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101. Add MS 86841

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Title:
Jane Austen's writing desk
Scope & Content:
A wooden writing desk used by Jane Austen which was given to her by her father in 1794. This portable 'writing-box' opens to provide a slope to write on. It has various compartments, including a space for an ink pot and a lockable drawer for paper and valuables. Two pairs of tortoiseshell spect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 desk with accompanying objects

102. Add MS 89485

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Title:
Leaves from the manuscript of Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
Scope & Content:
Two folios of the autograph manuscript of Kenilworth, numbered 16 and 17 by Scott, with insertions and corrections on the versos. The two folios belong to chapter four of volume II of the manuscript, the greater part of which is found at Egerton MS 1661. The text begins halfway through chapter ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1820
Extent:
2 folios

103. Add MS 89486

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Title:
Charlotte Brontë, 'Characters of the Celebrated Men of the Present Time by Captain Tree'
Scope & Content:
Miniature book by Charlotte Brontë titled, 'Characters of the Celebrated Men of the Present Time by Captain Tree'. Written in ink on hand cut paper. In ten chapters, each signed by 'CB', 'Captain Tree', 'C. Tree' or 'CT' and dated between 12 and 17 December 1829. Contents: ‘Chapter the first C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Dec 1829-17 Dec 1829
Extent:
1 volume

104. Add MS 89487

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Title:
Charlotte Brontë, letter to William Smith Williams
Scope & Content:
Charlotte Brontë, autograph letter signed 'C. Bell' to William Smith Williams, 10 November 1847. 4 pages. Subjects include reviews of Jane Eyre and speculation about the authorship of the novel and of Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), forthcoming novels by Charlotte's sisters Emily ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Nov 1847
Extent:

1 letter (2 folios)

105. Add MS 89488

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Title:
Emily Brontë’s notebook of poems
Scope & Content:
Notebook containing 31 poems written in ink on lined paper by Emily Brontë, with some autograph revisions. Further revisions in pencil by Charlotte Brontë. The first poem is dated 11 November 1838 and the last 2 January 1846. On the first page (f. 4r) are the initials 'EJB' and 'Transcribed Febr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1844-1846
Extent:
1 volume

106. Add Roll 77740/1

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Title:
Household accounts for the upkeep of Mary, Queen of Scots, at Wingfield Manor and Tutbury Castle
Scope & Content:
This roll contains a set of financial accounts relating to the upkeep of Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542, d. 1587), and her household at Wingfield Manor, in Derbyshire, and Tutbury Castle, in Staffordshire, compiled by the cofferer's clerk Bryan Cave between 18 December 1584 and 27 February 1585. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
[18 Dec 1584-27 Feb 1585]
Extent:
1 roll

107. Add Roll 77740/2

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Title:
Household accounts for the upkeep of Mary, Queen of Scots, at Wingfield Manor and Tutbury Castle (duplicate)
Scope & Content:
This roll contains a copy of a set of financial accounts relating to the upkeep of Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542, d. 1587), and her household at Wingfield Manor, in Derbyshire, and Tutbury Castle, in Staffordshire, compiled by the cofferer's clerk Bryan Cave between 18 December 1584 and 27 Febru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
[18 Dec 1584-27 Feb 1585]
Extent:
1 roll

108. Ashley MS 154

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Ashley MS 154
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Scope & Content:
'Self-communion' and 'The Narrow Way': two poems by Anne Brontë; 1847-1848. Autograph fair copies, with revisions and deletions, written on both sides of nine octavo leaves of white wove paper and on one side only of a tenth. Watermark 'J Whatman/1833'. The longer poem, written on ff. 1-9, is en...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1847-1848
Extent:
1 item

109. Ashley MS 156

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Ashley MS 156
Title:
Scope & Content:
''The Search after Hapiness'' (sic): a tale written at the age of thirteen by Charlotte Brontë; 1829. Autograph fair copy with many revisions and deletions, written on both sides of seven irregularly sized (average 60 x 90mm.) leaves of white wove paper, and on one side only of an eighth. Waterm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1829
Extent:
1 item

110. Ashley MS 157

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Ashley MS 157
Title:
Scope & Content:
''Blackwoods Young Men''s Magazine'' (First Series, No. 6): a miniature magazine written by Charlotte and Branwell Brontë; 1829. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written in minute characters in imitation of print on both sides of nine irregularly sized (average 35 x 50mm.) leaves of white wo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1829
Extent:
1 item

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