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21. Add MS 38100

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Title:
TRANSCRIPTS of dispatches from Swedish ambassadors and agents in England to Charles X (Charles Gustavus) of Sweden; 1655, 1656. Made for Samuel Rawson Gardiner, the historian. The writers are:-(1) J- Barkmann, commissioner; I Aug.-Dec. 1656. f. 2 (2) Benjamin Bonel ; 19 Jan.-4 May, 1655. f. 47 ;-(3) Peter Julius Coyet; 16 Mar. 1655-18 Jan. 1656. f. 58.-(4) Christer Bonde; 20 July, 1655-22 Aug. 1656. f. 185. Many of Coyet's letters are in Germ.; the rest are in Swedish. At the beginning (ff. ...
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Charles X of Sweden; Gustavus: Despatches to, from Swedish Ambassadors in England: 1655, 1656.: Swed. and Germ.: Copies. Oliver Cromwell of England: Despatches of Swedish Ambassador in England to Charles X: 1655, 1656.: Swed. and Germ.: Copies. includes: ff. 2-45 b J- Barkmann, Swedish Comm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Swedish
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

22. Add MS 40059

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JAKOB BOEHME, miscellaneous works, translated into Swedish. The first three occur also in the preceding MS., but the translation is not identical. Contents :- 1. "Samtal emällan En Uplyst och Ouplyst Själ" ; the eighth treatise (Von der erleuchteten und unerleuchteten Seele) in the earlier arrangement of Der Weg zu Christo. f. 1. 2. "Om En lefvande, sann och för Gudi gällande Bätring"; the third treatise (De Poenitentia or Ein Schlüssel Göttlicher Geheimnisse) of the same, which in the l...
Scope & Content:
Swedish MSS: Translation into Swedish of treatises by J. Boehme: 18th cent. Jakob Boehme: Miscellaneous treatises: 18th cent.: Swedish transl. includes: f. 83 Prophecies: Prophecies of J. Boehme: 18th cent.: Swedish.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Swedish
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

23. Add MS 41803-41846

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MIDDLETON PAPERS, consisting mainly of the official correspondence of Charles Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton, Secretary of State from 1684 till the flight of James II, with a few earlier papers of previous Secretaries of State, 1660-Nov. 1688 and n.d.
Scope & Content:
Cf. Brit. Mus. Quart., iv, 1929-1930, pp. 80-82. A number of letters are addressed to his secretary, Dr Owen Wynne (see above), whose family inherited the papers and added the later, mostly 18th cent., collections, Add. MSS. 41843-41845. The final volume (Add. MS. 41846) consists of the papers o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
Date Range:
1660-Nov 1688
Extent:
48 items

24. Add MS 42575-42585

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Title:
SHERBORN AUTOGRAPHS
Scope & Content:
Original letters and papers, mainly of the 19th and 20th centt., selected from the collection of Charles Davies Sherborn, D.Sc. (d. 1942), which was formed largely in connection with his work at the British Museum (Natural History). The collector's own scheme of classification and alphabetic arr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, and Swedish
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
11 items

25. Add MS 43459

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PATTERN-BOOK FOR EMBROIDERY OR LACE, probably used for the making of children's samplers. The designs, which are represented by dots on squared paper, are mainly geometrical, but include alphabets (ff. 8, 9), numerals (f. 8), crowns (f. 11), a recumbent stag (f. 26), and flowers (ff. 28, 29). A pen-and-ink wash drawing of a flower appears on f. 8b. Paper; ff. 48 (some leaves cut out). Octavo. Early XVIII cent. Leather binding with title 'Virk book' on the spine. Probably originally owned by ...
Scope & Content:
Art. Miscellaneous: Pattern-book for embroidery or lace: early 18th cent.: (?) Swedish. includes: ff. 2-7, 44 b-48 Anne West, (?)of Cork: Verse, etc., by: circ. 1822-1827.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Swedish
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

26. Add MS 44086-44835

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A SELECTION from the correspondence, official and private, literary manuscripts and other papers of William Ewart Gladstone (b. 1809, d. 1898)
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Entering Parliament in 1832 as Member for Newark, he held a succession of offices, serving as Prime Minister four times, viz. :-1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886, 1892-1894. Full details of his career will be found in the Life by Lord Morley, in which many extracts from these papers are printed. Cf. al...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Bulgarian, Burmese, English, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, and Welsh
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
787 items

27. Add MS 47236-47435

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Title:
LIEVEN PAPERS
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers of Prince Christoph Heinrich Lieven, Russian general and diplomatist, of his wife, Dorothea, née Benckendorff, and their respective families. On these two families see J. Siebmacher's grosses und allegemeines Wappenbuch, bd. 3, abt. 11, Der Adel der russ. Ostseeprovin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
Date Range:
[1750-1895]
Extent:
230 items

28. Add MS 47490-47493 D

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Title:
CORRESPONDENCE AND FAMILY PAPERS OF JOHN LEE, F.R.S., F.S.A., of Hartwell House, co. Bucks., collector of antiquities and scientist; 1799-1865. Lee was born Fiott in 1783, and changed his name by royal licence in 1815 under the terms of the will of his maternal uncle, William Lee Antonie. He inherited the Lee family seat at Hartwell in 1827 on the death of a cousin, the Rev. Sir George Lee, 6th Bart. For further details about the Lee family see W. H. Smyth, Aedes Hartwellianae, 1851, pp. 59-...
Scope & Content:
John Lee, formerly Fiott; FSA; FRS: Correspondence and papers.: 1809-1839.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Swedish
Date Range:
1799-1865
Extent:
8 items

29. Add MS 49471-49517

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Add MS 49471-49517
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WILLOUGHBY GORDON PAPERS 49471-49517. Correspondence and papers of General Sir James Willoughby Gordon, 1st Bart. (b. 1773, d. 1851), together with early nineteenth century copies of eighteenth century military and diplomatic papers; 1756-1842, n.d. Related charters are now Add. Ch. 75819-75831. Forty-seven volumes.
Scope & Content:
Peninsular War: Correspondence, etc., rel. to: 1808-1814: Partly Fr., Span., and Portug. General Sir James Willoughby Gordon, 1st Baronet: Correspondence and papers: 1797-1842, n.d. Army; England: Correspondence, etc., of Sir J. W. Gordon: 1797-1842, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish
Date Range:
1756-1842
Extent:
66 items

30. Add MS 52916-52923

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Add MS 52916-52923
Title:
SCHIFF PAPERS Correspondence, etc., mainly literary and personal, of Sydney Schiff al. 'Stephen Hudson' (b. 1868, d. 1944), and of his wife, Violet, née Beddington (d. 1962); 1907-1961, n.d. Partly French and Italian. Partly copies. See B.M.Q., xxxi, 1966, pp. 24-7; xxxii, 1968, pp. 68-74. Presented by Mrs Freda Gardner through the Hon. Julian Fane. Eight volumes. Folio.
Scope & Content:
Sydney Schiff, alias 'Stephen Hudson'; novelist: Correspondence, etc.,: 1907-1962, n.d. Violet Zillah Schiff, née Beddington; translator; wife of S Schiff: Correspondence,: 1907-1962, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Swedish
Date Range:
1907-1961
Extent:
8 items