Papers of George, Viscount Goschen

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. hist. c. 386, g. 17
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1895-1906
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 2 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Diary and register of letters of George, Viscount Goschen, consisting of:

  • Register of letters received by Lord Goschen as First Lord of the Admiralty, 1895-1900
  • Diary of Lord Goschen for 1906

Administrative / Biographical History

George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen (1831-1907) was a statesman. 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

From the papers of Claude Jenkins; given through E.G.W. Bill in 1960.

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. 39989-90.

Genre/Form

Diaries