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7931. Add MS 61911 A-B

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Add MS 61911 A-B
Title:
HARE PAPERS: compilations by William Loftus Hare concerning the Mahatma Papers (Add. 45285-45289); 1941, 1942.
Scope & Content:
Mostly typewritten and printed. Partly French. Further pursuing the argument put forward in the book jointly written with his brother, Harold Edward Hare, Who Wrote the Mahatma Letters? (1936), that the letters purporting to have been written by the Mahatmas Koot Hoomi Lal Singh and Moyra to A. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1941-1942
Extent:

2 items

7932. Add MS 61911 B

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Add MS 61911 B
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Scope & Content:
HARE PAPERS. Vol. I B. W. L. and H. E. Hare, 'Our Last Word on The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett and our Book Who Wrote the Mahatma Letters? . . . with an Appendix by W. Loftis Hare of his correspondence with the Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum'; 1942. Typewritten. The corresponde...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1942
Extent:
1 item

7933. Add MS 61912

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Add MS 61912
Title:
DIPLOMACY: volume of papers apparently acquired by Sir William Trumbull when Secretary of State (1695-1697) in connection with the negotiations with France, 1661-1684, which culminated in the Treaty of Ryswick; circa 1690. Copies and abstracts. Latin and French. Containing abstracts of dispatches and correspondence of Godefroy, Comte d'Estrades, as French ambassador in London (1661-1662) and The Hague (1663-1668) (ff. 10-16, 19-83) and a summary of his negotiations for the sale of Dunkirk to...
Scope & Content:
Treaties: Louis XIV of France: Charles II of England: Collection rel to negotiations between England and France: 1661-1684: Lat. and Fr: Abstracts and copies, circa 1690. includes: ff. 10-83 Godefroy d' Estrades, Comte d'Estrades; French diplomatist and soldier: Correspondence, etc., as Amba...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1690
Extent:
1 item

7934. Add MS 61934

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Add MS 61934
Title:
DOVER CASTLE: documents concerning the guard system and military service at Dover Castle; early 17th cent. Copies. Latin and French. At the head of the first page is a pen and ink drawing showing the Castle, with the knights supporting the Royal Arms above two lions. Probably made for Sir Edward Dering, 1st Bart. (1598-1644), Lieutenant of Dover Castle, the volume was part of the Dering collections in 1860; see Archaeologia Cantiana, III (1860), pp. 196-198, where the Statutes of Dover Castl...
Scope & Content:
Sir Edward Dering, 1st Baronet: Dover: Military Tactics: Compilation concerning military organization at Dover Castle made for Sir E. Dering(?): early 17th cent: Lat. and Fr: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

7935. Add MS 61936

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Add MS 61936
Title:
TREATISE ON RAISING SUBMERGED VESSELS: 'Traité sur le moyen inventé pour relever et recuperer les vaisseaux submergés de toutes les grandeurs et a toutes les profondeurs de mèr qui n'excedent pas 140 brasses'; circa 1740. French. Anonymous treatise, illustrated with fourteen pencil and water-colour drawings and diagrams. Transferred from the Science Reference Library, 25 June 1981. Paper; ff. 127. Contemporary binding, gilt tooled and stamped, with a design of fleur-de-lys and the arms of ...
Scope & Content:
Science and Technology: Ships and Shipping: Treatise on raising submerged vessels: circa 1740: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1740
Extent:
1 item

7936. Add MS 61941

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Add MS 61941
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ROGER HILL: legal journal; 1635-1657. Autograph. Mostly French and Latin. Records of civil, criminal and treason cases tried between Easter Term 1635 and Michaelmas term 1638, while Hill (1605-1667) was a barrister of the Inner Temple; followed by notes from the Exchequer Chamber in Michaelmas Term 1657 when he was a Baron of the Exchequer. Including (ff. 5-9v) Hill's alphabetical index of cases. Phillipps MS. 6669. Purchased from Christie's, 29 April 1981, lot 119. Paper; ff. 275. Contemp...
Scope & Content:
Law OF ENGLAND: Roger Hill, judge: Diaries and Memoranda: Legal journal of Roger Hill: 1635-1657: Mostly Fr. and Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1635-1657
Extent:
1 item

7937. Add MS 62096

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Add MS 62096
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Scope & Content:
TORRENS PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 203). 1. ff. 1-135. Letters, etc., from Lieutenant-Colonel John Wiliams, commanding the Queen's Royals; 1824, 1825. 2. ff. 136-203. General correspondence; 1821-March 1824. Major-General Sir Henry Torrens, KCB: Army; England: Correspondence of Maj.-Gen. Sir Henry...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1821-1825
Extent:
1 item

7938. Add MS 62096-62097

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Add MS 62096-62097
Title:
TORRENS PAPERS: personal correspondence, etc., of Major-General Sir Henry Torrens, K.C.B., adjutant-general and colonel of the Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot; 1821-1828, n.d.
Scope & Content:
Partly French. Partly copies, drafts and printed. Supplementing Add. 61831-61834. Purchased at Phillips', 10 Dec. 1981, lot 272. Paper. Two volumes. British Library arrangement.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1821-1828
Extent:
2 items

7939. Add MS 62097

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Add MS 62097
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Scope & Content:
TORRENS PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 216). General correspondence; April 1824-1828, n.d. Major-General Sir Henry Torrens, KCB: Army; England: Correspondence of Maj.-Gen. Sir Henry Torrens: 1821-1828, n.d.: Partly Fr: Partly drafts, copies and printed. includes: f. 1 Charles Warburton, formerly Mongan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Apr 1824-1828
Extent:
1 item

7940. Add MS 62106

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Add MS 62106
Title:
A leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hungerford Hours')
Scope & Content:
Content: A single leaf from the hour of None in the Hours of the Virgin from the Hungerford Hours. The text is preceded by a prayer in French (imperfect), ending: 'a seynte eglise bone pes et unite et a nous peccheours ta gloire benure, qui estes dieus et regnez pardurablement. Amen.' The Br...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1330
Extent:
Parchment leaf

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