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861. Add MS 34233-34234

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Add MS 34233-34234
Title:
Giuseppe Verdi: 'Rigoletto', opera
Scope & Content:
'Rigoletto': Opera in 3 Acts, with preludio, symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, clarini, horns, trumpets, bassoons, trombones, serpent, drums, and strings, and an occasional small additional military band, in score, by Giuseppe Verdi [1851]. Conductor's copy. Characters: il Duca, l...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
2 volumes

862. Add MS 34235-34236

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Add MS 34235-34236
Title:
Giuseppe Verdi: 'Les Vêpres Siciliennes', opera
Scope & Content:
Opera ['Les Vêpres Siciliennes'], in 5 Acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, clarinets, horns, cornets-à-piston (cornettes or pistons), trumpets, bassoons, trombones, serpent, drums, cymbals, harp, triangle, castanets, and strings, in score, with Italian words added to some ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
2 volumes

863. Add MS 34329-34335

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Add MS 34329-34335
Title:
STATE-PAPERS, letters, etc., relating to negotiations with Portugal and Spain; l572-1720. Seven volumes. Paper. Folio. The collection was made by Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk to the Privy Council, and (1690) Secretary of State for Ireland. The letters comprise the correspondence of Southwell, when Envoy to Portugal (1665-1669), with the Secretaries of State and others, and, on his return, with Francis Parry, English Resident at Lisbon (1671-1680), and Paul Methuen, Envoy Extraordinary to Lisb...
Scope & Content:
Kingdom of Spain: Negotiations in, by Sir R. Southwell, etc.: 1574-1720. Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk of the Privy Council: State correspondence: 1665-1720. Kingdom of Portugal: Negotiations of Sir R. Southwell and others in: 1574-1720. England General Chronicles and History: Negotiations in S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1572-1720
Extent:
7 items

864. Add MS 34336-34338

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Add MS 34336-34338
Title:
LETTER-BOOKS of Sir Robert Southwell during his negotiations in Portugal; 1665-1669. Three volumes. He was first despatched as Envoy Extraordinary in Feb. 1665 [6] to mediate a treaty between Spain and Portugal, in conjunction with Richard Fanshawe, Envoy at Madrid, and subsequently with the latter's successor, [Edward Montagu, 1st] Earl of Sandwich. He returned to England on the conclusion of the treaty [Vol. II., f. 15] in Feb. 1667 [8], but was sent again with new Instructions [Vol. III.,...
Scope & Content:
Charles II of Spain: Letter-books of Sir R. Southwell negotiating a treaty betw. Portugal and: 1665-1668. Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk of the Privy Council: Letter-books: 1665-1669. Alphonso VI of Portugal: Letter-books of Sir R. Southwell when Envoy to: 1665-1669. Edward Montagu, Earl of Sand...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1665-1669
Extent:
3 items

865. Add MS 34339-34340

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Add MS 34339-34340
Title:
TRANSCRIPTS of state-papers and correspondence relating to transactions between England and the Netherlands ; 1668-1701. Some of the papers are in the handwriting of Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk to the Privy Council, etc.; others appear by their endorsements to have 'been written either for his use or for that of William Blathwayt, Secretary-at-War, etc. Two volumes Paper. Folio. The contents are:-
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and French
Date Range:
1668-1701
Extent:
2 items

866. Add MS 34341-34344

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Add MS 34341-34344
Title:
LETTERS to Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk to the Privy Council, etc. (with a few to Lord Arlington), chiefly from British agents in the Low Countries, and relating to the war with Holland and the abortive negociations for peace at Cologne; 1672-1674. Most of the letters are from [Sir Henry de Vic,] Baron de Vique, British Resident at Brussels; from Richard Bulstrode, Agent (and afterwards successively Resident and Envoy) at Brussels; from Joseph Chaumont, who appears to have been employed as an...
Scope & Content:
Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk of the Privy Council: Letters to, from British agents in Brussels and Cologne: 1672 - 1674. Netherlands, United Provinces: Letters from English agents in: 1672-1674. Charles II of England: Letters to Sir R. South. well, from British agents in Brussels and Cologne: 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1672-1674
Extent:
4 items

867. Add MS 34364-34385

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Add MS 34364-34385
Title:
COLLECTIONS for a History of Bedfordshire, made by Oliver St. John Cooper, Vicar of Thurleigh and Puddington, co. Bedford (b. 1741, d. 1801). Extracts were made from these papers for Lysons's Magna Britannia, and histories of three parishes were published by the collector in vol. iv. of Nichols's Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica [Puddington, 1783; Wimmington, 1785; Odell, 1787]. Twenty-two volumes. Purchased by Thomas Orlebar Marsh, Vicar of Stevington, co. Bedf., from whom they passed by...
Scope & Content:
Sir Thomas Phillipps, Baronet; of Middle Hill: Book-plates: 19th cent. Oliver St. John Cooper, Vicar of Thurleigh and Puddington, county Bedfordshire: Collections for a history of co. Bedf.: 18th cent. Book-plates: Phillipps (Sir Thomas), Bart.: 19th cent. Bedfordshire: Collections by Rev. O....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
22 items

868. Add MS 34470-34471

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Add MS 34470-34471
Title:
THE AUCKLAND PAPERS. Vols. LIX., LX. (ff. 151, 26). Letter-book of Lord Henry John Spencer, containing copies of his official correspondence with Lord Grenville, Secretary of State, while Envoy at Stockholm, 9 Aug. 1793--5 Dec. 1794, and Envoy at Berlin, 6 Jan.-21 April, 1795. Two volumes. In Vol. I. (f. 151) is a " List of [Lord H. Spencer's] books sent from Stockholm." Folio.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1793-21 Apr 1795
Extent:
2 items

869. Add MS 34474-34479

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Add MS 34474-34479
Title:
JOURNALS of Major-General Charles George Gordon, C.B., during the siege of Kartoum, from 10 Sept. (the day on which Col. Stewart and Frank Power left Kartoum) to 14 Dec. 1884. Holograph. Six volumes. Paper. Folio. Each volume except the last was wrapped in a linen handkerchief, having a paper label inscribed by Gordon. These wrappers are now preserved in a separate case. The first of the inscriptions is quoted below, in the description of Vol. l., and the rest are similar. With appendices to...
Scope & Content:
Kartoum, the Soudan: Gen. Gordon's journal at: 1884. Major-Gen. Charles George Gordon, CB: Journal at Kartoum: 1884.: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:
10 Sep 1884-14 Dec 1884
Extent:
6 items

870. Add MS 34481 A-B

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Add MS 34481 A-B
Title:
VOTES OF THANKS by the House of Lords and House of Commons to General [Garnet Joseph Wolseley,] Lord Wolseley, G.C.B., and to all the officers and men engaged in the Soudan expeditions of 1884-5, with an expression of regret for the death of Major-General Charles George Gordon, C.B., and of others who fell in those campaigns; 12 Aug. 1885. Printed. Vellum. Large Quarto.
Scope & Content:
England; Parliament: Vote of thanks to the officers engaged in the Soudan expedition: 1885.: Printed. Field-Marshal Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley, Viscount Wolseley: Vote of' thanks to: 1885. Major-Gen. Sir Herbert Stewart, K C B: Vote of regret for the death of: 1885. Lieutenant-General Sir Fre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1885
Extent:
2 items

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