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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4299
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Scope & Content:: MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of letters and papers, of a commercial and diplomatic character, mostly referring to foreign affairs. Included are some original letters, imperfect or unsigned drafts, etc. The names of the writers, etc. are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Paper; ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Swedish
Date Range:: 16th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4300
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Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. 256). A-B. includes: f. 1 H. Abé, Surgeon Major of General Cornube's Regiment at Namur: Letter to the Royal Society: 1755. f.3 Louis Paul Abeille, Advocate to the Parlement of Brittany: Letter to T. Birch: 1761.: Fr. f. 6 Gottfried Achenwall, German writer on statistics: Letter to ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1734-1764
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4300-4323
Title:: BIRCH CORRESPONDENCE Collection of letters addressed to Thomas Birch; 1726-1766. Twenty-four volumes, arranged roughly in alphabetical order. The names of writers are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. In Add. MS. 4323 most of the letters lack signatures. French, Latin, Italian and English. Paper. Folio.
Scope & Content:: Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Correspondence of: 1726-1766, n.d.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1726-1766
Extent:: 24 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4322
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XXIII (ff. 161). W-Z. includes: ff. 1-7 Browne Willis, antiquary: Letters to T. Birch: 1738-1739. ff. 8-13 Hugh Willoughby, 15th Baron Willoughby of Parham: Letters to T. Birch: 1760-1764. ff. 14-38 Reverend James Wills, painter: Letters to T. Birch: 1739-1758. f. 39 John Wills, Vicar of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1731-1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4323
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XXIV (ff. 67). Misc. includes: ff. 3, 39 Bocca, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Turin: Letters to the Royal Society: 1754.: Fr. f. 5 Count Francesco Algarotti,; Italian scholar: Letters to T. Birch: 1756, 1759.: Ital. f. 7 Sir Thomas Clarke, FRS; Master of the Rolls: Letters...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1651-1765
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4350
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Scope & Content:: PAPAL CONCLAVE PROCEEDINGS Relations of the proceedings of Papal Conclaves, etc., from the death of Pius IV (1565) to the election of Innocent X (1644). Italian. Viz.:- (1) 'Conclave fatto per la Morte di Pio quarto ... nel quale fu Creato Pont. ce il Card. Ghisleri ... detto Pio Quinto'; 156...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4364
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Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. 170). (1) Instructions to George Downing, Extraordinary Ambassador to Geneva, Basle, etc., John Pell, Resident with the Evangelical Cantons of Switzerland, and Samuel Morland, Envoy to the Duke of Savoy; 28 July 1655. Draft, partly in Secretary Thurloe's hand. ff. 1-6b. (2) Instr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1653-1661
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4364-4365
Title:: COLLECTIONS RELATING TO THE SWISS CANTONS State papers and letters relating chiefly to the affairs of the Swiss Evangelical Cantons and Piedmont, and to Cromwell's efforts in 1656-1657, to detach the Cantons from France and to create throughout Europe an universal Protestant League. Two volumes. 1632-1714. Paper. Folio. Included are many letters from John Pell, Cromwell's Agent to the Cantons, and subsequently Resident at Zurich, and of John Durie, who with Cromwell's approbation acted with...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1632-1714
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4365
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Scope & Content:: Vol. II (ff. 399). (1) Johann Heinrich Rahn to J. Pell; Kyburg, near Zurich, 3 March 1658. Latin. ff. 5-6b. (2) John Pell to Theodore Hank, on scientific subjects; 1663, 1664. ff. 13-17b. (3) Ezerel Tonge, D.D., to J. Pell; 8 Oct. 1662. ff. 23-24. (4) John Aubrey, F.R.S., to J. Pell; cir...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1654-1714
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4376
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Scope & Content:: MEDICAL COLLECTIONS Collections of treatises, chiefly medical, and letters of doctors and their patients; 17th- 18th centt. The names of the writers of the letters will be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. The treatises are as follows:- (1) 'De subiecto primo et imediato Caloris pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: Folio. 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

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