Poems, sketches and prayers
MSS. Benson 1/82-85
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Poems, sketches and prayers
Shelfmark
MSS. Benson 1/82-85
Summary
Comprised of: 91, 63, 56, c.138 leaves
(1/82, fols. 1-94) Notebookbooks containing poetry and history notes, 1841-69
(1/83, fols. 1-63) Notebook containing natural history notes, 1849
(1/84, fols. 1-56) Notebook labelled, 'Intensely Private', containing poetry and some prose, c.1890s
(1/85, fols. 1- 140) Sketchbook from which individual items had been removed and placed within the front covers. The individual items include satirical drawings by Mary Benson, 12 pen and ink sketches of Lincolnshire by Thomas Mozley and a series of small watercolour portraits made at Addington by A.C. Benson, late 1850s-1892
Date
1841-1937
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box
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Collection contents
The works of A.C. Benson and other members of the Benson family, excluding E. F. Benson
Mary Benson
Poems, essays, sketches, music and prayers
Poems, sketches and prayers
