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

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

Part 1 covered the Papers of William Wilberforce, (1759-1833) and Robert Isaac Wilberforce (1802-1857).

Parts 2 and 3 of this series offer the Papers of Samuel Wilberforce (1818-1873). He was successively Bishop of Oxford and of Winchester. He also served as chaplain to Prince Albert and as sub-almoner to Queen Victoria. He presided over many church reforms and earned a reputation for controversy due to his involvement in the Hampden trial and the Evolution debate.

Samuel Wilberforces papers are important for the insights they provide into Victorian Society. Religion and morality assume a central position, informing politics and literature. As well as the Church at home, there is lots of material on the Church overseas - especially in South Africa, Central Africa, North America, the West Indies, India and Australasia.

Part 3 concentates on:

• Diaries, 1830-1846, and Notebooks (including his notes for speeches, conversations with his father, private meeetings with bishops, committees of Convocation).
• Other Personal Papers (including school exercises, notes on various church matters, the 'Colenso affair' and a draft reply to an attack in the
  National Standard.
• Literary Papers (including commonplace books, sermon notes, verses, correspondence and accounts with publishers).