Ashley MS A1775-7,A1779,B1780-1,A1783-4,A1786-7,1788,A1790,B1792-5,A1796,B1800,B4306,B4307,B4310,5055-6
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Letters (31) from Robert Louis Stevenson to Edmund Gosse; 16 April 1879-1 Dec. 1894. A1775, 1776, A1779, 1788, A1790, B1794, B1795, A1796, B1800, B4307, B4310 and 5055, letters II, III, IV, V, VII, VIII, have envelopes. Stevenson and Gosse probably met in 1873 or 1874, and remained on intimate terms until the end of Stevenson's life - indeed, the last letter in this collection (5055, ff. 28-31, of which ff. 28b, 29b-30b are in the hand of his step-daughter, Mrs Isobel Strong) was written onl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Italian
United States Sanitary Commission, Extracts from a Narrative of Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers & Soldiers, etc [With four photographs], London: Alfred William Bennett, 1865
Ashley MS A1385,B1432,A1436,A1440-4,1446,A1636,A1853,A1870,A1871,A1940,B3864,A3889-90,A4206,A5132,B5255
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Letters (84) and one postcard from W. M. Rossetti to A. C. Swinburne; 2 Jan. 1866-20 Sept. 1906. Also included are a letter to Swinburne from Lucy Rossetti, [April?] 1876 (1446, ff. 104-105), and a letter from W. M. Rossetti, not to Swinburne, but possibly to J. C. Hotten, 11 Jan. 1867 (1446, f. 18). The letters in 1446, ff. 9-10b, 52, 52b, 102-103b, and 154, 154b, and in A1871 are imperfect. Vol. A IV, f. 33 is not part of the letter on ff. 31-32b, but is the missing portion of the second l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Six Charters of Henry Symond and others relating to lands in Foston and Scroptone, co. Derby, between the years 1302 and 1331. [Add. Ch. 1054-1059.]
Scope & Content:
Henry Symond: Charters of him and others, relating to lands in Foston and Scroptone, co. Derb.: 1302-1331. Scroptone, Derbyshire: Charters relating to. Foston, Derbyshire: Charters relating to.
INSPEXIMUS, dat. 8 Edw. III., of a confirmation by Edw. I. of a charter of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln and Constable of Chester, dat. 1283, granting to the Abbey of Stanlawe the advowson of the Church of Whalley ; and also of a charter of John, Constable of Chester, granting divers chapels, etc., to the same Abbey. [Add1. Ch. 1060.]
Scope & Content:
Whalley, Monastery of; Lincolnshire: Advowson of granted to the Abbey of Stanlawe: 1283. Abbey of Stanlawe; Cheshire: Confirmation by Edw. I. of a charter of H. de Lacy, granting to the Abbey the advowson of Whalley; also of another charter of John, Constable of Chester, granting divers chapels...
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SIX CHARTERS, consisting of warrants, acquittances, muster-rolls, and other documents relating, to the wars of the English in France, between the years 1419-1458. [Addl. Ch. 1061- 1246.]
Scope & Content:
History of France: Charters relating to the wars of the English in France: 1419-1458.