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Gilpin, William, (1724-1804), Clergyman Educationist Biographer Topographer

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Surname: Gilpin
Forenames: William
Gender: Male
Date: 1724-1804
Biography: ODNB link for Gilpin, William (1724-1804) Clergyman Educationist Biographer Topographer
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P165749 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P11324 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for William Gilpin
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1658-1927: corresp and papers
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Eng misc b 73, c 387-93, d 556-88, e 486-539, f 178-378
NRA 8157 Gilpin
2
1749-1825: additional papers incl mss of printed works and corresp to his wife
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS. Eng. lett. b. 36, c. 534; Eng. misc. d. 1204-7, e. 1318-26; Eng. poet. c. 71, d. 221-4, e. 175-8; Lat. misc. c. 94
3
'Hints for Sermons'
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
See Bodleian Library Annual Report, 1996-97
4
1781: notebooks and vol I of Observations on Natural History
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS. Eng. e. 3326-9
See Bodleian Library Record Nov 1982 p51
5
1782-86: letters to Mrs Delany
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS.Eng.lett.b.27 ff.33-61
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
6
1777-1804: letters, mostly to Sir Harry Bernard Neale and Lady Neale
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS.Eng.lett.d.195 ff.58-112
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
7
1791: notebook containing draft remarks on forest scenery
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
See Annual Return 2001
8
1798: autograph letter sent to publishers Cadell and Davies
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
11499
See Annual Return 2015
9
MS of 'Instructions for examining landscape'
Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
10
1763-92: corresp rel to education of John Grimston's sons at Cheam
East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service
DDGR
NRA 13468 Grimston
11
watercolours and text: 'On Sunsets'
Oxford University: Magdalen College Archives
MS 686
NRA 20579 Magdalen Coll
12
1772: notebook containing sketches and notes on Charles Hamilton's garden at Painswick
Surrey History Centre
6701
NRA 3518 Surrey RO misc
13
c1790: journal of imaginary tour
Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, National Art Library
MSL.1983/38
NRA 38891 V & A Museum
14
1770: (copy) annotations and illustrations to MS of John "Warwick" Smith 'Observations on the River Wye, and some parts of South Wales'
British Library, Manuscript Collections
RP 151
15
1764: fragment of 'Description of the Thames from London to Windsor', with drawings by Sawrey Gilpin
Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, National Art Library
MSS, P 28
NRA 13466 V & A Museum