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Collection Area Western Manuscripts Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 42515-42518 Language French

1. Add MS 42515-42517

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Add MS 42515-42517
Title:
GOLDSMITH-PERCY PAPERS, being collections made by Thomas Percy, editor of the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, and (1782) Bishop of Dromore, for a Life of Oliver Goldsmith, with other relevant materials. The Life, generally known as the Percy Memoir, appeared after many vicissitudes as Preface to vol. I of The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, 1801, 4 vols., and much of the matter is there printed. The papers were used while in the possession of Miss Constance Isabel Meade, greatgr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
[1753-1810]
Extent:
3 items

2. Add MS 42515-42518

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Add MS 42515-42518
Title:
GOLDSMITH-PERCY PAPERS
Scope & Content:
Purchased with the aid of the Friends of the National Libraries (cf. Annual Report, 1931-1932, Pp. 9-12 and pls. ii, iii; cf. also Brit. Mus. Quart., vi, 1931-1932, PP. 47-50, PIS. xxiii, xxiv). Other papers from the same archive are in the Bodleian Library, cf. Bodl. Quart. Rec., vii, 1932-1934...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
[1753-1810]
Extent:
4 items

3. Add MS 42517

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Add MS 42517
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Scope & Content:
GOLDSMITH-PERCY PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 199). Further collections of Thomas Percy for the Life of Goldsmith, viz.:- (1) 'Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Oliver Goldsmith', by Thomas Campbell, LL.D., Chancellor of the Diocese of Clogher. Copy, by two amanuenses, with autograph additions by Ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1774-1790
Extent:
1 item