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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3009 B2
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Scope & Content:: B.2. Defence of Montrose's policy in abandoning the Covenant, concluding with a list of losses in the Covenanting army at the battle of Kilsyth [15 Aug. 1645] ; probably written between that date and the battle of Philiphaugh, 13 Sept. 1645. Printed, in a modernized spelling and with a few small...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1645
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3009 C
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Scope & Content:: C. Letter from C[harles] R[obert] Darwin to —, concerning an election to the Linnean Society, 18 Dec. [1875]. Sotheby's sale-cat., 2 Mar. 1917, lot 30. f. 11.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18 Dec [1875]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3009 D
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Scope & Content:: D. Letter from Dr. Charles Burney to —, with reference to the authorship of " God Save the King," 29 July 1806; followed by notes (f. 14) on the same subject by him and further notes (f. 15) in the hand of Sir Joseph Banks. Published, with Banks's notes, by W. H. Cummings, God Save the King (190...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 29 Jul 1806
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3009 E
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Scope & Content:: E. Inventory of the household goods of George Frederick Handel, valued at £48 and sold by order of the executor to Handel's servant John Du Bourk, 27 Aug. 1759 ; signed by the valuers, James Gordon and William Askew. Published, with several inaccuracies, by V. Schoelcher, Life of Handel (1857), ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 27 Aug 1759
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3009 F
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Scope & Content:: F. Papers of [John] Elphinston, Rear-Admiral in Russian service, connected with the campaign against the Turks, viz. :— (a) Warrant, signed by Catherine II, for payment to Elphinston of 3000 roubles for personal expenses and 400 roubles per month table money; St. Petersburg, 11 Sept. 1769. Russi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1770
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3009 G
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Scope & Content:: G. Letter from Mungo Park to [John Jeffreys Pratt, 2nd] Earl Camden, giving, in journal form, an account of his transactions from his embarkation on the " Crescent," 28 Jan., to his arrival at Kayee on the Gambia on his last expedition, with remarks on trade, customs, etc. Dated Kayee, 26 Apr. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 26 Apr 1805
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3011
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Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. 85). Contains the Introduction and Chaps. 1-10, of which Chap. 3 corresponds with Chap. vii, and Chaps. 4-7 with Chaps. iii-vi of the printed work ; the Introduction was mostly incorporated in the Preface of the latter (cf. the passage relating to Egypt, etc., f. 6, with p. xii; ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3012
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Scope & Content:: Vol. II (ff. 83). Contains Chaps. 11-13, corresponding with Chaps. xii-xv of the printed work. On f. 17 b is an addition to the Introduction, and, reversing the volume, there are various memoranda, f. 63 b ; notes on complexions and flesh tints, ff. 63- 61 b ; and further memoranda, f. 81. incl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3013
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Scope & Content:: Vol. III (ff. 129 + f. 87*). Contains the Introduction and Chaps. 1-12. There is a lacuna in the Introduction at the end of f. 6, after the word " discovered," which is exactly filled by Add. MS. 27992, f. 3 (cf. Eg. 3011, f. 6), but this latter does not seem to have ever formed part of this not...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3014
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. IV (ff. 102 + ff. 29*, 73* ). Beg. imperfectly Ch. 12, f. 12 (cf. p. 117 of the printed work, but for f. 14 see p. 114); ends Ch. 14 (i.e. Ch. xvii of printed work, not in Eg. 3012). includes: ff. 15 b, 16 b, 21 b, 28 b, 29, 30 b, 31 b, 44 b, 47 b, 50 b, 58 b, 77 b, 79 b, 80 b William Hog...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

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