Robert Payne Smith (1819-95) was Dean of Canterbury, and an orientalist and theologian. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Letters to R. Payne Smith, consisting of:

• Letters to R. Payne Smith, 1860-95, mainly concerning attendance of students at his lectures as Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, 1865-70
• Miscellaneous letters collected by R. Payne Smith, 1860-95

The letters were bought from Myers & Co. in 1957.

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. 41685-7.

Smith | Robert Payne | 1819-1895 | Dean of Canterbury, Orientalist, and Theologian

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