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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61873-61876
Title:: NORTH (SHEFFIELD PARK) PAPERS. Vols. XIV-XVII. Family correspondence and papers; 1600-1810, n.d. Four volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1600-1810
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61874
Title:
Scope & Content:: NORTH (SHEFFIELD PARK) PAPERS. Vol. XV (ff. 199). 1760-1792, n.d. 1. ff. 1-52. Correspondence of Lord and Lady North with Francis, 1st Earl of Guilford; 1771-1785. 2. ff. 53-108. Guilford and North family correspondence; 1775-1792, n.d. 3. ff. 109-199. General correspondence of the North f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1760-1792
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61880
Title:: BOOK OF CALLIGRAPHIC SPECIMENS: by members of the Manuscript Club, for presentation, as a token of appreciation, to William Graily Hewitt; assembled on 1 July 1938. English, Latin and French. Many pieces are illuminated as well as calligraphically written. A list of contributors occurs on ff. 41-41v. Presented by David Mure Wacher, nephew of Graily Hewitt's wife, Lilian. Vellum; ff. 41. 265 x 200mm. Binding of dark green morocco with gold tooling, incorporating the monogram 'WGH', by Peter...
Scope & Content:: Bindings ENGLISH: Peter McLeish, binder: Green morocco gold tooled binding by Peter McLeish: 1938. Calligraphy: William Graily Hewitt, scribe: Manuscript Club: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Book of calligraphic specimens presented to William Graily Hewitt by the Manuscript Club: 1938...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1 Jul 1938
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61891
Title:: MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS. Paper and vellum; ff. 135. British Library arrangement. A. Passport for travel between Marseilles and Paris issued by the municipal authorities of Marseilles and Lyon to Joseph Sellis (1771-1811), valet to Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland; Jan. 1791. French. Partly printed. Supplementing Add. 27851, 27852. Presented by Miss Phyllis Sewell, Sellis's great-great granddaughter, Jan. 1981. f. 1. 385 x 250mm. B. Miscellaneous letters to Montague J. Gue...
Scope & Content:: includes: f. 1 Passports: Joseph Sellis: Passport between Marseilles and Paris for Joseph Sellis: 1791: Fr: Partly printed.f. 2 Alfred Montgomery, Commissioner of Inland Revenue: Letter to M. J. Guest from Alfred Montgomery: 1873.ff. 2-30 Montague John Guest, MP: Letters to Montague John Guest:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:: 1000-1978
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61893
Title:: JACQUES BRUNIUS: correspondence of Jacques B. Brunius (d. 1967) and others, with various authors, the literary agency of John Farquharson Ltd., the Hogarth Press and the Pilot Press; 1944-1946. Partly French. Relating to proposals by Editions de la Revue Fontaine, (of which review Brunius was 'correspondent général pour l'Angleterre'), regarding the proposed translation and publication in France of novels, biographies, etc., by Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, V. S. Pritchett, Virginia Woolf ...
Scope & Content:: Literary History: Jacques B. Brunius, English correspondent of the 'Revue Fontaine': Publishing: Correspondence of Jacques B. Brunius: 1944-1946: Partly Fr. includes: ff. 1-9v John Davys Beresford, author: Letters to J. Brunius from John Davys Beresford: 1945, 1946: Partly signed.f. 10 Pau...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1944-1946
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61894-61896
Title:: SUPPLEMENTARY MACMILLAN PAPERS: business and private correspondence of George Lillie Craik (d. 1905), partner in the publishing house of Macmillan; 1845-1905, n.d. Some letters are addressed to Alexander Macmillan, co-founder of the firm, and to other partners. The private correspondence reflects Craik's interest in the visual arts. Also included is some private correspondence of Craik's first wife, Dinah Maria, née Mulock, the novelist. Supplementing the Macmillan Papers, Add. 54786-56035 (...
Scope & Content:: Macmillan and Co; publishers: Literary History: Publishing: Correspondence of Macmillan and Co. (publishers): 1853-1905, n.d. George Lillie Craik, author; of Macmillan and Co., publishers: Correspondence of George Lillie Craik: 1853-1905. Alexander Macmillan, of Macmillan and Co., publishers: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:: 1845-1905
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61895
Title:
Scope & Content:: SUPPLEMENTARY MACMILLAN PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 189). 1. ff. 1-32v. Letters from Briton Riviere, painter; 1878-1897. 2. ff. 33-75. Letters from Sir (John) William Watson, poet; 1891-1897, n.d. 3. ff. 76-189. General correspondence, arranged alphabetically (A-F); 1853-1897, n.d. includes: ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:: 1853-1897
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61897
Title:: BERNARD FOREST DE B&EACUTE;LIDOR: 'Memoire sur une nouvelle Theorie de la science des mines, confirmée par un grand nombre d'experience, faites à l'Ecole de l'artillerie de la fere. Dedié a monsieur de Valliere par Mr. Belidor en 1729'; aft. 1729. French. Another version of this treatise is in King's MS. 256. Transferred from the Patent Office Library, 28 Jan. 1981. Paper; ff. 83. Binding of brown leather, gilt-stamped, [18th cent.?]. 275 x 200mm.
Scope & Content:: Military Tactics: Bernard Forest de Bélidor, military engineer: `Memoire sur une nouvelle Theorie de la science des mines' by Bernard Forest de Bélidor: circa 1729: Fr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: after 1729
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61910
Title:: CHARLES (BRAGGE) BATHURST, M.P.: verse and translations; circa 1771-1804. Autograph. Partly Latin, Italian and French. Including occasional verse, epitaphs, verses on the English Lakes and the Wye valley, translations from Italian poetry, and a set of verses contributed anonymously to the Anti-Jacobin (ff. 41-43). Purchased at Sotheby's, 24 March 1981, lot 664. Paper; ff. 82. Notebook covered in red leather. 206 x 168mm.
Scope & Content:: Charles Bragge Bathurst, PC; MP: Poetry ENGLISH: Notebook of verses and translations by Charles Bragge Bathurst: circa 1771-1804: Partly Lat., Ital. and Fr: Autogr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1771-1804
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61911 A
Title:
Scope & Content:: HARE PAPERS. Vol. I A. Album compiled by William Loftus Hare of correspondence, reviews, off-prints, excerpts from the Occult Review, etc., 1925-1941, relating to the controversy arising from Who Wrote the Mahatma Letters?; 1941. Mostly typewritten and printed, with annotations, a preliminary no...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1941
Extent:: 1 item

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