Letters to R. Payne Smith, consisting of:
- Letters to R. Payne Smith, 1860-95, mainly concerning attendance of students at his lectures as Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, 1865-70
- Miscellaneous letters collected by R. Payne Smith, 1860-95
Letters to R. Payne Smith
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- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. d. 171, e. 46-7
- Dates of Creation1860-1895
- Language of MaterialEnglish.
- Physical Description3 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Robert Payne Smith (1819-1895) was Dean of Canterbury, and an orientalist and theologian. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
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Acquisition Information
The letters were bought from Myers & Co. in 1957.
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. 41685-7.