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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89652/1
Title:: Newspaper cuttings relating to the British Expedition to Tibet
Scope & Content:: Cuttings from the Daily Mail and The Outlook containing articles by Edmund Candler sent home in his role as correspondent of the British Expedition to Tibet, also known as the Younghusband Expedition.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1904
Extent:: 1 folder

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89652/2
Title:: Letters from William Blackwood to Edmund Candler
Scope & Content:: Letters from William Blackwood and George William Blackwood to Edmund Candler and Charles Candler, his brother. These letters mostly relate to the publishing of Candler's writing about his time in India in Blackwood's magazine. Blackwood's letters follow the general pattern of complimenting Candl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1905-1914
Extent:: 1 folder

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89653
Title:: Edgar Mittelholzer Correspondence to Ruth Windebank
Scope & Content:: Collection of correspondence, poems and booklets from Edgar Mittelholzer [1909-1965] to his friends Ruth Windebank (nee Wilkinson) [1921-2015] and Ronald Wilkinson during the period 1941-1962.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1937-1962
Extent:: 2 files

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89653/1
Title:: Edgar Mittelholzer Correspondence
Scope & Content:: The file consists of incoming correspondence from Edgar Mittelholzer usually signed as 'Barno' to Ruth Windebank (nee Wilkinson) during the period 1941-1962. The letters include personal information about Mittelholzer's life in Georgetown, Guyana in the early 1940s including his personal relatio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1941-1962
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89653/2
Title:: Edgar Mittelholzer Poems
Scope & Content:: The file consists of booklets and typescripts of poems from Edgar Mittelholzer to Ruth Windebank. The booklets include: Edgar A. Mittelholzer, Creole Chips, British Guiana: The Lutheran Press, (1937) Edgar A. Mittelholzer, Colonial Artist in War-Time: A Poem, (1941) with autograph signature 'B...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1937-1942
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89655
Title:: A letter appealing for aid ahead of a family's emigration to Nova Scotia
Scope & Content:: An autograph appeal for aid from an unknown woman, describing herself as "an anxious mother", ahead of a family emigration to "the inclement, almost arctic, region of Nova Scotia". The appeal asks the public for donations to be sent to the author’s home address ('29 Colby Road' [Gipsy Hill, Londo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1890
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89658
Title:: Volume of watercolour copies of paintings owned by Dawson Turner
Scope & Content:: Album of drawings titled ‘Watercolour Drawings copied from the Pictures in the Possession of Dawson Turner, Esq.’ (letterpress title page in black and red with traces of gilt). The album dates from 1828-1838 and includes 53 watercolours by three of the daughters of the banker, botanist, and an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1828-1838
Extent:: 1 volume and 1 slipcase

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89658/1
Title:: Volume of watercolour copies of paintings owned by Dawson Turner
Scope & Content:: Album of drawings titled ‘Watercolour Drawings copied from the Pictures in the Possession of Dawson Turner, Esq.’ (letterpress title page in black and red with traces of gilt).The album dates from 1828-1838 and includes 53 watercolours by three of the daughters of the banker, botanist, and antiqu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1828-1838
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89658/2
Title:: Slipcase for a volume of watercolour drawings of paintings owned by Dawson Turner
Scope & Content:: Black leather slipcase for an album of drawings titled ‘Watercolour Drawings copied from the Pictures in the Possession of Dawson Turner, Esq.’ The slipcase is unadorned and unlabelled with a soft cream lining and a grey metal clasp.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1828-1838
Extent:: 1 slipcase

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89659
Title:: Travel journal of Laura Corcoran
Scope & Content:: A diary recording trips taken by Laura Corcoran with her husband Bryan Corcoran, a wire screen maker and corn machine merchant of Tower Hill, London. The earliest journey recorded is on horseback through Kent in Apr 1844 to visit several mills. In Jul 1844 Laura and Bryan visited Bristol, and saw...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1836-1858
Extent:: 1 volume

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