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WILBERFORCE: SLAVERY, RELIGION AND POLITICS
Series One: The Wilberforce Papers from the Bodleian Library, Oxford

Part 2: Papers of Samuel Wilberforce (1818-1873)

Parts 2 and 3 of this series offer the Papers of Samuel Wilberforce (1818-1873). Samuel was successively Bishop of Oxford and of Winchester. He also served as chaplain to Prince Albert and as sub-almoner to Queen Victoria. He presided over many church reforms and earned a reputation for controversy due to his involvement in the Hampden trial and the Evolution debate.

Samuel Wilberforce’s papers are important for the insights they provide into Victorian Society. Religion and morality assume a central position, informing politics and literature.

Part 2 concentrates on all the correspondence. This is very strong featuring many well known names, but also many lesser known people whose views are equally informative.

From the world of state and politics there are: Prince Albert, Brougham, Disraeli, Emma, Queen of the Sandwich Islands, Edward Everett - US Ambassador, Gladstone, James Graham, Palmerston, Robert Peel, Lord John Russell, and Queen Victoria.

From the world of art, literature and learning there are: Matthew Arnold, Christian Bunsen, Thomas Carlyle, John Singleton Copley, Franois Guizot, Edward Hawtrey - provost of Eton, Thomas Huxley, Benjamin Jowett, Mark Lemon, Bulwer Lytton, Monckton Milnes, John Murray, Caroline Norton, Samuel Rogers, William Whewell and Charlotte Mary Yonge.

Leading religious and philanthropic figures featured are: Edward Bickersteth - Dean of Lichfield, Charles Blomfield - Bishop of London, Lady Burdett-Coutts, Anthony Ashley Cooper - Earl of Shaftesbury, Edward Denison - Bishop of Salisbury, Charles Ellicott - Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, John Keble, Edward King - Bishop of Lincoln, David Livingstone, F D Maurice, George Mountain - Bishop of Quebec, John Henry Newman, Edward Pusey, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Dean of Westminster, John Strachan - Bishop of Toronto, John Sumner, Archibald Tait and Frederick Temple - Archbishops of Canterbury, Richard Trench - Archbishop of Dublin, Charles Wesley, and Richard Whately.

There is also an excellent section of correspondence concerning the
Church overseas, 1853-1873, especially in South Africa, Central Africa,
North America, the West Indies, India and Australasia.

Correspondence concerning the Church at home concentrates on diocesan matters.

Part 3 of the collection also includes his diaries, 1830-1846, pocketbooks and notebooks, other personal papers and his literary papers.



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