Papers of S.R. Gardiner

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Eng. hist. d. 4-15, e. 59-84
  • Dates of Creation
      1865-85
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      38 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Copies and abstracts of documents, made by Gardiner, used in the compilation of his History of England for the years 1603-50 and 1621-47 (published 1869-89). The documents are chiefly copies of despatches and letters.

Administrative / Biographical History

Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829-1902) was a historian. 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 papers were presented to the Library by S.R. Gardiner, March 1896.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. VI, nos. 32019-30, 32033-58.