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291. Add MS 88942/1/41

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Add MS 88942/1/41
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The majority of this exercise book comprises Latin translation and grammar exercises (including hymns and poems) with very few relations to Greek or Roman languages from 1811 and 1812 when Talbot was at Harrow. Judging by the different uses of ink and pencil it seems that Talbot kept editing, ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1811-1815?
Extent:
1 notebook (34 folios, 62 pages of text)

292. Add MS 88942/1/43

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Add MS 88942/1/43
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Inscribed 'ETF', this notebook contains notes by Talbot's mother Elisabeth Theresa Feilding. It contains: mathematical notes like 'Transverse axis of an Ellipses or Hyperbola'; definitions of optical, mathematical and chemical terminology in English and French; definitions and translations of mo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1811
Extent:
1 notebook (92 folios, 101 pages of text)

293. Add MS 88942/1/47

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Add MS 88942/1/47
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook starts 'Analogy is the great guiding principle of etymological researches' and contains etymological notes in mainly English, French, Italian, German, Greek, and Persian. Notebook started: 25 Nov 1831.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Persian
Date Range:
1831
Extent:
1 notebook (31 folios, 62 pages of text)

294. Add MS 88942/1/54

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Add MS 88942/1/54
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Possibly a draft for The Antiquity of the Book of Genesis (1839).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
[1838]-1839
Extent:
1 notebook (12 folios, 15 pages of text)

295. Add MS 88942/1/228

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Add MS 88942/1/228
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook records expenditure, beginning (1812) listing books and journals from 1812-17. It is then used again on June 28th 1845 recording miscellaneous expenditure up to 11 March 1846, mainly in Lady Elisabeth's hand. Notebook started: 1 Jan 1812.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1812-1846
Extent:
1 notebook (47 folios, 51 pages of text)

296. Add MS 88942/1/253

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Add MS 88942/1/253
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains copied scientific and other extracts, from Lord Lyttelton, Weiss, Samuel Johnson, Hannah More and Walter Scott, written in different places on the continent presumably as handwriting practice. The front cover indicates that the notebook belonged to Henrietta Horatia Maria F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1823-1824
Extent:
1 notebook (18 folios, 36 pages of text)

297. Add MS 88942/1/266

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Add MS 88942/1/266
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Address book, spanning the period 1833-1842.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1833-1842
Extent:
1 notebook (56 folios, 103 pages of text)

298. Add MS 88942/1/155

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Add MS 88942/1/155
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Cypriote inscriptions')
Scope & Content:
Attempts on Cypriot sounds and signs. Talbot compares them with a translation by George Smith. Many blank pages. Notebook started: Oct 1876.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cypriot and English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
1 notebook (30 folios, 6 pages of text)

299. Add MS 88942/1/223

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Garden')
Scope & Content:
The earliest entry in this notebook, which takes the form of a Lacock garden diary, is at the back (17 December 1828). At the front of the notebook, the first page (f. 2) has been removed. The notebook begins (f. 3) with an entry dated 4 April 1829: 'Put an edging of saxifrage & thrift 3 inc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1829
Extent:
1 notebook (16 ff.)

300. Add MS 88942/1/282

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Add MS 88942/1/282
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Ball Tuesday 18th July 1843')
Scope & Content:
The slim notebook contains a list of guests, in alphabetical order, attending a 'Ball' that is identified only by the date written on the front cover. (Written in the same hand as Add MS 88942/1/281, which records attendees at another Ball.)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1843
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 20 pages of text)