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432. Add MS 88942/1/123
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- Add MS 88942/1/123
- Title:
- Talbot: Notebook ('Notes and Observations')
- Scope & Content:
- Line by line notes and commentary on 'Bel and the Dragon' (1877), with notes on 'Column I' at the front of the book and notes on 'Col II' at the back of the notebook. With three loose sheets of related notes, dated 19 and 20 June 1876 (Lacock Abbey). The notebook is a continuation of Add MS 88942...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Akkadian and English
- Date Range:
- 1876
- Extent:
- 1 notebook (15 folios, 15 pages of text), 3 loose sheets (3 folios, 5 pages of text)
433. Add MS 88942/1/238
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- Add MS 88942/1/238
- Title:
- Talbot: Notebook ('Visiting Book 1816')
- Scope & Content:
- The visiting book, partly by Lady Elisabeth, partly by someone else, contains a list of names and addresses as well as a 'List for ball 1825' amongst other guest lists. Back to front (upside down): starts also "Visiting book 1816" but only four pages follow of which two are crossed out.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1816-1825
- Extent:
- 1 notebook (65 folios, 90 pages of text)
434. Add MS 88942/7/2
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- Add MS 88942/7/2
- Title:
- Talbot: Invitations
- Scope & Content:
- Invitation from ‘Mr Gassiot’ to Talbot (1845). ‘To meet Professors Schœnbein, Dove, Kupffer, and other distinguished Scientific Foreigners at present on a visit to this Country’. Reverse side has the text ‘Family letters alluding to Photographic Subjects’ written in pencil. National Trust Access...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1826-1937
- Extent:
- 1 file
435. Add MS 88942/1/311
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88942/1/311
- Title:
- Talbot: Notebook ('Books & Manuscripts relating to the Illustrious Family of Talbot and its Noble Alliances')
- Scope & Content:
- Divided into two sections. 1. 'Books & Manuscripts relating to the Illustrious Family of Talbot and its Noble Alliances'. An assembled bibliographical pedigree, combining partly printed descriptions of books and manuscripts (cut and adhered to the notebook folios) and partly copied passages...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Extent:
- 1 notebook (unbound)
436. Add MS 88942/3/2/3
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88942/3/2/3
- Title:
- Talbot: Publications concerning photography
- Scope & Content:
- 'The Photogram' (May 1900). Vol. 7. No. 77. On page II. there is an advertisement with coupon under the heading 'A Fox-Talbot Relic.' that contains the offer 'a proof from a plate actually made by Fox-Talbot himself in the year 1866.' to 'every reader of The Photogram.' NTA: 35723. 'The Photogra...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1900
- Extent:
- 1 file
437. Add MS 88942/1/160
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- Add MS 88942/1/160
- Title:
- Talbot: Notebook ('The Second Inscription of Esarhaddon')
- Scope & Content:
- The notebook contains a translation entitled 'The Second Inscription of Esarhaddon' - for an earlier draft, see Add MS 88942/1/157. The translation deals with the inscription of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon (681–669 BC), to which Talbot dedicated much of his time from the mid 1850s onwards. For f...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Akkadian and English
- Date Range:
- between 1875-1877
- Extent:
- 1 notebook (27 folios, 28 pages of text), 5 loose sheets (5 folios, 5 pages of text)
438. Add MS 88942/1/173
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- Add MS 88942/1/173
- Title:
- Talbot: Notebook ('The standard inscription of Ashur-akh-bal')
- Scope & Content:
- Manuscript draft of 'The standard inscription of Ashur-akj-bal translated by H F Talbot FRS'. At the head of the first page, 'Vol VII' is written in pencil (not in Talbot's hand).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Akkadian and English
- Date Range:
- [1865-1866]
- Extent:
- 1 notebook (20 folios, 12 pages of text)
439. Add MS 88942/1/189
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- Add MS 88942/1/189
- Title:
- Talbot: Notebook ('H')
- Scope & Content:
- This notebook contains mathematical notes on analyses (definite and indefinite integrals, 'On multiform functions', algebraic equations, and 'Arcs in the cubic parabola') and excerpts from books. A few late entries are from October 1835. Notebook started: 11 Oct 1830, Lacock. Designated 'H' on...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1830-1835
- Extent:
- 1 notebook (19 folios, 35 pages of text)
440. Add MS 88942/1/192
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- Add MS 88942/1/192
- Title:
- Talbot: Notebook ('K')
- Scope & Content:
- This notebook contains astronomical and mathematical notes. On the penultimate page of the notebook, Talbot records his observation of a total lunar eclipse at Paris, 26 December 1833. The mathematical notes deal with ellipses, hyperbolas, conic sections, parabolas, biquadratic equations, parabo...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1833-1841
- Extent:
- 1 notebook (22 folios, 45 pages of text)