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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 34874-34887 Language French Name Gibbon, Edward, historian, 1737-1794

1. Add MS 34875

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GIBBON PAPERS. Vol. II. "Journal de mon [Edward Gibbon's] voyage dans quelques endroits de la Suisse," at the age of eighteen; 1755. In French. Partly autograph, partly (ff. 18-22) a copy. The first five pages are both in the original and, appended at the end (f. 23), in the copy. The tour laste...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1755
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1 item

2. Add MS 34880-34882

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GIBBON PAPERS. Vols. VII.-IX. Miscellaneous Works and Commonplace Books of Edward Gibbon, mostly printed in the Miscellaneous Works. Three Volumes. Holograph, except where otherwise noted.
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Edward Gibbon, historian: Miscellaneous Works and Commonplace Books: 18th cent.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
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3 items

3. Add MS 34881

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Miscellancous Works. Vol. II. Contents:- 1. "Principes des Poids, des Monnayes et des Mesures des Anciens, avec des tables construites sur ces principes unfinished drafts of two treatises (the second including medieval Europe) written in 1759, printed in vol. v. p. 66. At the end are additiona...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1759-c 1770
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1 item

4. Add MS 34882

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Miscellaneous Works. Vol. III. Contents:- 1. "Remarques critiques sur un passage de Plaute," see above, 34,880, art. 2 c; another copy, not autograph. Fr. f. 1. 2. Letter to -, on the Government of Berne, probably circ. 1758 (printed, vol. ii. p. 1). Fr. f. 4. 3. "Doutes Historiques sur la...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

5. Add MS 34886

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GIBBON PAPERS. Vol. XIII. Original letters addressed to Edward Gibbon; 1755-1794. The names of the writers will be found in the index. They include, besides his family and intimate friends, Madlle. Curchod, both before and after her marriage, her husband Jacques Necker and her daughter Madame de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1755-1794
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 34887

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GIBBON PAPERS. Vol. XIV. Miscellaneous Papers and Letters relating to Gibbon and his family or to his friend and executor Lord Sheffield. The principal contents are:- 1. Documents, accompts, etc., concerning Edw. Gibbon personally, including (a) Certificate of admission as a Freemason, 19 Dec....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1753-1872
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1 item