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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 42509
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Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. 17). Exercise-book, containing eleven poems, circ. 1904- 1906. Those at ff. 2, 3, 5 and 7 bear autograph notes in pencil, half-erased, recording their publication in the Rugby School magazine Phoenix, no. 2, Nov. 1904, and no. 3, Mar. 1905. All are printed, with approximate dates of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1904-1906
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 42510
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Scope & Content:: Vol.. II (ff. 16). Scribbling pad, with notes in pencil, containing:- (a) notes of military lectures and personal memoranda made whilst in the Royal Naval Division training at Blandford; Oct.-Dec. 1914. ff. 1-10;- (b) drafts of war poems, some cancelled, consisting of lines of War Sonnets, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1914
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 42518
Title:: Thomas Speght, The Workes of our Antient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed; with autograph notes by Gabriel Harvey
Scope & Content:: This book contains the publication by Thomas Speght (d. 1621) of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The Workes of our Antient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed (London: Islip, 1598). It features autograph notes by the scholar and writer Gabriel Harvey (b. 1552/3, d. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1598
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 42714
Title:: 'MEMOIRS OF THE EARLY LIFE OF JOHN ELLIOTT, of Elliott House, Near Ripon-Yorkshire, Esqre and, Lieut: of the Royal Navy: written by himself, at the request of his Wife, for the use, and amusement of his children only', extending from his birth (11 Jan. 1759) to the Battle of the Saintes (12 Apr. 1782). The most important part of the work is an account (ff. 7b- 45 b) of the second voyage of Captain James Cook, in H.M. S. 'Resolution,' in which Elliott served as a Midshipman, 1772-1775. Elliot...
Scope & Content:: Lieutenant John Elliott, RN; of Elliott House, near Ripon: Memoirs of his early life, early 19th cent: 1759-1782: Autogr. Brenzett, Kent: Deeds and papers rel. to: 1448-1777.: fr. includes: f. i Lieutenant John Elliott, RN; of Elliott House, near Ripon: Signet: n.d. f. 1b Captain James Cook, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 43390
Title:: BRIGHT PAPERS. Vol. VIII (ff. 286). Letters from.- (1) John Bigelow, U.S. Minister in Paris; 1861-1868. ff. 1-49b. (2) Edward Lillie Pierce, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Massachusetts; 1853-1887. ff. 50-122. (3) Charles Sumner, the American statesman; 1857-1872. ff. 123-286.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1853-1887
Extent:: Manuscript, ff. 286

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 43391
Title:: Correspondence of John Bright with citizens of the United States of America
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1853-1887
Extent:: Manuscripts, ff. 392

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 43483
Title:: Emily Brontë, 'The Gondal Poems'. George Smith Memorial Bequest Vol X
Scope & Content:: Autograph volume of juvenilia, entitled ''The Gondal Poems'', by Emily Jane Brontë with pencil notes and headings throughout by Charlotte Brontë. The poems were ''Transcribed February 1844'' (sic, f. 1), with additions made later in the same year and down to 13 May 1848 (see f. 346) (the first p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1844-1848
Extent:: 1 item

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