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Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10824
Title:
Scope & Content:: SHACKLETON, ERNEST. Autograph letter signed to Mr Gwatken, written on return from his Nimrod expedition. 'It may interest you to know that Captain Scott is announcing on Monday that he will lead a new Expedition to the Antarctic next year'. Creation date: [December 1909].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 25 Oct 2016
Extent:: 2 photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10825
Title:
Scope & Content:: HENLEY, William Ernest (1849-1903). Autograph letter signed to Gleeson White. Creation date: 1 January 1892.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 21 Oct 2016
Extent:: 1 photocopy sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10826
Title:
Scope & Content:: HILL, Nicholas. Anonymous manuscript, attributed to Hill, entitled 'Of God'. Bound in vellum. Creation date: [c. 1615].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 6 Oct 2016
Extent:: Digital images on compact disc

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10827
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Le Livre Nomme Decacornon'. French manuscript on vellum. ?Paris. A treatise on the Ten Commandments, with a supplement on charity, and with numerous anecdotes taken from the Bible as well as tales of chivalry. Creation date: First half 15th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 7 Oct 2016
Extent:: 6 colour photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10828
Title:
Scope & Content:: WATTS, Mary Seton. Five autograph letters signed. Creation dates: 1890s.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 9 Nov 2016
Extent:: 14 photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10829
Title:
Scope & Content:: CHARLES II (1630-85). Order to John Pigott to march 'one hundred soldiers' to Canterbury. Signed 'Charles R' at head of document. Creation date: 5 November 1672.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 14 Nov 2016
Extent:: 1 photocopy sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10830
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1. DARWIN, Charles. Autograph postcard (signed 'C.D.') to James Torbitt, asking him how much land he has used to cultivate his potato varieties. 11 March 1880. 2. WOOLF, Virginia. Autograph letter signed [1936] and autograph postcard (1933) signed to Peggy Belsher, secretary at Hogarth Press. T...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17 Nov 2016
Extent:: 12 photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10831
Title:
Scope & Content:: Manuscript document, signed by Admiral JAMES SAUMAREZ, R. N. (1757-1836), being a secret list of 26 points of 'Additional Rendezvous' for the British fleet in the Baltic. Creation date: 31 March 1808.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17 Nov 2016
Extent:: 1 photocopy sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10832
Title:
Scope & Content:: EINSTEIN, Albert. Typed letter signed, to Heinz Niedermeier, referring to the miserable situation of the Gutmann family. He has written a letter addressed to the French consulate at Vienna. Creation date: 2 November 1938.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 17 Nov 2016
Extent:: 2 photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10833
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1. BERLIOZ, Hector. Autograph letter signed, to Peter Cornelius, enquiring whether he will be in Vienna. Letter in French (1866). 2. DONIZETTI, Gaetano. Autograph letter signed, to Gian Agostino Perotti, St. Marks, recommending the bearer of the letter (the cellist Maximilian Bohrer). Letter in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Italian
Date Range:: 17 Nov 2016
Extent:: 2 photocopy sheets

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