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Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9990
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Scope & Content:: NIGHTINGALE, Florence. Autograph letter signed to Dr John Elliott, informing him of the responses from 'several London Accoucheurs' to Elliott's work 'Instructions for Midwives'. Creation dates: 05 June 1874
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 9 Jan 2013
Extent:: 2 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9991
Title:
Scope & Content:: BEDE, Cuthbert, pseud. (Edward Bradley) & HOW, William Walsham, Bishop of Wakefield. A collection of limericks, each with an original ink illustration by Bede, including a note by the Bishop that Bradley did the illustrations for him, for rhymes written in about 1846. Creation dates: [circa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 9 Jan 2013
Extent:: 4 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9992
Title:
Scope & Content:: DICKENS, Charles. First separate edition of 'Barnaby Rudge', 1841, inscribed by Dickens on the titlepage 'Mrs Smithson from Charles Dickens New Years Day 1842'. Mrs Smithson was presumably the wife of Charles Smithson, partner of Dickens's friend and lawyer Thomas Mitton. Creation dates: 1 Jan ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 9 Jan 2013
Extent:: 1 photocopy

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9993
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Scope & Content:: CARTER, Howard (1874-1939). Letter from the Swiss diplomat C R Paravicini relating to persian rugs. Creation dates: 26 Jul 1931
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 10 Jan 2013
Extent:: 2 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9994
Title:
Scope & Content:: CARTER, Howard (1874-1939):- Draft typed letter from Carter to the Director General, Service des Antiquités, Cairo, regarding the use of laboratory No 15; 6 Jan 1931. Typed letter signed to Carter from J. E. Heriot of John Long Ltd publishers, asking for permission to secure and reproduce a phot...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 10 Jan 2013
Extent:: 2 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9995
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Scope & Content:: WOOD, Sir Henry. Signed cabinet portrait photograph of Henry Wood with 5 performers from the Promenade Concerts, namely Albert Fransella, Désiré Lalande, Friedrich Borsdorf, Manuel Gomez and Edwin James, on W. Whiteley Ltd Photographers London mount. Creation dates: [1897]
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 11 Jan 2013
Extent:: 1 photocopy

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9996
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Scope & Content:: CARTER, Howard (1874-1939). Typed and autograph letter signed from the Duke of Alba, discussing the showing of Carter's slides in Spanish locations, and also mentioning the award to Carter of a medal from the Academia de la Historia in Madrid. Creation dates: 12 Dec 1924
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 10 Jan 2013
Extent:: 2 colour photographs

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9997
Title:
Scope & Content:: SCOTT, Sir Walter. Manuscript account, made out to Scott by the Edinburgh milliners S. & H. Brown, for clothing made for and supplied to "the Misses Scott", Lady Scott, her sister and her daughters, during the period May 1818 - May 1820. The accounts apparently made out in 1826. Creation da...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17 Jan 2013
Extent:: 12 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9998
Title:
Scope & Content:: JOHNSON, Samuel. Johnson's copy, with his annotations, of the George Chapman translation of Homer's 'Iliad' & 'Odyssey'. Creation dates: [1740s]
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 22 Jan 2013
Extent:: 43 colour photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9999
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Scope & Content:: EVELYN, John. Autograph letter signed to Ralph Thoresby, written from his son's house in Dover Street, concerning two coins which Thoresby had asked him about, and with Thoresby's autograph notes identifying the pieces as 'Lord Fairfax enameled upon Gold' and 'a crown and 12d obsidional pieces'....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 10 Jan 2013
Extent:: 1 photocopy

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