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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45236-45239
Title:: POSITIVIST PAPERS. Vols. XIII-XVI. Letters to Congreve from prominent French and other foreign Positivists, with some replies (copies) from Congreve, viz:-
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: [1858-1898]
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45243-45253
Title:: POSITIVIST PAPERS. Vols. XX-XXX. Notes by Richard Congreve for lectures and sermons, 1860-1895, viz:-
Scope & Content:: Sermons: R. Congreve; sermons, and notes for lectures and sermons: 1860-1895.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1860-1895
Extent:: 11 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45254-45255
Title:: POSITIVIST PAPERS. Vols. XXXI, XXXII (ff. 168, i + 131). Sermons by Richard Congreve (vol. XXXI) on various subjects, 31 Dec. 1887-9 June 1895, and (vol. XXXII) on the Family, 28 Jan.-15 Apr. 1894.
Scope & Content:: Sermons: R. Congreve; sermons, and notes for lectures and sermons: 1860-1895.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 31 Dec 1887-9 Jun 1895
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45262-45264
Title:: POSITIVIST PAPERS. Vols. XXXIX-XLI. Letters from Richard Congreve to Jogendra Chandra Ghosh, Indian Positivist (d. 6 Mar. 1902); 1878-1899. Copies made in India.
Scope & Content:: Richard Congreve, positivist: Letters to J. C. Ghosh: 1878-1899.: Copies. Jogendra-candra Ghos, of Kidderpore: Correspondence with R. Congreve: 1878-1899.: copies.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1878-1899
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45265-45267
Title:: Vols I-III. 'Abstract of a Tour' (45265, f. 1) through France, Switzerland and Italy (for an index to the places visited, see 45267, ff. 48-48b); 15 Apr. 1818-20 Feb. 1819. For part of the tour Bracebridge was accompanied by his brother-in-law, Walter Henry Bracebridge, of Morville House, co. Warw., his sister, Mrs Mary Bracebridge (see 45265, ff. 15b, 16b, 19, 23, 29b; 45266, f. 17), Sir Charles Mordaunt, 8th Bart., M.P., and Lady Mordaunt (see 45265, ff. 77b, 87; 45266, ff. 4, 8b). The lat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15 Apr 1818-20 Feb 1819
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45274-45282
Title:: SARAWAK PAPERS. Vols. I-IX. Correspondence with Sir James Brooke, K.C.B.; 1858-1868. Nine volumes.
Scope & Content:: Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts; formerly Burdett; philanthropist: Correspondence with Sir J. Brooke: 1858-1868. Hannah Brown, widow of W Brown, of London: Correspondence with Sir J. Brooke: 1860-1868. Sir James Brooke, KCB; Rajah of Sarawak: Correspondence with Barones...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1858-1868
Extent:: 9 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45284-45286
Title:: MAHATMA PAPERS. Vols. I-III. 'The Mahatma Letters', consisting mainly of letters on occult subjects addressed to A. P. Sinnett, purporting to come from the Mahatmas Koot Hoomi Lal Singh and Morya; 1880-1886, n.d. With these are notes and letters of Sinnett and other theosophists and spiritualists, Western and Indian, including William Stainton Moses, Allan Octavian Hume, and the cofounders of the Theosophical Society, Col. Henry Steel Olcott and Madame Blavatsky. The Mahatma authorship and p...
Scope & Content:: Koot Hoomi Lal Singh, Mahatma: Correspondence with A. P. Sinnett: 1880-1884.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1880-1886
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45287-45288
Title:: MAHATMA PAPERS. Vols. IV, V. Letters of Madame Blavatsky (Helena Petrovna Blavatsky), Countess Constance Wachtmeister and other theosophists, mainly addressed to A. P. Sinnett and bearing in some cases annotations by the two reputed Mahatmas; 1880-1887, n.d.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1880-1887
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45299-45309
Title:: WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. III-XIII. Drafts and copies of tales and poems for The Earthly Paradise (see C.W., vols. iii-vi). The work was published 1868-1870, but was begun much earlier. In C.W., xxiv, p. vii, May Morris gives the dates 'About 1865-1870' for 'Poems of The Earthly Paradise time', but in C.W., iii, p. xvi, she dates an early MS. of The Man born to be King in the period of 'Scenes from The Fall Of Troy', which is fixed at about 1857 both by her (C.W., ii, p. xiv...
Scope & Content:: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: W. Morris; marginal sketches, etc.: late 19th cent. Poetry ENGLISH: W. Morris: poems: circ. 1853-1896.: Autogr. and copies.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1857-1870
Extent:: 11 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45310-45316
Title:: WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vols XIV-XX. A series of note-books (45310-45315) and a collection of loose leaves (45316) containing drafts of the epic poem 'Sigurd the Volsung' (first published 1876; also C.W., vol. xii). There is also some material for and relating to Morris's translation of 'The Aeneids of Virgil' (see C.W., vol. xi) in 45310, 45311. These seven volumes, together with 37497-37498 (q.v.), contain the entire first draft of 'Sigurd the Volsung', written very roughly an...
Scope & Content:: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: W. Morris; marginal sketches, etc.: late 19th cent. Poetry ENGLISH: W. Morris: poems: circ. 1853-1896.: Autogr. and copies.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1874-1875]
Extent:: 7 items

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