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1. Add MS 88942/1

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Title:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Cypriot, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Gaelic, German, German, Middle High, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European languages, Irish, Italian, Latin, Pashto, Persian, Persian, Old, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish, Ottoman, and Welsh
Date Range:
1778-1877
Extent:
386 folders

2. Add MS 88942/1/254

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Add MS 88942/1/254
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Release in fee of a cottage & premises at Bowden Hill')
Scope & Content:
The notebook begins with the heading: '3 Oct 1825 30£ Release in fee of a cottage of premises at Bowden Hill to Mrs Anna Maria Pettifor'. There follows a legal draft, beginning 'This indenture [...]' between Talbot and Mrs Pettifor. Following this, the text of an unrelated legal document in Fren...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1825
Extent:
1 notebook (52 folios, 11 pages of text)

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