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B. Letter from Catherine Talbot to [?Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset], on behalf of Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury, apologizing for the Archbishop's inability to grant a living; 14 Nov. 1767. ff. 4-5b. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books.
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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14 Nov 1767
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F. Inventory of Egyptian antiquities in the possession of the French authorities at Alexandria, certified by Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, Secretary of the Institut d'Égypte; circ. 1801. French. The fifteen monumental items here listed, no. 8 being the Rosetta Stone, were surrendered to the Brit...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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c 1801
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I. (1) Letter from Jean Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, classical scholar (d. 1805), to [?John] Paradise [the linguist], requesting his help in tracing MSS. relating to the Greek Anthology inherited by Jean D'Orville, son of Jacques Phillippe D'Orville, the classical scholar (now Oxford, ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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4 Nov 1808
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K. Letter from Anton Schindler, the friend and biographer of Beethoven, to Charles Neate, the English pianist, mentioning proposals for establishing a Beethoven foundation in the Rhineland, and the possible acquisition by such a body, or by the British Museum, of his collection of Beethoven auto...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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6 Aug 1845
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D. Letter of Florence Nightingale, in pencil, to Miss Elizabeth Pringle, expressing satisfaction at Miss Pringle's new nursing post [at Lisburn, co. Antrim], and recalling the landing at Scutari, 4 Nov., and the Battle of Inkerman, 5 Nov. 1854; 10 Nov. 1881. ff. 7-7b. Presented by Miss R. H. Pri...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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10 Nov 1881
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1 item

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E. Two letters to Benjamin Robert Haydon, the painter (d. 1846), from: (1) Elizabeth, wife of Leicester Fitzgerald Charles Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington 1851, accepting an invitation for a sitting; n.d. ff. 8-9b;(2) Jane Georgiana, wife of Edward Adolphus Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset 185 5,...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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19th century
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1 item

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L. Letter from François Joachim Bernard Potier, Duc de Gesvres, to Bruo?, a notary at Paris, requesting him to prepare a 'contract de contribution' for work done by - Dumas, a carpenter; 24 Dec. 1747. French. Followed (f. 30) by a fragment of a 19th-cent. printed catalogue in English, listing th...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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24 Dec 1747
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M. Thirteen letters mostly from members of the Medici family but including letters of Bartolommeo Concini, 1st Secretary of State in Florence (f. 38), and Alonso Perez de Guzman, Duke of Medina Sidonia (f. 40); 1545-1699. Italian. Autograph or signed. The names of the writers will be found in th...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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1545-1699
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G. Sonnet, beg. 'La ville qui receut vostre sainte naissance', addressed to the poet, Scévole de Sainte-Marthe, by Claude Binet, the biographer of Ronsard; after 1569. French. Autograph? Published, with an introduction, by E. H. W. Meyerstein, 'A Link with the Pléiade', French Studies, ii, 1948,...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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after 1569
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1 item

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J. Letter from Edmund William Gosse (knt. 1925) to an unidentified lady stating that he proposed to reveal to the Times Literary Supplement (cf. 20 Dec. 1923, p. 896), the authorship of [John Morley's] anonymous attack in the Saturday Review, 4 Aug. 1866, on A. C. Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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9 Dec 1923
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1 item

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