LIEVEN PAPERS. Vols. CLXXII-CLXXIV (ff. ii +31, ii +50, 20). Three note-books, in French, containing lists of visitors to Princess Lieven's salon in Paris and notes of engagements during her journeys elsewhere.
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Diaries and Memoranda: Princess Lieven: 1827-1857, n.d.: Mostly Fr.
LIEVEN PAPERS. Vol. CXLVII (ff. 204). Correspondence with Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux; bef. 1834-1854, n.d. English and French. Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux: Correspondence with Princess Lieven: 1834-1854, n.d.: Partly Fr.
LIEVEN PAPERS. Vols. CLXII-CLXIV (ff. 10, 14, 23). Three commonplace books of Princess Lieven, in English, French and Russian, consisting mostly of anecdotes and sayings of Talleyrand and others, but including (Vols. CLXII, f. 6 b; CLXIII, ff. 1 b-13 b passim) notes of accompts, and (Vol. CLXIV, ff. 18-23) inserted papers which include (f. 19) a water-colour drawing, presumably by Princess Lieven, of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1822.
LIEVEN PAPERS. Vols. CXVII-CXX. Letters, mostly copies in the hand of an amanuensis, from Princess Lieven to Alexandra, wife of Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia; 1833-1856. French. Four volumes.
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Nicholas I of Russia: Correspondence of his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna, with Princess Lieven: 1833-1856.: Fr.
Vol. CLXIV, n.d. includes: ff. 18, 19 Art. Illuminations and Drawings: RUSSIAN. Drawings of the 1822 eruption of Vesuvius, and of a young girl, [by Princess Lieven?]: n.d. f. 19 Vesuvius: Water-colour drawing [by Princess Lieven?] of the 1822 eruption: n.d. f.19 Italy: Water-colour drawing, by...
Vol. CXXIX (ff. 263).1821-June 1830. Ernest Augustus; King of Hanover; Duke of Cumberland, son of George III of Hanover: Letters from his wife, Frederica, as Duchess of Cumberland and as Queen Consort of Hanover, to Princess Lieven: 1815-1840, n.d.: Engl., Fr. and Germ.