Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos: Huntington Library: STO O'Conor Documents

The Huntington Library holds an extensive set of correspondence and other documents relating to Dr Charles O'Conor, a controversial Catholic priest and librarian at Stowe. The full list of respondents is held on card index at the Huntington. The following is based on my selective notes and is not intended to be comprehensive.

Catalogue

There 1444+ documents stored in folders in 28 boxes; usually one document per folder. The folders are numbered STO 1 to STO n, in alphabetic order of author name. The folders are however stored in the boxes in date order.

STO Box 1	O’Conor Correspondence	1747–1787
STO Box 2	O’Conor Correspondence	1788–1791
STO Box 3	O’Conor Correspondence	1792–1799
STO Box 4	O’Conor Correspondence	1800–1803
STO Box 5	O’Conor Correspondence	1804–1807
STO Box 6	O’Conor Correspondence	1808
STO Box 7	O’Conor Correspondence	1809
STO Box 8	O’Conor Correspondence	1810
STO Box 9	O’Conor Correspondence	1811
STO Box 10	O’Conor Correspondence	1812
STO Box 11	O’Conor Correspondence	1813: Jan–Apr
STO Box 12	O’Conor Correspondence	1813: May–Dec
STO Box 13	O’Conor Correspondence	1814: Jan-Apr
STO Box 14	O’Conor Correspondence	1814: May-Dec
STO Box 15	O’Conor Correspondence	1815
STO Box 16	O’Conor Correspondence	1816
STO Box 17	O’Conor Correspondence	1817
STO Box 18	O’Conor Correspondence	1818
STO Box 19	O’Conor Correspondence	1819
STO Box 20	O’Conor Correspondence	1820
STO Box 21	O’Conor Correspondence	1821
STO Box 22	O’Conor Correspondence	1822–23
STO Box 23	O’Conor Correspondence	1824–25
STO Box 24	O’Conor Correspondence	1826–27
STO Box 25	O’Conor Ephemera	1804–28	Newspaper cuttings on Irish Catholic affairs 1811-19 Except from an attack on Columbanus in newspaper c. 1810 Volume II of Bibliotheca MS Stowenis, with notes and annotations by O'Conor Printed prospectus for Hibernia by Mason
STO 1419	Draft texts and notes by O’Conor for several of his publications		Including: Draft for Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores A chronology of St Patrick A chronology of the Christian Kings of Ireland Sources of Irish History Examined A 10 cm high pile of unsorted drafts and notes.
STO 1441	O’Conor: Miscellaneous notes, fragments and copies of letters c. 1785 to 1824.	1785 to 1824. In same box as 1443.	Including: Murder of a French Priest A prescription for O'Conor A printed text on modern gardening A hand copy of Ptolemy's map of Britain A draft letter re excommunication, possibly to Archer and a note on the meeting at Stony Stratford with Mr Fletcher Notes on 'First and Second editions of an account of Virginia' Notes for Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores Extraction of 'the letter to Lord Stanhope' Other notes and draft letters Poems in Italian and one in English "From an Indian to the shade of his wife" (by Warton?) Various notes in Italian O'Conor's 1812 printed letter
STO 1443	O’Conor: Printed and newspapers cuttings.	1810–20	Various newspaper reports on Catholic affairs Hansard May 1813 Advertisements for Hibernicus and other works Printed letter from O'Conor to Rev J Berrington, 20 January 1813 Correspondence between O'Conor and Troy on the 'Case of Rev Father Harold' printed in the Hibernian Journal, 2 September 1812
STO 1444	O’Conor: Printed volumes		Printed volumes of Columbanus Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the late Charles O'Conor of Belanagare Esq M.R.I.A. Vol. 1. With annotations by O'Conor: "85 pages of this vol have been corrected by me for the English Edition." Historical Address Part II. 1812. (This was issued with Columbanus.)

Transcriptions

HEH STO 435: Satirical proposal for a Temple of Unworthies at Stowe
HEH STO 439: Death of Nugent Baby
HEH STO 450. A satirical note on O'Conor's excommunication. 20 November 1812.
HEH STO 921. A poem by O'Conor on a sad day. 25 March 1821.
HEH STO 1018. A note on Westbury Stipend
HEH STO 1441. Murder of the French Priest Monsieur Pigeon at Winchester, 1793; and a prescription for O'Conor.