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1311. Add MS 41654-41656

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Add MS 41654-41656
Title:
PAPERS of the Townshend family, of Raynham, co. Norfolk; 16th cent-1793
Scope & Content:
4I654-4I656. Three previous series of Townshend Papers are in Add. MSS. 38492-38508, 41139-41152, 41305-41308. Three volumes. Folio. Presented by F. Marcham, Esq., who acquired them at the sale of the Townshend Papers at Sotheby's, 13-15 July 1921 (probably lots 86, 92-95).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
16th century-1793
Extent:
3 items

1312. Add MS 41803-41846

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Add MS 41803-41846
Title:
MIDDLETON PAPERS, consisting mainly of the official correspondence of Charles Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton, Secretary of State from 1684 till the flight of James II, with a few earlier papers of previous Secretaries of State, 1660-Nov. 1688 and n.d.
Scope & Content:
Cf. Brit. Mus. Quart., iv, 1929-1930, pp. 80-82. A number of letters are addressed to his secretary, Dr Owen Wynne (see above), whose family inherited the papers and added the later, mostly 18th cent., collections, Add. MSS. 41843-41845. The final volume (Add. MS. 41846) consists of the papers o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
Date Range:
1660-Nov 1688
Extent:
48 items

1313. Add MS 41851-41859

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Add MS 41851-41859
Title:
4185I-41859. THOMAS GRENVILLE PAPERS. Correspondence of Thomas Grenville (1755-1846), M.P., Envoy Extraordinary to Vienna 1794, to Berlin 1799; First Lord of the Admiralty 1806-1807. Other letters from this series are in Add. MSS. 42058 and 46912H; see also Add. Ch. 67384. Nine volumes. Folio. Arranged as follows:-
Scope & Content:
Thomas Grenville, bibliophile and statesman: Correspondence and papers: 17th cent.-1867.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
[1772-1867]
Extent:
9 items

1314. Add MS 41961-41995

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Add MS 41961-41995
Title:
PASLEY PAPERS: correspondence, letter-books, diaries, and note-books of Gen. Sir Charles William Pasley (1780-1861), K.C.B., R.E. The material was used for a life of Pasley by Col. J. C. Tyler, now Add. MS. 41766 above. From 1799 to 1809 Pasley served as an Engineer officer in Minorca, Malta, Naples, Sicily, Spain, Denmark and Holland. In 1810 he published an Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire, which attracted widespread attention; and in 1812 he was made fir...
Scope & Content:
General Sir Charles William Pasley, KCB; RE: Correspondence, diaries, and notebooks of: 1784-1861. Fortification: Papers of Gen. Sir C. W Pasley, R.E.: 1784-1853. Engineering: Papers of Gen. Sir C. W. Pasley, R.E.: 19th cent. Army; England: Papers of Sir C. W. Pasley: 1784-1861.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
[1764-1861]
Extent:
35 items

1315. Add MS 42069-42082

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Add MS 42069-42082
Title:
HAMILTON AND GREVILLE PAPERS
Scope & Content:
Original correspondence and papers of Sir WilliamHamilton (1730-1803), K.B. 1772, Envoy to the Court of Naples 1764-1800, his nephew, the Rt. Hon. Charles Francis Greville, M.P. (1749-1809), and the latter's brother, the Hon. Robert Fulke Greville (1751-1824); together with four MSS. probably be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[1500-1812]
Extent:
16 items

1316. Add MS 42143-42152

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Add MS 42143-42152
Title:
GOODWIN PAPERS. Historical collections found among the archives of H.M. Consulate at Palermo, where John Goodwin was Consul from June 1834 until his death on 13 Dec. 1869, consisting of draft reports and other materials relative to Sicilian affairs. Paper. Ten volumes, the first four with Goodwin's bookplate. Folio, except where otherwise stated. Presented by H.M. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Scope & Content:
Kingdom of Sicily: Historical collections rel. to Sicilian affairs, 1090-1868, by J. Goodwin: 19th cent. John Goodwin, Consul at Palermo 1834-1869: Historical collections rel. to Sicily: 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
[1800-1899]
Extent:
10 items

1317. Add MS 42177

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Add MS 42177
Title:
LETTERS from Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.C.B., Principal Librarian of the British Museum, to Sir James Philip Lacaita, K.C.M.G., chiefly of personal interest; May 1852-6 Dec. I875. Italian, with a few in English. The latest letters are written by amanuenses and signed by Panizzi. For Lacaita see the biography by his son, C. C. Lacaita, An Italian Englishman, 1933. Paper; ff. 25I. Quarto. A. D. 1852-1875. Presented by C. C. Lacaita, Esq.
Scope & Content:
Sir Anthony Panizzi, KCB; Principal Librarian, British Museum: Letters to Sir J. P. Lacaita: 1852-1875.: Ital. and Engl. Sir James Philip Lacaita, KCMG: Letters to, from Sir A. Panizzi: 1852-1875.: Ital. and Engl. includes: f. 32 Vincenzo Salvagnoli: Letter to Sir J. P. Lacaita: 1858.: Ital...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1852-1875
Extent:
1 item

1318. Add MS 42239

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Add MS 42239
Title:
CHRONICLE, in Italian, covering the years 1438-1491, compiled probably by Cristoforo Schioppa (see below), a merchant of Verona (d. 1492). Beg. 'Evgenio de Nation venetiano dala sacrosancta Romana eccles[ia]'. Ends (f. 1 44) 'non curo del scriuer de lui ne de Ricomandation'. The chronicle, which relates mainly to Northern Italy, was first printed from the only other known MS. (Vicenza, Bibl. Bertoliana MS. Gonzati. M. 5. 10) in Monumenti storici pubblicati dalla R. Deputazione Veneta di Stor...
Scope & Content:
Verona, Italy: Chronicle attrib. to C. Schioppa: 1438-1491.: Ital. Christoforo Schioppa, d 1492 merchant, of Verona: Chronicle of events 1438-1491, attrib. to: 15th cent.: Ital. Italy: Chronicle, attrib. to C. Schioppa, rel. chiefly to N. Italy: 1438-1491.: Ital. History: Chronicle, attrib. t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1500
Extent:
1 item

1319. Add MS 42502 A-B

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Add MS 42502 A-B
Title:
SIMONIDES PAPERS. Correspondence and papers of and relating to Constantine Simonides, the forger, collected by John Eliot Hodgkin, the antiquary; 1821-1868. The correspondence is largely concerned with papyri and MSS. which Simonides claimed to have acquired in the Near East or to have discovered in the Egyptological collections of Joseph Mayer, F.S.A., of Liverpool, and also with his claim to have written the Codex Sinaiticus. An account of Simonides, based partly on the present papers, is...
Scope & Content:
Constantine Simonides, forger: Correspondence and papers of and rel. to: 19th cent.: Gr. and Engl. Forgeries: Correspondence, etc., of and rel. to C. Simonides: 19th cent.: Gr. and Engl.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Romanian
Date Range:
1821-1868
Extent:
2 items

1320. Add MS 42575-42585

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Add MS 42575-42585
Title:
SHERBORN AUTOGRAPHS
Scope & Content:
Original letters and papers, mainly of the 19th and 20th centt., selected from the collection of Charles Davies Sherborn, D.Sc. (d. 1942), which was formed largely in connection with his work at the British Museum (Natural History). The collector's own scheme of classification and alphabetic arr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, and Swedish
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
11 items

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