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157302. Add MS 89437
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- Title:
- Jane Austen, Letter to James Edward Austen, 16 December 1816
- Scope & Content:
- Letter from novelist Jane Austen at Chawton, to her nephew James Edward Austen (Leigh) at Steventon, in which Austen discusses family matters, in particular relating to ‘Uncle Charles’ and ‘Uncle Henry’. The letter contains the well-known line in which Austen compares the act of writing to that ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1816
- Extent:
- 1 item
157303. Add MS 89438
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- Title:
- Letters to Alleyne Fitzherbert, 1st Baron St Helens, describing the early stages of the French Revolution in Paris and events in Brussels
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 1-5: Letter from Lord Robert Stephen Fitzgerald to Alleyne Fitzherbert, Paris, 23 July 1789, describing the early stages of the French Revolution, including the dismissal of Jacques Necker and the Storming of the Bastille. ff. 6-11: 3 letters from J. Sontag in Brussels to Alleyne Fitzherbert ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 23 Jul 1789-18 Jan 1790
- Extent:
- 1 file (4 letters)
157304. Add MS 89439
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- Title:
- Diary of Major Henry Sparke Stabb during the Anglo-Zulu War
- Scope & Content:
- Diary of Major Henry Sparke Stabb, Durban to Fort Victoria, South Africa, 14 June to 3 September 1879. The diary, written in pencil in a field notebook, records Stabb’s account of the battle of Ulundi, a meeting with King Cetawayo [Cetshwayo kaMpande] and a visit to the battleground at Rorke's ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 14 Jun 1879-3 Sep 1879
- Extent:
- 1 volume
157305. Add MS 89440
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- Title:
- Montague Summers papers
- Scope & Content:
- Correspondence and papers of Montague Summers, literary scholar and occultist, on gothic literature, bibliographic topics and supernatural matters. 1) Letters from Montague Summers, 1927-1938: 9 letters to Messrs Ingpen and Stonehill, booksellers, and unidentified recipients, on book searches a...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1927-1948
- Extent:
- 1 file
157306. Add MS 89441
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- Title:
- Private journal of George Malcolm, Royal Navy
- Scope & Content:
- Manuscript journal of travels to Portugal, Spain, Canada and the Caribbean, kept by George Malcolm (later Rear-Admiral George Malcolm) from 7 November 1847 to 12 March 1851, between the ages of 17 and 21. Includes descriptions of ship life, social engagements on shore, plays, books, places visit...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 7 Nov 1847-12 Mar 1851
- Extent:
- 1 volume (c 100 folios)
157307. Add MS 89442
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- Title:
- Lewis of Caerleon, collected astronomical and mathematical works
- Scope & Content:
- An opera omnia of the Welsh physician and astronomer Lewis of Caerleon (d. in or after 1495), representing the largest and most complete collection of his astronomical and mathematical works. Written under Lewis's supervision, the manuscript contains self-referential rubrics (‘per me Lodowycum ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1485-c 1495
- Extent:
-
1 volume
157308. Add MS 89444
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- Title:
- Account of internment in France 1940-1944, by Joan Evans, later Harris, a British novice
- Scope & Content:
- Title page: ‘God disposes: a memoir by MMD’. Author identified by the donor of the manuscript as her aunt, Joan Evans (later Harris), then a young girl undergoing her novitiate in France. The account starts in 1940 with the German occupation of Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, where the author is a novi...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1940-1944
- Extent:
- 1 volume (3 unnumbered folios, 22 folios numbered as pages 1-43)
157309. Add MS 89445
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- Title:
- ‘Notes on the Battle of Waterloo by Lt. Colonel Henry F. Ponsonby’
- Scope & Content:
- Chronological account of the Waterloo campaign, with lists of forces on both sides, illustrated with maps. Includes statistics, analysis and criticism. Compiled by Henry Frederick Ponsonby (1825-1895) in the years between 1855 and 1860, while he held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the British...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1855-1860
- Extent:
- 1 volume (c 75 folios)
157310. Add MS 89446
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- Title:
- Letter from Thomas Grenville to Robert Harding Evans, 7 April 1841
- Scope & Content:
- Brief letter from Thomas Grenville (1755-1846), brother of Lord Grenville, to Robert Harding Evans (1778-1857), bookseller, asking to see a copy of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (1602). Dated 7 April 1841.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 7 Apr 1841
- Extent:
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