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1. Add MS 5292

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Drawings of Chinese Flowers, Plants, and Fruits, in colours, by a native artist, at Emuy; with their names in Chinese
Scope & Content:
The first of three volumes which contain watercolours of Chinese flowers, plants and fruits by an unknown Chinese artists from Xiamen, known to Europeans at the time as Emuy or Amoy. Drawings of costumes that were also contained in this volume, were transferred to the British Museum Department o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1701
Extent:

1 volume

2. Add MS 52920

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SCHIFF PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 226). Correspondence, etc., with Edwin Muir, and his wife, Wilhelmina Johnstone al. Willa; 1924-1960. Partly signed. Followed (ff. 213-226) by ten poems of Muir, circa 1924. Typewritten, with occasional autograph corrections. Published as First Poems, 1925. includes: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924-1960
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 52921

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SCHIFF PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 240). 1. ff. 1-71. Correspondence, etc., with John Northcote Nash; 1922-1943, n.d. Followed by:- (a) Biographical note by Schiff on Nash; 1925. Two typewritten drafts. ff. 45-54;- (b) Proofs of the plates for Schiff's John Nash; 1925. ff. 55-65;- (c) Proofs of Nash'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1919-1947
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 52922

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SCHIFF PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. 210). 1. ff. 1-42b. Letters of Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell, D.B.E.; 1924-1946, n.d. 2. ff. 43-68. Letters, etc., of Sir Osbert Sitwell, 5th Bart.; 1919-1946, n.d. 3. ff. 69-70. Letters of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bart.; 1921, 1926. 4. ff. 71-147. Correspond...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1961
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 52923

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SCHIFF PAPERS. Vol. VIII (ff. 191). General correspondence, etc., alphabetically arranged; 1907-1948, n.d. Includes: 1. ff. 1-34. Letters, etc., of Jean de Bosschère; 1921-1922. Partly French. 2. ff. 91-98. Letters, etc., of Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky; 1925-1936. Partly printed. See also ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1907-1948
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 52929 A

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‘My sister from India’, farce in one act by Charles Selby. Licence sent 31 December 1851 for performance at the Strand 1 January 1852. Includes performances of the songs ‘Youth in wrinkles’, and ‘Soldiers, comrades.’ The latter is noted in the text to be from the play Frederick of Prussia, a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1851
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 52929 AA

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‘The barrister’ (‘Home truths’), play in two acts by T. H. Reynoldson. Licence sent 17 February 1852 for performance at the Surrey 1 March 1852. Red ink used to highlight speaking cues and stage directions. For another version by G. M. Fenn and J. H. Darnley performed in 1887 see Add. 53375 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1852
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 52929 B

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‘An organic affection’ (‘An organic affection, or, An affection of the heart’), farce in one act by Mrs. Alfred Philips. Licence sent 9 January 1852 for performance at the Royal Olympic 12 January 1852. Signed by W. Farren. Includes performances of a number of songs, one of which contains th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1852
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 52929 BB

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‘Printers’ squabbles’, farce in one act by William Donington. Licence sent 20 February 1852 for performance at the Soho Theatre 20 February 1852. ff. 15. William Donnington, dramatist: 'Printers' squabbles,' farce in one act: circa 1852. [William?] Dorrington, writer of plays: Play by, subm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Feb 1852
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 52929 C

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‘A duel in the dark’, farce in one act by J. S. Coyne. Licence sent 12 January 1852 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 14 January 1852. Request for licence written and signed by Benjamin Webster. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that the word ‘damn’ be omitted. P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1852
Extent:
1 item