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11. Add MS 78907 R

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R. Two letters of William Ewart Gladstone to Richard de Aquila Grosvenor, the Liberal Party Chief Whip, concerning the 1885 General Election; 3, 6 Dec.1885. Included with the letter of 6 December is a table drawn up by Gladstone to be filled in by Grosvenor in order to assess the strength of th...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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1885
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1 item

12. Add MS 78907 W

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W. Letter from James II as Duke of York to Heneage Finch, 2[superscript]nd[/superscript] Earl of Winchilsea; 25 Aug. 1684. Recommending him to be a good father to his son who was in royal service; endorsed by Winchilsea as having been delivered by the Earl of Roscommon. Purchased from Stuart L...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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25 Aug 1684
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1 item

13. Add MS 78907 J

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J. Note in the third person from George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers (d.1803), to the publisher, John Stockdale (d.1814); 24 Nov. 1798. Pitt requests to be enrolled as a subscriber to Stockdale’s English edition of Cauchard’s map of Germany. The 25 sheet map, published in 1800, is in the Map Library ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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24 Nov 1798
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1 item

14. Add MS 78907 T

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T. French notarial document relating to land belonging to Elizabeth Guivaud and her husband of Péronne, dépt. Somme; 3 March 1703. French. With tax stamps from the Généralité d'Amiens. Presented by P. Makin of Morecambe, April 2003. Vellum; ff. 130-133v. Two bifolia. 235 x 185mm. Elizabet...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and French
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3 Mar 1703
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1 item

15. Add MS 78907 U

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U. Poem of fourteen lines beg. 'There is a pause — a leisure of the year' by Hartley Coleridge, eldest son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (b.1796, d.1849); 26 Sept. 1840. Autograph draft, signed and dated. Not included in The Complete Poetical Works of Hartley Coleridge, ed. Ramsay Colles (London,...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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26 Sep 1840
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1 item

16. Add MS 78907 C

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C. Three photographs of Robert Graves, author (b.1895, d.1985), signing copies of the Swallow Press edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, to which he had written the preface; [1975]. Together with a photograph showing some leaves of the book, a fine binding, spine lettering designs and box. A copy...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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[1975]
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17. Add MS 78907 Z

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Z. Two letters and two cards of George Bernard Shaw to Robin Flower, of the Department of Manuscripts at the British Museum; 1934. Partly typewritten and signed. Transferred from the Departmental Archives in January 2004. Paper; ff. 147-150v. Largest size 252 x 202mm. Robin Ernest William F...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1934
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1 item

18. Add MS 78907 I

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I. Petition to George III from William Garrard of Newington, co. Surr., requesting Letters Patent for sole rights to make and sell an ‘Antimeter or Reflecting Sector with its appendages for measuring angles accurately by land or sea’. An endorsement states that the King refers the matter to the ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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Dec 1780
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1 item

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Q. Four letters of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury (b.1801, d.1885). Three are addressed to Henry Rayner on the subject of a bill proposed by the Lord Chancellor relating to the mentally ill, and particularly objecting to the suggestion that Justices of the Peace should be al...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1885
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20. Add MS 78907 K

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K. Letter from Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Winchelsea (b.1657, d.1726), to the Hon. Mrs [Grace?] Thynne, [widow of Henry Thynne (b.1675, d.1708)]; 8 Aug. 1724. Finch describes an antiquarian tour of east Kent. Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, March 2003. Paper; ff. 84-87. 225 x 185mm. Heneage F...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
8 Aug 1724
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1 item