WILBERFORCE: SLAVERY, RELIGION AND POLITICS
Series One: The Wilberforce Papers from the Bodleian Library, Oxford

Part 3: Papers of Samuel Wilberforce (1818-1873)

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Personal and literary papers, Diaries

MSS Wilberforce
g. 1: Brief notes by Samuel Wilberforce in Marshall's New Polite Pocket Repository, 1823
f. 1: Similar brief notes in The Daily Journal, 1828

e. 4-8: Five volumes of diary, labelled D.1-5
(e. 4: 1830-1831
e. 5: 1832-May 1834
e. 6: October 1834-1836
e. 7: 1837-April 1841
e. 8: June 1841- August 1846)

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MSS Wilberforce
e. 9: Diary of a holiday in Europe, 1851

g. 2-9: Notes of engagements, in Gilbert's Clergyman's Almanack (except g. 7, which are in The Churchman's Pocket Book)
(g. 2: 1847
g. 3: 1850
g. 4: 1851
g. 5: 1853)

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MSS Wilberforce
g. 2-9: Notes of engagements, in Gilbert's Clergyman's Almanack (except g. 7, which are in The Churchman's Pocket Book, continued)
(g. 6: 1857
g. 7: 1866
g. 8: 1869
g. 9: 1873)

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Notebooks
MSS Wilberforce
f. 2; g. 10-14: Pocket books containing brief notes on books and lectures, on church matters and domestic affairs, notes for speeches, verses and a few sketches.
(g. 10: 1823
f. 2: c.1839
g. 11: c.1839-1840
g. 12: c.1839.1840
g. 13: c.1850-1852
g. 14: c.1853)

g. 15: Pocket book, containing notes, mainly for speeches, n.d., as Bishop of Oxford
g. 16: Pocket book, containing notes on the architecture of Chichester cathedral, Borneo and the educational system, n.d.
g. 17: Pocket book, containing sketches, and a few notes, most in a child's hand, n.d.

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MSS Wilberforce
e. 11: Volume of notes of Wilberforce's conversations with this father, 1823
e. 15: Notebook of Emily Wilberforce, 1826
f. 3: Notebook, 1844, containing extracts from Bishop Selwyn's journal, 1843 (fol 1); notes on the church overseas (fol 13^v); notes on the Wilberforce family (fol 83^v rev).
e. 12: Notebook mainly concerning diocesan matters, 1845-1863
e. 13: Notebook containing rough minutes of private meetings of bishops, 1853-1864
e. 14: Notebook containing rough minutes of committees of Convocation, 1854
f. 4: Volume of notes made during a retreat for clergy at Cuddesdon, 1861

Other personal papers
b. 1: fols 1-55. Personal papers, including four leaves of diary, 1818 (fol 1); school exercises, nd (fol 5); notes of Wilberforce on his father's reminiscences, 1831-1832 (fol 15).

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MSS Wilberforce
c. 25: fols 94-157. Notes, originally loose, on various church matters, including memoranda on meetings of Convocation, 1852 (fol 94); notes on the 'Colenso affair' [1853] (fol 102); draft reply to an attack in the National Standard, [1858] (fol 113); papers relating to the revision of the Athanasian Creed, 1872 (fol 140).

Literary papers
d. 50: Commonplace book, 1814
d. 51: Commonplace book, 1822

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MSS Wilberforce
d. 48: Sermon notes, 1833-1859
d. 49: Sermon notes, 1860-1869 (fol 1); undated sermon notes (fol 88); meditations on the Bible, nd (fol 142)

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MSS Wilberforce
e. 10: Notebooks, given to Wilberforce in 1821 by Mary Sophia Elliott, containing her copy of an account of the death of 'Mrs Cunningham'; prayer of William Wilberforce, 1818, copied by E W, 1822
c. 24: Miscellaneous literary papers, including verses by Wilberforce and others, 1832-1854, nds (fol 1); anecdotes, riddles and jokes, nds (fol 120)
e. 17: Volume of verses by Wilberforce, 1838-1845
c. 25: fols 1-93. Correspondence and accounts with publishers, including James Burns, [1844], 1847 (fol 1); John Murray, 1837-1838, 1860-1872 (fol 7); James Parker, 1862-1872 (fol 49); letters and accounts of publishers with Wilberforce's executors, 1874-1877 (fol 79)
c. 30 (i): Assignment of the copyright of A Life of William Wilberforce, Esq to John Murray, 1837

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Miscellaneous papers
MSS Wilberforce
b. 1: fols 56-61. Papers of Wilberforce as Archdeacon of Surrey, mainly estate records, including list of the chief rents belonging to Farnham rectory, 1726 (fol 56); account of the hop grounds in Farnham parish, 1762 (fol 58); case, with the opinion of Sir Thomas Sewell, on the powers of the archdeacon to grant reversionary leases, 1762 (fol 59)
b. 1: fols 107-175. Papers as Visitor of Trinity College, Oxford, including copies of correspondence between Bishops of Winchester and Presidents of Trinity College, 1661-1734 (fol 107); correspondence of C R Sumner with the President and Fellows of Trinity College, 1834, 1861-1862, 1867 (fol 119); statement of the revenue and expenditure of the college, 1858-1867 (fol 170^v)
e. 16: Cuddesdon Palace visitors' book, 1850-1865
e. 18: Incomplete copy, parts ii, iii, iv, v, vi and appendix of Apologia Pro Vita Sua, by J H Newman, 1864

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Papers relating to the death of Samuel Wilberforce, 1873-1875, 1880
MSS Wilberforce
c. 28: fols 164-241. Letters of condolence on the death of Samuel Wilberforce, most of them addressed to R G Wilberforce, arranged alphabetically by correspondent, July-December, 1873
c.30 (ii): Linen bag containing newspaper cuttings of obituaries and tributes to Wilberforce, 1873-1875, 1880, nds

Materials relating to the publication of the Life of ... Samuel Wilberforce, D D by A R Ashwell and R G Wilberforce, 1880-1882
e. 19-21: Three volumes of notes of Canon A R Ashwell, in preparation for volume I of 'The Life', including notes on Wilberforce's activities, copies of letters and extracts from his diary, nds
e. 19
e. 20
e. 21
c. 26-28: Letters and notes concerning the three volumes of 'The Life', arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
c. 26: Letters, most of them to Canon Ashwell and R G Wilberforce, many in reply to an advertisement in The Guardian, 1874-1880 (fol 1); part of a letter concerning Wilberforce's part in the Hampden Controversy, nd (fol 124)

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MSS Wilberforce
c. 26-28: Letters and notes concerning the three volumes of 'The Life', arranged alphabetically by correspondent. (continued)
c. 27: Letters to Mr & Mrs R G Wilberforce, thanking them for copies of volume II of 'The Life' or commenting on the volume, 1881 (fol 1) ; notes in preparation for volume II (fol 103)
c. 28: fols 1-163. Letters to Mr & Mrs R G Wilberforce, thanking them for copies of volume III, or commenting on its contents, 1882-1883 (fol 1); business letters concerning the publication of volume III, 1881-1883 (fol 123)
c. 30 (iii): Macmillan's Magazine, 1880, containing a review of volume I of 'The Life'

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MSS Wilberforce
c. 29: Volume containing notes on the gospel of St Matthew in a hand of c1800 afterwards used as a scrapbook to mount item (fol 1); newspaper cuttings concerning the death and funeral of Wilberforce, 1873 (fol 13^v)
e. 22: Volume of newspaper cuttings of reviews of volume III, 1882-1883, pasted over an inventory of books in the library of Woolavington House, May 1834.
c. 30 (iv): Folder of newspaper cuttings, mainly reviews of volume III, 1882-1883

Other papers
c. 25: fols 158-289. Miscellaneous papers, mainly connected with the Wilberforce family, including certificate of subscription of H E Manning on institution to Woolavington rectory, 1833 (fol 160); prayers of Mrs Mary Sargent, 1833, 1834 (fol 161)
e. 23: Commonplace book [of Anna Maria Wilberforce], 1854
c. 30 (v-xi): Box of miscellaneous materials, including lock of hair from Emily Wilberforce's notebook (item v); pamphlet, Ballot, by Sydney Smith, 1871 (item vi)
a. 1: Portfolio containing engraving of a portrait of Samuel Wilberforce by George Richmond, published 1845 (fol 1); photograph of Robert Isaac Wilberforce (fol 12)