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211. Add MS 88942/1/303

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Add MS 88942/1/303
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('W. H. Fox Talbot')
Scope & Content:
Modern notebook on Talbot's parents, probably completed by Matilda Talbot (1871-1958), Talbot's granddaughter. It includes extracts and summaries of letters and possibly diary entries by Talbot's mother, spanning 1792-1835.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
1 notebook (52 folios, 17 pages of text)

212. Add MS 88942/1/126

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Add MS 88942/1/126
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Notes on Tablets of Creation Series')
Scope & Content:
Notebook with many pages cut from the front. On the front cover, Talbot has written 'from Delitzsch, Notes on tablets of Creation Series', with 'Birs. N' (struck-through) written beneath. Talbot evidently cut out the pages with the notes of 'Birs. N.' (1860s) and then re-used the notebook for hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1876?-1877
Extent:
1 notebook (8 folios, 10 pages of text)

213. Add MS 88942/1/169

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Add MS 88942/1/169
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Defence of a Magistrate, falsely accused')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a draft of a translation of a tablet in the British Museum. It also includes two pages of notes at the back of the notebook on the first public announcement of Talbot's photographic experiments (by Michael Faraday, at the Royal Institution, 1839). Notebook started: 3 May 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1877
Extent:
1 notebook (6 folios, 12 pages of text)

214. Add MS 88942/1/177

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Add MS 88942/1/177
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Creation Tabl[et] / Interlinear 1st part')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is a first draft of Add MS 88942/1/127. Many pages are cut out. Continuous with Add MS 88942/1/176.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1875
Extent:
1 notebook (7 folios, 10 pages of text)

215. Add MS 88942/1/149

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Add MS 88942/1/149
Title:
Talbot: 'The Revolt in Heaven / from a Chaldean Tablet'
Scope & Content:
Manuscript of Talbot, 'The Revolt in Heaven', on loose sheets. See Add MS 88942/1/150-151 for related material.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
[1876]
Extent:
27 ff.

216. Add MS 88942/1/151

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Add MS 88942/1/151
Title:
Talbot: 'The Revolt in Heaven from a Chaldean Tablet'
Scope & Content:
Printed. Annotated, at the top of the first page: 'Send Second Revise'. With handwritten revisions and corrections throughout.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:

12 ff.

217. Add MS 88942/1/242

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Add MS 88942/1/242
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('W H F Talbot Esq, Trinity College')
Scope & Content:
Account with J. Mortlock and Sons, from 17 October 1817- 10 April 1821. Carries Talbot's name and Trinity College on the back cover. Notebook started: 21 Oct 1817.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1817-1821
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 8 pages of text)

218. Add MS 88942/1/342

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Add MS 88942/1/342
Title:
Talbot: Notebook (Accounts John Gale 'For Carpenter's Work')
Scope & Content:
Accounts headed: 'W. H. F. Talbot Esq. D[ebto]r To John Gale For Carpenter's Work done, and Materials supplied to the Farms and Cottages from Michaelmas 1853 to Lady Day 1854.' With signature of John Gale (13 July 1855) across penny stamp on f. 19v. With summary information to front and back covers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1853-1855
Extent:
1 notebook (i + 22 ff.)

219. Add MS 88942/1/347

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Add MS 88942/1/347
Title:
Talbot: Notebook (Accounts John Gale 'For Carpenter's Work')
Scope & Content:
Accounts headed: 'W. H. F. Talbot Esq. D[ebto]r To John Gale For Carpenter's Work done and Materials used on The Manor of Lacock. From Lady Day to Michaelmas 1856'. With signature of John Gale (11 July 1862) across penny stamp on f. 12. With summary information on front and back covers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1856-1862
Extent:
1 notebook (ii + 12 ff.)

220. Add MS 88942/1/219

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Add MS 88942/1/219
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Plantarum rariorum stationes à W.H.F.T. annis 1814, 1815, 1816, observata.-')
Scope & Content:
Five notebooks list botanical specimens Talbot identified during his travels in Britain and on the continent (Add MS 88942/1/219-223). These notebooks are complemented by Herbaria amongst his papers at the British Library. From an early age, Talbot was keenly interested in plants. As a boy, he ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1814-1816
Extent:
1 notebook (25 ff.)