Correspondence of A.C. Ducarel and John Loveday, with a few letters in the hand of John Loveday the younger.
Correspondence of A.C. Ducarel and John Loveday
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- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. c. 6, d. 34
- Dates of Creation1761-85
- Language of MaterialEnglish.
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Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Andrew Coltee Ducarel (1713-1785) was an antiquary. John Loveday (1711-89) was a philologist and antiquary. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
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Acquisition Information
MS. Eng. lett. c. 6 was given to the Library by Thomas Loveday in 1930. MS. Eng. lett. d. 34 was bought from Bernard Halliday in 1930.
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. 40752-3.