The Taylor family includes Sir Henry Taylor (1800-1886), author, and his family. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Papers of Sir Henry Taylor and his family, consisting of:

• Correspondence, 1798-1890, including letters to and from Sir Henry Taylor and his wife, Theodosia Alicia; letters to Ida and Una Taylor; letters selected as autographs, probably by Ida Taylor
• Diaries and notebooks of Sir Henry Taylor, 1823-70
• Literary and other papers, 1815-95

The papers were bequeathed to the Library by Ida A.A. Taylor, daughter of Sir Henry, in 1930.

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. 40693-747.

Much of the material in Sir Henry's papers was used in his Autobiography (2 vols., privately printed, London, 1874 and 1877; published, London, 1885).

A selection of the letters was edited by E. Dowden in Correspondence of Henry Taylor (London, 1888).

Literature

Diaries

Taylor | Henry | 1800-1886 | Sir | Knight Author

Taylor | Ida Alice Ashworth | fl 1866-1884

Taylor | Theodosia Alicia Ellen Frances Charlotte | d 1891

Taylor | Una | fl 1866-1884