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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 44082
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XX (ff. 239). 7-23 Mar. 1763. includes: f. 1 Captain Hugh Bowen, 91st Foot: Letter to Col. B. Armstrong: 1763.ff. 5, 82, 101, 137, 197 Major William Dalrymple, 91 st Foot: Correspondence with Lord Loudoun: 1762-1771.ff. 7, 167 Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont: Correspondence wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Portuguese
Date Range:: Mar 1763
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 44083
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XXI (ff. 246). 24 Mar.- 6 Apr 1763. includes: ff. 1, 9, 40, 42, 142, 144, 226 Hon Edward Hay, Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal: Correspondence with Lord Loudoun: 1762-1763.f. 15 Captain John Slessor: Letter to Lord Loudoun: 1763.f. 25 Major John Biddulph, 3rd Foot: Letter to -: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Portuguese
Date Range:: 24 Mar 1763-6 Apr 1763
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 44084
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XXII (ff 243). 7 Apr. 1763-1776. includes: ff. 1, 4, 28 Colonel Bigoe Armstrong, 83rd Foot; General 1783: Correspondence with Lord Loudoun: 1762-1763.ff. 5, 102 George Barclay and Sons; merchants of Lisbon: Correspondence with Lord Loudoun: 1762-1763.ff. 7, 110 Major John Biddulph, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Portuguese
Date Range:: 7 Apr 1763-1776
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 44871
Title:: 'MÉMOIRE MILITAIRE SUR LE PORTUGAL', [1798-1801], attributed (ff. 20-21) to General Charles François Duperrier Dumouriez and sent by him to the Prince Regent of Portugal (afterwards John VI) in August 1800, according to a pencilled note in English on f. 3. French. Contemporary copy. The treatise, which proposes the method of defending Portugal against a threatened Franco-Spanish attack, is followed (ff. 19-22) by observations thereon in Portuguese by a senior Portuguese official, generally a...
Scope & Content:: John VI of Portugal: 'Mémoire Militaire sur le Portugal', sent to, as Prince Regent: 1800.: Fr. and Portug.: Copy. Charles François Duperrier Dumouriez, French general: 'Memoire militaire sur le Portugal', attrib. to, etc., 1800. Fr. and Portug. Copy: 19th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Portuguese
Date Range:: [1798-1801]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 44894
Title:: DOCUMENTS RELATING TO SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S VOYAGE of circumnavigation (Dec. 1577-Sept. 1580): transcripts made by or for Mrs Zelia Nuttall between 1908 (see Preface to op. cit. below) and (?) 1914 from the originals preserved in South American and Spanish collections. Spanish. Partly typewritten with references to printed editions of documents not here transcribed. Also included are (ff. 250-266) photographs of the journal, in Portuguese, of Nuño da Silva, as prisoner of Drake 1578-1579 and (...
Scope & Content:: Mrs Zelia Nuttall, historian and ethnographer: Compiled: 1908[1914?]. Sir Francis Drake, circumnavigator: Documents rel. to1577-1580.Copies: 1908-[1914?].: Span. and Portug. includes: ff. 1, 3 Mrs Zelia Nuttall, historian and ethnographer: Letters to G. F. Warner: 1910.f. 8 Mrs Zelia Nutt...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1908-1914
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45149
Title:: GEORGEIDA: an epic poem of ten cantos in Portuguese on the Peninsular War by Francisco de Paula Medina e Vasconcellos, notary in Funchal, Madeira Is., composed in 1811 (cf. f. 4b) and dedicated to George, Prince of Wales. Calligraphically written copy, perhaps for presentation. Printed, with variations, at London in 1819 but there dedicated to Robert Page, merchant in Madeira. After the prologue are two sonnets, the first (f. 5) addressed by the author to his friend 'Doutor Anastacio Bithenc...
Scope & Content:: Poetry Portuguese: F. de P. Medina e Vasconcellos: epic poem, 'Georgeida' and two sonnets: circ. 1811. Francisco de Paula Medina e Vasconcellos, poet and notary in Funchal, Madeira: Epic poem, 'Georgeida': circ. 1811.: Portug. George IV of England: 'Georgeida', dedicated to, as Prince of Wales...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Portuguese
Date Range:: 1811
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 46414-46442
Title:: ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE PAPERS Literary Manuscripts and correspondence of Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., F.R.S. (b. 1823, d. 1913), naturalist; 1848-1914. Wallace's life and various interests are described in his autobiography, My Life, 2 vols., 1905 (abridged edition, 1 vol., 1908); J. Marchant, Alfred Russel Wallace, Letters and Reminiscences, 2 vols., 1916; W. George, Biologist Philosopher, a Study of the Life and Writings of Alfred Russel Wallace, 1964; A. Williams- Ellis, Darwin's Moon, a ...
Scope & Content:: Alfred Russel Wallace, naturalist: Correspondence and papers: 1848-1913.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Portuguese, and Russian
Date Range:: 1848-1914
Extent:: 29 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 46434-46442
Title:: B. CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence, 1848-1913, including a letter to Flora Mitten, Wallace's sister-in-law, 1914, letters to Wallace's wife, Annie, née Mitten, and copies of letters from Wallace to S. C. Cockerell, T. D. A. Cockerell, C. R. Darwin, W. B. Hemsley, T. H. Huxley, C. Reid, and W. T. Thiselton-Dyer. Both Wallace, My Life, 1905, and Marchant, op. cit., make use of Wallace's family letters and letters to Wallace not extant, and Marchant of Wallace's letters to his correspondents whi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Portuguese
Date Range:: 1848-1913
Extent:: 9 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 46441
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XXVIII (ff. 261). 1853 - 1904. includes: ff. 1, 2, 6, 12, 14 Sir James Brooke, KCB; Rajah of Sarawak: Letters to A. R. Wallace: [1853?]-1866.ff. 9, 19 Sidney Edward Bouverie Bouverie-Pusey: Letters to A. R. Wallace: 1864, 1868.f. 10 Charles Loring Brace, American philanthropist: Let...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Portuguese
Date Range:: 1853-1904
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 46441-46442
Title:: A. R. WALLACE PAPERS. Vols. XXVIII - XXIX. General correspondence. Two volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Portuguese
Date Range:: [1853-1913]
Extent:: 2 items

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