Worsley's manuscripts on theology, 1864 - 1876
Scope and Contents
Untitled apart from dates and part number, these volumes represent Worsley's thoughts and ideas committed formally to paper, copied from notes . The mss. in the form of volumes labelled Dr Worsley's M.S., are not a coherent whole but discourses exploring different themes. Dates and places are sometimes given at the tops of pages; and pencil annotations in top left corners seem to refer to their original notes. The volumes are intellectually divided by year. While the handwriting is neat and rarely amended, the writing itself is still in something of an abbreviated note form, lacking punctuation. The volumes may well not represent a complete set of Worsley's mss.
Dates
- Creation: 1864 - 1876
Conditions Governing Access
Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods: 30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files; 50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees; 100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. In addition sensitive correspondence and papers concerning College affairs such as disputes and disciplinary matters are closed for 100 years. Restrictions apply on some personal and private papers.
Biographical / Historical
Thomas Worsley held the position of Christian Advocate at the University of Cambridge from his appointment in 1844. This was an office established in 1777 under the will of one Hulme which left a bequest to reward: a learned and ingenuous person of MA or BD status, who was over 30 and resident in the University, who composed yearly some proper and judicious answers to all such new and printed or other cavils against the Christian or revealed religion or against the nature of religion.... Worsley held it for the longest permitted time of six years and published every year a study of The Province of the Intellect in Religion deduced from our Lord's Sermon on the Mount. Later Worsley would continue to write vastly and extensively on theology.
Extent
13 volume(s) : Paper
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Note with volumes: Dr Worsley's Mss. (Removed from Locked Book Case in library).
Originator(s)
Worsley, Thomas
Finding aid date
2001-07-03 10:51:21+00:00
Repository Details
Part of the Downing College Repository
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