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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 48049
Title:: Papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1565-c. 1600
Scope & Content:: This volume is made up of copies and drafts relating to Mary Queen of Scots and more broadly to Scottish politics in the reign of King James VI (up to c. 1600). The volume forms part of the papers collected by Robert Beale, Clerk of the Council, and there are many endorsements, memoranda and dra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher, English, French, Greek, Ancient, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:: 1560-1605
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 48364
Title:: HUNTER-WESTON PAPERS. Private War Diary. 29th Division and 8th Army Corps. Vol. X. Dardanelles and Gallipoli. 13 Mar. – 31 Dec. 1915.
Scope & Content:: Vol. X (ff, xxviii+148). 13 Mar.-31 Dec. 1915, including (f. 135) a parody (typewritten) of the Athanasian Creed, written after the evacuation of Gallipoli, entitled 'After Morning Parade', printed by Sir Compton Mackenzie, First Athenian Memories, 1931, pp. 346-349 (another copy is in Add. MS. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 13 Mar 1915-31 Dec 1915
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 48365
Title:: HUNTER-WESTON PAPERS. Private War Diary. Vol. XI. 8th Army Corps [VIII Corps]. Somme and Ypres. 1 Jan.-31 Dec. 1916.
Scope & Content:: Vol. XI (ff. 160). 1 Jan.-31 Dec. 1916. includes: f. 6 Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud, French general: Photograph with MS. additions by: 1916.: Fr. f. 32 Marquise Le Caron de Chocqueuse, née Lur Saluces: Letter to Lt.-Gen. Sir A. Hunter-Weston: 1916.: Fr. f. 65 Sir Louis Francis Knuthsen, KCVO; M...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1 Jan 1916-31 Dec 1916
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 48367
Title:: HUNTER-WESTON PAPERS. Private War Diary. Vol. XIII. 8th Army Corps [VIII Corps]. Passchendaele, Chalons, Vimy and Mons. 1 Jan.- 11 Nov. 1918.
Scope & Content:: Vol. XIII (ff. 202). 1 Jan.- II Nov. 1918. includes: ff. 92, 144b Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud, French general: Letters, etc., to Lt.-Gen. Sir A. Hunter-Weston: 1915, 1918.: Fr. Diary entries, mostly handwritten, giving a personal account of Hunter-Weston’s daily life in the army. Includes con...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1918
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 48368
Title:: HUNTER-WESTON PAPERS. Private War Diary. Vol. XIV. 8th Army Corps [VIII Corps]. After Armistice. 11 Nov.-April 1919.
Scope & Content:: Vol. XIV (ff. 891). 11 Nov.-April 1919. includes: ff. 19, 32, 34 Henri Aimé Duhem, of Douai; painter: Correspondence with Lt.-Gen. Sir A. Hunter-Weston: 1918.: Engl. and Fr. f. 35 Speeches: R. Bigo, Mayor of Marchiennes: 1918.: Fr. f. 35 René Bigo, Mayor of Marchiennes, France: Speech by: 1918...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1919
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49014
Title:: JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXVI. Papers relating to the Battle of Jutland; 1915-1936.
Scope & Content:: JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXVI (ff. 301). Papers relating to the Battle of Jutland, etc.; 1915-1936. 1. ff. 1-21. Grand Fleet Battle Orders in force on the eve of the battle; 1915. Typewritten extracts. 2. ff. 22-37. Further Correspondence between His Majesty's Government and the United States G...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1915-1936
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49036
Title:: JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XLVIII. Personal and official letters received by Jellicoe, mostly in relation to his dismissal from the post of First Sea Lord; 1917
Scope & Content:: Vol. XLVIII (ff. 244). 1917. includes: f. 1 Admiral Sir William Lowther Grant, KCB: Letters, etc., to Lord Jellicoe: 1916, 1917. ff. 3-8, 14, 24, 30-31b, 131 Admiral Mark Edward Frederic Kerr: Letters to Lord Jellicoe: 1916, 1917. ff. 9, 16 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, Baro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1917
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49037
Title:: JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XLIX. Personal and official correspondence, mostly relating to Jellicoe’s activities in the Post-War period until his death; 1918-1936.
Scope & Content:: Vol. XLIX (ff. 307). 1918-1936. includes: f. 1 Admiral George Holmes Barrett: Letter to Lord Jellicoe: 1918. f. 3 Admiral Sir Eric John Arthur Fullerton, KCB: Letter to Lord Jellicoe: 1918. f. 5 Vice-Admiral Vincent Barkly Molteno: Letter to Lord Jellicoe: 1917. f. 7 Admiral Sir Edmund Samuel ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1918-1936
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49999
Title:: Book of Hours ('The De Brailes Hours') (formerly known as 'The Dyson Perrins Hours')
Scope & Content:: Book of Hours, known as the 'De Brailes Hours' after the Oxford illuminator William de Brailes, who left two signatures in the manuscript (ff. 43r, 47r, see Provenance). The manuscript is one of the earliest known Books of Hours to survive. Its liturgical content is close to the use of Sarum as ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1240
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52529
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'Une voix dans le désert', op. 77, recitation and song, with orchestral accompaniment
Scope & Content:: Words by Emile Cammaerts, begins 'C'était sur le front'. Piano reduction. First performed at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, 29 Jan. 1916.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1915
Extent:: 1 volume (15 folios)

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