Henry Addington's journal of a diplomatic tour of Europe
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Journal of British diplomat, Henry Unwin Addington, describing a journey to Prussia across Sweden and Germany with General Hope and joining Sir Charles Stewart in transporting a peace treaty with Denmark and Sweden back to England. The journal begins with an account of a trip to Cadiz in 1812 bef...
John Drinkwater, autograph manuscript of Laying the Devil
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Autograph Manuscript Signed of 'Laying the Devil, A Play in Three Acts', written in a neat hand with authorial alterations on rectos of 86 numbered leaves (the Acts numbered separately), concluding 'Finished / October 30th 1926 / John Drinkwater’. Inscribed 'For my darling David with Jonathan's ...
Letters from Thomas Moore to the 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
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Letters from the poet Thomas Moore to his friend, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne. While the letters relate primarily to the relations between the two men, they also cover Moore's literary life, including his poetry and his writing of a history of Ireland and of his biography ...
Leather-bound book, embossed with the title "Robert Browning Hall Visitors Book", used as the visitors book for the chapel of the Robert Browning Settlement of Walworth, London between 1895 and 1994. The book is signed throughout by a variety of individuals, beginning with Herbert Henry Asquit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Finnish, French, Japanese, and Malayalam
A set of autograph letters and poems by the author and poet, Eliza Cook. The poems included here are Buttercups and Daisies, Time's Changes and an unpublished poem, Master Onny, dedicated to Cook's nieces, Jenny and Annie. The letters include a letter submitting Cook's poetry to the editor of th...
Large photograph album commemorating the initial performance in New York City, United States of America, on 25 Dec 1936, of the play 'Victoria Regina' written by Laurence Housman. The volume contains photographs of scenes from the play and a list of the characters with the autographs of the actor...
Volume of material related to Essex compiled by Stephen Martin Leake
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Large volume of printed material relating to the history of the county of Essex as compiled by Stephen Martin Leake. This volume includes a number of folded maps. The contents are listed as: - Index to the Rev Salmon's History of Essex - Account of Essex from Gitson's Camden with Map – N Salmon's...
Notebook used by Alexander Monro to take notes on a course of approximately 76 anatomy lectures given by the surgeon Edward Stanley at St Bartholomew's Hospital between January and May 1829. The lectures are recorded primarily in pen, with early lectures being given names and numbers, this pract...
Newspaper cuttings and correspondence relating to Edmund Candler
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Additional material relating to Edmund Candler. This collection consists of newspaper cuttings of articles by Candler from 1904 relating to the Lhasa expedition, and a series of letters to Edmund and Charles Candler, from William Blackwood publisher and creator of Blackwood's Magazine.