Miscellany: Authors, chiefly Historians, Archeologists and Assyriologists

Correspondence by or to various nineteenth-century writers, mainly historians, archeologists and Assyriologists.

Figures represented include:

the lawyer and historian John Leycester Adolphus (1795-1862) (items 1-5);

the geologist David Ansted (1814-1880) (item 6);

the antiquary William Henry Blaauw (1793-1870);

the Rev. Charles Boutell (1812-1877), rector of Norwood, archeologist and writer on heraldry (item 13);

the antiquary and writer on Hadrian's Wall the Rev. John Collingwood Bruce (1805-1892) (item 7);

the Oriental scholar Rudolf-Ernst Brünnow (1858-1917) (item 21);

the archeologist the Rev. Edward Lewes Cutts (1824-1901) (item 14);

Edward Hincks (1792-1866), rector of Killyleagh and Assyriologist (item 8);

the Orientalist [August Friedrich] Rudolf Hoernle (1841-1918) (item 23);

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), colonial administrator and naturalist, writing to his cousin the independent minister Thomas Raffles (1788-1863) (item 19);

William Roscoe M.P. (1753-1831), historian and botanist (item 32);

the Orientalist Reinhold Rost (1822-1896) (items 20-27 and 36);

the Assyriologist Rev. Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933) (item 10);

Cardinal János Scitowsky (d.1866), archbishop of Gran (Esztergom) (item 18);

and the historian Joseph Brigstocke Sheppard (1827-1895) (items 30-31).

Item 37 comprises a page of mathematical formulae endorsed "Professor Miller (Cambridge)".

Item 35 is addressed to Major Edward Moor (1771-1848), author of The Hindu Pantheon (London: J. Johnson, 1810), a copy of which is held in the Wellcome Library (EPB 37341/C). Items 5, 15, 18, 20, 26, 30 and 31 are addressed to his nephew Canon Allen Page Moor (baptised 1824, died 1904), who edited the second edition of Major Edward Moor's The Hindu Pantheon in 1861 (a copy of this edition is also in the Wellcome Library, at shelfmark ZFK.AL (outsize)). In addition, item 25 mentions Canon Moor.

At Wellcome Collection:

The Rev. John Collingwood Bruce is also represented in the Hodgkin family collection (PP/HO).

Sir Thomas Stanford Raffles is represented at MS.7830/48-49 and MS.7453/4; his cousin the Rev. Thomas Raffles at MS.7453/3.

Letters by William Roscoe are held as MS.7545/33-35.

Further letters to Reinhold Rost are found as MS.7140/3-4.

A few letters by Archibald Henry Sayce are found at MS.7578/32-35.

At other repositories:

Correspondence of John Leycester Adolphus can be found in the Manuscript Collections of the National Library of Scotland.

Papers of William Henry Blaauw can be found in the holdings of the Sussex Archelogical Society (MS Collections/Blaauw and MS Collections/Lower) and East Sussex Record Office (BMW/C29).

Papers of Charles Boutell can be found in the British Library (Add MSS 32135-36).

John Collingwood Bruce's papers on Hadrian's Wall can be found at Arbeia Roman Fort & Museum; the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne (M17/112); and Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections (XL913.42012). Correspondence with Sir Walter Trevelyan can be found at Newcastle upon Tyne University (Robinson Library) (WCT).

Edward Lewes Cutts' letters to A.C. Tait can be found at Lambeth Palace Library (Tait).

Papers by Edward Hincks can be found at Trinity College Dublin (MSS 2958-83), the British Library (Add MS 22097 and Add MSS 38978-88), Oxford University and the Library of Pembroke College, Oxford (63/9/15).

Material by [August Friedrich] Rudolf Hoernle can be found in the British Library Manuscript Collections (Add MSS 40002-03) and the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections (previously Oriental and India Office) (Mss Eur F 302); and in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (MSS Stein).

The autograph letters collection of Canon Allen Page Moor, referred to in MS.8072/25, is held in the Special Collections and Archives department of Liverpool University (reference: Moor).

Papers of the Rev. Thomas Raffles can be found at Dr Williams's Library, London; Manchester University, John Rylands Library (Eng MSS 115-16, 334-5, 343-87, 401-3); the National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections (MSS 967-68); and the British Library, Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections (previously Oriental and India Office) (MSS Eur D 742).

Extensive papers of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles can be found at the British Library, in the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections (previously Oriental and India Office)(MSS Eur C 34-36, D 199-200, D 742, E 104-10, F 31-33, F 148) and in the Manuscript Collections (Add MSS 45271-73). Further material can be found at the Royal Asiatic Society; Cambridge University Library Department of Manuscripts and University Archives (Add 7353-405, 7518) and Royal Commonwealth Society Library; Aberdeen University, Special Libraries and Archives (p8); the National Maritime Museum, Manuscripts Section (MKH/122); the National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections (MSS 11698-701); the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia; and Duke University (William R Perkins Library).

William Roscoe's papers can be found in a wide variety of repositories: at Liverpool Record Office (920ROS); Liverpool University, Special Collections and Archives (R I Arch 50 24-31, 51 2-50, 61 4, 61 17; Rathbone papers); the National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections (MSS 1654-1655 and 19337-19341); University College London (BROUGHAM BL, HB); Holkham Hall; Northumberland Record Office (Creevey Papers); Bodleian Library, Oxford (MSS Eng lett c 202-09, d 197-215; misc b 78, c 406-09, d 99, d 619-20, e 568-77, f 392-94, g 62-74; poet c 56, e 110-11, f 28; Lat misc c 106-07, th e 45); British Library, Manuscript Collections (Add MSS 51470A, 51650, 51733); Sheffield Archives (SLPS 36-37); Cambridge University Library, Royal Society of Literature Archives; Linnean Society of London (Smith papers); Trinity College, Cambridge (O 13 11-32, 14 1-5); Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives; Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Record Service; Yale University, Beinecke Library (43.80-43.100, 43.374); and Duke University, William Perkins Library. Letters to Lord Lansdowne are in private hands but copies can be consulted via the National Register of Archives (MSS Film dep 961-1005).

Papers of Reinhold Rost can be found at Liverpool University (Special Collections and Archives).

Papers by Archibald Henry Sayce can be found at: Oxford University (Griffith Institute); Lambeth Palace Library (Temple); Bodleian Library, Oxford (MSS Eng misc c 71-73, d 69, MSS Eng lett d 62-70); the Palestine Exploration Fund; Queens College, Oxford (Vol V, MSS 531, 540); National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections (Dep 247 342); Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections (Wingate papers).

Papers of Joseph Brigstocke Sheppard can be found at Canterbury Cathedral Archives (Add MSS 208, 271/4) and in the National Archives (HMC1).

Readers are referred in general to the Royal Commission on Historic Manuscripts guide Papers of British antiquaries and historians (London, 2003).