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Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10675
Title:
Scope & Content:: FRANCIS WILLUGHBY. Autograph note and diagram on the fact that fishes always swim fat end first, as demonstrated by Sir William Petty with a triangular piece of wood. Creation date: [c. 1660].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 14 Jun 2016
Extent:: 2 photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10677
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1. Conveyance, WILLIAM BARNES of Chatham and his wife AGNES BARNES to JOHN HAWKIN of London. 2. Deed of Ratification, Dame MARGARET HAWKINS, widow and executrix of JOHN HAWKINS, to the Governors of the Hospital of Sir John Hawkins in Chatham: a piece of ground belonging to St. Bartholemews call...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 9 Jun 2016
Extent:: Digital images on compact disc.

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10678
Title:
Scope & Content:: Order assigning 'five thousand poundes' to JAMES QUARLES and MARMADUKE DARRELL for providing victuals for the Queen's fleet. 1 folio. Creation dates: 11 February 1595.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 6 Jun 2016
Extent:: Digital image on compact disc.

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10680
Title:
Scope & Content:: OLDYS, William. Manuscript book entitled: 'Catalogue of my Prints or Grand Portraits of our most Eminent Countrymen'. 150 pp. in the hand of Oldys. Bookplate of Horace Walpole. Creation dates: 1730.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 24 May 2016
Extent:: Digital images on 2 compact discs.

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10681
Title:
Scope & Content:: TAYLOR, DEBORAH. English seventeenth century culinary and medicinal manuscript, bound. Creation date: 1693.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 14 Jun 2016
Extent:: 15 x A4 colour photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10682
Title:
Scope & Content:: LEWIS, C. S. Two autograph letters signed to JUSTIN RITCHIE, the first listing authors he should read on coming up to Oxford. Creation dates: 1940-1944.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 30 Jun 2016
Extent:: 4 photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10683
Title:
Scope & Content:: JOHN JERVIS, EARL ST. VINCENT (1735-1823). Autograph letter signed to Captain WALTER BATHURST (1764-1827) asking him to take his great nephew WILLIAM RICKETTS out to the Mediterranean and find him a ship. Creation date: 23 May 1813.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 30 Jun 2016
Extent:: 2 photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10685
Title:
Scope & Content:: HESTER CHAPONE (1727-1801). Autograph poem: 'Sonnet / To a Robin Redbreast'. Creation date: 1752.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 14 Jun 2016
Extent:: 1 photocopy sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10686
Title:
Scope & Content:: EDWIN MUIR. Typed letter signed to Victor Gollancz regarding translation of The Trial by Franz Kafka, with typed reply Creation date: 15 December 1934.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 9 Jun 2016
Extent:: Digital images on compact disc.

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10687
Title:
Scope & Content:: JOSHUA HETT SMITH. Autograph letter signed 'To the Unknown Author of the Eulogium on the Narrator of the Causes which led to the Death of Major André' (6 February 1809); and autograph letter signed to Cadell & Davies about the poet Anna Seward (17 August 1809). Creation date: 1809.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 9 Jun 2016
Extent:: 6 colour photocopy sheets.

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