Collection Level Description: Papers of the Tubb Family of Warborough, Oxfordshire
Reference: MSS. Eng. misc. a. 28(R), b. 347-8, c. 805, d. 1219-21, e. 1348, f. 794; Eng. lett. c. 539-41
Title: Papers of the Tubb Family of Warborough, Oxfordshire
Dates of Creation: 18th-20th cent.
Extent: 12 shelfmarks
Language of Material: English
Scope and Content
Papers of the Tubb family, including:
- Family correspondence, 1783-1821, mainly letters from James Tubb I, excise officer and later grocer,
1789-1820
- Correspondence of Benjamin Tubb, 1800-45, mainly letters to him concerning his trade as a maltster, 1801-20
- Family correspondence, 1815-1914, mainly letters to and from James Tubb II (son of Benjamin) and his wife
Maria Louisa, 1854-81
- Notebook of Maria Louisa Tubb, 1830-53
- Diaries of Maria Louisa Tubb, 1848-60
- Fragments of diaries of James Tubb III (son of James Tubb II), October 1844-6
- Family papers, 18th-19th century
- Parchment roll containing a draft petition to the House of Lords for various reforms
- Drawings, 19th century, including topographical drawings and engravings, and drawings by H.S. Dickinson
as a schoolboy at Eton College, 1826-8
Administrative Information
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The papers were deposited in the Library in 1972 and given in 1982.
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. I, nos. 42039-54.
Access Points
Diaries | 19th century
Dickinson | Henry Strahan | fl. 1826-1828
Tubb | Benjamin | 1768-1863 | maltster
Tubb | Benjamin | 1848-? 1947
Tubb | James | 1763-1846 | excise officer and grocer
Tubb | James | 1807-1882
Tubb | James | 1836-1927
Tubb | Maria Louisa | 1811-1908
Tubb | family | Clifton Hampden, Shillingford and Warborough
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