Letters to Richard and George Bentley, Publishers

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. d. 90, d. 100, e. 25
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1829-89
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 3 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Letters to Richard and George Bentley, 1829-89.

Administrative / Biographical History

Richard Bentley (1794-1871) and his son George (1828-1895) were both publishers. 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 letters were bought at Hodgeson's in 1946.

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. 41641-3.

Related Material

See also Papers of the Publishing House of Bentley (MSS. Eng. misc. d. 810-11, d. 1209, e. 732-6; Eng. lett. c. 330).