Papers Collected by Sir Albert Gray

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. c. 228, d. 227; Eng. misc. d. 652-3
  • Dates of Creation
      1825-1925
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      4 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Papers collected by Sir Albert Gray, consisting of:  

  • Letters from J.J. Ruskin to George Gray, 1825-52
  • Papers relating to John Ruskin's marriage, 1847-1925
  • Two copies of a memoir by Sir Albert on Ruskin's marriage, ca. 1910

Administrative / Biographical History

Sir Albert Gray (1850-1928) was the brother of Euphemia Chalmers Gray, who married John Ruskin in 1848 and Sir John Everett Millais in 1855. Details are given in Who Was Who.

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 bequeathed to the Library by Sir Albert Gray and received in 1938, on condition that they were not to be opened until 1968.

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. 41197-200.