Search

032-001967915 Project / Collection Additional Manuscripts Language English

1. Add MS 73084 A-M

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 73084 A-M
Title:
Miscellaneous Letters and Papers. Paper; ff. 87. British Library arrangement.
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos: Bibliography: Letter of 1st Earl of Egmont rel. to a manuscript in the library of James Brydges: 1724.f. 1 John Clyn, Irish historian: Letter of 1st Earl of Egmont rel. to manuscript of his `Annals of Ireland': 1724.f. 1 Bibliography: Let...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1666-1970]
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 73084 C

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 73084 C
Title:
Scope & Content:
C. Letter from Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, President of the Royal Academy (b.1793, d.1865) to John Scandrett Harford, biographer of Michelangelo (b.1785, d.1866) relating to the purchase by Anthony Panizzi of the Buonarotti manuscripts [Add. MSS 23139-23142]; 16 June 1859. Purchased from Ian Hod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1859
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 73084 K

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 73084 K
Title:
Scope & Content:
K. Draft poems, apparently unpublished, by Mervyn Laurence Peake, author (b.1911, d.1968); circa 1936. With a pencil head and shoulders portrait of 'Englands only authentic decadent' on f. 82v. Presented by Elizabeth Davison through the Arts Council, April 1997. ff. 77-82v. Largest size 262 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1936
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 73084 D

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 73084 D
Title:
Scope & Content:
D. Letter from Thomas Browne to Gilbert Crouch, agent of the 11th Earl of Shrewsbury concerning an agreement about common land; 28 June 1666. For an earlier letter from Browne to Lord Shrewsbury, 5 April 1666, see Add. MS 46458, ff. 171-172v. For Gilbert Crouch, see Add. MSS 46454-46464 passim...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jun 1666
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 73084 E

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 73084 E
Title:
Scope & Content:
E. Letter of Sir Henry Ellis, former Principal Librarian of the British Museum (b.1777, d.1869), to H[enry Tilleman?] Bobart, relating to sources for the history of the Bobart family of Oxford; 14 July 1856. Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, Sept. 1997. ff. 10-12v. 177 x 111mm.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1856
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 73084 H

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 73084 H
Title:
Scope & Content:
H. Letter from Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle (b.1790, d.1866) to Josiah Forshall as Secretary of the British Museum, recommending Mrs Wilder for access to the Reading Room; 20 Oct. 1839. Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, March 1997. ff. 17, 18v. 176 x 112mm.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1839
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 73084 J

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 73084 J
Title:
Scope & Content:
J. Autograph letters, etc.; 1830-1928, n.d. Presented by Parsons Books of Sonoma, California, Feb. 1992. Including: i) ff. 41-41v. Hugh Walpole, novelist (b.1884, d.1941) to Reginald Pound relating to publication of an article; 14 June 1928. ii) ff. 42-43. Thomas William Robertson, actor an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1830-1928
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 73084 M

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 73084 M
Title:
Scope & Content:
M. Speeches of George II to Parliament; [circa 1754]. Copies, in a contemporary clerical hand. Acquired with a volume of printed Speeches and Addresses 1737-1767, bearing the armorial bookplate of Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton. Transferred from Early Printed Collections, Oct. 19...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1754]
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 73084 G

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 73084 G
Title:
Scope & Content:
G. Letter from Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas (b.1799, d.1848), to his fellow antiquary Thomas Wright (b.1810, d.1877); London. 1 July 1847. Relating to gunpowder and a book by M Reinaud, presumably Histoire de l'Artillerie by J. T. Reinaud and I. Favé (1845). Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, Marc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jul 1847
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 73084 A

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 73084 A
Title:
Scope & Content:
A. Letter from John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont to — Parker, bookseller of Pall Mall; 'Ch[ar]lton', 12 June 1724. Writing as Viscount Perceval he seeks assistance over the loan of a manuscript of John Clyn's 'Annals of Ireland'. Described as 'folo. No. 42', this was one of two in the collecti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jun 1724
Extent:
1 item