Collection Level Description: Miscellaneous Papers of William Bollaert
with a Printed Pamphlet by W.M.F. Castle
Reference: MSS Dep. e. 270-2
Title: Miscellaneous Papers of William Bollaert
with a Printed Pamphlet by W.M.F. Castle
Dates of Creation: [c.
1830-87]
Extent: 3 shelfmarks
Name of Creator: William Bollaert
Language of Material: English
Administrative/Biographical History
William Bollaert (1807-76) was a writer, chemist, geographer, and
ethnologist.
Scope and Content
The papers comprise:
- a diary, Apr. 1830-Oct. 1831 with a newspaper cutting,
1851
- a copy of
The Wars of Succession of Portugal and Spain from
1826-40, vol. 1, Portugal, 1832-3 by William Bollaert, F.R.G.S., (1870)
annotated by the author and interleaved with related material
- William MacCoy Fitzgerald Castle, Capt., R.N.,
Sketch of the City of Iquique during the last fifty
years.
Administrative Information
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposited in the Library in 1979.
Access Conditions
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valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).
Further Information
Finding Aids
A description is available in the Library, where there is also a card index to unpublished catalogues.
Publication Note
Access Points
Diaries | 19th century
Bollaert | William | 1807-1876 | Author and
explorer
Castle | William MacCoy Fitzgerald | fl 19th century
Iquique (Chile) | Description and
travel
Portugal | History
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