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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39922
Title:: MISCELLANE0US letters, papers, and fragments of manuscripts, 13th-20th centt.
Scope & Content:: includes: f. 1 Guybon Goddard, MP: Letter to his brother-in-law J. Greene: 1644.: With seal.f. 3 Thomas Hull, actor, manager and dramatist: Anonymous letter to, conc. transl. of Racine's Iphigénie: 1775.f. 5 Field-Marshal Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley, Viscount Wolseley: Letter to R.B. Brett...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century-20th century
Extent:: 14 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39923
Title:: MISCELLANEOUS letters and papers principally relating to Jacobites ; 1668-1790. Prefixed is a copy of a warrant of Queen Mary for restoration of rents, etc. to Thomas [Howard,] Duke of Norfolk, 3 Dec. 1553, " ex autographo penes P[etrum] l[e Neve] Norroy." A few are connected with the rebellion in 1745 and a large number with the trials of the rebels in 1746. The chief contents are :- 1. Letter from Alexander [Burnet], Archbishop of Glasgow, to Lord - 22 Feb. 1668. f. 2. 2. Letter from [Ja...
Scope & Content:: Jacobites: Letters and papers rel. to: 1688-1788. includes: f. 1 Mary I of England: Warrant by, for restoration of rents to the Duke of Norfolk,: 1553.: Copy, 18th cent.f. 2 Alexander Burnet, Archbishop of Glasgow and (1679) of St. Andrews: Letter to Lord -: 1668.f. 3 James Fitzjames, Du...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1668-1790
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39929-39936
Title:: TWINING PAPERS. Correspondence and papers of the family of Twining; 1760-1884. Mainly the correspondence of the Rev. Thomas Twining (1735-1804), M.A., Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, afterw. Rector of St. Mary's, Colchester, and translator of " Aristotle on Poetry," with his halfbrother Richard Twining I (1749-1824), tea merchant, of Devereux Court, Strand, and other members of the family, and with Dr. Charles Burney, the musician. Selections from the correspondence, which includ...
Scope & Content:: Twining family: Correspondence and papers: 18th-19th centt.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1760-1884
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39930
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. II (ff. 345). 1790-1799. Correspondence of Rev. T. Twining with R. Twining I, etc. Richard Twining I, tea merchant: Correspondence with his brother Rev. T. Twining: 1776-1804. Reverend Thomas Twining, translator of Aristotle's ' Poetics.': Correspondence with his brother R. Twining I: 177...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1790-1799
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40018-40027
Title:: NAPIER PAPERS. Vols. I-X. General Correspondence of Adm. Sir C. Napier, etc. ; 1796-1904. The names of the writers are given in the Index. Ten volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Turkish
Date Range:: 1796-1904
Extent:: 10 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40018-40055
Title:: NAPIER PAPERS: private and official correspondence and papers of Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B. (b. 1786, d. 1860). Napier entered the navy in 1799, was promoted Lieutenant 1805, Commander 1807, Captain 1809, Rear-Admiral 1846, Vice-Admiral 1853 and Admiral 1858. In 1833, under the assumed name of Carlos de Ponza, he accepted the command of the Portuguese Regency fleet against Dom Miguel, with the rank of Vice-Admiral and Major-General of the Portuguese Navy, and for his services was by ...
Scope & Content:: Navy; England: Correspondence and papers of Adm. Sir C. Napier, etc.: 1796 1904. Admiral Sir Charles Napier, KCB: Correspondence and papers: 1796-1860.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish
Date Range:: [1796-1904]
Extent:: 38 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40021
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. IV (ff. 414). 1840-1842 (with letters in Arabic and Turkish to 1859, and n.d.). 4 Egypt: Papers of Adm. Sir C. Napier rel. to Syrian War, etc.: 1839-1841. Turkey: Abdul Medjid. Papers rel. to the Syrian war and troubles in Lebanon: 1839-1846. Syria: Papers of Adm. Sir C. Napier rel. to: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Turkish
Date Range:: 1840-1842
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40028
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. XI (ff. 343). Jan. 1839-Sept.1846. includes: ff. 16, 18 Sir Edward Thomas Troubridge, 2nd Baronet; Lord of the Admiralty: Admiralty orders signed by: 1839.ff. 16-316 passim Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet; Second Secretary to the Admiralty: Letters, etc., to Adm. Sir C. Napier, etc.: 1833-18...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Italian, and Turkish
Date Range:: Jan 1839-Sep 1846
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40028-40032
Title:: NAPIER PAPERS. Vols. XI-XV. " Admiralty letters," comprising chiefly orders and instructions to Napier from the Admiralty, the respective Secs. of State, naval officers, etc. The papers remain in the order in which they were originally bound-in rough but not strict chronological order. An index is prefixed to each volume. Other volumes of this series, Mar. 1854-Feb. 1856, are in the Public Record Office (Napier Papers, Vols. I-IV). Five volumes. Folio.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Italian, and Turkish
Date Range:: [1839-1854]
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40036
Title:
Scope & Content:: NAPIER PAPERS. Vol. XIX (ff. 124). Letter-book of Adm. Sir C. Napier, containing copies of official letters despatched, and of a few received by him, when commanding H.M.S. "Powerful" off the coast of Syria and Egypt, 7 Jan. 1839-20 Oct. 1841. Folio. Turkey: Abdul Medjid. Papers rel. to the Syr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Italian, and Turkish
Date Range:: 7 Jan 1839-20 Oct 1841
Extent:: 1 item

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