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1. Add MS 88942/1/270

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Kearsley’s Gentleman’s and Tradesman’s Pocket Ledger')
Scope & Content:
The inside front pocket contains a card on which is noted: 'This diary was written by Lady Mary Cole (Lady Mary Talbot) 1846'. (Lady Mary was Henry Talbot's aunt, and the date presumably records the date the note was written). The diary for 1838 contains miscellaneous personal notes and entries...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1836-1846
Extent:
1 notebook (i + 106 ff.)

2. 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

3. Add MS 88942/1/300

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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)

4. 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

5. Add MS 88942/1/310

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a few notes, calculations and small sketches in pencil that appear to be related to Lacock Abbey (the notebook begins with the dimensions of the 'North window of Gallery') and the garden (various measurements given in paces). With the notebook is a single sheet (originally...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (18 folios, 8 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 1 page of text)