Fortune telling manual with drawings based on the Chinese zodiac, which relates each lunar month to the animals of the 12-year-cycle and their reputed attributes (earth, wood, fire, iron, water) as well as a male or female avatar (yin-yang), a plant and a number diagram. Fragment with some folio...
Burmese Buddhist ordination text, with border decorations in Thai style of the late 18th or 19th century. For detailed description of No. 23,939, see the Catalogue of Oriental MSS.
A SELECTION from the correspondence, official and private, literary manuscripts and other papers of William Ewart Gladstone (b. 1809, d. 1898)
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Entering Parliament in 1832 as Member for Newark, he held a succession of offices, serving as Prime Minister four times, viz. :-1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886, 1892-1894. Full details of his career will be found in the Life by Lord Morley, in which many extracts from these papers are printed. Cf. al...
GLADSTONE PAPERS. Vols. CCLXVII-CCCCXLI. General correspondence of W. E. Gladstone ; 1826-1898. One hundred and seventy-five volumes. Folio and quarto.
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William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister: Correspondence, letter-books and registers of: 1826-1898.
Vol. CCCXLV (ff. 283). Mar. - May 1871. includes: f. 1 Sir Frederic William Burton, artist: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1871-1893.f. 3 Freshfields; Messrs.; solicitors: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1840-1891.f. 5 Vernon Lushington, QC; Second Secretary of the Admiralty: Letter to A. E....
Vol. CCCXLVI (ff. 285). June- Sept. 1871. includes: f. 1 Sir Joseph Neale McKenna, MP: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1871.ff. 3, 106, 117, 119, 131 George William Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1861-1882.ff. 4, 47 Giuseppe Garibaldi: Correspondence...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Burmese, English, French, Greek, Modern, and Italian