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2571. Add MS 45158 A-C

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Add MS 45158 A-C
Title:
Oblong duodecimo notebooks, map and list of buildings, belonging to Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell
Scope & Content:
two volumes of notes, made on a trip from Damascus via Baghdad to Aleppo in 1911 (Add MS 45158 A-B) a map of the locations of villages in western Syria, possibly dating from 1905, and an undated list of buildings for David George Hogarth (Add MS 45158 C)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Ancient, and Syriac
Date Range:
1905-1911
Extent:
3 items (72 folios)

2572. Add MS 45158 B

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Title:
‘Diary of Gertrude Bell, 1911.’
Scope & Content:
The second of two oblong duodecimo volumes containing abbreviated notes recorded by Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, during the course of a journey through Syria, Turkey and Iraq, from Damascus to Aleppo via Baghdad. The volume covers the period 19 April to 23 May 1911, covering the journey from...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Ancient, and Syriac
Date Range:
19 Apr 1911-23 May 1911
Extent:
1 volume (37 folios)

2573. Add MS 46366-46367

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Title:
HARINGTON PAPERS. Vols. I, II. Prose collections, circ. 1544-1581, assembled probably by John Harington of Stepney (d. 1582). These manuscripts, which are labelled on the spines 'Prose No. I' and 'Prose No. II' respectively, are companion-volumes to Harington 'Poetry I', now Egerton MS. 2711, and 'Poetry II', now in the library at Arundel Castle: see Ruth Hughey, The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry, Columbus, Ohio, 1960, pp. 38, 39, 63-67. See also Add. MSS. 28635, 28636 and 365...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1544-1581
Extent:
2 items

2574. Add MS 46366-46384

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Title:
HARINGTON PAPERS
Scope & Content:
Comprising literary and historical collections of and relating to the family of Harington of Kelston; 16th-19th centt. Much of the material was printed in Nugae Antiquae, edited by Henry Harington (D.D. 1788), 1769, 1775; further editions of this work appeared in 1779 and 1792, and it was revise...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:
24 items

2575. Add MS 46367

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Add MS 46367
Title:
Harington Papers, volume II
Scope & Content:
ff. i–143v: Harington Papers, ‘Prose No. II’, comprising copies of letters, etc., c. 1544–1581, with later additions mainly in the hand of John Harington, MP (d. 1564). One of the two main hands (ff. 7–17 and throughout) is the same as that in Add MS 46366, ff. 1–78. Contents: f. i: Notes on ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1544-1653
Extent:
1 volume

2576. Add MS 46369

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Add MS 46369
Title:
Journals and papers relating to Irish affairs, 1594-1599
Scope & Content:
Journals and papers relating to Irish affairs between 1594 and 1599. Compiled and partly composed by Sir John Harington, courtier and author (bap. 1560, d. 1612). With later additions. Volume IV of the Harington Papers (Add MS 46366-46384). ff. 1r-2v, 64r-65v: Notes and pen-trials, on the vers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1594-1599
Extent:
1 volume

2577. Add MS 50483

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Add MS 50483
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; 9th-20th cent. Paper and (article K) vellum; ff. 147. Folio. A. Two letters of Charles Augustin de Sainte-Beuve to his cousin, Mme Aglaë Demont (b. 1812, d. 1890); 6 Mar. 1867, 16 Sept. 1868. French. Printed, with one omission and some changes of accents, in the Correspondance Générale, Paris, xvi, 1970, pp. 122-3, and xvii, 1976, p. 147, where their provenance is noted as the collection of Georges Grappe. Later owned by C. F. I. Ramsden. Found in C.11...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-6 Madame Aglaë Demont: Letters to: 1867, 1868.ff. 1-6 Charles Augustin de Sainte Beuve, French critic: Letters to his cousin, Mme. A. Demont: 1867, 1868: Fr.f. 7 Edward Jenner, MD; FRS; pioneer of vaccination: Letter to T. Cobb: [1800?].ff. 9-10b Henry Havelock Ellis, so...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Latin, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
800-1960
Extent:
1 item

2578. Add MS 51020

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Add MS 51020
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; aft. 1466-1951, n.d. Paper; ff. 76. Folio. A. Seven letters, and the end of an eighth, from Sir Frederic Madden to John Gough Nichols, the antiquary; 1829-1840, n.d. Presented by R. C. Smith, Esq. ff. 1-13b. B. (1) Four letters of Robert Johnson, Judge of Common Pleas in Ireland, to Dr [Thomas Brooke?] Clarke, rel. to the former's trial for a libel on Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, Viceroy of Ireland; 1805. ff. 14-21b;- (2) Letter from Brownl...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-13b Sir Frederic Madden, KH; Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum: Letters to J. C. Nichols,: 1829-1840, n.d.ff. 1-13b John Gough Nichols, printer and antiquary: Letters to,: 1829-1840, n.d.ff. 14-21b Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke: Letters rel. to libel on,: 1805.ff. 14-2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1466-1951
Extent:
1 item

2579. Add MS 51291-51312

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Add MS 51291-51312
Title:
THE MOFFITT COLLECTION 51291-51312. GORDON PAPERS Correspondence and papers of Maj.-Gen. Charles George Gordon (b. 1833, d. 1885), etc.; 1855-1932, n.d. The papers were given by Gordon's sister Mary Augusta Gordon to his niece, Miss Dunlop, who in turn gave them to her cousin Frederick Moffitt in 1897. Lt.-Col. Moffitt, the son of Gordon's youngest sister Helen, died in 1952 and was General Gordon's last surviving nephew. Other Gordon papers in the Department include Gordon's diaries and mi...
Scope & Content:
Major-General Charles George Gordon, CB: Correspondence and papers of, and rel. to, Maj.-Gen. Charles George Gordon: 1855-1885: Partly Fr., Ital., Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Italian, and Japanese
Date Range:
1855-1932
Extent:
22 items

2580. Add MS 51306-51312

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Add MS 51306-51312
Title:
GORDON PAPERS (MOFFITT COLLECTION). Vols. XVI-XXII. Miscel-laneous papers of General Gordon; 1857-1885, n.d. Seven volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1857-1885
Extent:
7 items

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