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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45555-45556
Title:: LAMB PAPERS. VOIS. X, XI (ff. 236, 323). Letters, in French, to Lady Cowper (afterwards Lady Palmerston) from Dorothea Christophorovna Lieven, wife of Prince Christopher Lieven, Russian Ambassador to Great Britain; 1822-1856. These are supplementary to correspondence in the Lieven Papers, Add. MSS. 47236-47435.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1822-1856
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45563-45564
Title:: HALL GRIFFIN PAPERS. Vols. VI, VII. Letters addressed to Hall Griffin (with a few to his wife), chiefly in connection with his biography of Browning; 7 Oct. 1880-20 Oct. 1909, n.d. Preceded (vol. VI, ff. 1-9) by copies of six letters of Robert Browning, 25 Apr. 1866-16 May 1888; the original of that at f. 4 is now Ashley MS. A 2533. Two volumes. Folio.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1866-1909
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45581-45653
Title:: BLECHYNDEN PAPERS. Vols. IV-LXXVI. Diaries of R. Blechynden; 1791-1822. Vols. IV-XLVI, XLVIII-LVII, LXIV contain entries for each day and indexes, but the remainder are incomplete, showing considerable gaps and unfinished entries, and occasionally including drafts of entries. Paper. Seventy-three volumes. Octavo and (vols. LXXI-LXXVI) quarto. Interspersed among vols. XLVII, LVII-LXXVI are annotated fragments of contemporary printed material of local origin, viz. auctioneers' sale catalogues ...
Scope & Content:: Diaries and Memoranda: R. Blechynden: 1791-1822. Richard Blechynden, d 1822 Civil Architect and Surveyor in Calcutta: Diaries, etc.: 1780-1822. Architecture: Plans in diaries of R. Blechynden, Civil Architect and Surveyor in Calcutta, and A. H. Blechynden: 1791-1822. India: Diaries of R. Blec...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1791-1822
Extent:: 73 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45654-45661
Title:: BLECHYNDEN PAPERS. Vols. LXXVII-LXXXIV. Diaries of A. H. Blechynden; 1806-1812. Paper. Eight volumes. Octavo. Printed material interspersed as with vols. XLVII, LVII-LXXVI above.
Scope & Content:: Arthur Heselridge Blechynden, son of R Blechynden: Diaries: 1806-1812. Diaries and Memoranda: A. H. Blechynden: 1806-1812. Architecture: Plans in diaries of R. Blechynden, Civil Architect and Surveyor in Calcutta, and A. H. Blechynden: 1791-1822. India: Diaries of R. Blechynden, mainly as Civ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1806-1812
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45671-45679
Title:: HALL PAPERS. Vols. III-XL. Notes of sermons, etc., mostly preached by dissenting ministers at Kipping and elsewhere in the West Riding, in the hands of John Hall (vols. III-VIII), Joshua Firth (vol. IX, addition to vol. VIII), and John Firth (vols. X, XI, additions to vols. III-IX); circ. 1632-1751, n.d. The names of the preachers are given in the Index to this Catalogue. For notes on most of the preachers see J. G. Miall, Congregationalism in Yorkshire, 1868, pp. 225-389 passim. Vol. III, f...
Scope & Content:: Sermons: Sermons by ministers (mostly nonconformist) in W.R., co. York: circ. 1632-1751. Nonconformists: Notes of sermons, mostly preached by nonconformist ministers in W.R., co. York: circ. 1632-1751.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1632-1751
Extent:: 9 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45699-45700
Title:: 'Catalogus Major Bibliothecae Harleianae', compiled by Humfrey Wanley, n.d., but before 1708 since it is referred to in Add. MS. 45701 below. Autograph. Arranged under groups (Hebrew, Latin, etc.); this is all that remains of a projected larger ('major') catalogue, the concise ('brevior') working catalogue being that described below. Paper; ff. 188, 172. Folio. Early XVIII cent.
Scope & Content:: Humfrey Wanley, librarian to the Earls of Oxford: Catalogue of MSS. in the Harleian Library: 1708-1726.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1708
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45701-45710
Title:: 'Catalogus Brevior': this was the manuscript used by the printers in setting up the first Catalogue of the Harley MSS., that published in two volumes in 1759, which included also the 'Advertisement' and Concordance of which the original drafts are in Add. MS. 45710 (see below). Ten volumes, as follows:-
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1708-1766]
Extent:: 10 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45728-45729
Title:: SUPPLEMENTARY AUCKLAND PAPERS. Vols. I, II. Letters from William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, to John Baker- Holroyd, Baron and (1816) 1st Earl of Sheffield, including (Vol. 1, f. 91) a letter, 1 May 1786, to his wife, Abigail; 1781-1797, 1798-circ. 1814, n.d. Preceded (Vol. I, f. 1) by a letter, in French, from William, Prince of Orange, 4 Feb. 1794, and by two (ff. 2, 3) from his wife, Wilhelmina, 1793, 1794.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1781-1819
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45735-45737
Title:: PALGRAVE PAPERS. Vols. II-IV. Poems by F. T. Palgrave, mostly autograph, but including a few printed pieces. Many are unpublished, but vol. II consists entirely of the complete MS. of The Visions of England printed privately in two parts, Feb. 1880 and Apr. 1881, while vols. III and IV include duplicate MSS. of a few poems from The Visions of England, together with MSS. of a number of poems printed in Idyls and Songs, 1854, Lyrical Poems, 1871, and A Lyme Garland, 1874. For other poems of F....
Scope & Content:: Poetry ENGLISH: F. T. Palgrave: poems and hymns: 1854-1883.: Autogr. and printed. Francis Turner Palgrave, poet and anthologist: Poems and hymns: 1854-1883.: Autogr. and printed.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 3 items

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