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1. Add MS 5292

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Title:
Drawings of Chinese Flowers, Plants, and Fruits, in colours, by a native artist, at Emuy; with their names in Chinese
Scope & Content:
The first of three volumes which contain watercolours of Chinese flowers, plants and fruits by an unknown Chinese artists from Xiamen, known to Europeans at the time as Emuy or Amoy. Drawings of costumes that were also contained in this volume, were transferred to the British Museum Department o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1701
Extent:

1 volume

2. Add MS 5292-5294

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Title:
Drawings of Chinese Flowers, Plants, and Fruits, in colours, by a native artist, at Emuy; with their names in Chinese
Scope & Content:
Three volumes of drawings of flowers, plants and fruits by unknown Chinese artists, commissioned by James Cuninghame [Cunningham].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
c 1701
Extent:
3 volumes

3. Add MS 52920

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Scope & Content:
SCHIFF PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 226). Correspondence, etc., with Edwin Muir, and his wife, Wilhelmina Johnstone al. Willa; 1924-1960. Partly signed. Followed (ff. 213-226) by ten poems of Muir, circa 1924. Typewritten, with occasional autograph corrections. Published as First Poems, 1925. includes: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924-1960
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 52921

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SCHIFF PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 240). 1. ff. 1-71. Correspondence, etc., with John Northcote Nash; 1922-1943, n.d. Followed by:- (a) Biographical note by Schiff on Nash; 1925. Two typewritten drafts. ff. 45-54;- (b) Proofs of the plates for Schiff's John Nash; 1925. ff. 55-65;- (c) Proofs of Nash'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1919-1947
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 52922

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SCHIFF PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. 210). 1. ff. 1-42b. Letters of Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell, D.B.E.; 1924-1946, n.d. 2. ff. 43-68. Letters, etc., of Sir Osbert Sitwell, 5th Bart.; 1919-1946, n.d. 3. ff. 69-70. Letters of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bart.; 1921, 1926. 4. ff. 71-147. Correspond...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1961
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 52923

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Scope & Content:
SCHIFF PAPERS. Vol. VIII (ff. 191). General correspondence, etc., alphabetically arranged; 1907-1948, n.d. Includes: 1. ff. 1-34. Letters, etc., of Jean de Bosschère; 1921-1922. Partly French. 2. ff. 91-98. Letters, etc., of Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky; 1925-1936. Partly printed. See also ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1907-1948
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 52924

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DIARY OF SIR JOHN KNATCHBULL, 2nd Bart., of Mersham Hatch, co. Kent; 16 Sept. 1688-4 Apr. 1689. Copy, aft. Mar. 1848, by Fanny Catherine Knatchbull, 2nd wife of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Bart., (note on f. 1b) of the original, then at Mersham, which is described on f. 1b as being in poor condition, and has now disappeared. Add. MS. 33923, ff. 430-481b, comprises an earlier copy, by the Rev. Thomas Streatfield, 1835. Contains an interesting account of the 1688 Revolution, extracts from which...
Scope & Content:
Diaries and Memoranda: Sir J. Knatchbull, 2nd Bart.: 1688-1689: Copy, aft. 1848. James II of England: Diary of Sir J. Knatchbull, 2nd Bart. rel. to the `Glorious Revolution',: 1688-1689: Copy, aft. 1848. Sir John Knatchbull, 2nd Baronet: Diary,: 1688-1689: Copy, aft. 1848. Fanny Catherine Kna...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1688-4 Apr 1689
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 52925

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CORRESPONDENCE OF THE RADFORD FAMILY, of Manchester and Bury, co. Lanc.; 1770-circa 1855. Thirty-one of the letters are written by Captain Thomas John Harvey, 66th Foot, mostly to his mother, Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Harvey, from the Peninsula, 1811-1813, and as a prisoner in France, 1813-1814, and to his mother and sister, Elizabeth Caroline, wife of Joseph Radford, from Wales, 1815-1823, and India, 1824, where he was serving in the 1st Regt. He died at Patanagoh in Burma, 11 Feb. 1826. Tw...
Scope & Content:
Radford family; of Manchester and Bury, Lancashire: Correspondence and papers,: circa 1770-1855. includes: f. 1 James Pell, in London: Letter to John Radford,: 1770.f. 1 John Radford, the elder; of Manchester: Letter to,: 1770.f. 3 James Radford, son of the elder Richard Radford: Letter ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1770-c 1855
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 52926

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JOHN LE NEVE, FASTI ECCLESIAE ANGLICANAE: The first edition, 1716. Printed. Interleaved, added to, and profusely annotated by White Kennett, Bishop of Peterborough (d. 1728). One of several annotated copies used by T. D. Hardy for his edition of the Fasti, 1854. See J. M. Horn, Fasti . . . 1300-1541, 'Introduction', xii, 1967, p. 4. Kennett's own collections for lists of ecclesiastical dignitaries, used extensively by Le Neve, are among Lansdowne MSS. 935-1041. Owned by White Kennett, 1716-1...
Scope & Content:
England, Ecclesiastical History: J. Le Neve, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, annotated by Bp. W. Kennett: 1716. John Le Neve, antiquary: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, annotated by Bp. W. Kennett: 1716. includes: ff. 78-422b passim Browne Willis, antiquary: Letters, etc., to Bp W. Kennett: 1721-1726...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1706-1726
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 52927

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RICHARD STRAUSS: 'CAPRICCIO', op. 85, the conclusion of scene VII and the beginning of scene VIII; [Sept.?] 1940. Autograph, comprising the portion of the opera from five bars before figure 110 to seven bars after figure 113 in the printed score, Mainz, 1942, with the following major differences:- (a) Eight extra bars at the end of scene VII are marked to be cut, bringing the music to its final form. This cut is preceded by the stage direction '(Lärm im Nebensaal)'. Other stage directions, i...
Scope & Content:
Richard Georg Strauss, composer: `Capriccio', op. 85, in short score,: 1940: Autogr. draft fragm.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[Sep ?] 1940
Extent:
1 item