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2071. Add MS 54495 A-B

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Add MS 54495 A-B
Title:
GESSI PAPERS: correspondence and papers of and concerning Romolo Gessi, his family and associates; circa 1878-1931. Some copies, typewritten and printed material. English, French, German, Italian, Arabic and Turkish. Gessi (d.1881) was Governor of Bahr el-Ghazal and the Equatorial Provinces in the Sudan under the Governor-Generalship of General Charles George Gordon and subsequently of Raouf Pasha. The papers chiefly concern Gessi's operations in 1878-1880, particularly against Suleiman Zebh...
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includes: ff. 94-95v Paolo Virginio Zucchinetti, surgeon: Letter to R. Gessi: 1879: Ital. f. 137 Achille Salza, agent; of Alexandria: Letter to T. Figari: 1881: Ital. f. 139 Hermann Braun, of Genoa: Letter to T. Figari: 1881: Ital.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1878-1931
Extent:

2 items

2072. Add MS 56105

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Add MS 56105
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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS. Paper; ff. 140. British Library arrangement. A. Letters of Jules Verne and Raoul Dufy; 1897, 1916. French. Paul C. Richards Autographs, Brookline, Mass., U.S.A., Cat. 46, items 75, 148. Purchased from Paul C. Richards, 31 Jan. 1970. ff. 1-6. Largest size 180 x 135mm. 1. ff. 1-3. Letter from Jules Verne to Duncan Lucas; Amiens, 8 April 1897. 2. f. 5. Letter from Raoul Dufy to –, about war posters; Paris, 30 May 1916. B. Letter from Louis Jacques M...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-3 Jules Verne, author: Duncan Lucas: Letter to Duncan Lucas from Jules Verne: 1897: Fr.f. 5 Raoul Dufy, artist: Letter to -: 1916: Fr.f. 7 Dominique François Jean Arago, astronomer: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, photographer: Letter to Dominique François Jean Arago from Lo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1706-1964
Extent:
1 item

2073. Add MS 59655

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Add MS 59655
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS, many addressed to General Sir Frederick Stovin, K.C.M.G., and his wife; late 18th cent. - early 19th cent. The autographs include those of Longfellow, Wellington, Admiral Sir Charles Napier, Lord Cardigan, Sir Herbert Taylor, Lord Gambier, Lord Gough, Lajos Kossuth, Bolivar, Capo d'Istrias, Barthelemy, Thomas Arnold, Archbishop A. C. Tait, Archbishop R. Whately and other church dignitaries. The addressees also include Sir Thomas Wilson, Bunsen, Fonblanque and Mrs Heman...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 2 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet: Letter to C. F. S. from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: 1830.f. 5 General Sir Edward Paget, GCB; 4th son of Henry, 1st Earl of Uxbridge: Letter to — from Gen. Sir Edward Paget: 1810.f. 7 Frances Nelson, Viscountess Nelson: Letter from Commander de Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Greek, Modern, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 item

2074. Add MS 61101-61710, Add Ch 76069-76142, Seal CCV.8

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Add MS 61101-61710, Add Ch 76069-76142, Seal CCV.8
Title:
BLENHEIM PAPERS
Scope & Content:
The archive, formerly housed at Blenheim Palace, co. Oxon, consists chiefly of the correspondence and papers of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, his wife Sarah, née Jenyns, and their son-in-law Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, whose descendants by his second wife, Anne Churchill,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Catalan, Cipher, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
Date Range:
16th century-20th century
Extent:
610 items

2075. Add MS 61856

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Add MS 61856
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ZUBAIR PASHA PAPERS: letters and papers of and relating to Zebehr al. Zubair ibn Rahmat (b.1830, d.1913), Egyptian Pasha and slave-trader, formerly Governor and de facto ruler of part of the Sudan; circa 1875-1893, n.d. Partly Arabic. For Zubair's correspondence with Mary Augusta Gordon, sister of Maj.-Gen. Charles Gordon, and her notes on him, see Add. 51301, ff. 63, 70, 150-161, 215-220v. Sent by Anne Isabella, wife of Col. William Staveley Gordon, nephew of Maj.-Gen. Charles Gordon, to ...
Scope & Content:
Sudan: Letters and papers of and rel. to Zubair Pasha: circa 1875-1893, n.d.: Partly Arabic. includes: ff. 1-37 Zubair Rahama, Pasha: Manuscripts ARABIC: Autobiography of Zubair Rahama: 1874: Arabic and Engl. transl.f. 38 Sir Henry William Gordon, KCB; brother of Major -General C G Gordon:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1870-1893
Extent:
1 item

2076. Add MS 62124-62125

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Add MS 62124-62125
Title:
FINDLAY CORRESPONDENCE: correspondence of Sir Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay (1861-1932) while he was Counsellor of Embassy in charge of H.M. agency at Cairo during the summer; 1903-1917, but chiefly 1903-1905
Scope & Content:
Presented by Lady Mary Findlay, Sir Mansfeldt's daughter-in-law, Feb. 1982. Paper. Two volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1903-1917
Extent:
2 items

2077. Add MS 70638 A-G

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Add MS 70638 A-G
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS. Paper; ff. 17. British Library arrangement.
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 Napier Hudson, mariner: Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury: Letter to Archibald Campbell Tait from Napier Hudson: 1880: Copy. f. 3 John Lucas, of Islington: Letter to A. Searle from John Lucas: 1991. ff. 3-8 Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM; composer: Papers rel. to firs...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
[1592-1991]
Extent:

7 items

2078. Add MS 72242-72621

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Add MS 72242-72621
Title:
TRUMBULL PAPERS
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers of the Trumbull family, consisting chiefly of the archives of the diplomat William Trumbull (circa 1579-1635), his eldest son, William Trumbull (1603-1678), the latter's father-in-law, Georg Rudolph Weckherlin (1584-1653) and son Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716). These ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
[1438-1840]
Extent:
380 items

2079. Add MS 88930

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Add MS 88930
Title:
Salman Rushdie campaign archive
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, meeting minutes, press releases, notes, press cuttings, publications and other papers relating to the Salman Rushdie campaign group, which sought to raise public and political awareness of Rushdie's situation as he lived under a fatwa placed upon him by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomein...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1 Jan 1989-23 Feb 1992
Extent:
18 folders

2080. Add MS 88942

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Add MS 88942
Title:
The Papers of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
Scope & Content:
The British Library collection contains notebooks, letters, photographs, diaries, unbound Assyriological and mathematical folios, natural specimens in herbaria, offprints of Talbot’s articles, patents, artefacts and a small selection of books from Talbot’s library. Whilst the covering dates of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Cypriot, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Gaelic, German, German, Middle High, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European languages, Irish, Italian, Latin, Pashto, Persian, Persian, Old, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish, Ottoman, and Welsh
Date Range:
1732-1952
Extent:

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