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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41051-41053
Title:: SHELTON YOUNG COLLECTION. Vols. CLXIII-CLXV. Pedigrees of the Young family collected by Major-Gen. Henry Ferrers Waddington. The first two volumes have been arranged by Young in counties, viz:-Add. MS. 41051, Bedford-London, Add. MS. 41052, London-York, with appendices for Wales, f. 128, Scotland, f. 132, Ireland, f. 143, Navy, f. 146, Army, f. 149, Colonial, f. 156, America, f. 158. Add. MS. 41053 is arranged in roughly the same way as the two preceding volumes. On ff. 92- 142 are pedigrees...
Scope & Content:: Major-General Henry Ferrers Waddington, of the Bengal Staff Corps: Genealogical collections, etc., rel. to Young family: 19th-20th centt.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1902-1903
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41054-41055
Title:: SHELTON YOUNG COLLECTION. Vols. CLXVI, CLXVII . Pedigrees of the Young family transcribed by J. S. Young; Add. MS. 41054 from MS. sources, all in the British Museum, with the exception of those on ff. 11, 12, 43, 45, 46, 62, 69, which are in the Bodleian Library at Oxford; Add. MS. 41055 from printed sources. They are arranged under counties with Welsh, Scotch and Irish pedigrees at the end. Ff. 131, 89. A.D. 1904-1905.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1904-1905
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41081-41082
Title:: MELVILLE PAPERS (2nd ser.). Vols. III, IV (ff. 151, 135). Correspondence of Adm. George Keith Elphinstone, Baron Keith [Viscount 1814], as Commander-in-Chief in the North Sea, with Lord Melville, 1797-1805, and, as Commander in the Channel, with the 2nd Lord Melville, 1812-1821; 27 June 1797- 5 Oct. 1804, 7 Oct. 1804-11 Dec. 1821. Sale, lot 99.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1797-1821
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41091-41092
Title:: PERUGINI COLLECTION. Vols I (ff. 55) and II (ff. 48). Secular and sacred vocal solos, duets, trios and quartets, with pianoforte or organ accompaniments, by Leonardo Perugini; 1835, 1837 and n.d. Italian and Latin; mostly holograph. At the end of Vol. II (f. 31) is an arrangement for four voices, by the same, of a composition of F[?rancesco] P[?erugini], followed (f. 43) by a "Tarantella Napoletana" of the latter. The pieces in Vol. I, ff. 4 b, 6, 24 b, and 29 b, were published at various da...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1835-1837
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41093-41094
Title:: PERUGINI COLLECTION. Vols. III (ff. 38) and IV (ff. 53). Vocal music, chiefly by Italian composers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, probably collected, for the greater part at least, by Leonardo Perugini, in whose hand some of the pieces are copied. The principal contents of Vol. III are:-(a) A setting, for soprano voice, with accompaniment for strings, of Torquato Tasso's "La Gerusalemme Liberata," Canto xii, Stanzas 96, 97 and 99, by [Niccolò Antonio] Zingarelli. For other copie...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1835-1837]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41125-41127
Title:: CROKER PAPERS. Vols. II-IV. Letters of John Murray, publisher, third of the name, to John Wilson Croker; 1831- 1857. The correspondence concerns for the most part the contributions of Croker to the Quarterly Review (of which he was a founder in 1809) and his other literary productions. From the papers of the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker, Secretary to the Admiralty 1809-1830 and man of letters, were acquired at the sale of Messrs. J. Pearson and Co., Sotheby's, 23-26 June 1924.
Scope & Content:: 'Quarterly Review': Correspondence of J. Murray and J. W. Croker rel. to: 1831-1857. John Murray, publisher; d.1892: Letters to J. W. Croker: 1831-1857. John Wilson Croker, PC; MP: Correspondence with J. Murray (3): 1831-1857.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1831-1857
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41134-41135
Title:: Vols. II, III (ff. 41, 75). Correspondence of Sir W. Chambers, copied for the most part in his own hand; 3 July 1772- 15 Jan. 1774,9 Jan. 1774-28 Aug. 1775. Among his correspondents abroad are members of his own family and others in Sweden, and in France the architect Julien David Le Roy and Mare René, Marquis de Voyer d'Argenson. Quarto.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1772-1775
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41144-41150
Title:: TOWNSHEND PAPERS (2nd ser.). Vols. VI-XII. Orderly Books of the English forces in the campaigns of Flanders and Germany under the command successively of John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Gen. George Wade, William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, and John Murray, 2nd Earl of Dunmore, extending from the embarkation order of 26 May O.S. 1742 to the Antwerp garrison order of 19 Dec. 1745. Extracts are printed from Vol. I in C. V. F. Townshend, The Military Life of Field-Marshal George, 1st Marque...
Scope & Content:: Army; England: Orderly books in Flanders and Germany: 1742-1745.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1742-1745]
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41170-41171
Title:: ORIGINAL LETTERS and signed documents relating to the French Revolution, 16 July 1783-11 Thermidor, an 3 [29 July 1795]; mostly in French. Two volumes, vol. i ending 10 Germinal, an 2 [30 Mar. 17941. A considerable proportion of the earlier papers in Add. MS. 41170 are addressed to Emmanuel Henri Louis Alexandre de Launay, Comte d'Antraigues, author and political adventurer (murdered 1812). The names of the writers are given in the Index.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1783-1795
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41172-41173
Title:: TYPEWRITTEN TRANSCRIPTS of papers in Add. MSS. 41170, 41171 respectively. Paper; ff. 422, 280. Oblong quarto.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1783-1795]
Extent:: 2 items

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