WILBERFORCE: SLAVERY, RELIGION AND POLITICS
Series One: The Wilberforce Papers from the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Part 1: Papers of William Wilberforce (1759-1833) and Robert Isaac Wilberforce (1802-1857)
REEL 1
Diaries of William Wilberforce, 1779-1833
MS. Don
e. 164 January 1783 - September 1786
Includes notes on a visit to France with Pitt, and on his Tour of the Continent.
MSS Wilberforce
c. 33 1779 - Journal of a Tour of the Lake District.
b. 2 June 1788 - January 1790
March - August 1791 -
c. 34 1793 - 1800
c. 35 1801 - 1802
c. 36 April 1803 - January 1804
d. 54 May 1808 - February 1814
REEL 2
MSS Wilberforce
d. 55 January 1823 - October 1829
c. 38 November 1829 - June 1833
c. 39 loose sheets of diary, containing entries omitted from previous volumes, 1808-1833:
fols 1-18 omissions from d. 54, 1811-1813
fols 19-57 omissions from c. 37, 1814-1817
fols 58 - 116 omissions from d. 55, 1823, 1825, 1827, 1829
fols 117-130 omissions from c. 38, 1830
fol 131 a list of existing diaries, c1835
Further diary entries can be found in MS Wilberforce c. 4 (reel 17).
William Wilberforce’s diary for February 1814 - January 1822 can be found in the Wilberforce House Papers which form Series Two of this project.
Religious Journals of William Wilberforce, 1791-1826
MSS Wilberforce
c. 40 August 1791 - October 1793
c. 41November 1793 - April 1800
c. 42 August - November 1806, fols 1-5 (leaves)
July - December 1811, fols 6-11 (leaves)
e. 24 December 1815 - 1818, pp 1-11
October 1826, pp 12-15
Further journal entries for 1787-1790 and August and October 1800 can be found in MS Wilberforce c. 4 (reel 17).
Autobiography of William Wilberforce
MS Wilberforce
c. 43 Autobiography, 1759-1792
REEL 3
Correspondence of William Wilberforce
c. 44-51 Correspondence of Wilberforce, 1771-1833, with a few letters to his wife, Barbara, arranged alphabetically. This series includes a few letters not addressed to Wilberforce. Correspondence of Wilberforce with other members of his family are included in c. 51 (reel 4).
MSS Wilberforce
c. 44 Abbott - Butler
c. 45 Cadell & Davies - Erskine
c. 46 Fitzherbert - (Archbishop of Jerusalem)
c. 47 Kennaway-Bart - Mitford
REEL 4
MSS Wilberforce
c. 48 Moore - Ryder
c. 49 John Newton
c. 50 Soravia - Stephen
c. 51 Stewart - Wynn
REEL 5
Miscellaneous Papers of William Wilberforce
MS Wilberforce
c. 52 Papers; letters; notes on religion; an essay on duelling; a pamphlet on slavery; an address upon the resignation of Wilberforce of his seat for Yorkshire, 1812; and other items.
MS Don
e. 165 Canvas book for the Yorkshire election of 1784
MS Wilberforce
d. 56 Notes on religion; recollections of conversations of Robert Wilberforce with this father; autobiographical stories; and correspondence with Christopher Wyvill, John Cartwright and Joseph Butterworth.
REEL 6
Correspondence of Robert Isaac Wilberforce
SS Wilberforce
c. 55 1830 - 1854 - lettters between Robert and Henry Wilberforce.
c. 56-62 letters between Robert and Samuel Wilberforce, 1821-1856; some letters with passages added by other members of the family.
c. 56 1821 - 1831
c. 57 1832 - 1835
c. 58 1836 - September 1837
c. 59 October 1837 - June 1839
REEL 7
MSS Wilberforce
c. 60 July 1839 - 1844
c. 61 1845 - September 1849
REEL 8
MSS Wilberforce
c. 62 1849 - 1856
c. 63 Family correspondence and papers
c. 64-66 letters for Robert Wilberforce from various correspondencts, 1823-1854. Includes letters c. 1833 of condolence upon death of William Wilberforce, and collecting of material for the Life and Correspondence of William Wilberforce, also letters to Barbara Wilberforce.
c. 64 July 1823 - August 1833
REEL 9
MSS Wilberforce
c. 65 September 1833 - 1834
c. 66 1835 - 1854
c. 67 letters from W E Gladstone, 1838 -1854, J H Newman, 1827 - 1854,
E B Pusey, c1826 - 1854, and some other correspondence.
REEL 10
Family Correspondence, 1814 - 1873
MSS Wilberforce
d. 9 1814 - 1830 - letters to and from Wilberforce
c. 1 1822 - 1827 - letters from William Wilberforce to Samuel Wilberforce
c. 2 1828 - 1833 - letters from Samuel Wilberforce to William Wilberforce
REEL 11
MSS Wilberforce
d. 10 1817 - 1840 - letters from Samuel Wilberforce to Barbara Wilberforce
d. 11 1816 - 1855 - letters to Samuel Wilberforce from other family members
d. 12 1834 - 1872 - letters to Samuel Wilberforce from other family members
REEL 12
MSS Wilberforce
d. 18 1835 - 1850 - extracts from letters from Samuel Wilberforce to Robert Wilberforce
d. 19 1850 - 1854 - extracts from letters to Robert Wilberforce
e. 1 1864 - 1873 - letters from Samuel Wilberforce to Ernest Wilberforce
Correspondence of William Wilberforce
MS Wilberforce
c. 3 c1785 - 1832 - letters to and from William Wilberforce
REEL 13
MS Wilberforce
d. 13 1776 - 1852 letters mainly to William Wilberforce, arranged aphabetically by correspondent, A-L
REEL 14
MS Wilberforce
d. 14 1776 - 1852 letters mainly to William Wilberforce, arranged aphabetically by correspondent, M-W
REEL 15
MSS Wilberforce
d. 15 1786 - 1826 letters mainly to William Wilberforce, arranged in rough chronological order
1786 - 1801 letters from William Wilberforce, arranged chronologically
d. 16 1801 - 1830 letters to William Wilberforce, arranged in rough chronological order
REEL 16
MS Wilberforce
d. 17 1794 - 1820 letters mainly to William Wilberforce, arranged in chronological order interspersed with groups of letters to bishops, physicians, members of the royal family, and letters to Samuel Wilberforce
REEL 17
Other Papers
MSS Wilberforce
c. 4 fol 1 - school exercises, 1772-1774;
fol 14 - leaves of Wilberforce’s diary, 1787, 1789, 1790, 1800, 1823, n d;
fol 31 - reminiscences concering William Pitt, n d, watermarked 1824;
fol 33 - a receipt, 1794, and two bonds, 1782-1783, for money lent by Wilberforce, and a related note;
fol 40 - drafts of speeches and notes on books, pamphlets and reports concerning the slave trade, 1804, [1817], 1822, 1824, n ds;
fol 100 - notes for speeches on renewal of war [1803?];
fol 101 - conduct of the war [1810?];
fol 103 - wages and the price of corn, n d;
fol 105 - troubles in Ireland, n d and
fol 109 - treatment of Indians in the Grand River Colony, n d
c. 30 grant of freedom of Berwick-upon-Tweed to William Wilberforce
f. 5 copy of the New Testament printed for the Naval and Military Bible Society, 1818, a few notes of William Wilberforce
d. 20 recollections of Barbara, wife of William Wilberforce etc
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