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Language English Name Birch, Thomas, DD, FRS, d 1766 Level [36] Series

1. Add MS 4106-4107

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Title:
TRANSCRIPTS OF STATE PAPERS and letters from public and private collections, made by or for Birch, together with some original documents. In two volumes not chronologically arranged: Vol. I, 1473- 1657; Vol. II, 1598-1745. The names of the writers of letters, etc. are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Among the documents are:-
Scope & Content:
Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Partly autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1473-1745
Extent:
2 items

2. Add MS 4109-4124

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Title:
ANTHONY BACON TRANSCRIPTS. Transcripts and extracts of the correspondence of Anthony Bacon (d. 1601), chiefly in his capacity as Private Secretary to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; 1580-1598, with a few of earlier date. They were made by Birch in 1750, 1751 from the originals in the Lambeth Palace Library (Nos. 647-662) for the purpose of, and incorporation in, his Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth ... in which the secret intrigues of her court and the conduct of her Favourite Ro...
Scope & Content:
Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Partly autogr. Anthony Bacon, diplomatist: Copies, by T. Birch, of his correspondence (1558-1598) in Lambeth Library: 1750, 1751.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1750-1751
Extent:
16 items

3. Add MS 4160-4164

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COLLECTION OF TRANSCRIPTS, chiefly in the handwriting of Birch, of State Papers and letters, from private and public libraries, together with a few original papers; 1425-1728. Five volumes. Quarto. The names of the writers of the original papers are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Included among these papers are:-
Scope & Content:
Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Partly autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1425-1728
Extent:
5 items

4. Add MS 4173-4175

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Title:
LETTERS OF JOHN CHAMBERLAIN to Sir Dudley Carleton and others; 1598-1625. Copied by Birch from the originals then in the State Paper Office. Three volumes. Most, if not all, of the letters, from 1603, were printed from Birch's transcripts in The Court and Times of James I, 2 vols., 1849, and The Court and Times of Charles I, 2 vols., 1849. The earlier letters (Vol. I, ff. 63-177) were edited for the Camden Society, Old Ser., vol. 79, 1861, by Sarah Williams. At the beginning of Add. MS. 4173...
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John Chamberlain, d 1627 letter-writer: Correspondence with Sir D. Carleton: 1598-1625.: Copies. Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester: Correspondence with J. Chamberlain: 1598-1625.: Copies. Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Par...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
3 items

5. Add MS 4176-4178

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Title:
'HISTORICAL LETTERS written in the Reigns of James I and Charles I ... now first publish'd from the Originals in the British Museum, [State] Paper Office, and private collections. By Thomas Birch, D.D.'. Birch's intention to publish (on the verso of the above title-page is an estimate of the cost, etc.) was never carried out but, with the omission of the two letters of an earlier date (Vol. I, ff. 17, 18) and with the addition of the letters of J. Chamberlain to Sir D. Carleton (see Add. MSS...
Scope & Content:
Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Partly autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
3 items

6. Add MS 4221-4225

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Title:
BIRCH'S BIOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS Collection of biographical notices and memoranda of literary, scientific and other illustrious persons, made by or for Thomas Birch; circa 1730-1766. The names of the subjects, as well as of the writers of the few original letters in the volumes, are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. The substance of some of these articles is to be found in A General Dictionary Historical and Critical translated from Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et...
Scope & Content:
Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Biographical works and memoranda by: circ. 1730-1760, n.d.: Partly autogr. Biography: Collection of biographical notices by T. Birch: circ. 1730-1740.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1730-c 1766
Extent:
5 items

7. Add MS 4268-4272

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Title:
BIRCH PRIVATE PAPERS. Five volumes. Various sizes.
Scope & Content:
Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Private papers: 1720-1766.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
[1621-1799]
Extent:
5 items

8. Add MS 4300-4323

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Title:
BIRCH CORRESPONDENCE Collection of letters addressed to Thomas Birch; 1726-1766. Twenty-four volumes, arranged roughly in alphabetical order. The names of writers are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. In Add. MS. 4323 most of the letters lack signatures. French, Latin, Italian and English. Paper. Folio.
Scope & Content:
Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Correspondence of: 1726-1766, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1726-1766
Extent:
24 items

9. Add MS 4324 A-B

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Add MS 4324 A-B
Title:
BIRCH-YORKE LETTERS (Vols. I,II) Letters of Thomas Birch, many of them unaddressed, but some written to Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke 1764, and to other members of the Yorke family. Drafts. Two volumes. Paper; ff. 240, 228. Quarto. 1748-1765.
Scope & Content:
Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Correspondence of: 1726-1766, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1748-1765
Extent:
2 items

10. Add MS 4326 A-B

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Add MS 4326 A-B
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS OF THOMAS BIRCH. Two volumes. Quarto and folio.
Scope & Content:
Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Correspondence of: 1726-1766, n.d. includes: ff. 198-201 William Heberden, MD; FRS: Memoranda by T. Birch of conversations with: 1751.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
[1712-1765]
Extent:
2 items