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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 63752-63781
Title:: PRESTON PAPERS Correspondence and papers of Sir Richard Graham, 3rd Bart., of Eske and Netherby, 1st Viscount Preston, Envoy Extraordinary in Paris (1682-1685), Master of the Great Wardrobe (1685-1688), Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland and Westmorland (1687-1688) and Secretary of State (1688); 1629-1760, n.d., but chiefly of the 1680s. Extensively calendared in H.M.C. 7th Report, pp. 261-428, to which detailed references are given below. Individual documents are stamped 'Netherby Library'. Purc...
Scope & Content:: Charles II of England: James II of England: Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston: Correspondence and papers of Lord Preston, chiefly as Ambassador in Paris and Sec. of State: 1629-1760, n.d.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1629-1760
Extent:: 30 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 63764-63771
Title:: PRESTON PAPERS. Vol. XIII-XX. Letters to Lord Preston, chiefly as Envoy in Paris, and to his secretary, Rowland Tempest; 1677-1686, n.d. Eight volumes.
Scope & Content:: Louis XIV of France: Correspondence and papers of Lord Preston, as Ambassador in Paris: 1682-1685: Partly Fr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1677-1686
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 63771
Title:
Scope & Content:: PRESTON PAPERS. Vol. XX. Newsletters from Paris, Fontainebleau, Toulon, Turin, Genoa, Florence, The Hague, Frankfort, Regensburg, Cologne, Vienna, Passau, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Heidelberg, Amsterdam, etc.; 1682-1688. Including some notes to Lord Preston and his secretary Tempest by informants and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1682-1688
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 63772-63776
Title:: PRESTON PAPERS. Vol. XXI-XXV. Miscellaneous papers; 1667-temp. Geo. I. Five volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1667-temp. Geo. I
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 63776
Title:
Scope & Content:: PRESTON PAPERS. Vol. XXV. Letters and papers, including newsletters from London, to Lord and Lady Preston, and some items of political verse; 1667-temp. Geo. I. Partly copies. Partly French, Latin, Spanish, Italian and Turkish. Some newsletters are printed in H.M.C. 7th Report, pp. 404-407 and o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1667
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 64075
Title:
Scope & Content:: MACDONELL PAPERS. Vol. I. Early papers; 1732-1879, n.d. ff. 215. Bound in two volumes, ff. 1-91 and 92-215. 1. ff. 1-10v. Papers rel. to Macdonell estates in Scotland; 1732-1773. Copies, after 1858 (watermark). 2. ff. 11-14. Papers of Lt.-Col. William Johnston (d.1804); 1784, 1804. 3. ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1732-1879
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 64075-64076
Title:: MACDONELL PAPERS
Scope & Content:: Correspondence and papers of the Macdonell family; 1732-1913, n.d. Partly drafts and copies. Partly French, Italian and Spanish. Another group of Macdonell papers was sold at Sotheby's, 23 March 1981, lot 107. Purchased at Phillips's, 11 Dec. 1986, lot 96. Paper. Two volumes bound as four. Bri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1732-1913
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 64076
Title:
Scope & Content:: MACDONELL PAPERS. Vol. II. Later papers; 1852-1913, n.d. ff. 232. Bound in two volumes, ff. 1-118 and 119-232. 1. ff. 1-31. Letters, etc., to General Sir Alexander Macdonell, K.C.B. (b.1820, d.1891), eldest son of Hugh Macdonell; 1859-1887. 2. ff. 32-232v. Correspondence and papers of Sir ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1852-1913
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 64099-64104
Title:: DESCRIPTION OF EUROPE
Scope & Content:: Illustrated description in epistolary form of France, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal and England by Louis Jérôme de Goujon de Thuisy, Commander of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem; 1778-1806, with annotations extending at least to 1819. Mostly autograph fair copies. Mos...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1778-1806
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 64100-64103
Title:: DESCRIPTION OF EUROPE. VolS. II-V. 'Voyage en Italie'; 1792-1806. Autograph fair copies. The main text, written in Malta in 1797, is based on notes compiled by the author during repeated visits to Italy (see Add. 64100, ff. 3-4), the letters being arranged chronologically under location. Four volumes.
Scope & Content:: Art. Artists: Italy General: Accounts of artists, etc., in Italy: 1792-circa 1813: Fr. Art. Engravings, etc: Engravings of buildings, etc., in Italy, Amsterdam and London: circa 1770-1800. Voyages and Travels: Island of Malta: Commandeur Louis Jérôme de Goujon de Thuisy, of the Order of St Joh...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1792-1806
Extent:: 4 items

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