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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4320
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XXI (ff. 287). U-W. includes: ff.1-4 Paul Vaillant, bookseller, of London; nephew of Isaac Vaillant: Letters to T. Birch: 1743-1753. ff. 6, 9-12 Rodolph Valltravers, FRS: Letters to T. Birch: 1755-1763. f. 7 Sauveur François Morand, FRS; French anatomist: Letters to T. Birch: 1757-1764.: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1737-1764
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4321
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XXII (ff. 278). W. includes: ff. 1, 3, 6 (copy) Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish mathematician and astronomer: Correspondence with T. Birch: 1753-1765.: Lat. and Fr. ff. 7, 9 Edward Waring, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge: Letters to T. Birch: 1758-1763. ff. 10-12 William Wa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1740-1765
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4323
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XXIV (ff. 67). Misc. includes: ff. 3, 39 Bocca, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Turin: Letters to the Royal Society: 1754.: Fr. f. 5 Count Francesco Algarotti,; Italian scholar: Letters to T. Birch: 1756, 1759.: Ital. f. 7 Sir Thomas Clarke, FRS; Master of the Rolls: Letters...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1651-1765
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4326 A
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Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. 184). (1) Revised drafts of portions of the Athenian letters having, in many cases, the initials of the revisers at the end of the letters (Nos. I-LXIII), published in 1741-1743. ff. 1-86. Followed by (a) 'Minutes of the Committee for revising' the same, the members present being '...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1741-1765
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4326 A-B
Title:: MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS OF THOMAS BIRCH. Two volumes. Quarto and folio.
Scope & Content:: Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Correspondence of: 1726-1766, n.d. includes: ff. 198-201 William Heberden, MD; FRS: Memoranda by T. Birch of conversations with: 1751.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: [1712-1765]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4326 B
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Scope & Content:: Vol. II (ff. 216). (1) Original letters addressed to Birch. The names of the writers are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. (2) Copies, in Birch's hand (with one exception) chiefly of state papers and letters, among them being (a) Extracts from the dispatches by Matthew Prior...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1712-1751
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4364
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Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. 170). (1) Instructions to George Downing, Extraordinary Ambassador to Geneva, Basle, etc., John Pell, Resident with the Evangelical Cantons of Switzerland, and Samuel Morland, Envoy to the Duke of Savoy; 28 July 1655. Draft, partly in Secretary Thurloe's hand. ff. 1-6b. (2) Instr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1653-1661
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4364-4365
Title:: COLLECTIONS RELATING TO THE SWISS CANTONS State papers and letters relating chiefly to the affairs of the Swiss Evangelical Cantons and Piedmont, and to Cromwell's efforts in 1656-1657, to detach the Cantons from France and to create throughout Europe an universal Protestant League. Two volumes. 1632-1714. Paper. Folio. Included are many letters from John Pell, Cromwell's Agent to the Cantons, and subsequently Resident at Zurich, and of John Durie, who with Cromwell's approbation acted with...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1632-1714
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4365
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Scope & Content:: Vol. II (ff. 399). (1) Johann Heinrich Rahn to J. Pell; Kyburg, near Zurich, 3 March 1658. Latin. ff. 5-6b. (2) John Pell to Theodore Hank, on scientific subjects; 1663, 1664. ff. 13-17b. (3) Ezerel Tonge, D.D., to J. Pell; 8 Oct. 1662. ff. 23-24. (4) John Aubrey, F.R.S., to J. Pell; cir...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1654-1714
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4367
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Scope & Content:: SIMON BROWNE COLLECTIONS Collection of miscellaneous theological letters and treatises, partly the work of Simon Browne, Minister at Portsmouth and at Old Jewry, London (1680-1732). Included are:- (1) Psalms i-xiii, metrical version, in the hand of Simon Browne. ff. 1-4. (2) 'Propositions c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

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