Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930) was Poet Laureate 1913-30. Edward, 1st Baron Bridges (1892-1969), a civil servant, was his son. Details are given in G.L. McKay, A bibliography of Robert Bridges (1933) and the Dictionary of National Biography.

Letters of Robert Bridges, mainly to Sir Henry John Newbolt.

The letters were bought at Sotheby's in 1971.

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. 41357-8.

See also Papers of Robert Seymour Bridges, Poet Laureate, 1865-1969 and Robert Bridges Collection Made by Lionel Muirhead.

Poets laureate

Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate

Newbolt | Sir | Henry John | 1862-1938 | Knight Poet and Author