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032-002087874 Collection Area Western Manuscripts Level [40] File

1. Add MS 34875

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GIBBON PAPERS. Vol. II. "Journal de mon [Edward Gibbon's] voyage dans quelques endroits de la Suisse," at the age of eighteen; 1755. In French. Partly autograph, partly (ff. 18-22) a copy. The first five pages are both in the original and, appended at the end (f. 23), in the copy. The tour laste...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1755
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1 item

2. Add MS 34874

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GIBBON PAPERS. Vol. I. Six autobiographical sketches by Edward Gibbon, all holograph, being the materials from which Lord Sheffield arranged the "Memoirs" as published in the Miscellaneous Works (quarto ed., 1796, vol. i., octavo ed., with further extracts, 1814, vol. i.). The six sketches are m...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1737-1807
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1 item

3. Add MS 34887

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GIBBON PAPERS. Vol. XIV. Miscellaneous Papers and Letters relating to Gibbon and his family or to his friend and executor Lord Sheffield. The principal contents are:- 1. Documents, accompts, etc., concerning Edw. Gibbon personally, including (a) Certificate of admission as a Freemason, 19 Dec....
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1753-1872
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1 item

4. Add MS 34886

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GIBBON PAPERS. Vol. XIII. Original letters addressed to Edward Gibbon; 1755-1794. The names of the writers will be found in the index. They include, besides his family and intimate friends, Madlle. Curchod, both before and after her marriage, her husband Jacques Necker and her daughter Madame de...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1755-1794
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1 item

5. Add MS 34883

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Vol. I. (ff. 372), 1750-1774.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1750-1774
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1 item

6. Add MS 34885

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Vol. III. (IE 236), 18 Sept. 1783-1794.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1783-1794
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1 item

7. Add MS 34884

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Vol. II. (ff. 329), 1775-17 Sept. 1783 (when Gibbon left England for Lausanne).
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1775-1783
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1 item

8. Add MS 34876

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Journal. Vol. I. (f. 64), 17 Aug. 1762-Mar. 1763, entitled "Ephemerides or Journal of my actions, studies and opinions. Volume the second." The first part, which is in English, is a regular diary of the last few months of Gibbon's militia service, etc., ending 28 Jan. 1763, when he reached Paris...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1762-Mar 1763
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 34879

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Journal. Vol. IV. (ff 83), 15 June-Dec. 1764, containing a further portion of the tour in Italy. The diary, in French as before, continues, with some omissions, to the arrival at Rome, 2 Oct. The notes on Rome, written in December, are in English and arranged by subjects or places. Italy: Tour ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1764-Dec 1764
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1 item

10. Add MS 34877

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Journal. Vol. II. (f. 97), 17 Aug.-30 Nov. 1763 (part of his second visit to Lausanne), entitled "Ephemerides ou Journal de ma Vie de mes Etudes et de mes Sentimens, vol. iii." In French. The volume is particularly full of literary and historical notes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1763-30 Nov 1763
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1 item