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201. Add MS 88942/1/294

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Copy Settlement of Real Estates on the Marriage of Captain Thomas Gaisford with Miss H. H. Fielding [sic]')
Scope & Content:
A fair hand copy, dated 24 January 1850, entitled 'Copy Settlement by the very Rev. Dr. Gaisford Dean of Christchurch Oxford of Real Estates in the County of Wiltshire on the Marriage of his Son Captain Thomas Gaisford with Miss H H Fielding [sic]'. William Henry Fox Talbot is one of the witness...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1850
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 49 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
A notebook used only on the first and last pages. On the first page, under the date 20 February 1851, the heading 'Red Box belonging to Electrical Machine contains' followed by a list of various publications including papers and books by Talbot. Some items are related to photography. On the fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1851
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 2 pages of text)

203. Add MS 88942/1/296

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains only brief notes (relating to licensing) on its first two pages, dated 1853 and 1854. With the notebook are three loose sheets, one of which contains notes on letters from Joseph Whitlock (who opened the first Daguerreotype studio in Birmingham) also regarding calotype lic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1853-1854
Extent:
1 notebook (46 folios, 2 pages of text), 3 loose sheets

204. Add MS 88942/1/297

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Title:
Talbot: Passport
Scope & Content:
Passport, W H Fox Talbot: 'Given at the Foreign Office, London, the 3rd day of July 1854'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1854
Extent:
1 passport

205. Add MS 88942/1/298

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Title:
Talbot: Passport
Scope & Content:
Passport: 'Given at the Foreign Office, London, the 15 day of June 1860'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860
Extent:
1 passport

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Various very brief notes: financial issues with John Harry Bolton (solicitor) about 122 Regent Street (Talbotype establishment); 'Accounts to be settled'; 'Miscellanea'; 'Money matters Coutts'; 'Wilkins' (plants for the gardener); 'at Paris' (with a note citing Figuier's method of engraving, and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1847-1854]
Extent:
1 notebook (52 folios, 5 pages of text)

207. Add MS 88942/1/301

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook (regarding Letters Patent)
Scope & Content:
A notebook containing copy texts relating to Talbot's Letters Patent for the calotype process: 'Improvements in obtaining Pictures or representations of objects' (8 February 1841). Talbot's Patent had included the proviso that 'the said Mr Henry Fox Talbot shall cause a particular description of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1841-1851]
Extent:

1 notebook (106 folios, 79 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('1847')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains brief accounting records with regard to 'Dr. A Hervè' [sic] (7 August - 17 October) and Dr. D. Kinnebrook (27 July - 20 October 1847). Towards the back of the notebook is a list of the costs of advertising in different publications (e.g. Literary Gazette, Athenaeum, The Time...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1847
Extent:
1 notebook (24 folios, 5 pages of text)

209. Add MS 88942/1/303

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('W. H. Fox Talbot')
Scope & Content:
Modern notebook on Talbot's parents, probably completed by Matilda Talbot (1871-1958), Talbot's granddaughter. It includes extracts and summaries of letters and possibly diary entries by Talbot's mother, spanning 1792-1835.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
1 notebook (52 folios, 17 pages of text)

210. Add MS 88942/1/304

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Memoranda')
Scope & Content:
The notebook is largely unused save for a few brief notes on miscellaneous tasks concerning the garden, books, and London. Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard is noted, indicating that the notebook was used some time after 1849, when Layard first began to publish on the ancient Assyrian city.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1849
Extent:
1 notebook (69 folios, 4 pages of text), with a loosely inserted bookplate