Papers of T.R. Leighton

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. c. 553, e. 703
  • Dates of Creation
      1829-42
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      2 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Papers of T.R. Leighton, consisting of:  

  • Diary of journeys with his regiment between Chinsura and Cawnpore, and Delhi and Lucknow, 1829-34
  • Letters and papers, 1832-42

Administrative / Biographical History

Thomas Richard Leighton (d 1842) was captain in the 44th Regiment of Foot, in India.

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 papers were given to the Library by A.W. Pullan in 1959.

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. 44217-18.

Genre/Form

Geographical Names