Three items: A number of loose pages from an accounts book detailing Benson's newspaper and magazine publications, noting date, title of article or story, publication and amount received. For the period 1923-1933. Four imitation cheques (each dated 4 November 1933) from 'Aunt Stella' to John Ben...
Typewritten text of a French translation entitled 'Magellan', adapted by Madame Maxime-David, and broadcast on French radio, with the date '18 déc 1948' stamped on the front leaf.
'Laurie Lee – l'homme et l'œuvre: mémoire de D.E.A. présenté par Laurent Langlade'. Thesis presented to the Université de Bordeaux III, with a list of Lee's poems showing their dates of composition and publication. For Lee's correspondence with Langlade see Add MS 88936/4/26.
Assorted reviews and commentary, as follows: 1. Press cutting (Durrant's Press Cuttings) from the Halifax Evening Courier & Guardian (23 March 1967) of the column 'Paperback Books Round-Up': The Wind from Nowhere is listed by author and title only. 2. David Pringle, JGB News (17), December...
The Papers of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
Scope & Content:
The British Library collection contains notebooks, letters, photographs, diaries, unbound Assyriological and mathematical folios, natural specimens in herbaria, offprints of Talbot’s articles, patents, artefacts and a small selection of books from Talbot’s library. Whilst the covering dates of...
William Henry Fox Talbot: Notebooks and loose notes
Scope & Content:
Talbot's notebooks testify to his wide-ranging intellectual and practical scientific interests, which extended far beyond pioneering photographic research and invention to encompass research in mathematics, optics, astronomy, botany, horticulture, Assyriology, philology, and many associated aven...
This notebook is the first of the etymological series S-Z (Add MS 88942/1/13-25) and at the same time the first of a smaller subseries of five notebooks ('S' series Add MS 88942/1/13-17) within the series 'S-Z'. The notebook starts with notes on Egyptian hieroglyphics and mythology and continue...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, and Persian