Letters to Wood
MS. Wood F. 51
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Letters to Wood
Shelfmark
MS. Wood F. 51
Summary
Letters to Wood, 1688-1695, with some miscellaneous papers chiefly by or relating to him, but some later: a few entries from this volume have been inserted in the index of MSS. Wood F. 39-45. A catalogue of Wood's duplicate books is at fol. 44, and two indexes to persons mentioned in the Athena in the course of biographies of other writers, at fols. 56, 70. There is also a sketch by Wood of Ralph Sheldon's Life (fol. 41), and a list in Dugdale's hand of the MSS. bequeathed by Sheldon to the Herald's College in London (fol. 46v).
Date
Written in 1688-1719
Language
English
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
78 Leaves
Custodial history
This volume may well have belonged to bp. Tanner, for there are three letters from him, 1694-1713 (fols. 15, 51, 52), a letter to him from Laurence Echard, Feb. 12, 1718/9 (fol. 53), and a few papers about Tanner's edition of the Athena.
The binding suggests that this volume might at one time have been regarded as part of Rawlinson Letters.
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Collection contents
MSS. Wood Additional: Manuscripts chiefly relating to the history of the University and city of Oxford
Letters to Wood
