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Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 246-247
Title:: COLLECTION of letters, principally on state affairs, addressed with few exceptions to James Craggs, Jun., Secretary at War [13 Apr. 1717], and Secretary of State [16 Mar. 1718]; 1711- 1720. With a few papers of an earlier date. Two volumes. Paper. Folio. The most important series consists of letters of John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to France in Jan. 17l5 and Ambassador in Feb. 1719. They are his private letters, as distinct from his formal despatches, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1711-1720
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 256-261
Title:: CORRESPONDENCE and papers, political and private, of Major Richard Phelps, Secretary to the Embassy at Turin, and Under- Secretary of State for the Northern Department; 17 Febr. 1744/5- 16 Febr. 1768. Prefixed are originals and copies of state despatches supplied for his use on entering office, 22 June, 1725-26 Sept. 1757. Phelps's official letters are rough drafts made for the Secretary of State, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who has in many instances added to, or even rewritten, the ...
Scope & Content:: Richard Phelps, Under-Secretary for Northern Department: Political correspondence and papers: 1725-1768.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 22 Jun 1725-16 Feb 1768
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 264-265
Title:: TRANSCRIPTS Of official correspondence of the various Governors of the British North American Colonies with the Board of Trade and Plantations, and the Secretaries of State, on the subject of the Stamp Act and the disturbances caused by the attempt to put the Act into execution; 1764-1766. Two volumes. Paper; ff. 384, 406. xviiith cent. Folio.
Scope & Content:: Massachusetts, North America: Correspondence of the Governor, and Council minutes conc. the Stamp Act: 1765.: Copies.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 454-456
Title:: RICHARDS COLLECTIONS. Vols. VIII.-X. (ff. 80, 27, 94). Treatise on Artillery, in French, in the hand of Jacob Richards. Three volumes, the last two containing illustrations. Inserted at the end of the third (f. 89) is a map of Newbury, co. Berks; followed (f. 90) by a French treatise entitled " Épreuves du Tir des Bombes avec le Canon par M. Lombard, Professeur royal aux Écoles du Corps-Royal de 1'Artillerie à Auxonne, 1787."
Scope & Content:: Ordnance: Treatise on Artillery, with plates: 17th cent.: Fr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 753-754
Title:: Vols. II., III. (ff. 301, 280). LETTERS On various topics; 10 May 1730-13 Dec. 1756, and 21 Feb. 1757-21 Oct. 1768. (At the end of Vol. III. a letter to Thomas Astle, 4 July, 1797, is inserted.) Among the writers are:- George Ballard, author of the History of Learned Ladies; Thomas Tanner, Bishop of St. Asaph; W. Thomas, author of History of Worcester; Elizabeth Elstob, author of a Saxon Grammar, etc.; Dr. Thomas Birch; Dr. William Stukeley; Daniel Dumaresq, of St. Petersburg; Jeremiah Mil...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 10 May 1730-4 Jul 1797
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 1031-1033
Title:: Vols. III.-V. (ff. 190, 144, 116). OUTLINES and headings, with some portions filled up, of a treatise on the Civil Laws and Constitution of England. At the beginning of vol. iii. is a subject index to the three volumes, and a table of contents, showing the divisions of the treatise. Vol. iii. deals with the Prerogatives of the King, and the position of magistrates, ecclesiastical and temporal; vol. iv. with the reciprocal rights of persons in various relations, such as father and son, or lor...
Scope & Content:: England General Chronicles and History: Treatise on the Civil Laws and Constitution of England, by T. Anstis: 18th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1718-1745]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 184-185
Title:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vols. CLXXXIV, CLXXXV. Two notebooks containing the final part of the novel 'Jean-Christophe'; 1911-1912. Draft. French. Entitled 'L'Aube Nouvelle', but published in the section 'La fin du voyage' as 'La Nouvelle Journée'. See Cahiers de la Quinzaine, series xiv, cahiers 2, 3 (Paris, 1912). ff. 111, 108. 219 x 177mm. Bound volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1911-1912
Extent:: 2 items

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