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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 4101-4478 Level [40] File

371. Add MS 4475

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BIRCH CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence, etc., of Thomas Birch. The contents may be divided as follows:- (1) Rough drafts of letters (without names of addressees), notes and extracts from books, etc., in Birch's autograph. ff. 1-103 passim, 144, 159, 209-287 passim. Among these are (1) A short ac...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

372. Add MS 4476

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Vol. I (ff. 316). (1) Form of assignment of livings, etc., in the patronage of Lord Brereton; 1668. f. 1. (2) Three receipts for money paid by William Polden of Wakefield, as executor for Mrs. Mary Leake of York; 1633. ff. 2, 132, 277. (3) Acknowledgement of wrong-doing by Edward Carlton, ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1625-1770
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1 item

373. Add MS 4477

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Vol. II (ff. 329). (1) Appointment of Birch as chaplain to Princess Amelia; 1761. Copy. f. 4. (2) Testimonial for Carlo Alfonso Guadagni of Florence, M.D., for the Royal Society, circ. 1760; signed Antonio Niccolini, Saverio Manetti (of Florence, Professor of Botany), and Gasparo Cerati (of ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1663-1765
Extent:
1 item

374. Add MS 4478 A

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CATALOGUE OF BIRCH'S MSS. Catalogue of Birch's MSS. bequeathed by him in 1766 to the British Museum, compiled by the Rev. Westley Hall in 1771, by order of the Trustees. It is preceded by an account of the bequest, etc., in the hand of Sir Frederic Madden (ff. i, iii); and four leaves (ff. iv-v...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771
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1 item

375. Add MS 4478 B

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BIRCH MISCELLANEA. Miscellaneous papers, mainly copies of letters and other writings (in Birch's autograph with the exception of artt. 1-3, and 12), viz.:- (1) A preface in defence of Moses being the first to use alphabetical characters in writing; in a very shaky hand, attributed in the tabl...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

376. Add MS 4478 C

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BIRCH DIARY Diary of Thomas Birch; 1735-1764. Latin and English. The diary proper begins at f. 11, the preceding leaves consisting chiefly of extracts from note-books, etc., bearing on Birch's early life, down to 1733, arranged more or less in chronological order; with (ff. 7, 9) a record of wo...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1735-1764
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1 item

377. Add MS 4478 D

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BIRCH COMMONPLACE-BOOK Commonplace-book of Thomas Birch, written in his student days, 1725 and 1726, and consisting chiefly of extracts in Latin, Greek, and English, from classical and modern writers on abstract subjects. There are also some poems written by Birch, including (f. 56) a Latin poe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1721-c 1732
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1 item