James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862) was a dramatist. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Manuscript and printed works of J.S. Knowles, consisting of:

• Transcript of articles contributed to the Glasgow Free Press by Knowles, 1823-4
• The Western luminary or Glasgow literary and scientific gazette, vol. 1, nos. 1-26 (Jan.-June 1824), edited by Knowles, with several articles by him
• Tales and novelettes (privately printed, London, 1874), with a manuscript of 'Therese', n.d., and Fortescue. A novel (privately printed, London, 1846)
• Volume containing The rock of Rome; or the arch heresy (London, 1849), with a manuscript of the work, n.d., and The gospel attributed to Matthew is the record of the whole original apostlehood (London, 1855), with manuscript drafts, n.d.
• The idol demolished by its own priest (Edinburgh & London, 1851)
• Two volumes containing thirty unpublished sermons by Knowles, 1853, 1854, n.d.
• Transcripts of the thirty sermons, 1873
• Drafts of three lectures on the apostolic succession and on infant baptism, n.d.

The collection was bought from Frank Hammond in 1972.

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/services/admissions/).

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. 44131-9.

English literature

Sermons

Knowles | James Sheridan | 1784-1862 | Dramatist