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731. Add MS 88942/3/2/64

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Add MS 88942/3/2/64
Title:
Talbot: Publication concerning provincial history and architecture
Scope & Content:
‘The South East View of Lacock Nunnery, in the County of Wilts.’ (1732). Illustrated print from a large engraving of the ‘Lacock Nunnery’. Includes text detailing the early history of the Talbot family in relation to Lacock Abbey and a dedication to ‘John Talbot Esqr: Knight of the Shire for the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1732
Extent:

1 file

732. Add MS 88942/3/2/55

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Title:
Talbot: Miscellaneous publications
Scope & Content:
Card, invitation to ‘Harrow Speeches.’ (4 May, 1842). National Trust Accession: 24413. Seven leaflets, ‘Harrow Public Speeches.’ (6 May, 1813) to (6 July, 1820). NTA: 36939, 36940, 36941, 38343, 36942, 36943, 35397. Leaflet, ‘English Declamation Prizes.’ (15 December, 1818). Talbot is listed u...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1813-1877
Extent:
1 file

733. Add MS 88942/4/1/16

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Add MS 88942/4/1/16
Title:
Talbot: Material concerning other patents
Scope & Content:
'Articles of Agreement between Professor Wheatstone & Hy Fox Talbot Esqre.' (1841). Joint application for a patent ‘Improvements in producing, regulating and applying Electric Currents’. National Trust Accession: 28041. ‘Patent Office.’ 'Delianson Clark & Co.' (6 February 1841). Offer t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1841-1853
Extent:
1 file

734. Add MS 88942/1/294

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Copy Settlement of Real Estates on the Marriage of Captain Thomas Gaisford with Miss H. H. Fielding [sic]')
Scope & Content:
A fair hand copy, dated 24 January 1850, entitled 'Copy Settlement by the very Rev. Dr. Gaisford Dean of Christchurch Oxford of Real Estates in the County of Wiltshire on the Marriage of his Son Captain Thomas Gaisford with Miss H H Fielding [sic]'. William Henry Fox Talbot is one of the witness...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1850
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 49 pages of text)

735. Add MS 88942/3/2/6

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Title:
Talbot: Publications concerning photography
Scope & Content:
'The Repertory of Patent Inventions, and other Discoveries and Improvements In Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture.' (January, 1844). Talbot’s Patent for ‘Improvements in Photography’ is listed on page 47. Covers are missing. National Trust Accession: 30713. Remarks concerning Certain Pictures ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1844-1868
Extent:
1 file

736. Add MS 88942/1/17

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Add MS 88942/1/17
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('S.5')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is the fifth part of a series created at Sidmouth called 'S' of which S1-S5 are indicated. The notebook contains notes on languages and etymology, mainly Greek. It also includes passages on the etymology of the names of the days and the months, Greek gods and Greek places. Notebo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1837
Extent:
1 notebook (92 folios, 184 pages of text)

737. Add MS 88942/1/136

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Miscellanea Assyria Vol II')
Scope & Content:
The notebook considers 'signs whose value is required' and testifies to Talbot's interest in cuneiform based on his knowledge of ancient Persian. He studies the names of Greek gods and sign variation, makes cross linguistic comparisons and looks at grammatical forms. Talbot uses Botta's, Hinck's...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Latin, and Persian, Old
Date Range:
1853
Extent:
1 notebook (62 folios, 127 pages of text)

738. Add MS 88942/1/25

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Add MS 88942/1/25
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Z' - '2' in pencil)
Scope & Content:
This notebook continues on from Add MS 88942/1/24 and is the last notebook in a larger, incomplete series. It contains notes on the etymology of Greek names and places, the etymology of Roman languages and their derivations from Greek and Latin. It also contains notes for English Etymologies, no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1839
Extent:
1 notebook (60 folios, 120 pages of text)

739. Add MS 88942/3/2/13

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Title:
Talbot: Publications concerning mathematics and science
Scope & Content:
'Suggestions to Astronomers for the Observation of the Total Eclipse of the Sun on July 28 1851.' (1851). Committee of the British Association. ‘Henry Fox Talbot Esq.’ is handwritten on cover. National Trust Accession: 24404. 'On Spectrum Analysis.' (1862). W. A. Miller, London. There is a hand...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1851-1865
Extent:
1 file

740. Add MS 88942/3/2/46

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Add MS 88942/3/2/46
Title:
Talbot: Publications concerning societies and associations
Scope & Content:
Incomplete sets of journals of the ‘Royal Astronomical Society’ dated from (10 January, 1851). Vol. XI. No. 3. to (8 April, 1853). Vol. XIII. No. 6. National Trust Accession: 37796, 39144, 31239, 39143, 35602, 39142, 35603, 39145. Incomplete set of journals of the ‘Monthly Notices of the Royal ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1851-1871
Extent:
1 file