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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45925
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Scope & Content:: SHERBORN BEQUEST. Vol. II. Miscellaneous documents, viz.:- A. Letter from J. Payne to his master, Sir William Ston[or]e, thanking him for his letter'wherby I p[er]ceive yt mast[er] Berkeley hath ye rewle of ys gentlewoman by ye kynges appoyntme[n]t' and commenting that it is 'ye more to be m[a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1482-1894
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45982
Title:: MISCELLANE0US LETTERS AND PAPERS, viz.:- A. 'A Chapter of Proverbs': a typewritten copy of verses by Rudyard Kipling (d. 1936), in 32 stanzas, unpublished in his lifetime and not included in the definitive edition of his verse, 1940; n.d. A covering letter from the donor (f. 3) states that, as in the case of Add. MS. 45680, ff. 155-156 (p. 218 above), the verses were given to him by Mrs Kipling, who had decided not to publish them. For MSS. of other literary works of Kipling in the Departm...
Scope & Content:: includes: f. 1 Joseph Rudyard Kipling, author: Verses, 'A Chapter of Proverbs': n.d.: Typewritten copy.f. 3 Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson, 1st Baron Webb-Johnson: Letters to the Keeper of MSS., British Museum: 1940, 1943.ff. 4, 5, 48, 49 Liturgies LATIN: Lectionaries: 12th cent.: Fragm.f. 6 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-20th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 46056
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Scope & Content:: Vol. LXXII (ff. 290). May 1895-1897. includes: f.1 Harriet Mary Gott, wife of John Gott: Letter to Lord Gladstone: 1895.f. 3 Frances Anna Maria Russell, wife of John, 1st Earl Russell: Letters to Lord Gladstone: 1883-1895.ff. 4, 246 Admiral Charles William de la Poer Beresford, Baron Ber...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: May 1895-1897
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 46119
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Scope & Content:: CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Boulden Thompson, K.C.B., M.P., 1st Bart. 1806, Comptroller of the Navy, consisting chiefly of official and semi-official letters relating to naval affairs; 1786-1815. Included are:-(a) Admiralty Instructions to Thompson as commander of the ex...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1786-1815
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 46133
Title:: LOG-BOOK OF H.M.S. 'DIAMOND' (Capt. Alfred Taylor Dale, R.N.) on the Australian station; 22 Mar. 1882-16 Apr. 1884. Fair copy, imperfect apparently at the beginning, now commencing shortly before the ship's arrival at Fremantle from Simon's Bay, South Africa, and recording her voyage thence to Sydney, from which base she made a series of cruises to New Caledonia, New Hebrides, the Solomon Islands, the Fiji Islands, Samoa, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Ireland, New Britain, and New Guinea. Paper...
Scope & Content:: Navy; England: Log-book of H.M.S. 'Diamond': 1882-1884. includes: ff. 2-142 passim Maps and Plans: Voyages of H.M.S. 'Diamond': 1882-1884.ff. 20, 24, 27, 42, 118, 126 Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Watercolours of places in the South Pacific: 1882-1883.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 22 Mar 1882-16 Apr 1884
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 46348
Title:: HENRY VIII INVENTORY INVENTORY OF THE JEWELS, PLATE, and other effects of Henry VIII: Vol. I of an inventory in two volumes made by a commission appointed by Edward VI on 14 Sept. 1547, and completed (except art. 2) before the end of the first year of his reign, i.e. before 28 Jan. 1548, see further artt. 1 and 2 below. The present volume appears from the preface to art. 2 to have been part of the copy retained in official custody. Another copy of Vol. I is now Society of Antiquaries of Lo...
Scope & Content:: Inventories: Jewels, plate, and other effects of Henry VIII: 1547-1550. Henry VIII of England: Inventories of his jewels, plate, and other effects: 1547-1550. includes: f. i Bookplates and Book-stamps: Gwyn (Francis), of Ford Abbey: 1698.ff. 5-239 Jewels and Plate: Inventories of the jewe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1547-1548
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 46349
Title:: ACCOMPT AND MEMORANDUM Book of Sir John Howard, of Stoke by Nayland, co. Suff., Constable of Colchester and Norwich castles, Commissioner for the Peace, and of Array, for cos. Suff., Norf., Berks, etc., Sheriff of cos. Oxon and Berks 1467- 1468, Treasurer of the Household 1467-1474, l st Duke of Norfolk 1483, etc.; 5 Nov. 1462-Aug. 1469. English, except f. 78 (Latin). Written mainly by a clerk, but with substantial autograph additions and insertions by Howard throughout, artt. 2 and 5 being ...
Scope & Content:: John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk: Accompt and memorandum-book: 1462-1469.: Engl. and Lat.: Partly autogr. Accompts: Sir John Howard: 1462-1469.: Partly autogr. includes: f. iii Thomas Martin, of Palgrave: Note by: 1722.ff. 27-43b passim, 84-177b passim Navy; England: Accompts, etc., of Si...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1462-1469
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 46356
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Scope & Content:: KNIGHTLEY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. I (ff. i + 116). Forty-four letters from Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson, to William Henry, Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV, chiefly on naval affairs; 1795-1805. Extracts from nearly half of the letters were inaccurately printed by the Rev. J. S. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1795-1805
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 46412
Title:: MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL LETTERS AND PAPERS; 1644 - 1762. As follows:- (1) Letter from Charles I to Prince Rupert concerning the relief of Newark; Oxford, 7 March 164 ¾Sign-manual, and autograph postscript. Endorsed by the same hands as other letters from the Benett archive of Prince Rupert's correspondence (cf., e.g., Add. MS. 18983, f. 3b) but not included in the catalogue of that and other correspondence published by E. Warburton, Memoirs of Prince Rupert, i, 1849, pp 479-480. f. 1. (...
Scope & Content:: includes: f. 1 Rupert, Prince; Count Palatine of the Rhine: Letter to, from Charles I: 1644.f. 1 Charles I of England: Letter to Prince Rupert, 1644.: Sign-manual and autograph postscript.f. 2 Charles I of England: Letter to Lord Worcester: 1644.: Sign-manual.f. 2 George Digby, 2nd Baro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1644-1762
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 46705
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Scope & Content:: Vol. IV ( ff. 315 ). June 1795 - 1797, n.d. includes: ff. 1-231b passim Colonel Colebrooke Nesbitt, Major -General 1796: Correspondence with Col. G. Don: 1795.ff. 3, 144 Captain Thomas Brinley, 59th Foot; Lieutenant -Colonel 1796: Correspondence with Capt. W. Borthwick: 1795.ff. 3, 144 C...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: Jun 1795-1797
Extent:: 1 item

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