1742-1803) was Rector of Dodington and Frampton Cotterell in Gloucestershire.

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Transferred from the University Archives by the Keeper, 1932.

Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

P.S. Spokes, Summary Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library relating to the city, county, and university of Oxford. Accessions from 1916 to 1962 (Oxford, 1964).

Commonplace book of Philip Bliss (MSS. Don. e. 132-3).