GORDON PAPERS (MOFFITT COLLECTION). Vol. XIII (ff. 138). Papers relating to the Sudan; 1874-1884, n.d. 1. ff. 1-113. Miscellaneous papers; 1874-1884. Included are letters from the Khedive Ismail and his successor, Tewfik, and several Egyptian ministers, and (ff. 50, 100) two letters from King ...
GORDON PAPERS (MOFFITT COLLECTION). Vol. XX (ff. 47). 1. ff. 1-31. Sketch maps, etc., of the Nile; 1864-1879, n.d. Included are printed Italian maps showing the course of the expeditions by Miani in 1859-1860, and Speke and Grant in 1860-1862 (ff. 4b-5), the 1874 traverse survey by Watson and ...
LETTERS, ETC., TO SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, K.B., mostly as Envoy at Naples; 1766-1800, n.d. Partly French, Italian and Spanish. Presented by Mrs Evelyn M. Nightingale. Paper; ff. 98. Folio. 1766-1800.
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Ferdinand IV of Naples and Sicily; afterwards Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies: Letters to Sir W. Hamilton, mostly as Envoy to: 1766-1800: Partly Fr., Ital. and Span. Sir William Hamilton, diplomatist and archaeologist: Letters, etc., to: 1766-1800, n.d: Partly Fr., Ital. and Span. includes: f...
Verses by C. J. Fox addressed to his wife, followed (ff. 4, 5) by a 'Canzonetta' and 'Arietta' by him in Italian; 1799, 1801, undated. Copies in the hand of Mrs E. B. Fox, with a note by her on f. 2b. Those on ff. 1, 1b are printed in Lord Ilchester, The Home of the Hollands, 1605-1820 (1937), p...
(1) Verses by C. J. Fox (partly autograph) and others, including some written in his honour; 1762-1806, undated. English, Greek, French and Italian. ff. 1-63. The contents include:- (a) Copies of verses written by C. J. Fox at Eton, which also appear in Add MS 51512 A, ff. 9b-10, 18b-19; 1762 et...
1. ff. 1-59. Bonaparte family; 1814-1835. 2. ff. 60-68v. 'Inventario De' Libri appartenenti alla Principessa [Pauline] Borghese in Roma'; [1825?]. Partly Italian. Possibly the list cited by G.S.H. Fox-Strangways, Chronicles of Holland House 1820-1900, p.71, the books being bequeathed by Princes...