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2641. Add MS 45265-45267

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Vols I-III. 'Abstract of a Tour' (45265, f. 1) through France, Switzerland and Italy (for an index to the places visited, see 45267, ff. 48-48b); 15 Apr. 1818-20 Feb. 1819. For part of the tour Bracebridge was accompanied by his brother-in-law, Walter Henry Bracebridge, of Morville House, co. Warw., his sister, Mrs Mary Bracebridge (see 45265, ff. 15b, 16b, 19, 23, 29b; 45266, f. 17), Sir Charles Mordaunt, 8th Bart., M.P., and Lady Mordaunt (see 45265, ff. 77b, 87; 45266, ff. 4, 8b). The lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1818-20 Feb 1819
Extent:
3 items

2642. Add MS 45274-45282

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Title:
SARAWAK PAPERS. Vols. I-IX. Correspondence with Sir James Brooke, K.C.B.; 1858-1868. Nine volumes.
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Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts; formerly Burdett; philanthropist: Correspondence with Sir J. Brooke: 1858-1868. Hannah Brown, widow of W Brown, of London: Correspondence with Sir J. Brooke: 1860-1868. Sir James Brooke, KCB; Rajah of Sarawak: Correspondence with Barones...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1858-1868
Extent:
9 items

2643. Add MS 45284-45286

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MAHATMA PAPERS. Vols. I-III. 'The Mahatma Letters', consisting mainly of letters on occult subjects addressed to A. P. Sinnett, purporting to come from the Mahatmas Koot Hoomi Lal Singh and Morya; 1880-1886, n.d. With these are notes and letters of Sinnett and other theosophists and spiritualists, Western and Indian, including William Stainton Moses, Allan Octavian Hume, and the cofounders of the Theosophical Society, Col. Henry Steel Olcott and Madame Blavatsky. The Mahatma authorship and p...
Scope & Content:
Koot Hoomi Lal Singh, Mahatma: Correspondence with A. P. Sinnett: 1880-1884.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1880-1886
Extent:
3 items

2644. Add MS 45287-45288

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MAHATMA PAPERS. Vols. IV, V. Letters of Madame Blavatsky (Helena Petrovna Blavatsky), Countess Constance Wachtmeister and other theosophists, mainly addressed to A. P. Sinnett and bearing in some cases annotations by the two reputed Mahatmas; 1880-1887, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1880-1887
Extent:
2 items

2645. Add MS 45299-45309

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Title:
WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. III-XIII. Drafts and copies of tales and poems for The Earthly Paradise (see C.W., vols. iii-vi). The work was published 1868-1870, but was begun much earlier. In C.W., xxiv, p. vii, May Morris gives the dates 'About 1865-1870' for 'Poems of The Earthly Paradise time', but in C.W., iii, p. xvi, she dates an early MS. of The Man born to be King in the period of 'Scenes from The Fall Of Troy', which is fixed at about 1857 both by her (C.W., ii, p. xiv...
Scope & Content:
Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: W. Morris; marginal sketches, etc.: late 19th cent. Poetry ENGLISH: W. Morris: poems: circ. 1853-1896.: Autogr. and copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1857-1870
Extent:
11 items

2646. Add MS 45310-45316

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WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vols XIV-XX. A series of note-books (45310-45315) and a collection of loose leaves (45316) containing drafts of the epic poem 'Sigurd the Volsung' (first published 1876; also C.W., vol. xii). There is also some material for and relating to Morris's translation of 'The Aeneids of Virgil' (see C.W., vol. xi) in 45310, 45311. These seven volumes, together with 37497-37498 (q.v.), contain the entire first draft of 'Sigurd the Volsung', written very roughly an...
Scope & Content:
Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: W. Morris; marginal sketches, etc.: late 19th cent. Poetry ENGLISH: W. Morris: poems: circ. 1853-1896.: Autogr. and copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1874-1875]
Extent:
7 items

2647. Add MS 45317-45318

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Title:
WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XXI, XXII. Translations into English, mainly from Northern literature. According to May Morris, C. W., vii, p. xv, Morris first began his Northern studies in 1868. Viz.:-
Scope & Content:
Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: W. Morris; marginal sketches, etc.: late 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1865-1931]
Extent:
2 items

2648. Add MS 45319 A-C

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Title:
B, C. WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XXIII- XXV. Diaries (in the form of octavo ruled note-books and all written in pencil) kept by Morris on his two visits to Iceland in the summers of 1871 and 1873.
Scope & Content:
Iceland: Diaries of visits to, by W. Morris: 1871, 1873. Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: W. Morris; marginal sketches, etc.: late 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1873
Extent:
3 items

2649. Add MS 45322-45328

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Title:
WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, Vol. XXVIII- XXXIV. Prose and verse romances, some unpublished.
Scope & Content:
Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: W. Morris; marginal sketches, etc.: late 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1870-1897]
Extent:
7 items

2650. Add MS 45330-45334

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Title:
WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XXXVI-XL. Lectures, addresses, and miscellaneous papers relating mainly to Morris's political activities. Morris's first recorded lecture was delivered 4 Dec. 1877, his last 31 Jan. 1896. Some lectures he is recorded as having delivered on many occasions. Since it is not usually possible to ascertain which of several versions of a lecture was delivered on a specific occasion, or how many times Morris altered such a lecture verbally or in writing, th...
Scope & Content:
Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: W. Morris; marginal sketches, etc.: late 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
[1879-1933]
Extent:
5 items

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