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41. Add MS 88942/1/214

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on algebra, equations of degree 3 and 5, solutions of a cubic, and refers back to Talbot's studies of the 1830s. The inside front cover records that it was commenced at 13 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh, and was therefore begun after 1864/65 when Talbot purchased thi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1860s]
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 8 pages of text)

42. Add MS 88942/1/221

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Botanical notebook listing plants and flowers found during a trip to Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Germany starting at Villa Hadriana. At the back of the notebook (upside-down), lists of plants found in Italy, Germany and England with detailed descriptions. Notebook started: 11 May 1823.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1823-1826
Extent:
1 notebook (77 folios, 153 pages of text)

43. Add MS 88942/1/222

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Botanical notebook starting 'Environs of Florence' (May 1826) containing lists of plants found in Italy, Germany and France, and at Lacock, up to 1839. Back to front (upside-down) contains further detailed descriptions of plants (also to 1839), probably referring to the lists of plants in the fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1826-1839
Extent:
1 notebook (68 folios, 79 pages of text)

44. Add MS 88942/1/245

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Accounts mainly regarding members of the Stilwell family. Includes four loose sheets of paper with account notes. LA number (National Trust accession number) has not been recorded on the item. Notebook started: 16 May 1818.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1818-1821
Extent:
1 notebook (58 folios, 116 pages of text), 4 loose sheets (4 folios, 8 pages of text)

45. Add MS 88942/1/300

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Various very brief notes: financial issues with John Harry Bolton (solicitor) about 122 Regent Street (Talbotype establishment); 'Accounts to be settled'; 'Miscellanea'; 'Money matters Coutts'; 'Wilkins' (plants for the gardener); 'at Paris' (with a note citing Figuier's method of engraving, and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1847-1854]
Extent:
1 notebook (52 folios, 5 pages of text)

46. Add MS 88942/1/310

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a few notes, calculations and small sketches in pencil that appear to be related to Lacock Abbey (the notebook begins with the dimensions of the 'North window of Gallery') and the garden (various measurements given in paces). With the notebook is a single sheet (originally...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (18 folios, 8 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 1 page of text)

47. Add MS 88942/1/314

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Talbotypes')
Scope & Content:
A notebook with an accompanying loose sheet, neither of which are in Talbot's hand. The notebook contains ten brief copied extracts of letters (1806-1823) from Lady Elisabeth Feilding to Lady Mary Talbot, and includes an anecdote by Lady Harriot Frampton; the extracts have been selected with a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 14 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 1 page of text)

48. Add MS 88942/1/301

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook (regarding Letters Patent)
Scope & Content:
A notebook containing copy texts relating to Talbot's Letters Patent for the calotype process: 'Improvements in obtaining Pictures or representations of objects' (8 February 1841). Talbot's Patent had included the proviso that 'the said Mr Henry Fox Talbot shall cause a particular description of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1841-1851]
Extent:

1 notebook (106 folios, 79 pages of text)

49. Add MS 88942/1/201

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This schoolbook contains drawings (ink, pencil and watercolour) of basic geometric figures and astronomical diagrams with annotations, possibly drawn with the help of a tutor. The geometrical drawings deal with surfaces and solids, regular bodies, circles and trigonometry. Amonst them are depict...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1809
Extent:
1 notebook (104 folios, 24 pages of text)

50. Add MS 88942/1/257

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Travel diary (mainly France and Italy) containing notes on climate, geography, scenery and architecture. There are more than a dozen small outline sketches of the scenery by Talbot. Back to front (upside down): a list of places, mainly in France, probably related to the travel notes. Notebook ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1826
Extent:
1 notebook (83 folios, 114 pages of text)