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Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg (1834-1902) 1st Baron Acton, historian

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Surname: Acton
Forenames: John Emerich Edward Dalberg
Gender: Male
Date: 1834-1902
Title: 1st Baron Acton
Biography: ODNB link for Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg (1834-1902) 1st Baron Acton, historian
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P163618 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P106 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
Collections
  Description Held by Reference Further information
1
corresp and papers
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Add 4607-5021, 5347-48, 5381-710, 5751-76, 6443, 7726-32, 7892, 7956, 8119-8123, 8409-8417
NRA 41290 Acton

See HMC Papers of British antiquaries and historians, 2003
2
misc family papers
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Add MS.9616
See Annual Return 2002
3
19th cent: notes and lectures
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
MS Add. 9706
See Annual Return 2004
4
letters to Richard Simpson (1 vol)
Downside Abbey Archives and Library
NRA 19936
5
1849-1900: corresp mainly rel to historical and religious interests
Shropshire Archives
1093/441-1180
NRA 41289 Acton

See NRA 34789
6
1866-1876: letters (10) from R Simpson
Shropshire Archives
1093/441-719 passim
NRA 41289 Acton
7
1884-1901: letters (104) to Oscar Browning
Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre
OB
NRA 21235 Browning
8
1883-1901: letters (137) to Lord Bryce
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Bryce
NRA 6716 Bryce
9
letters to HAL Fisher
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Fisher
NRA 16446 Fisher
10
1874-1901: letters to Mary Gladstone
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 46239
11
1860-97: corresp with WE Gladstone
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 44093-94
12
1866-92: letters from WE Gladstone
Gladstone's Library
Glynne-Gladstone MSS 2102
NRA 14174 Gladstone
13
letters (16) from WE Gladstone
Shropshire Archives
1093/441-1180 passim
NRA 41289 Acton
14
1880-95: letters to Lord Gladstone
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 46044-55 passim
15
letter (11) from Lord Granville
Shropshire Archives
1093/441-1180 passim
NRA 41289 Acton
16
c1860-1901: letters to Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur F 234
NRA 24627 Grant-Duff
17
1851-82: corresp with Lord Granville
Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development
PRO30/29
18
letters to Alice Stopford Green
National Library of Ireland
MS 15073
19
1868-76: letters (10) to Lord Houghton
Cambridge University: Trinity College Library
See HMC corresp file 19/2/1987
20
letters to JH Newman
Birmingham Oratory
Newman correspondence
NRA 27809 Newman
21
1888-98: letters to RL Poole
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
MS Add.7472
NRA 44725
22
1862-97: corresp with Sir Peter Renouf
Oxford University: Pembroke College Archives
63/9/3-4
NRA 29439 Oxford Univ Pembroke
23
1890-1900: corresp with Lord Rosebery
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MSS 10090-10229 Passim
24
c1865-76: letters to Odo Russell
The National Archives
FO 918
25
1895-97: letters to Henry Sidgwick
Cambridge University: Trinity College Library
Add Ms c.93/1-13
NRA 34807
26
1896-1900: corresp with Sir Adolphus Ward
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
MS Add.8406
NRA 44769
27
1892-1901: letters (10) to Wilfrid Ward
St Andrews University Library
ms38347-38348, ms38469 and ms38508
NRA 26993
28
1896-1901: draft proposal and letters rel to Cambridge Modern History
Cambridge University Archives
See Accessions to repositories 1991
29
1875-1877: letters (6) to John Long Scott
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
MS Add. 9750/256-261
See Annual Return 2014

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