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561. Add MS 57636-57722

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Add MS 57636-57722
Title:
R.U.S.I. MAPS
Scope & Content:
Maps of military engagements, camps, fortifications actual and projected, etc., in places throughout the world, from the map collections of the Royal United Services Institution; 1672-1919. Partly French, German, Dutch, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and Modern Greek. 57699, f. 13...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Iroquoian languages, Italian, Latin, Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Undetermined
Date Range:
1672-1919
Extent:
87 items

562. Add MS 57724

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Add MS 57724
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Autograph Album: a collection of signatures, mostly royal and episcopal, cut from documents or sent in response to a request for autographs from a Miss Edwards, crudely sewn into a quarto scrapbook; mid 19th cent. Presented by Mrs Olive Dudley Godenne-Short of Brussels, 16 Sept. 1972. Paper; ff. i+22. 227 x 182mm. 1. ff. 1-2v. Signatures and paper seals of Kings George III and William IV; n.d. 2. ff. 3-11. Letters to Baroness Späth, mostly from Queen Victoria; 1837-1839, n.d. Partly imper...
Scope & Content:
Miss Jane F. Edwards, of Madeley: Album including autographs presented to Miss Jane F. Edwards: mid 19th cent. includes: f. 1 George III of England: Signature and seal of George: n.d.f. 2 William IV of England: Signature and seal of William: n.d.ff. 3-11 von Spaeth, Baroness; Lady of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1830-1870
Extent:
1 item

563. Add MS 57732

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Add MS 57732
Title:
JOHN WILMOT, 2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER: correspondence and papers of Henry Spencer Ashbee (d.1900) relating to Rochester's play 'Sodom'; circa 1865-1879, n.d. Partly copies, imperfect. Partly Latin, French and German. This obscene blank-verse drama, traditionally attributed wholly or in part to Rochester, is extant in two versions composed circa 1672-1673 and circa 1676-1677 respectively. Two of the eight known early manuscript texts contain an earlier three-act form of the play and the rest the...
Scope & Content:
Henry Spencer Ashbee, bibliophile: Correspondence and papers of H. S. Ashbee rel. to Rochester's supposititious play `Sodom': mid-late 19th cent.: Partly Lat., Fr. and Germ. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester: Drama ENGLISH: Transcriptions and papers rel. to the play Sodom by John Wilmot: circa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1865-1879
Extent:
1 item

564. Add MS 57772

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Add MS 57772
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; 1566-1961, n.d. Paper and vellum; ff. 200. British Library arrangement. A. Letter from Thomas James Wise, in the hand of his wife Louise Wise, to William O. Raymond Esq., of Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec, relating to the publication of John Carter and Graham Pollard, An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets (1934), which first identified Wise as a forger; 7 Jan. 1935. Together with a letter and envelope from Louise Wi...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 Frances Louise Wise, 2nd wife of T J Wise: William O. Raymond: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to William O. Raymond from Thomas James Wise, in the hand of Frances Louise Wise: 1935: Copy.f. 3 Frances Louise Wise, 2nd wife of T J Wise: William O. Raymond: Letter to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1566-1961
Extent:
1 item

565. Add MS 57774-57803

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Add MS 57774-57803
Title:
CECIL GRAY PAPERS. Musical compositions, correspondence and papers of Cecil William Turpie Gray, music critic (b.1895, d.1951); 1872-1965. Purchased from the executors of the C. W. T. Gray Testamentary Trust, 1973. Paper. Thirty volumes. British Library arrangement, unless otherwise stated, as follows; A. Compositions of Cecil Gray: 57774-57783 B. Correspondence of Cecil and Marjery Gray: 57784-57787 C. Papers of Cecil Gray: 57788-57793 D. Correspondence and papers of 'Peter Warloc...
Scope & Content:
Cecil William Turpie Gray, music critic: Correspondence and papers: 1872-1965: Partly copies. Partly signed.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1872-1965
Extent:
35 items

566. Add MS 57946

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Add MS 57946
Title:
FORGERIES: miscellaneous collection of forged letters and papers of famous persons from 11th to 19th centuries; 19th-20th cent. Partly Latin and German. Many of the forgeries bear the stamp of the Forgery Collection of James Tregaskis. Purchased from T. & L. Hannas, of Bromley, 26 June 1973. Paper and parchment; ff. 47. Various sizes. Arranged in chronological order. 1. f. 1. Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury (1070-1089): Latin document on parchment, with the remains of seal ties, b...
Scope & Content:
James Tregaskis, bookseller: Forgeries: Forged letters and papers , collected by James Tregaskis: 19th-20th cent.: Partly Lat. and Germ. includes: f. 1 Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury: Charter signed by Lanfranc: circa 1930: Lat.: Forgery.ff. 2-17 Martin Luther, reformer: Letter and rel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1524-1999
Extent:
1 item

567. Add MS 57980

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Add MS 57980
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REGLEMENT VOR DIE KÖNIGL. PREUSSISCHE INFANTERIE: fair copy of a military handbook containing regulations for the infantry, issued by Frederick the Great; 1743. German. Apparently published in Berlin in the same year (see f. 172). Divided into twelve parts covering formation, manoeuvres, equipment, etc., followed (ff. 173-175) by an index to the chapters and headings. A version of the title-page in French, which has been added in ink to the blank page immediately preceding the origi...
Scope & Content:
Prussia. Army of: Military Tactics: Regulations for the Royal Prussian Infantry: 1743: Germ.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1743
Extent:
1 item

568. Add MS 58073-58077

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Add MS 58073-58077
Title:
C. B. OLDMAN COLLECTION (PART 2): manuscripts and papers from the collection of Dr Cecil Bernard Oldman, C.B., C.V.O., Principal Keeper of the Department of Printed Books of the British Museum from 1947-1959; aft. 1808-1967, n.d. Supplementing Add. 56572-56574. See also Add. 71528. Presented by Mrs Sigrid Oldman, Aug.-Sept. 1973. Paper. Five volumes. British Library arrangement.
Scope & Content:
Dr Cecil Bernard Oldman, CB; Principal Keeper of Printed Books, British Museum: Manuscripts and papers of Dr Cecil Bernard Oldman: circa 1809-1967, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
after 1808-1967
Extent:
7 items

569. Add MS 58079

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Add MS 58079
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; 1701-1963, n.d. Paper; ff. 103. British Library arrangement. A. Letter from Jan Garrigue Masaryk in London to Group-Captain Malcolm Grahame Christie, recording the former's perceptions of Conrad Henlein, the Sudeten leader, and Edvard BeneÈ, the newly-elected President of Czechoslovakia; 6 Jan. 1936. The letter also describes Czech anxieties about the 'supernationalism which combined with gangsterism seems to be swaying Europe'. Pencil annotation [by M. ...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 Jan Garrigue Masaryk, Czech statesman: Czechoslovakia: Group Captain Malcolm Grahame Christie: Conrad Henlein, Sudeten nationalist leader: Letter rel. to the Sudetenland to Group Capt. Malcolm Grahame Christie from Jan Garrigue Masaryk: 1936.f. 3 Revenue: England; Parliament:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1701-1963
Extent:
1 item

570. Add MS 58149-58202

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Add MS 58149-58202
Title:
SUPPLEMENTARY LAYARD PAPERS. Correspondence and papers of Sir Austen Henry Layard (b.1817, d.1894), archaeologist, traveller and diplomatist and his family; 1815-1947, n.d. Included are letters and papers of his wife Lady Mary Enid Evelyn Layard (d.1912), of his aunt and uncle, Sara and Benjamin Austen, and of the Guest family, together with a few other letters. Supplementing Add. 38931-39164; 40637; 46153-46170; 50149; 50182. Presented by Gordon Waterfield, Esq., of Tenterden, co. Kent, 23 ...
Scope & Content:
Sir Austen Henry Layard, GCB; diplomatist and archaeologist: Correspondence and papers from Sir Austen Henry Layard: 1815-1947, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish
Date Range:
1815-1947
Extent:
54 items

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