Four volumes of typed copies, made in 1890, of the correspondence between Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, and Mrs S. Brydges Willyams, 1851-63.
Copies of the Correspondence of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. d. 340-3
- Dates of Creation
- 1851-63
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 4 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) was a prominent statesman. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Access Information
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Acquisition Information
The volumes were bought from John Parker in 1974.
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. 41768-71.