Contemporary Copies of Letters of Henry St. John, Secretary of State

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. e. 4; Eng. misc. e. 180
  • Dates of Creation
      1709-11
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      2 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Two volumes of contemporary copies, in the same hand, of letters from Henry St. John, Secretary of State, to Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, envoy to the Netherlands.

Administrative / Biographical History

Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) was Secretary of State. 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 volumes were purchased in 1927 and 1933.

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. 41796-7.