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1961. Add MS 89264

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Title:
Two letters from Queen Anne, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, to Charles, future Holy Roman Emperor, 1708, and to Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1710, with accompanying documents
Scope & Content:
1. Letter from Queen Anne to Charles, styled King Charles III of Spain, future Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor. Windsor, 20 September 1708. 1 bifolium. French. Anne writes on the occasion of the return of James Craggs junior as resident with Charles, to congratulate him on the arrival of the ne...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1708-c 1938
Extent:

1 file

1962. Add MS 89274

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Title:
Commonplace book of Anna Maria Loftus, 2nd Marchioness of Ely
Scope & Content:
Commonplace book containing poetry, epigrams, songs, epitaphs and riddles, with some pen and ink sketches. It includes several pieces on the deaths of George III, Queen Charlotte and Princess Charlotte, and the coronation of George IV. The entries are mainly English, with some in French, and d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1819-c 1823
Extent:
1 volume

1963. Add MS 89279

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Title:
Papers of Stella Alexander
Scope & Content:
Includes correspondence, chiefly of a family or personal nature; papers relating to Alexander's research on post-war Yugoslavia; papers relating to her work for the Quakers; writings and talks; and family, personal, and biographical papers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, French, German, and Serbian
Date Range:
1904-1998
Extent:
126 files

1964. Add MS 89287

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Title:
Correspondence and papers of Frances, Countess Waldegrave and Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, Baron Carlingford
Scope & Content:
A collection of correspondence and papers of Frances Elizabeth Anne Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave, and Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, Baron Carlingford.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Bulgarian, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1806-1934
Extent:

232 files

1965. Add MS 89291

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Title:
Correspondence and papers of Sir Joseph Archer Crowe
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers of Sir Joseph Archer Crowe, including diplomatic and personal papers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1855-1986
Extent:

58 files

1966. Add MS 89298

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Title:
Sir Harold Idris Bell: Additional papers relating to the acquisition of papyri by the British Museum, 1920-1935
Scope & Content:
Letters received by Bell from members of the papyrus purchasing syndicate, British Museum colleagues, and antiquities dealers, with some copies of Bell's outgoing letters; plus reports on planned and actual purchases, and inventory and distribution lists of papyrus collections and purchases.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1920-1949
Extent:

28 files

1967. Add MS 89309

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris (‘The Southwark Hours’)
Scope & Content:
A Book of Hours in Latin with some French, made in Paris for an unknown female patron. The illumination is attributed to the ‘Ravenelle Master’, active in Paris between c. 1390 and c. 1410. Ker dates it to ‘probably not long after 1387’ as it contains a memoria of Peter of Luxembourg (b. 1369, d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1968. Add MS 89325

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Title:
Journals of David Plenderleath
Scope & Content:
First volume was missing when acquired. Three journals of merchant David Plenderleath, recording details of his life and travels from 1751-1771. Plenderleath recorded his activities as a merchant of mainly brandy and other spirits, keeping a detailed list of the company he kept and the location...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1751-1771
Extent:
3 volumes

1969. Add MS 89332

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Title:
Hawksworth family documents
Scope & Content:
A volume, in two parts, containing manuscript transcriptions of letters and documents compiled by Walter Fawkes and relating to the Hawksworth family. The first part of the volume contains transcripts of correspondence, dating 1663-1667, and the second part consists of transcripts of documents s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1663-1668
Extent:
1 volume

1970. Add MS 89363

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Title:
D. M. Thomas Archive
Scope & Content:
Papers, correspondence, drafts, typescripts and manuscripts of the writer Donald Michael Thomas (1935–2023). The archive spans his whole career, preserving writings published and unpublished, business and personal correspondence, and proofs or first-edition copies of his published works.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1900-2005
Extent:
244 folders; 34 boxes

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