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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38492-38508
Title:: TOWNSHEND PAPERS
Scope & Content:: Purchased at the sale of the heirlooms of Marquis Townshend, 18, 19 Dec. 1911.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 17 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38523-38524
Title:: CORRESPONDENCE of Leigh Hunt, supplementing Add. MSS. 38108-38111 noticed above
Scope & Content:: Two volumes. Vol. I (ff. 252), 1807-1844. Vol. II (ff. 277), 1845-1859. The names of the writers are given in the Index. Many of the earlier letters are addressed to Hunt as editor of the Examiner; some of those in 1819 and following years refer to Byron and the Shelleys, including letters of Ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1807-1859
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38564-38581
Title:: LIVERPOOL PAPERS, SUPPLEMENT. Nos. 38564-38581 are supplementary to the official and Private correspondence of the Earls of Liverpool, Add MSS. 38190-38489 (see above), and are arranged on a similar plan. Folio, except 38581.
Scope & Content:: Robert Banks Jenkinson, Baron Hawkesbury; 2nd Earl of Liverpool; Prime Minister: Official and private correspondence and papers. Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool: Official and private correspondence and papers. Jenkinson family; Barons Hawkesbury, Earls of Liverpool: Correspondence and...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century-Mid 18th century
Extent:: 18 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38652
Title:: ACCOMPTS of the executors of the will of Philip Thomas Howard, Cardinal (d. 1694); 1694-1697. Ital. The executors were the Cardinals [Paluzzo] Altieri, [Francesco] Nerli, [Galeazzo] Mareschotti, and [Fabricio] Spada. The will is summarized by C. F. Raymund Palmer, Life of Philip Thomas Howard, O.P., 1867, pp. 209-211. The chief contents are: (a) Summary of the will with its two codicils, and list of the effects. f. 1 ; (b) General accompt. f. 4; (c) Text of the will, dated at Rome, 11 Mar. 1...
Scope & Content:: Wills of individuals, before A.D. 1700: Card. Howard, with executors' accompts: 1694-1697.: Ital. Fabrizio Spada, Cardinal, Papal Secretary of State: Accompts, etc., as executor to Card. Howard: 1694-1697.: Ital. Francesco Nerli, Cardinal: Accompts, etc., as executor to Card. Howard: 1694-1697...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1694-1697
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38816-38824
Title:: Dunn Manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Purchased at the sale of the library of the late Mr. George Dunn of Woolley Hall, Maidenhead.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, Latin, and Turkish
Date Range:: 12th century-18th century
Extent:: 9 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38831
Title:: CORRESPONDENCE of Henry Wallis, R.W.S., Secretary of the International Committee for the Preservation of the Basilica of St. Mark's, Venice; l879-1882. The Committee was appointed at a meeting of the Society of Arts, 31 May, 1880, to keep a watchful eye on the restorations in progress at St. Mark's, and to influence Italian opinion in regard to them by friendly representations. The letters are mainly acceptances of membership of the Committee by artists and others interested in art in the va...
Scope & Content:: Venice: Correspondence of H. Wallis, Sec. of the Committee for the Preservation of St. Mark's: 1879-1882. Samuel Gideon Frederic Perry, Vicar of Tottington, county Lancashire: Letter to H. Wallis: 1880. Architecture: Correspondence of H. Wallis, Sec. of the International Committee for preservi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1879-1882
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38832
Title:: COMMISSION to a Venetian governor, 18th cent. Imperfect at beginning and end, so that the name and place are lost. Two further lacunae occur after ix. 6, 19. The latest ordinance incorporated is dated 8 May, 1749. A similar commission dated 1746 is Add. MS. 17350. Vellum; ff. i + 67. Quarto. XVIII cent. Binding of red velvet. Belonged to Bethell Walrond of Dulford House (Sotheby sale-cat., 14 Aug. 1878, lot 353), and Charles Butler of Warren Wood (salecat. 1914, lot 4274).
Scope & Content:: Venice: Commission to a Govemor: aft. 1749.: Ital.: Imperf.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38846-38857
Title:: JE Hodgkin papers
Scope & Content:: MSS. 38846-38857, are composed of papers purchased (together with Add. Ch. 59140-59145) at the sale of John Eliot Hodgkin, F.S.A. (Sotheby's sale-cat., 22-24 Apr. 1914). A number are described by Mr. Hodgkin himself in Rariora, 3 vols., 1902, others in Historical MSS. Commission, 15th Report, Ap...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century-18th century
Extent:: 12 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38881-38887
Title:: Dowden Manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Nos. 38881-38887 were purchased at the sale of the library of Professor Edward Dowden, M.A., Litt.D. (Hodgson sale-cat. 9 June, 1914). The first five formed lot 20.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 17th century-Early 19th century
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38889
Title:: PRECEDENT-BOOK of Royal letters' and instruments, chiefly tempp. Anne-George I, viz.: A. Correspondence with foreign princes, largely on domestic occasions : 1. George I to various princes and states, announcing the death of Eleonore, Duchess-Dowager of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 17 Feb. 1721/22 with their replies. Fr. and Lat. ff. 1-31 b passim. 2. Louis XV and Philip, Duke of Orleans, Regent of France, to George 1, on the proposed marriages of Louis with the Infanta of Spain and of the Prince of...
Scope & Content:: includes: ff. 2-,31 b passism Brunswick - Lüneburg, Eleanor, widow of George William, Duke Of: Correspondence of George I rel. to her death: 1722.: Fr. and Lat.: Copies. ff. 2 b, 6 Louis XV of France: Letters to George I: 1721, 1722.: Fr.: Copies. ff. 3, 7 Philippe II Orléans, Duc d'; Regent of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: [between 1714-1727]
Extent:: 1 item

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