MS 309

Reference code

MS 309

Title

William Johnson Cory (Additional papers)

Level

Sub-fonds

Administrative / Biographical history

Cory, William Johnson (1823-1892)

William Johnson Cory was an educator and poet. He was born 1823 and died 1892, and best known for his work ‘Iconia’. However his greatest impact can be seen in the influence he had on some of his more notable pupils, both as a school master at Eton, and through his private tuition later in his life.

For a full administrate and biographical history see MS 308.

Date

1826-1892

Extent & medium

12 collections

Content description

This is an artificial collection, created to bring together the smaller collections, or individual items, relating to Cory and which have been acquired by Eton College Library over the years.

The collection contains letters, notebooks and other related material and should be used alongside the larger William Johnson Cory [Halsdon collection]: MS 308

Provenance

The papers have a varied archival history, containing material with a Cory provenance and well as material collected and preserved by family members, or acquaintances of Cory. Full details are given at a lower level.

Arrangement

The items in this series were kept separate from the main collection of William Johnson Cory collection [MS 308] due to the differing provenance.

The integrity of each of the individual items or collections has been preserved. These have then been arranged according to the date of acquisition and according to the nature of the material.

Further details of the arrangement for each collection is given at the appropriate level

Associated material

The main William Johnson Cory collection is catalogued under MS 308

Additional letters written by William Johnson Cory are held as part of the Stone family archive at Eton College: [MS 496 17 William Johnson Cory letters]

Eton College Library also holds a substantial collection of printed material by, or about Cory. Additional letters from or to Cory were frequently pasted into these volumes and full descriptions are provided in the catalogue entries for the individual books

Further Johnson Cory material is held at Churchill College Cambridge, as part of Lord Esher’s papers: Reference: GBR/0014/ ESHR