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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 88942/1/299

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Records (in French) of travel and related expenditure, 18 July to 9 August 1860. The record appears to have been kept by M. I. Bayer, of Bruxelles, who is mentioned on the first and final pages of the notebook.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1860
Extent:
1 notebook (39 folios, 14 pages of text)

3. Add MS 88942/1/53

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Notebook starting ‘Redundant vowel.’ It contains a few notes on Greek/English, Greek/German and Greek/French etymology. One page at the beginning is entitled 'Nov 30th 1836. Abbotsbury'. Includes brief descriptions of some plates from Monumenti Etruschi by the Italian archaeologist Francesco Ingh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1836
Extent:
1 notebook (17 folios, 7 pages of text)

4. Add MS 88942/1/48

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on the etymology of English, German, Italian and French words, names and places. Notebook started: 1 Mar 1832.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1832
Extent:
1 notebook (38 folios, 44 pages of text)

5. Add MS 88942/1/49

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on English, French, German, and Italian Etymology. Only few pages are used. Notebook started: Aug 1833.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1833
Extent:
1 notebook (42 folios, 11 pages of text)

6. Add MS 88942/1/55

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains etymological notes on specific English terms, but does not seem to be directly related to English Etymologies. Talbot edited the notes with a different pen.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1847?
Extent:
1 notebook (9 folios, 11 pages of text), 1 loose sheet

7. Add MS 88942/1/120

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Talbot makes references to religious beliefs, and possibly includes extracts from 'Brugsch Geographische Inschriften Altäegyptischer Denkmäler vol. 2' (1865) which he mentions on the first page. The notebook might also be a script of a talk on Egyptian history and geography. The loose notes are...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
between 1864-1873
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 6 pages of text), 3 loose sheets (3 folios, 3 pages of text)

8. Add MS 88942/1/43

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Inscribed 'ETF', this notebook contains notes by Talbot's mother Elisabeth Theresa Feilding. It contains: mathematical notes like 'Transverse axis of an Ellipses or Hyperbola'; definitions of optical, mathematical and chemical terminology in English and French; definitions and translations of mo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1811
Extent:
1 notebook (92 folios, 101 pages of text)

9. Add MS 88942/1/47

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook starts 'Analogy is the great guiding principle of etymological researches' and contains etymological notes in mainly English, French, Italian, German, Greek, and Persian. Notebook started: 25 Nov 1831.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Persian
Date Range:
1831
Extent:
1 notebook (31 folios, 62 pages of text)

10. Add MS 88942/1/247

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Paris')
Scope & Content:
Lists expenditure from Jan 1820 to 29 July 1825, during travels in Europe (mainly in Paris and Rome). Notebook started: 2 Jan 1820.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1820-1825
Extent:
1 notebook (36 folios, 35 pages of text)