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1081. Add MS 38734-38758

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Title:
HUSKISSON PAPERS. Vols. I-XXV. General correspondence of W. Huskisson, etc.; 1782 and 1790-1831. The names of writers are given in the Index. Twenty-five volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1782-1831
Extent:
25 items

1082. Add MS 38759-38763

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Title:
HUSKISSON PAPERS. Vols. XXVI-XXX. Official and private papers of W. Huskisson ; 1780-1830. Five volumes.
Scope & Content:
George IV of England: Correspondence and papers of W. Huskisson: 1820-1830.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1780-1830
Extent:
5 items

1083. Add MS 38767-38768

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Title:
HUSKISSON PAPERS. Vols. XXXIV, XXXV (ff. 270, 218). Speeches, with drafts and notes for speeches; 1790-1830. Vol. XXXIV ends with 1827. Many of them are printed in the edition by J. Wright, 1831, referred to above. At f. 136 of Vol. XXXV are the notes for a speech to be delivered at Liverpool on proposing James Watt's health, the last words which Huskisson wrote on the day of his death.
Scope & Content:
George IV of England: Correspondence and papers of W. Huskisson: 1820-1830. George III of England: Correspondence and papers of W. Huskisson: 1782-1820.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1790-1830
Extent:
2 items

1084. Add MS 38796-38803

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Title:
"A DICTIONARY Of Monograms and identified Paintings," by Frederick Peter Séguier, arranged alphabetically under names of painters in two series (Vols. I-IV, V-VIII) with 127 plates and five printed title-pages. Eight volumes. Prefixed (Vol. I, f. i) is a memorandum of June, 1901, stating the author's intention to send the then completed MS. to certain publishers and, in event of refusal, to offer it to the British Museum. The work includes directions for publication in four volumes (Vol. I, ...
Scope & Content:
Frederick Peter Séguier': Dictionary of monograms and identified paintings: 19th-20th centt. Art. Treatises: F. P. Séguier, Dictionary of monograms and identified paintings: 19th-20th centt.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
8 items

1085. Add MS 38805-38806

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Title:
TWO NOTE-BOOKS containing copies of painters' monograms and notes on pictures, in an earlier hand. Paper; ff. ii + 46, 96. Small quarto. Watermark 1824.
Scope & Content:
Art. Treatises: Note-books of painters' monograms, etc.: 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
2 items

1086. Add MS 38808 A-C

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Title:
MISCELLANEOUS Papers from the library of H.S. Ashbee. Three volumes. Paper.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century-19th century
Extent:
3 items

1087. Add MS 38828-38829

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Title:
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL notes on erotic books in H. S. Ashbee’s collection, by J. C. Reddie. Arranged alphabetically under titles, with an Appendix (Vol. II, f. 529). Two volumes. Paper; ff. 604, 584. Quarto. XIX cent. Ashbee's bookplates.
Scope & Content:
James Campbell Reddie, author and book collector: Notes on erotic books in H. S. Ashbee's collection: 19th cent. Bibliography: Notes on erotic books in H. S. Ashbee's collection, by J. C. Reddie.: 19th cent. Henry Spencer Ashbee, bibliophile: Bibliographical notes on Ashbee's collection by J. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
2 items

1088. Add MS 38916-38926

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Title:
PARLIAMENTARY JOURNAL-LETTERS Of Sir Richard Temple, Bart., M.P. for Evesham 1885-1892, and for the Kingston Division of Surrey 1892-1895, written to his wife, giving a vivid description, from a Conservative standpoint, of the proceedings in Gladstone's two Home Rule Parliaments and the intermediate Salisbury Government, 1886-1895. Vol. I has a photograph of Arthur Wellesley Peel (Viscount Peel 1895) as Speaker prefixed and Temple's bookplate of arms. Most of the volumes have a note of prese...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1886-1895
Extent:
11 items

1089. Add MS 38927-38928

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Title:
CHARACTER-SKETCHES by the same author of prominent members in the House of Commons, containing impressions of 176 personages. Many of the same persons appear in both volumes, the first carried down to 1892, the second dated 1893-1895. The arrangement is explained in the introduction to each volume. A selection of 112 sketches has been published in Letters and Character Sketches, see above. Ff. i + 201 and 202. Quarto.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1892-1895
Extent:
2 items

1090. Add MS 38932-38933

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Add MS 38932-38933
Title:
LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. II, III (ff. 371, 308). Memoirs, by Sir A. H. Layard on his mission to Spain, 1869-1877. Holograph. Vol. II ends at May, 1873. Preceded (ff. 2-5) by notes, and by the following heading (f. 1) : "The Story of My Mission to Spain. This MS. is in a very rough and unfinished state, and has not even been read over. A. H. L. Venice, Decr. 15, 1883." In accordance with the desire of the writer, expressed at the beginning of his autobiography (38931, f. 3b), neither these memoir...
Scope & Content:
Sir Austen Henry Layard, GCB; diplomatist and archaeologist: Memoirs: 1817-1883.: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1869-1877
Extent:
2 items

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