‘Starter Catalogues’ based on manuscript correspondence and archives in the Bodleian Library, Oxford

Opportunities for scholars, students, and research projects to work with EMLO in the Bodleian Library

If you are a student in search of a topic for your thesis and are interested in working with early modern letters, you might like to be in touch as we have a number of ‘starter catalogues’ in progress in Early Modern Letters Online for which the manuscripts are in the care of the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Alternatively, perhaps you are a senior scholar with a particular expertise in one of these early modern figures, or you might be a member of a research project team in the process of putting together an application for funding and find that the correspondence of one or more of these individuals is integral to your work. Whichever the case, we should be delighted to hear from you to explore how EMLO might be of assistance.

A small selection of correspondences on which we are keen to begin work and for which the manuscripts are in the Bodleian Library’s Special Collections include:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A–C

Joseph Ames (1687–1759)
George Ballard (1705–1755)
Thomas Barlow (1608–1691)
Hannibal Baskerville (1597–1668)
Hilkiah Bedford (1663–1724)
Edward Bernard (1638–1697)
James Bindley (1737–1818)
William Broome (1689—1745)
Thomas Brett (1667–1744)
Carte Papers
Sarah Chapone (1699–1764)
Arthur Charlett (1655–1722)

D–H

Jacques Philippe D’Orville (1696–1751)
Thomas Gale (1635–1702)
Edmund Gibson (1669–1748)
Robert Gordon (1703–1779)
Richard Gough (1735–1809)
Thomas Hearne (1678–1735)
William Huddesford (1732–1772)
John Hudson (1662–1719)
Thomas Hunt (1696–1774)
Thomas Hyde (1636–1703)

I–P

Thomas James (1572–1629)
White Kennett (1660–1728)
William Lenthall (1591–1662)
John Loveday (1711–1789)
John Nalson (1637–1686)
Mark Noble (1754–1827)
North Papers
Humphrey Owen (1701-1768)
Samuel Pegge (1704–1796)
Edward Pococke (1604–1691)
John Prideaux (1578–1650)

Q–Z

Thomas Rawlins (1689–1752)
Richard Rawlinson (1690–1755)
Thomas Rawlinson (1681–1725)
William Sancroft (1617–1693)
Thomas Smith (1638–1710)
Katherine Stanhope [née Wotton; van der Kerckhove] (1609–1667)
Thomas Tanner (1674–1735)
Elizabeth Frances Thomas [née Amherst] (c. 1716–1779)
John Thurloe (1616–1668)
Humfrey Wanley (1672–1726)
Edmund Warcup (1627–1712)
Francis Wise (1695–1767)
Anthony Wood (1632–1695)
Patrick Young [Junius] (1584–1652)

Thematic catalogues

EMLO is keen to trial a number of thematic catalogues in which metadata for letters for Bodleian manuscripts already in EMLO, the texts of which concern a particular topic, are expanded and tagged, and these letters are combined in turn with fresh metadata for relevant letters new to EMLO. If you would like to be involved in work on a thematic catalogue, we invite you warmly to initiate a discussion.

Volunteering opportunities

If you are interested in working with correspondence and would like to become a member of our ever-expanding community of volunteers, do be in touch to discuss potential involvement. You do not need previous experience of this sort of work as full training will be given, although of course previous knowledge of, and continued interest in, the early modern individual or topic concerned will prove a distinct advantage. We are a friendly group and we share a love of and enthusiasm for working with letters. We organize a number of informal pop-up talks by Oxford-resident and visiting scholars. Sometimes, in these post-Covid days, we still meet virtually; at other times we meet on site over sandwiches or cake and tea. However we come together, we always discuss the issues we face in our epistolary research and the fascinating nuggets and conundrums that arise from it.

 

Interested?

Contact EMLO by email: miranda.lewis@history.ox.ac.uk

 

‘Starter Catalogues’ based on manuscript correspondence and archives in the Bodleian Library, Oxford was last modified: January 8th, 2024 by Miranda Lewis