Five volumes of letters and autographs, with biographical notes and portraits, collected by Percy Noble, mainly 19th and 20th century, with an index, by Noble, to the autographs in b. 8-11. Many of the letters are addressed to Sir William Priestley, Sir Edward Ward and members of the Noble family. The collection includes a holograph fragment of 'Mrs Lirriper's lodgings', by Charles Dickens.
Papers of Percy Noble
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Autogr. b. 8-11, c. 17-18
- Dates of Creation
- 19th-20th century
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 6 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Percy Noble (d 1937) was a collector of letters and autographs.
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 collection was bequeathed to the Library by Percy Noble, 1937.
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. 37788-93.