WILBERFORCE: SLAVERY, RELIGION AND POLITICS

Series One: The Wilberforce Papers from the Bodleian Library, Oxford

Part 1: The Papers of William Wilberforce (1759-1833) and Robert Isaac Wilberforce (1802-1857)

Part 2: The Papers of Samuel Wilberforce (1818-1873)

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

Detailed Listing - Part 2

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Correspondence

This collection of correspondence includes some drafts of Wilberforce’s replies, many of his original letters returned and some copies of his letters made, for use in the Life of … Samuel Wilberforce, DD. The collection also includes, as enclosures, a few letters to other persons. All correspondents are listed in the index and copies and drafts are noted as such. For further correspondence of Wilberforce, bound with his father’s letters, see d. 17 (reel 16) and for correspondence with his publishers, see c. 25 fos 1-93 (reel 46). Larger groups of letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

d. 21-23 Volumes of copies of letters from Wilberforce to Sir Charles H J Anderson, 9th baronet.

MSS Wilberforce
d. 21 1828-1832. ii + 90 leaves
d. 22 1844-1868. iii + 59 leaves
d. 23 1830-1843, 1866-1869. ii + 54 leaves
d. 24-31 Letters to and from Anderson, 1825-1873

d. 24 1825-1831. 299 leaves

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Correspondence

MSS Wilberforce
d. 25 1832-1839. 230 leaves
d. 26 1840-1850. 228 leaves

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Correspondence

MSS Wilberforce
d. 27 1851-1856. 252 leaves
d. 28 1857-1859. 203 leaves

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Correspondence

MS Wilberforce
d. 29 1860-1862. 205 leaves

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Correspondence

MSS Wilberforce
d. 30 1863-1868. 240 leaves
d. 31 1869-1873. 232 leaves
d. 32 Volume of copies of letters to Patrick Boyle, 1822-1829.
i + 91 leaves

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Correspondence

MSS Wilberforce
d. 33 Volume of copies of letters to William J Butler, 1847-1862.
i + 87 leaves

d. 34 fo 1 - Letters from C J Blomfield, Bishop of London, 1834- 1855
fo 62 - letters to Lord Richard Cavendish, 1849-1869
fo 122 - letters to T V Fosbury, 1838-1872
263 leaves

e. 2 Volume of copies of letters to W E Gladstone, 1834-1853.
ii + 90 leaves

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Correspondence

d. 35-38 Letters from W E Gladstone, 1834-1873

MSS Wilberforce
d, 35 1834 - March 1854. 228 leaves
d. 36 June 1854 - 1860. 226 leaves

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Correspondence

MSS Wilberforce
d. 37 1861-1869. 226 leaves

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Correspondence

MSS Wilberforce
d. 38 fo 1 - Letters from Gladstone, 1870-1873
fo 125 - letters to and from W F Hook, Dean of Chichester, 1836-1870. 215 leaves

d. 39 fo 1 - Letters to Robert Gray, Bishop of Cape Town,1861-71 fo 131 - letters from John Keble, 1836-1837, 1845-1865. 269 leaves

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Correspondence

MSS Wilberforce
d. 40 fo 1 - Letters to James E Austen Leigh, 1846-1864, 1870
fo 71 - letters from Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, 1858- 1871
fo 139 - letters from Henry Parry Liddon, 1853-1860
278 leaves

d. 41 Letters to and from H P Liddon, 1861-1873
254 leaves

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Correspondence

d. 42-45 Letters to Louisa Noel, 1828-1849

MSS Wilberforce
d. 42 1828-1843. 239 leaves
d. 43 1844-1845. 211 leaves

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Correspondence

MSS Wilberforce
d. 44 1846 - July 1847. 250 leaves
d. 45 August 1847 - 1849. 250 leaves

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Correspondence

MSS Wilberforce
c. 5 fo 1 - Letters from John Henry Newman, 1831-1841
fo 53 - letters to Hugh Pearson, Dean of Windsor, [1862]- 1872
fo 121 - letters to and from Henry Philpotts, Bishop of Exeter, 1846-1866
fo 205 - letters from E G G S Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, [1851]-66
251 leaves

e. 3 Volume of extracts of letters from Edward B Pusey, 1845- 1872. ix + 64 leaves

d. 46 fo 1 - Letters from Sir James Stephen, 1835-1853
fo 69 - letters from Charles R Sumner, Bishop of Winchester, 1830-1862
240 leaves

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Correspondence

MSS Wilberforce
d. 47 fo 1 - Letters from John B Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1829-1861
fo 69 - letters from Archibald C Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1857-1873
fo 175 - letters from John W Burgon, 1851-1872
273 leaves

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Correspondence

c.6/1-2 Letters to and from Richard C Trench, Archbishop of Dublin, 1838-1873

MSS Wilberforce
c. 6/1 1838-1845. 268 leaves
c. 6/2 1846-1873. 299 leaves

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Correspondence

Smaller groups, and single letters, mainly from eminent persons, arranged chronologically, 1822-1873.

MSS Wilberforce
c. 7 1822-1844. 242 leaves
c. 8 1845 - November 1847. 221 leaves

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Correspondence

MSS Wilberforce
c. 9 December 1847 - July 1849. 236 leaves
c. 10 October 1849 - August 1853. 265 leaves

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Correspondence

MSS Wilberforce
c. 11 September 1853 - July 1856
c. 12 August 1856 - 1860

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Correspondence

MSS Wilberforce
c. 13 1861-1862. 231 leaves
c. 14 1863-1864. 197 leaves

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Correspondence

MSS Wilberforce
c. 15 1865 - February 1867. 211 leaves
c. 16 March 1867 - October 1869. 251 leaves

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Correspondence

MSS Wilberforce
c. 17 November 1869 - February 1871. 261 leaves
c. 18 March 1871 - July 1873. 266 leaves

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Correspondence

Correspondence concerning the church overseas, 1853-1873.

MSS Wilberforce
c. 19 Letters concerning the church in:
fo 1 - Central Africa, 1860-1866
fo 40 - South Africa, 1856-1873
fo 114 - North America, 1853-1873
fo 189 - Australasia, 1854-1868.
265 folios

c. 20 fos 1-122
Letters concerning the church in:
fo 1 - Europe, 1861-1866
fo 12 - Honolulu, 1858-1870
fo 53 - India, 1858-1871
fo 118 - the West Indies, 1864, n.d.

Correspondence, and related papers, on diocesan matters, 1846-1873.

MSS Wilberforce
c. 20 fos 123-208
Correspondence and related papers concerning the affairs of Oxford diocese as a whole, including:
fo 123 - lists of parsonages and churches built or restored, 1820-1845
fo 131 - copy of a protest of the clergy of the diocese against ‘papal aggression’, with three drafts of related letters, 1850-1851
fo 139 - six letters concerning the Diocesan Church Building Society, 1855, 1869
fo 149 - accounts of the Society, n.d.
fo 150 - abstract of the annual return of non-residents in the diocese, 1855
fo 151 - correspondence, some of it printed, concerning Cuddesdon Theological College, 1854, 1858, n.d.
fo 187 - printed notices of Wilberforce’s mission in the Henley area, 1858
fo 191 - circular letters concerning Facts and Documents Showing the Alarming State of the Diocese of Oxford, 1859
fo 194 - rough accounts, probably of diocesan finances, n.d. [c.1862]
fo 195 - draft letter requesting donations to the Diocesan Society for Increasing the Endowment of small livings, 1867
fo 197 - letters and petition of the clergy of Cuddesdon deanery concerning alterations to the ritual of the Church of England, 1868-1869.

b. 1 fos 62-106.
Similar correspondence and related papers concerning Oxford diocese, including:
fo 62 - lists of fines paid to the bishop for renewing leases, 1817-1845
fo 65 - address from the bishop and clergy of Georgia diocese, 1851
fo 67 - correspondence concerning the visitorship of Eton College, 1846-1861
fo 105 - copies of two letters concerning the visitorship of King’s College, Cambridge, 1846.

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Correspondence

MSS Wilberforce
c. 22 Letters concerning parish affairs in Oxford diocese, arranged alphabetically by parish, relating to:
fo 1 - parishes in Oxford archdeaconry, 1846-1869
fo 126 - parishes in Berkshire archdeaconry, 1846-1869.
259 leaves

c. 23 Letters and papers concerning diocesan matters, relating to:
fo 1 - parish affairs in Buckingham archdeaconry, 1847- 1869
fo 81 - general Winchester diocesan matters
fo 83 - a letter concerning the Hampshire Diocesan Society, 1870
fo 89 - printed form of prayers to be used at the consecration of churches, 1872
fo 109 - parish affairs in Winchester diocese, arranged alphabetically by parish, 1870-1873.
287 leaves

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