Vol. DLXXXII (ff. 194). Papers of the Bedfordshire committee, comprising mostly letters to the Bedfordshire committee from the Eastern Association committee, committee for both Kingdoms, etc.; 1645-1652, n.d. Bedfordshire: Papers of Parliamentary Committee: 1644-1652, n.d. Sir William Boteler,...
BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vol. DLXXXIII (ff. 93). Political, literary and family papers; [1601?]-1659, n.d. The position of some of these papers in the list in H.M.C. 8th Report, pt. 1, pp. 2-12, suggests that they may be associated with Add. MSS. 61681 and 61682 above. F. 82 derives from the Boteler fam...
BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vol. DLXXXIV (ff. 233). Correspondence and papers of Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, and Thomas Trevor, 2nd Baron Trevor of Bromham, grandfather and father respectively of Elizabeth, wife of Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough; 1719-1752. See also Add. MS. 61446 above: — ...
BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vol. DLXXXV (ff. ii+21). 'A Booke [sh]ewinge the true and auncient Genealogie of Sir Roger Moston of Moston in the county of Flint Knight [grandfather of Sir Roger Mostyn, Ist Bart.]. . . anno 1623', with additions to 1628 (see f. 18, which notes the creation of Sir Richard Youn...
Vol. DLXXXVI (ff. 169). (1) General correspondence of Steele and his 2nd wife, Mary, née Scurlock; 1705-1724, n.d. Partly French. Partly drafts. See The Correspondence of Sir Richard Steele, ed. R. Blanchard, Oxford, 1941, and C. J. Wright, art. cit. ff. 1-67. Including: — (a) Letter of Rev. A...
F. Section III. CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS OF SIR RICHARD STEELE 61686-61688. BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vols. DLXXXVI-DLXXXVIII. Correspondence and papers of Sir Richard Steele, supplementing the large holding of Steele material already in the British Library, most notably Add. MS. 5145 A, B, C, which John Nichols presented to the British Museum and on which he based The Epistolary Correspondence of Sir Richard Steele, 1787; 2nd ed. 1809. The provenance of the present papers is discussed by C. J. Wri...
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Sir Richard Steele, author and politician: Correspondence and papers: 1696-aft. 1727, n.d.
Vol. DLXXXVII (ff. 175). Letters to Steele as editor of the following periodicals. — (1) The Tatler; 1709-1710. See R. P. Bond, New Letters to The Tatler and Spectator, Austin, Texas 1959; A. J. Prescott, 'Some Further Letters to the Tatler and the Spectator', Factotum, 14 (April 1982), pp. 21-2...
Vol DLXXXVIII (ff. 118). Literary papers; 1705-aft. 1727, n.d. Mostly autograph. Partly Latin and French. Comprises: — (1) Drafts, memoranda, etc., for: — (a) Epitaph on Robert, 3rd Baron Lucas; 1705. Latin. See Aitken Life of Steele, I, p. 107. f. 1; — (b) The Englishman's Thanks to the Duke of...