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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37715-37717
Title:: "CHINA BOOKS," consisting of copies of minutes and letters of Lord Auckland, written to the British Plenipotentiaries and Commanders, etc., in China during the "Opium War" in 1840-1842, viz. Capt. Charles Elliot and Adm. Sir George Elliot, Naval Commander-in-chief, acting as Joint- Plenipotentiaries, Adm. Sir James John Gordon Bremer, Naval Commander-in-chief before Adm. Elliot, Gen. Sir Hugh Gough, Commander of the Land Forces, Sir Henry Pottinger, who superseded Capt. Elliot as Plenipotent...
Scope & Content:: General Sir Hugh Gough, Commander of the Forces in China: Letters to, from Lord Auckland: 1840-1842. Admiral Sir George Elliott: Letters to, as Plenipotentiary in China, from Lord Auckland: 1840-1842. Captain Charles Elliot: Letters to, as Plenipotentiary in China, from Lord Auckland: 1840-184...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1840-1842
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37729-37758
Title:: BERRY PAPERS, Vols. IV.-XXXIII. Journals of Mary Berry; 1783-1841. Printed for the most part by Lady Teresa Lewis, who also appears to have had access to volumes since lost, covering periods of time unrepresented here. Engl. and Fr.
Scope & Content:: Diaries and Memoranda: M. Berry: 1783-1841.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1783-1841
Extent:: 30 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37759-37760
Title:: BERRY PAPERS. Vols. XXXIV., XXXV. "Souvenirs d'une Inconnue": commonplace and letter books of Mary Berry. Engl. and Fr.
Scope & Content:: Diaries and Memoranda: M. Berry: 1783-1841.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1806-1828]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37763-37765
Title:: Original drafts of ten of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Quartets, for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, in score.
Scope & Content:: Original drafts of ten of Mozart's quartets, for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, in score. In three volumes. They are respectively numbered, probably by Stumpff, 28-33, 37, 34-36. The K. (followed by a number) given below, stands for Kochel's Thematic Catalogue, from which also the dates in s...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Not applicable
Date Range:: 1782-1790
Extent:: 3 volumes (ff. iv., 68; ii., 14; ii., 40)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37816-37817
Title:: NICHOLAS PAPERS (Series II.). Vols. I., 11. (ff. 192, 163). "A Register of the warrants, letters, orders and actes doune by the Rt hoble Geo[rge Villiers], D[uke] of Buckingham, lorde highe Admirall of England, concerning his office of Admirall," etc.; 1624-1627.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1624-1627
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37846-37847
Title:: WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. V., VI. (ff. 219, 273). Correspondence of W. Windham with William Wyndham Grenville, Lord Grenville (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1791-1801, First Lord of the Treasury 1806-1807); 1793-1807. Followed (37847, f. 204) by correspondence with his brother, Thomas Grenville (First Lord of the Admiralty 1806-1807), 1793-1809; and (ib. f. 240) with Charles Grey, afterwards Viscount Howick and 2nd Earl Grey (First Lord of the Admiralty 1806, Foreign Secretary 1806-1807...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1793-1809
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37848-37849
Title:: WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. VII., VIII. (ff. 337, 375). Correspondence of W. Windham with Sir John Coxe Hippisley, lst Bart. (1796), chiefly concerning the relations of Great Britain and the Papacy; 1781-1810. The enclosures are very numerous, and include (37848, f. 297) a copy of a letter of Edmund Burke to Hippisley, 3 Oct. 1793.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1781-1810
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37850-37851
Title:: WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. IX., X. (ff. 260, 268). Correspondence of W. Windham with Emperor John Alexander Woodford, Inspector General of Foreign Forces in British Pay; 1794-1810.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1794-1810
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37855-37872
Title:: WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. XIV.-XXXI. Correspondence of W. Windham with French Royalists; 1792-1810. The letters are infrequent till 1794, when (11 July) Windham became Secretary at War. He had for some time been regarded as the inheritor of Burke's antirevolutionary policy, and as the spokesman of that policy in Parliament. The management of the negotiations with the émigrés was now put into his hands, and the correspondence (most full in 1795, the year of the Quiberon Bay Expedition) throws muc...
Scope & Content:: William Windham, Secretary of State, etc: Correspondence with French Royalists: 1792-1810. Vendée La, France: Correspondence of W. Windham with French Royalists: 1792-1810. Political Tracts: Tracts on the relations between England and France, chiefly relating to Royalist émigrés: 1792-1810.: F...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1792-1810
Extent:: 18 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37873-37890
Title:: WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. XXXII.-XLIX. General correspondence, political and military, of W. Windham; 1782-1810. Included are a few minutes sent in circulation to the Cabinet. Eighteen volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1782-1810
Extent:: 18 items

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