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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41093-41094
Title:: PERUGINI COLLECTION. Vols. III (ff. 38) and IV (ff. 53). Vocal music, chiefly by Italian composers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, probably collected, for the greater part at least, by Leonardo Perugini, in whose hand some of the pieces are copied. The principal contents of Vol. III are:-(a) A setting, for soprano voice, with accompaniment for strings, of Torquato Tasso's "La Gerusalemme Liberata," Canto xii, Stanzas 96, 97 and 99, by [Niccolò Antonio] Zingarelli. For other copie...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1835-1837]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41125-41127
Title:: CROKER PAPERS. Vols. II-IV. Letters of John Murray, publisher, third of the name, to John Wilson Croker; 1831- 1857. The correspondence concerns for the most part the contributions of Croker to the Quarterly Review (of which he was a founder in 1809) and his other literary productions. From the papers of the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker, Secretary to the Admiralty 1809-1830 and man of letters, were acquired at the sale of Messrs. J. Pearson and Co., Sotheby's, 23-26 June 1924.
Scope & Content:: 'Quarterly Review': Correspondence of J. Murray and J. W. Croker rel. to: 1831-1857. John Murray, publisher; d.1892: Letters to J. W. Croker: 1831-1857. John Wilson Croker, PC; MP: Correspondence with J. Murray (3): 1831-1857.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1831-1857
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41134-41135
Title:: Vols. II, III (ff. 41, 75). Correspondence of Sir W. Chambers, copied for the most part in his own hand; 3 July 1772- 15 Jan. 1774,9 Jan. 1774-28 Aug. 1775. Among his correspondents abroad are members of his own family and others in Sweden, and in France the architect Julien David Le Roy and Mare René, Marquis de Voyer d'Argenson. Quarto.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1772-1775
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41144-41150
Title:: TOWNSHEND PAPERS (2nd ser.). Vols. VI-XII. Orderly Books of the English forces in the campaigns of Flanders and Germany under the command successively of John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Gen. George Wade, William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, and John Murray, 2nd Earl of Dunmore, extending from the embarkation order of 26 May O.S. 1742 to the Antwerp garrison order of 19 Dec. 1745. Extracts are printed from Vol. I in C. V. F. Townshend, The Military Life of Field-Marshal George, 1st Marque...
Scope & Content:: Army; England: Orderly books in Flanders and Germany: 1742-1745.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1742-1745]
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41170-41171
Title:: ORIGINAL LETTERS and signed documents relating to the French Revolution, 16 July 1783-11 Thermidor, an 3 [29 July 1795]; mostly in French. Two volumes, vol. i ending 10 Germinal, an 2 [30 Mar. 17941. A considerable proportion of the earlier papers in Add. MS. 41170 are addressed to Emmanuel Henri Louis Alexandre de Launay, Comte d'Antraigues, author and political adventurer (murdered 1812). The names of the writers are given in the Index.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1783-1795
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41172-41173
Title:: TYPEWRITTEN TRANSCRIPTS of papers in Add. MSS. 41170, 41171 respectively. Paper; ff. 422, 280. Oblong quarto.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1783-1795]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41188-41189
Title:: (ff. 357, 357). Letters (originally 230 in 226 folders; 7 letters and 2 folders now missing) to Charles Poney of Toulon, worker-poet, or his family; [27] Apr. 1842-15 Aug. 1857, [3 Jan. 1858]-3 Apr. 1876. A certain number have been published in the Correspondance de George Sand, 6 vols., 1882-1884, and many more are quoted by Samuel Rocheblave, "George Sand: Lettres à Poney," in the Revue des Deux Mondes, lii, 1909, pp. 599- 633, 902-934. The collection passed through the hands of Solange Sa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1842-1876
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41190-41191
Title:: (ff . 210, 215). Letters (241 in all) to her daughter Solange [1 June 1836]-12 July 1855, 25 July 1855-6 July 1873. Refused by Solange to her brother Maurice for the above-named edition of the Correspondence, and first used to any extent by S. Rocheblave, George Sand et sa Fille, 1905, a reprint of articles in the Revue des Deux Mondes of that year. The letter of 24 Aug. 1852 is a copy by Rocheblave, who also annotates most of the others. Paper. Quarto. 1836-1876.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1836-1873
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41207-41208
Title:: CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN PAPERS. Vols. II, III. Folio. Correspondence of Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman with King Edward VII and members of his family, viz.:-
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1885-1908]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41216-41217
Title:: CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN PAPERS. Vols. Xl, XII (ff. 317, 313). Correspondence of Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman with Herbert (Viscount) Gladstone, continued, viz.: Sept. 1900-July 1903; Aug. 1903-Dec. 1907. Folio and quarto.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1900-1907
Extent:: 2 items

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