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2721. Add MS 88906/3/17

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88906/3/17
Title:
Scope & Content:
Mirabeau-Nugent. 1. f. 1v. Letter to Lord Lansdowne from Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau; 1789. French. 2. ff. 2-4. Letter to Lord Lansdowne from Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira, afterwards 1st Marquis of Hastings (1817); 1801. 3. ff. 5-11. Letters to Lord Shelburne fro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1766-1802
Extent:
1 folder

2722. Add MS 88930

Reference (shelfmark):
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

2723. Add MS 88930/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88930/1
Title:
Salman Rushdie campaign correspondence
Scope & Content:
Incoming and copies of outgoing correspondence relating to the campaign launched to support Salman Rushdie in the face of the fatwa which had been placed upon him.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
4 Jun 1991-12 Feb 1992
Extent:
10 folders

2724. Add MS 88930/1/1-4

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88930/1/1-4
Title:
General correspondence
Scope & Content:
Letters and faxes sent to the Salman Rushdie campaign group in response to calls for statements of support for Rushdie against the fatwa placed upon him. Correspondents include writers, poets, journalists, actors, actresses, directors, comedians and a number of foreign Ministers. Also includes so...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Czech, English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
27 Sep 1991-11 Feb 1992
Extent:
4 folders

2725. Add MS 88930/1/1-7

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88930/1/1-7
Title:
Incoming correspondence
Scope & Content:
Letters, statements of support and signed petitions sent to the Salman Rushdie campaign group in response to requests for support of the author in the face of the fatwa that had been placed upon him.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
27 Sep 1991-12 Feb 1992
Extent:
7 folders

2726. Add MS 88930/1/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88930/1/4
Title:
General correspondence - undated
Scope & Content:
Undated letters and faxes (some appear to be photocopies) sent to the Salman Rushdie campaign group in response to calls for statements of support for Rushdie against the fatwa placed upon him. The majority of papers are statements of support.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, and German
Date Range:
[1991?-1992?]
Extent:
1 folder

2727. Add MS 88942

Reference (shelfmark):
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:

849 files

2728. Add MS 88942/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1
Title:
William Henry Fox Talbot: Notebooks and loose notes
Scope & Content:
Talbot's notebooks testify to his wide-ranging intellectual and practical scientific interests, which extended far beyond pioneering photographic research and invention to encompass research in mathematics, optics, astronomy, botany, horticulture, Assyriology, philology, and many associated aven...
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:
1778-1877
Extent:
386 folders

2729. Add MS 88942/1/26

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/26
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('A')
Scope & Content:
This is the first in a large, incomplete series of notebooks, which served as preparations for Talbot's English Etymologies. The notes in this series are more organized than in previous etymological notebooks; single words are underlined that also appear in the publication. The notebook starts ‘...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Latin, Persian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1840
Extent:
1 notebook (57 folios, 114 pages of text)

2730. Add MS 88942/1/26-37

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/26-37
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'A'-'M'
Scope & Content:
Notebook 'I' from this sequence (which only came to light at a later stage in the cataloguing of Talbot's papers) is Add MS 88942/1/348.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Latin, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1840-1877
Extent:
12 notebooks

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