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371. Add MS 88942/1/230

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Journeys 1 Dec 1813')
Scope & Content:
The notebook lists expenditure related to European travel, noting various cities. Notebook started: 1 Dec 1813.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1813-1825
Extent:
1 notebook (ii + 19 ff.)

372. Add MS 88942/1/211

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('On some properties of Conic Sections')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on geometry entitled ‘On some properties of conic sections’. It is possibly a very first draft for a publication (see also Add MS 88942/1/213). Four pages dated 'March 3 [18]66' are headed 'Commencement of a proposed new paper'. At the back of the notebook (upside-d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1864-1866
Extent:
1 notebook (50 folios, 70 pages of text)

373. Add MS 88942/1/213

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('On some properties of Conic Sections')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains elementary geometry and was started in the period 1864/65 when Talbot purchased a house in 13 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh. It contains a draft for Talbot's 'Note on Confocal Conic Sections' (1865), and continues Add MS 88942/1/212. Talbot discussed the same subject with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1864]-1865
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 23 pages of text)

374. Add MS 88942/3/2/2

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Title:
Talbot: Publications concerning photography
Scope & Content:
'The Xmas Photogram' (December 1899). Vol. VI. No. 72. Includes an article on William Henry Fox Talbot entitled ‘The Father of Photography’, pages 353-354. National Trust Accession: 35718. 'The Photogram' (January 1900). Vol. VII. No. 73. Includes an article, pages 4-7, on the development of ph...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1899-1900
Extent:
1 file

375. Add MS 88942/1/8

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Q')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains rough notes. It might be part of an incomplete series and is certainly related to notebook 'M' (Add MS 88942/1/7), which it continues. It contains botanical notes(e.g. lists of Latin plant names) and miscellaneous notes (e.g. lists of names of scholars in various instituti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 20 pages of text)

376. Add MS 88942/1/138

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('IV')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and the Greek language, and continues Add MS 88942/137. The notebook begins: ‘[cuneiform] is a sign which has various values…’. It attempts decipherment and contains notes on lexicography and biblical history. Talbot translates whole lines ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 notebook (132 folios, 264 pages of text)

377. Add MS 88942/1/144

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Bellino')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains a late draft of the second translation of the 'Inscription of Bellino' (1860), dated 16 March 1860 on a later page but started earlier. It contains notes on 'Inscription of Michaux'. Notebook started: 22 Oct 1859.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1859-1860
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 41 pages of text)

378. Add MS 88942/1/279

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('1841')
Scope & Content:
Contains an alphabetical list of names, some crossed out. '1841' is written on the front cover.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1841
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 23 pages of text)

379. Add MS 88942/3/2/16

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Title:
Talbot: Publications concerning mathematics and science
Scope & Content:
Leaflet, ‘Verzeichnifs der optischen Instrumente.’ (1 November, 1820). National Trust Accession: 35431. Leaflet, ‘Ephemeris of Halley’s Comet.’, (1 December, 1835). Back page has Talbot's address and is postmarked. NTA: 24403. Printed letter, On the proposal to set up a ‘Chemical Society.’ (18...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1820-1871
Extent:
1 file

380. Add MS 88942/4/3/2

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Title:
Talbot: Material concerning passports and travel documents
Scope & Content:
Passports and travel documents issued for W. H. F. Talbot. (1822 to 1851). NTA: 27767, 33618 are German language documents and NTA: 27175, 33550, 23193, 32523, 33548, 33549, 23737, 28422 are French language documents. NTA: 33549 issued for ‘M. Henry F. Talbot’ and ‘Mademoiselle Feilding’. Nationa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1822-1851
Extent:
1 file