Collection Level Description: Manuscripts and News-letters Collected by George Smith
Reference: [pr. bk.] Smith newsb. c. 7, c. 10, d. 16
Title: Manuscripts and News-letters Collected by George Smith
Dates of Creation: 17th-19th cent.
Extent: 3 shelfmarks
Name of Creator: George Smith
Language of Material: English
Administrative/Biographical History
George Smith (fl. 1954).
Scope and Content
Manuscripts and news-letters collected by George Smith. Including:
- (c. 7) a copy of a memorial by Alexander Cruden concerning
Elizabeth Canning, 1754, with a series of engravings showing Elizabth Canning's
adventures, 1754
- (c. 10) 'The subscription of the inhabitants of the ward of
Cheape, London, for a free and vollentary present to his Maiesty', 31 July
1661
- (d. 16) the Magazine of Battersea Grammar School, London, 1
June-20 July 1885.
Administrative Information
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Given to the Library by George Smith, with printed newsbooks, in 1954.
Access Conditions
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/).
Further Information
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.
II, nos. 53025-7.
Access Points
Canning | Elizabeth | 1734-1773 | malefactor
Smith | George | fl 1954
Battersea Grammar School | London
Enquiries
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09 June 2011