Gell, Sir William, (1778-1836), Knight, archaeologist and traveller

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Surname:	Gell
Pretitle:	Sir
Forenames:	William
Gender:	Male
Date:	1778-1836
Title:	Knight
Biography:	ODNB link for Gell, Sir William (1778-1836) Knight Archaeologist and Traveller
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P143277 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P11115 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir William Gell

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1823-32: record of his dreams	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng misc d 186
2	notebooks and sketches of his travels in Greece and Italy	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng misc e 152-54, f 53; Drawing gen d 12
3	c1830: notebook	McGill University Archives		See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories 1975
4	corresp	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 50135
5	1830: Short History of Italy	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng hist c 54
6	1814-15: journal in Germany, Switzerland and Italy	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	d293	NRA 18661 Osborn coll
7	1800-01: diaries of tours through Germany, Austria, north Italy, Greece, the Morea and the Aegean Islands (2 vols)	Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections	Mss No 7-8	See William Matthews, British Diaries,1967
8	1797: sketch book and account of tour of lakes	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow		See MW Barley, Guide to British topographical collections 1974
9	notebooks (3 vols)	Oxford University: Griffith Institute		See Malek et al, The Archive of the Griffith Institute, 1997
10	1832: notes on Rhodes	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.913
11	c1800: Scottish travel journal	Suffolk Archives - Bury St Edmunds Branch	E2/42/6	See Archive News July-December 1974
12	1805-36: corresp	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 63617-19
13	1801-34: corresp	Derbyshire Record Office	D258/50	See New Archives 1994-99
14	1815-19: corresp with John Peter Deering	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 63617
15	1811-19: corresp with Robert Liston	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.5620-5654
16	1821-34: corresp (incl some copies) with Sir JG Wilkinson	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Wilkinson dep d 51-53, 132, 142; e 36, 55	NRA 42710
17	1801-02: diary of a European tour	Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections