One of the United Kingdom's five national research libraries, the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, is the permanent home of Jane's guitar. In 1897, an extreme fan of Percy Bysshe Shelley, retired merchant seaman Captain Edward Silsbee of Salem, Massachusetts, purchased the guitar from Jane Williams's grandson and immediately donated it to the Bodleian. This library, founded by the sixteenth-century scholar Sir Thomas Bodley, is one of the oldest and most useful research libraries in England. It is architecturally distinctive.

Jane Williams spent part of her childhood in India. Her father and brother both worked for the British East India Company, which effectively colonized much of the subcontinent during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Her father died when she was very young, leaving her brother,  John Wheeler Cleveland, as her guardian. He remained in colonial military service his entire life, dying as General Cleveland, in his nineties in what is now called "Fraser Town" (Pulakeshinagar), near "Bangalore" (Bangaluru) in "the Carnatic" (Karnataka) in southern India.