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2711. Add MS 70001-70523

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THE PORTLAND PAPERS. Papers of the Harley Family of Brampton Bryan, and of the related families of Vere, Holles, Cavendish and Cavendish-Bentinck; 9th-mid 19th cent. Originally housed at Welbeck Abbey and deposited in the British Museum between 1947 and 1967 by His Grace, the seventh Duke of Portland as 'The Portland Loan' (Loan 29). For a survey of the Portland Archive as a whole, including those sections now in other repositories, see R. J. Olney, 'The Portland Papers', in Archives, XIX, n...
Scope & Content:
Portland Papers: Harley family; Earls of Oxford: Papers of the Harley and related families: 9th-mid 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
9th century-Mid 19th century
Extent:
529 items

2712. Add MS 70524-70589

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HAVELOCK ELLIS PAPERS Correspondence and papers of and relating to Henry Havelock Ellis (b.1859, d.1939), sociologist and pioneer writer on literary, sexual and psychological topics; 1859-1990, n.d. Partly signed. Partly copies and printed. Partly French, German, Spanish and Latin. Subsections within the collection contain papers of, and relating to, the following: James Hinton (b.1822, d.1875), aural surgeon, speculator on natural religion, and author of Life in Nature; Edith Mary Oldham Le...
Scope & Content:
Henry Havelock Ellis, sociologist: Correspondence and papers of and rel. to Havelock Ellis: 1859-1990, n.d: Partly Fr., Germ., Span. and Lat: Partly signed. Partly copies. Partly printed. Partly drafts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Latin, Spanish, and Swedish
Date Range:
1859-1990
Extent:
66 items

2713. Add MS 70590

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SIR WILLIAM TRUMBULL, SECRETARY OF STATE: commonplace book comprising a 'Synopsis Logicae' and historical notes; circa 1657. Autograph. Latin. The notebook, dated 1657 by Trumbull (see f. ii verso), was used by him when a student at Oxford. It comprises a summary of logic (ff. 4-35), and historical notes (ff. 95v-90v, vol. rev.) relating to sixteenth-century Flanders, taken from Books I and II of an unidentified work. On f. ii verso is written 'Gulielmus Trumball liber ejus 1657' but the dat...
Scope & Content:
Philosophy: Flanders: Sir William Trumbull, Secretary of State: Commonplace book of Sir William Trumbull including notes on logic and history of Flanders: circa 1657: Lat: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1657
Extent:
1 item

2714. Add MS 70591

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JOHANN-BAPTISTE JACOBS: verses and chronograms, etc., of J.-B. Jacobs al. Gisbertus Lumnius, sometime Capuchin priest, of Brussels; 1790-1823. Probably autograph, with some revisions. Latin and Dutch In some verses dated 1 May 1806 (f. 21) the author describes himself both as J-B. Jacobs and as 'Gisbertus Lumnius, Capucinus extrusus'. Besides acrostic and emblematic verses, elegies and epithalamia the contents include numerous congratulatory pieces, etc., relating to members of the Van de Ve...
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Poetry LATIN: J[ohann]-B[aptiste] Jacobs, alias 'Gisbertus Lumnius'; Capuchin, of Brussels: Poetry DUTCH: Van de Velde family; Barons de Melroy en Sart-Bomel: Chronograms: Verses and chronograms, etc., by Lumnius, partly addressed to the Van de Velde family: 1790-1823: Lat. and Dutch: Autogr(?)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
1790-1823
Extent:
1 item

2715. Add MS 70839-70854

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Title:
MCCRIMMON COLLECTION. Correspondence chiefly relating to the history of the British Museum, collected by Mrs. Barbara S. McCrimmmon; 1638-1956, n.d. English, French, German and Italian. Included are some portraits and photographs, etc. Where possible, arrangements of the material at a detailed level made by Mrs. McCrimmon have been maintained, and lists made by Mrs. McCrimmon are mounted in some of the volumes. Presented by the American Trust for the British Library, 17 Sept. 1991. Paper. ...
Scope & Content:
British Museum: Barbara Smith McCrimmon, bibliographer: Correspondence rel. to the British Museum, collected by Barbara Smith McCrimmon: 1638-1956, n.d: Partly French, Germ., Ital.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1638-1956
Extent:
16 items

2716. Add MS 70887

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SIR EDWARD DERING, 2ND BART., OF SURRENDEN, CO. KENT: Household Book, incorporating copies of earlier materials; 1652-1685. Chiefly autograph. Partly Latin copies. Dering's Household Book for 1648-1652 is now Add. 22466. For a detailed list of the contents of both see Maurice F. Bond, The Diaries and Papers of Sir Edward Dering, Second Baronet, 1644-1684 (1976), pp. 155-157. Purchased at the sale of Sir Edward Cholmely Dering, 8th Bart., Puttick and Simpson, 8 June 1858, lot 1605, for Sir Th...
Scope & Content:
Accounts: Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet: Household book of Sir Edward Dering, including accounts, itinerary, family notes, etc.,: 1652-1685: Partly Lat: Partly copies. County of Kent: Lands of the Dering family in Kent: temp. Stephen-1656: Partly Lat: Partly copies. Dering family; of Kent; ba...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1558-1685
Extent:
1 item

2717. Add MS 70920-70925

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J. W. DAVISON PAPERS: letters to James William Davison (b.1813, d.1885), sometime editor of The Musical World and music critic of The Times; 1828-1914, n.d. Some of the letters are published in Henry Davison, Music during the Victorian Era: being the Memoirs of J. W. Davison (1912), though many of the other letters reproduced there are not present in this collection. See also Charles Reid, The Music Monster (1984). Purchased from Richard Macnutt Ltd., 5 Sept. 1989. Paper. Six volumes. Briti...
Scope & Content:
James William Davison, music critic: Letters from various correspondents and related material: 1828-1914, n.d.: Partly Fr., Germ., Ital: Partly printed. Partly copies and imperf.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1828-1914
Extent:
6 items

2718. Add MS 70926

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Add MS 70926
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS
Scope & Content:
A-L. Paper; ff. 45. British Library arrangement. A. Letter from Joseph Dickinson (d. 1739) to John van Bempde, of Pall Mall St., chiefly relating to surveying of property in the North Riding of Yorkshire; 1 June 1723. Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, March 1992. ff. 1-1v. 330 x 240mm. B. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1569-1923
Extent:
1 item

2719. Add MS 70927-70928

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Title:
WELLESLEY (GRENVILLE) PAPERS: correspondence of Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley 1799 (b.1760, d.1842), Governor-General of India 1797-1805, Foreign Sectretary 1809-1812, and Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 1821-1828, 1833-1834, with William Wyndham, Baron Grenville, Foreign Secretary 1791-1801 and Prime Minister 1806-1807; 1796-1828
Scope & Content:
Only one copy of a letter to Grenville is included (23 Jan. 1806; this differs slightly from the version of the letter sent, published in H.M.C. Fortescue VII, p. 332). The collection contains circa 90 letters from Grenville to Wellesley, mostly dating from 1796-1807. A small number of these app...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1796-1828
Extent:
2 items

2720. Add MS 70929

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Add MS 70929
Title:
SENECA: letters of Lucius Annaeus Seneca; 12th-14th cent. Copies. Latin. In two parts: Part 1 (pp. 1-256) Letters 1-88; Part 2 (pp. 257-346) Letters 89-124. The supposititious correspondence of Seneca with Paul follows on pp. 349-351, and an index on pp. 353-356. Not used by L. D. Reynolds in his edition of Seneca's Letters in 1965. Given by Dominus Galfridus de Edenham, canon of Lincoln, to the Premonstratensian Abbey of Barlings (N. R. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, 2nd ed. (196...
Scope & Content:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the younger; philosopher and statesman: Epistulae Morales of Lucius Annaeus Seneca: 12th-14th centt.: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-14th century
Extent:
1 item

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