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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 83315
Title:: Rupert Brooke/Cathleen Nesbitt letters
Scope & Content:: Eighty letters from the poet, Rupert Brooke to the actress, Cathleen Nesbitt. In the letters Brooke writes about his literary projects and his estimation of himself as a writer and a man, whilst also giving his opinions on Cathleen Nesbitt's stage career. A number of the letters were sent when B...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: [1912-1915]
Extent:: 1 folder

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88932/1/16
Title:: Letters Received: P-Z
Scope & Content:: P: Alicia Pearson, 1 November 1933. Tom A Powell. Three letters: two dated 9 July and 5 November (without years), and the third letter without date. Carl L Puttenham, New Orleans, 16 November 1929. R: I A Richards, British Columbia, 22 December 1926. Royal Hotel, Valentia, County Kerry. A single...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 1915-1933
Extent:: 1 file

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/1
Title:: Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:: Notebook on Greek grammar containing notes on declinations and six tables on Greek tenses. It also contains three loose sheets with Latin texts similar to the sheet found in notebook Add MS 88942/1/3.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1809?
Extent:: 1 notebook (20 folios, 24 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/2
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('Greek Book')
Scope & Content:: This notebook contains notes on the Greek alphabet ('Litera apud Graecos sunt viginti quatuor') and on Greek grammar ('Articulus', 'Prima Declinatio', 'Secunda Declinatio', 'Tertia Declinatio', 'Quarta Declinatio', 'Quinta Declinatio' / 'Nominum Simplicum' and 'Prima Declinatio', 'Secunda Declin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: Oct [1809]
Extent:: 1 notebook (20 folios, 27 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/5
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('W:H:Talbot')
Scope & Content:: Starting with 'Proper names', the exercise book contains notes with definitions of characters of Greek mythology and history and grammatical rules in Latin and Greek on the left pages, and small extracts of printed Greek and Latin verses with written comments in Greek and Latin, as well as trans...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1811?
Extent:: 1 notebook (22 folios, 43 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/6
Title:: Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:: This notebook mainly contains texts in Latin, primarily by Ovid. Some Latin texts carry Greek titles. All texts are dated and are specific exercises Talbot was required to complete (e.g. see the note 'Holiday task, midsummer 1811'). The very first page of the notebook is entitled 'Verses on vari...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1811-1812
Extent:: 1 notebook (65 folios, 130 pages of text) and 2 loose sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/7
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('M')
Scope & Content:: This notebook with rough notes is related to notebook 'Q' (Add MS 88942/1/8). It contains an index in the front cover. It starts 'Latin from itself' and continues with wordlists indicating etymological derivations of Latin, Greek and Egyptian. Talbot also refers to his publication Hermes, or Cla...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Egyptian (Ancient), English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: 1 notebook (21 folios, 38 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/8
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('Q')
Scope & Content:: This notebook contains rough notes. It might be part of an incomplete series and is certainly related to notebook 'M' (Add MS 88942/1/7), which it continues. It contains botanical notes(e.g. lists of Latin plant names) and miscellaneous notes (e.g. lists of names of scholars in various instituti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: 1 notebook (21 folios, 20 pages of text)

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