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41. Add MS 51242-51262

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Title:
PAGET PAPERS (Third Series)
Scope & Content:
Correspondence of Dame Leila Paget, G.B.E., and members of her family; 1837-1948. The First and Second Series of Paget Papers are Add. MSS. 48383-48416, 51205-51241. Supplementary Paget Papers consisting of typed transcripts of the 2nd and 3rd series are Add. MSS. 70890-70919. Bequeathed by Dam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Afrikaans, Danish, English, French, Japanese, and Serbian
Date Range:
1837-1948
Extent:
21 items

42. Add MS 52294-52310

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Add MS 52294-52310
Title:
SCOTT PAPERS Papers of Sir Charles Stewart Scott, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., diplomatist (b. 1838, d. 1924). After serving in junior posts in Europe and America, he was appointed Secretary to the Embassy and Chargé d'Affaires at Berlin in 1883. He was later Envoy Extraordinary to the Swiss Confederation 1888, Plenipotentiary to the Samoan Conference 1889 and at the Labour Conference at Berlin 1890; he served finally as Envoy Extraordinary at Copenhagen 1892-8 and Ambassador at St Petersburg, 1898-190...
Scope & Content:
Sir Charles Stewart Scott, GCB; diplomatist: Correspondence and papers: 1858-[circa 1924], n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, French, German, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
after 1854-c 1924
Extent:
17 items

43. Add MS 52540

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Add MS 52540
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; 1699-1965. Paper and (f. 52) vellum; ff. 66. Folio. A. Two letters of John Edward Masefield, O.M., to the Keeper of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum, relating to a portrait of J. M. Synge; 2, 9 Jan. 1965. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. ff. 1-4b. B. Letter from Marguerite, widow of Charles John Gardiner, Earl of Blessington, to Mr Byng, relating to her financial difficulties and mentioning a manuscript drama of Lope d...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-4b British Museum: Letter to Keeper of Printed Books,: 1965.ff. 1-4b John Edward Masefield, OM; Poet Laureate: Letters to Keeper of Printed Books,: 1965.ff. 5-6b Marguerite Gardiner, alias Margaret; 2nd wife of Charles, Earl of Blessington; author: Letter to — Byng,: 1847....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, and German
Date Range:
1699-1965
Extent:
1 item

44. Add MS 52547-52549

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Add MS 52547-52549
Title:
Letters of Frederick Delius and his wife, Jelka Helen, née Rosen, to Philip Heseltine, al. 'Peter Warlock'; 1911-1930. Extracts printed by C. W. T. Gray, Peter Warlock, 1934, passim, and in H. J. Foss's additions to P. Warlock, Delius, 1952, p. 147. See also A. Jefferson, Delius, 1972, pp. 69, 72, 76; F. Tomlinson, Warlock and Delius, 1976; F. Tomlinson, A Peter Warlock Handbook, ii, 1977, pp. 82-7. Sotheby's sale cat., 15-17 Dec. 1964, lot 395. See B.M.Q., xxx, 1966, pp. 30-5. The lette...
Scope & Content:
Philip Arnold Heseltine, alias 'Peter Warlock'; composer: Letters, etc., to: 1911-1930.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Danish and English
Date Range:
1911-1930
Extent:
3 items

45. Add MS 54724-54781

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Add MS 54724-54781
Title:
BAX COLLECTION. Music manuscripts of Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax (b. 1883, d. 1953), Master of the Queen's Music; 1897-1949, n.d. Autograph. Manuscripts are in ink, and works were published in London, unless otherwise stated. Significant dedicatees are noted. For a catalogue of Bax's music, including details of surviving manuscripts held elsewhere, see Lewis Foreman, Bax: a composer and his time (1983). Firm dates in square brackets are taken from this catalogue. For other Bax manuscripts...
Scope & Content:
Music: Music manuscripts of Arnold Bax: 1897-1949, n.d. Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, alias 'Sheila McCarthy'; alias 'Dermot O'Byrne'; KCVO; composer: Music manuscripts: 1897-1949, n.d.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Danish, English, and German
Date Range:
1897-1949
Extent:
58 items

46. Add MS 56106-56225

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Add MS 56106-56225
Title:
Sir Alexander Fleming Papers
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, notebooks and papers of Sir Alexander Fleming, bacteriologist and discoverer of penicillin (d. 1955); 1901-1957. The papers consist of correspondence, journals, scientific notebooks, publications, lectures, speeches and miscellaneous papers mainly for the period 1907-1957. Includ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1901-1957
Extent:
120 items

47. 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

48. Add MS 70948-70951

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Add MS 70948-70951
Title:
CHARNWOOD AUTOGRAPHS: collection of autograph letters and documents, etc., formed by Dorothea Mary Roby Benson (d. 1942), wife of Godfrey Rathbone, 1st Baron Charnwood; circa 16th-20th cent. Partly French, German, Italian, Russian. Partly printed. Many of the letters were printed, and a few reproduced, in Lady Charnwood's An Autograph Collection (1930), and in Call Back Yesterday (1937). Purchased from the heirs of Baroness Charnwood, and from the British Museum, March 1992. Paper. Folio. ...
Scope & Content:
Dorothea Mary Roby Benson, née Thorpe; wife of Godfrey, 1st Baron Charnwood: Autograph letters and documents collected by Dorothea Mary Roby Benson: 16th-20th cent: Partly Fr., Germ., Ital. and Russ: Partly printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, and Russian
Date Range:
c 16th century-20th century
Extent:
4 items

49. Add MS 81306-81590

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Add MS 81306-81590
Title:
JOHN GIELGUD ARCHIVE 81306–81590. Letters, papers, and photographs relating to the public life and professional career of Sir John Gielgud OM CH (b. 1904, d. 2000), actor and director. Partly French, Danish, Italian, Russian, German, and Hebrew. Partly copies and printed. 20th century Gielgud’s career has been covered in great detail, not only in his own autobiographies and books of memoirs ― Early stages (1939, revised 1987); Stage directions (1963); Distinguished company (1972); An a...
Scope & Content:
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, actor: Letters, papers and photographs rel. to his public life and professional career: 19th-20th cent.: Partly Fr., Ital., Germ., Russian, Danish, Hebrew: Partly copies and printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, and Russian
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
285 items

50. Add MS 84858-84975

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Add MS 84858-84975
Title:
Hayter Papers
Scope & Content:
Papers of the Hayter family; 1899-2004, n.d. Partly drafts and copies. Partly Chinese, Danish, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Turkish. After studying at Winchester and New College, Oxford, William Goodenough Hayter (b.1906, d.1995) joined the Foreign Office in 1930 and was sent initially...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Turkish
Date Range:
1899-2004
Extent:
118 items