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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62113
Title:: ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE: fragments of drafts and notes for poems, essays and reviews, letters, etc.; aft. 1859-circa 1904, n.d. Mostly autograph. Partly French and Italian. Formerly in the possession of Thomas J. Wise. Purchased from Hofmann and Freeman, 30 March 1981. Paper; ff. 39. 1. f. 1. Fragment of sixteen lines from Chastelard, ll. 4-11 corresponding to [Act V, Sc. II], p. 137; ll. 8 and 9 differ. Written on a half folio of blue laid paper, wmk: E. TOWGOOD 1859. 210 x 170mm. ...
Scope & Content:: Literary History: Poetry ENGLISH: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Fragments of poems, reviews, letters, etc., by Algernon Charles Swinburne: aft. 1859-circa 1904, n.d.: Partly Fr. and Ital: Drafts: Mostly autogr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1859-1909
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62114
Title:: MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS. Paper; ff. 121. British Library arrangement. A. Correspondence of Captain W. H. O'Shea, M.P., husband of Kitty O'Shea; 1882-1885. Partly copies. Presented, with Add. Ch. 75998, by Mrs Caroline A. Wright, 25 Jan. 1982. Consisting of: (a) two letters to him from W. E. Gladstone, Prime Minister, 11, 15 April 1882. ff. 1-4; (b) letters from and to Joseph Chamberlain, 17 April 1882 (copy by O'Shea), 12 Nov. 1885. ff. 5-8v; (c) letter from O'Shea to Charles St...
Scope & Content:: includes: ff. 1-4 William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister: William Henry O'Shea, Irish politician: Letters to William Henry O'Shea from William Ewart Gladstone: 1882. ff. 5-8v William Henry O'Shea, Irish politician: Joseph Chamberlain, PC; MP: Correspondence between William Henry O'Shea and Jos...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1698-1940
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62124
Title:
Scope & Content:: FINDLAY CORRESPONDENCE. Vol. I (ff. 194). Letters from Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, including a last letter from his wife, Katherine; 1903-1917. Several of the letters contain as enclosures, letters to Cromer from Sir Eldon Gorst, Sir Reginald Wingate, Sir Edgar Bonham-Carter and other off...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:: 1903-1917
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62124-62125
Title:: FINDLAY CORRESPONDENCE: correspondence of Sir Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay (1861-1932) while he was Counsellor of Embassy in charge of H.M. agency at Cairo during the summer; 1903-1917, but chiefly 1903-1905
Scope & Content:: Presented by Lady Mary Findlay, Sir Mansfeldt's daughter-in-law, Feb. 1982. Paper. Two volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:: 1903-1917
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62125
Title:
Scope & Content:: FINDLAY CORRESPONDENCE. Vol. II (ff. 96). 1. ff. 1-35. Letters from Harry Boyle; 1903-1905. Partly French and Arabic. Mostly typewritten. 2. ff. 36-96v. Other correspondence; 1904, 1905. Sir Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay, GBE; diplomatist: Correspondence of Sir Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:: 1903-1905
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62139
Title:: GLENBERVIE MEMORANDUM: memorandum by Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, describing French society in 1770-1771; 1772. Copy, aft. 1794, with autograph annotations aft. 1819 (f. 1). French. Originally written for Col. Horace St Paul on his being appointed secretary to Lord Stormont, Ambassador in Paris, in 1772. The present copy was made from the original by Katherine, Lady Glenbervie (see The Diaries of Sylvester Douglas, Lord Glenbervie, ed. Francis Bickley, 1928, II, p. 382), and dates fr...
Scope & Content:: Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie: Louis XV of France: Horace St Paul, Secretary of Embassy in Paris: Memorandum by Lord Glenbervie rel. to French society for information of Horace St Paul: 1772: Fr: Copy.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: after 1794
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62141
Title:: COLLECTION OF EXEMPLA: containing sixty-six tales; [late 13th cent.?] Latin. Partly French. Beg. 'Beatus anthonius retulit se vidisse tres laqueos inimici per universi terra explicatos'. The chief sources referred to in the text are the Fathers and the Vitae patrum. Among several tales which cannot be paralleled in other known collections (see J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances, 1910, III, pp. 1-271, and F. C. Tubach, Index exemplorum: a Handbook of Medieval Religious Tales, Helsinki, 1969...
Scope & Content:: Tales: Collection of Exempla: [late 13th cent.?]: Lat. and Fr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: [Late 13th century?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62153
Title:
Scope & Content:: NORTHCLIFFE PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 179). 1. ff. 1-80. Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour; 1896-1918. 2. ff. 81-124. The Right Hon. John Satterfield Sandars; 1905-1911, n.d. 3. ff. 125-179. George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston; 1897-1920, n.d. Partly French. includes: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1896-1920
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62153-62376
Title:: A. NORTHCLIFFE PAPERS. Vols. I- CCXXIV. Correspondence; 1880s-1920s.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1880s-1920s
Extent:: 224 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62153-62397
Title:: Correspondence and papers of Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922), journalist and proprietor of the Evening News, the Daily Mail and the Times; 1880-1922, n.d. Partly signed, typewritten and printed. Reginald Pound and Geoffrey Harmsworth, Northcliffe (1959), draws on this archive. Presented by Sir Geoffrey Harmsworth, Bart., 1965, the papers then being reserved until 1972, 1973 and 1976; incorporated April 1982. Paper. Two hundred and forty-five volumes. Bri...
Scope & Content:: Newspapers Great Britain and Ireland: Correspondence and papers of Lord Northcliffe: 1880-1922, n.d. Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe: Publishing: Correspondence and papers of Lord Northcliffe: 1880-1922, n.d.: Partly typewritten and printed.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1880-1922
Extent:: 245 items

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