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Tom Arnold Papers: Catalogue I-II

I. Autograph material

1. AMS 'Deux Epees', 3 October 1858. 1 l.

2. AMS on Catholic University, 8 October 1858. 5 ls.

3. Notebook with AMS entries: notes from Nelson School, 20 March 1849; family prayers; notes on British poets, incl. loose MSS, 1858 f.

4. Notebook containing AMS in form of letter to children on life of JA, 17 February 1889-1896. Images online here.

5. Notebook containing AMS entries: notes on British poets; accounts; ALS from TA to his brother William, [1856].

6. AMS, 15 ls.

7. Notebook given to TA by his parents, 9 July 1831: AMS entries, drawings and paintings.

8. AMS account of JA's last illness, May 1887 - 7 April 1888; also copy of L from Mary Hayes, 12 April 1888. 6 ls. Images online here.

9. AMSS of poem "Julia". 2 ls. Images online here.

10. AMSS of novel, [c. 1853]. 24 ls.

11. Notebook containing AMS, "Miscellanea Sacra et Ecclesiastica".

12. AMS. 2 ls. ?Fragment of novel.

13. AMS notes on France, [1897]. 6 ls + 2 blanks.

14. AMS notes on St. Patrick's Cathedral. 10 ls.

15. AMS "The possible Hegemony of France", [1893]. 10 ls + 1 blank.

16. AMS "The University Question", 24 October 1895. 2 ls.

17. AMS on St. Brigit, [1898]. 1 l.

18. AMS on "English Fellows Literature Course", November - December 1893. 1 l.

19. AMS note. 1 l.

20. AMS "Short Hist.". 1 l.

21. AMS on translations of Horace, [1899]. 1 l.

Diaries

22. 1848: AMS entries; notes on voyage, 24 November - 31 December 1847 stuck to first page.

23. 1862: AMS entries.

24. 1863: AMS entries.

25. 1864: AMS entries.

26. 1867: AMS entries; AMS dedication by MHW, Christmas 1866.

27. 1869: AMS entries.

28. 1876: AMS entries.

29. 1880: AMS entries; MS dedication by MHW and Ethel Arnold.

30. 1881: AMS entries; loose sheets of accounts.

31. 1882: AMS entries.

32. 1884: AMS entries.

33. Notebook used as diary: AMS entries, 7 July 1899 - 15 March 1900. [This last volume is in a large notebook and a different hand than the others; it is written by Tom Arnold's son Francis (1860-1927) who married Anne Reed Wilkinson. They had two children, Tom and Francis, the birth of the latter of whom is mentioned in the diary. This volume was given to Balliol by Tom Arnold's grandson Francis.]

II. Printed material

1. Proof of "King John and the Abbot of Bury", Contemporary Review with AMS emendations, dated 13 March 1893. P. 1-14.

2. "King John and the Abbot of Bury", Contemporary Review, June 1893. P. 843-856.

3. Cutting from The Spectator, 17 February 1894. Contains letter from TA on "The New Oxford".

Catalogue

I. Autograph material (boxes 1-2)

II. Printed matter (box 1)

III. Correspondence (box 3-11)

IV Biographica (box 12)

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