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1. Add MS 32559-32575

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COMMON-PLACE BOOKS and "Recollections" of the Rev. John Mitford, Editor of Gray's Works, etc., containing extracts from printed works and manuscripts, with political, literary, and social anecdotes and table-talk of every kind; 1847-1856. Seventeen volumes. Paper. The contents of the several volumes are as follows:-
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Reverend John Mitford: Common-place books and recollections: 1847-1856. Commonplaces: Commonplace books of J. Mitford: 1847-1856.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1844-1856
Extent:
17 items

2. Add MS 32564

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Vol. VI. TRANSCRIPT of "Anecdotes of Sir J[oshua] Reynolds, chiefly relative to his manner of coloring, by W[illiam] Mason";...... "copied (see f. 2) from the original at Aston Rectory, which is unfortunately imperfect, and the missing part has been sought for in vain among the Mason MSS." ff. 9...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1851
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 32570

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Vol. XII. RECOLLECTIONS, continued, consisting chiefly of miscellaneous anecdotes and table-talk, extracts from books, etc. Inserted are letters to Rev. J. Mitford from William Maltby, of the London Institution ; 24 July [ 1851 ?], f. 89;-D. E. Davy; Ufford, 7, 9 June, 1851, ff. 204, 205;-and Ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 32560

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Vol. II. EXTRACTS from the same Journal, 1787-1791. Followed, at f. 45, by miscellaneous extracts from Horace Walpole's MSS., consisting of political and social memoranda, copies of verses, notes to his Political Pamphlets, etc. Two political notes in Walpole's hand are inserted at ff. 1, 2. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1847
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 32562

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Vol. IV. EXTRACTS from MSS. of Thomas Gray, viz.:-"in Mason's collection," ff. 1-12;-"from Mr. Bright's collection, sold Nov. 1845, which had belonged to Mr. Stonehewer," chiefly matter which has been copied into vol. III. above, ff. 14-120;-"Manuscript letters of Gray, [Richard] West, and [Hora...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1845-1853
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 32561

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Vol. III. EXTRACTS from the common-place books and other MSS. of Thomas Gray, the poet, including:-Notes on Sophocles, the Greek orators, Athenæus, etc. ff. 3-59;-Notes on the Gray family, ff. 61, 66, 76;-"Beauties and faults observed by Mr. Chambers in any of ye buildings in or near London," f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
between 1847-1856
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 32559

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Vol. I. EXTRACTS from the "Journal of the reign of King George the third," 1772-1787, by Horace Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford. (Printed as far as 1783, ed. Dr. John Doran, 1859.) The following in Walpole's hand are inserted:-"Hints for discovering Junius," suggesting his identity with [Char...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1847
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 32569

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Vol. Xl. RECOLLECTIONS continued, consisting chiefly of:- Extracts from H. Walpole's correspondence with [Rev. W.] Mason," with the note "several passages in this book are not given in the printed copy" [ed. J. Mitford, 1851), f. 2;-and "Extracts from the correspondence of William Mason and Wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1850
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 32568

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Vol. X. "RECOLLECTIONS", continued, including:-S. Rogers's Copy of Garth's Dispensary with Pope's MS. notes," f. 4;- Extracts from Rev. S. Smith's Sketches of Moral Philosophy (priv. printed), 1850," f. 27;-Porson's "New Catechism," f. 135;- "Memoirs of Sheridan by Professor Smyth," priv. pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1849-1850
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 32572

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Vol. XIV. RECOLLECTIONS, continued, chiefly miscellaneous, but with the following special headings, among others:-"The Royal Family," f. 21 ;-"Lord Holland's foreign reminiscences," f. 77;- Smith's Life of Nollekens," f. 94;-"Sir T. Lawrence," f. 134;- D. of Wellington," f. 203;-"Grattan," f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1853
Extent:
1 item