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491. Add MS 46822-46838

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Title:
DRAKE PAPERS
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers of Francis Drake (b. 1764, d. 1821), diplomatist, together with (Vols. XIII, ff. 1-40b, XVI, ff. 178-237) papers of members of his family; 1696-1861. Drake was Secretary of Legation, 1790-1793, and Chargé d'Affaires, 1790-1792, at Copenhagen; Minister Plenipotentiary to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1696-1861
Extent:
18 items

492. Add MS 47216

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Title:
LETTERS TO AUGUSTUS HUGHES-HUGHES, relating to his work in the Department of Manuscripts, mainly from musicologists and librarians; 1883-1922. English, French, Italian and German. The letters are chiefly on musical subjects and include (ff. 6-8, 39, 40) information from librarians on manuscripts of the works of John Hothby, on whom Hughes-Hughes wrote an article for the second edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ii, 1906. The names of the writers are given in the Index to t...
Scope & Content:
Music: Letters from musicologists, etc., to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1883-1922.: Engl., Fr., Germ. and Ital. Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Assistant Keeper, Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Letters to: 1883-1922.: Engl., Fr., Germ. and Ital. includes: ff. 2, 4, 5 William Chappell, music publis...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1883-1922
Extent:
1 item

493. Add MS 47236-47435

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Title:
LIEVEN PAPERS
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers of Prince Christoph Heinrich Lieven, Russian general and diplomatist, of his wife, Dorothea, née Benckendorff, and their respective families. On these two families see J. Siebmacher's grosses und allegemeines Wappenbuch, bd. 3, abt. 11, Der Adel der russ. Ostseeprovin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
Date Range:
[1750-1895]
Extent:
230 items

494. Add MS 47436

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Title:
'MEMOIRE über die böhmischen Krönungsverhältnisse' by Antonin Gindely, national archivist (zemský archivár of Bohemia; 19 Dec. 1866. Signed (f. 7). German. Followed by copies of forms of coronation oaths, and oaths of allegiance (ff. 8-9b) and 'Krönungsceremoniell aus dem J. 1836' (ff. 10-21 b), an account of the ceremonial at the coronation of the Emperor Ferdinand I as Ferdinand V of Bohemia in 1836, with autograph marginal notes by Gindely. The papers were obviously prepared in connection...
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Antonin Gindely, zemsky archivár of Bohemia: 'Memoire über die böhmischen Kronungsverhältnisse', etc.: 1866.: Germ.: Signed. Bohemia: 'Memoire über die böhmischen Krönungsverhältnisse', etc., by Antonín Gindely: 1866.: Germ. includes: f. ii Dr Paul Kisch: Bookplate: 20th cent.f. ii Bookpl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
19 Dec 1866
Extent:
1 item

495. Add MS 47490-47493 D

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Title:
CORRESPONDENCE AND FAMILY PAPERS OF JOHN LEE, F.R.S., F.S.A., of Hartwell House, co. Bucks., collector of antiquities and scientist; 1799-1865. Lee was born Fiott in 1783, and changed his name by royal licence in 1815 under the terms of the will of his maternal uncle, William Lee Antonie. He inherited the Lee family seat at Hartwell in 1827 on the death of a cousin, the Rev. Sir George Lee, 6th Bart. For further details about the Lee family see W. H. Smyth, Aedes Hartwellianae, 1851, pp. 59-...
Scope & Content:
John Lee, formerly Fiott; FSA; FRS: Correspondence and papers.: 1809-1839.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Swedish
Date Range:
1799-1865
Extent:
8 items

496. Add MS 47664-47668

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Title:
Correspondence of Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen, Russian revolutionary, Georg Herwegh, German poet and revolutionary, and their wives Natalie (Natalya Aleksandrovna) and Emma, together with other papers of Herwegh and his wife; 1848-1870
Scope & Content:
French, German and Russian. The collection, which is of a personal and intimate nature, forms the basis of chapters 3 and 4 in E. H. Carr, The Romantic Exiles, 1933. Five volumes. Presented in 1933 by Marcel Herwegh, Esq., son of the poet, and now incorporated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Russian
Date Range:
1848-1870
Extent:
5 items

497. Add MS 47686 A-B

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Title:
CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO THE NEW PALAEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY; 1900-1928. The Society was founded in 1902 as a successor to the Palaeographical Society, 1873-1895, and was wound up in 1930. Two volumes. Paper. Quarto. 1900-1928. Incorporated from the Departmental archives.
Scope & Content:
Palaeography: Letters, etc., to the New Palaeographical Society editors: 1900-1928, n.d. includes: ff. 61-170 passim Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, GCB; Director of the British Museum: Letters to J. P. Gilson: aft. 1911-1928.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1900-1928
Extent:
2 items

498. Add MS 47841

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Title:
MISCELLANE0US LETTERS AND PAPERS, viz.:- A. Letter from Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1863, d. 1916) to - Chaplin; n.d. Russian. ff. 1-2. Presented by Commander Leander McCormick Goodhart, O.B.E., through the Friends of the National Libraries. B. Letter from John Ruskin (b. 1819, d. 1900) to [A. P. Ready?], concerning a Syracusan coin; n.d. f. 3. Presented anonymously. C. Book 1, 'The Heritage', Chapter 1, 'Alexander Gray hears of a wreck', of an apparently unpublished novel...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-2 Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, d 1916 Russian monk: Letter to - Chaplin: n.d. f. 3 John Ruskin, author, artist and social reformer: Letter to [A. P. Ready?]: n.d. ff. 4-12 Sir Max Pemberton, d 1950 novelist: Book I, chapter I of a novel by: n.d.: Autogr. ff. 4-12 Fiction: Sir M. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
1100-1922
Extent:
1 item

499. Add MS 47843-47882

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Add MS 47843-47882
Title:
Musical and literary collections of Edward Harry William Meyerstein (b. 1889, d. 1952); late 16th-20th cent
Scope & Content:
See Brit. Mus. Quart., xviii, 1953, pp. 97-100. Forty-five volumes. Paper and (Vol. XLV) vellum. Various sizes. Arranged as follows:- A. Musical manuscripts (47843-47862). B. Literary manuscripts, etc. (47863-47882). Bequeathed, with Add. MS. 48212, ff 1-2, and Add. Roll 75068, by E. H. W. Mey...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 16th century-20th century
Extent:
44 items

500. Add MS 47909-47964

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Add MS 47909-47964
Title:
BATTERSEA PAPERS
Scope & Content:
Diaries and correspondence of Constance Flower née de Rothschild (b. 1843, d. 1931), wife (1877) of Cyril Flower, M.P., Baron Battersea 1892, followed (Vols. XL-LIV) by those of her mother, Louisa (b. 1821, d. 1910), wife of Sir Anthony de Rothschild, 1st Bart., and (Vols. LV, LVI) her sister, A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Hebrew
Date Range:
[1834-1931]
Extent:
56 items

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