Search

Language Gaelic Material Type Archives and Manuscripts Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 34727-34747

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 34727-34747
Title:
CORRESPONDENCE and papers of the families of Brawne, Mariett and West, who held in succession (circ. 1608, circ. 1662, post 1734) the manor of Alscot in Preston-on-Stour, co. Glouc., on the borders of cos. Warwick and Worcester; 1065-1813. They are connected more particularly with James West (ob. 1772), Secretary to the Treasury (1741-1762), M.P. for St. Alban's (1741- 1768), and President of the Royal Society, former owner of the Burghley Papers and other MSS. in the Lansdowne collection, w...
Scope & Content:
James West, MP for St. Alban's Secretary to the Treasury; President of the Royal Society: Correspondence and historical papers: 1065-1801.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Gaelic, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1065-1813
Extent:
21 items

2. Add MS 44086-44835

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 44086-44835
Title:
A SELECTION from the correspondence, official and private, literary manuscripts and other papers of William Ewart Gladstone (b. 1809, d. 1898)
Scope & Content:
Entering Parliament in 1832 as Member for Newark, he held a succession of offices, serving as Prime Minister four times, viz. :-1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886, 1892-1894. Full details of his career will be found in the Life by Lord Morley, in which many extracts from these papers are printed. Cf. al...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Bulgarian, Burmese, English, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, and Welsh
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
787 items

3. Add MS 49615-49620

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 49615-49620
Title:
CORRESPONDENCE OF GEN. SIR EDWARD WALTER FORESTIER-WALKER, K.C.B., with his first wife, Jane (d. 1861), daughter of Francis, 6th Earl of Seafield, and others of his family, mostly relating to his service in the Crimean War while commanding the Scots Fusilier Guards 1854-1856; 1854-1864. Presented by E. D. Stevenson, Esq., F.C.A. Six volumes. Quarto.
Scope & Content:
Army; England: Correspondence of Sir E. W. Forestier Walker with his family: 1854-1864. Crimean War: Correspondence of Sir E. W. Forestier-Walker, rel. to,: 1854-1856. Lady Jane Forestier-Walker, 1st wife of Sir E W Forestier-Walker: Correspondence with her husband: 1854-bef. 1861. General Si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Gaelic
Date Range:
1854-1864
Extent:
6 items

4. Add MS 50508-50743

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 50508-50743
Title:
BERNARD SHAW PAPERS
Scope & Content:
George Bernard Shaw, author: Correspondence and papers, etc.,: 1852-1950, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Gaelic, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
[1795-1956]
Extent:
282 items

5. Add MS 59672-59676

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 59672-59676
Title:
VLADIMIR SERGEIVICH PECHERIN: letters and papers relating to V. S. Pecherin; 19th-20th cent. Purchased in 1976. Paper. Five volumes. British Library arrangement(?).
Scope & Content:
Vladimir Sergeivich Pecherin: Letters and papers rel. to Vladimir Sergeivich Pecherin: 19th-20th centt: Russ., Fr., Lat., Engl., and Gaelic: Partly typewritten and photogr. copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Gaelic, Latin, Polish, and Russian
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
5 items

6. Add MS 78763-78817

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 78763-78817
Title:
Correspondence and historical and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Mackintosh, P.C., M.P., the philosopher and historian (b. 1765, d. 1832), with related papers of the Mackintosh family. c.1635-bef. 1989. Partly copy, printed. Partly French, Latin and Italian. Supplement Add. MSS. 34487-34526, 52436-52453. See also Add. MSS. 51653-51657. Partly used by his son, Robert James Mackintosh, for Memoirs of the Life of Sir James Mackintosh, 2 vols. (1835), and annotated by him. See also Will...
Scope & Content:
Sir James Mackintosh, PC; MP: Correspondence, papers and historical transcriptions, with related materials: c. 1635-bef.1989.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Gaelic, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1635-before 1989
Extent:
70 items

7. Add MS 88942

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942
Title:
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...
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:
1732-1952
Extent:

849 files

8. MS Mus. 1813

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1813
Title:
The Boosey & Hawkes Archive
Scope & Content:
Archives of the music publishers Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd. of London: business records, correspondence, music scores and reprographic material record the administration of the firm and many of its activities in the twentieth century. Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd. was formed in October 1930 by a mer...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Afrikaans, Chinese, Church Slavic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Welsh
Date Range:
1879-1984
Extent:
2 sub-fonds