Manuscripts of Dawson Turner, including:
- Letters addressed to Edmund Henry Barker, the classical scholar
- Letters from Bishop Thomas Tanner to his uncle Thomas Moore
- Collections made by George Chalmers (d 1825), chiefly relating to Shakespeare
Dawson Turner Manuscripts
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Bodl. 1003-6, 1013; Eng. poet. d. 13
- Dates of Creation
- 18th-19th century
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English, Latin, German, and French.
- Physical Description
- 6 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Dawson Turner (1775-1858) was a botanist and antiquary. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Access Information
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/specialcollections).
Acquisition Information
The manuscripts were purchased in 1859.
Note
Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. V, nos. 28722-7.