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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34686
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Scope & Content:: PALK PAPERS. Vol. II. (ff. 177). Private Correspondence of Robert Palk (afterwards Sir Robert); 26 Jan. 1759-5 May, 1789. The names of the writers, among whom are Warren Hastings and [Samuel Hood, 1st Baron] Hood, will be found in the index. Interspersed are;-(a) Copy of a letter from General Wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 26 Jan 1759-27 Oct 1802
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34727
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Scope & Content:: WEST PAPERS. Vol. I. (ff. 289). Miscellaneous letters, mostly original, of interest historically or otherwise; 1532-1734. The names of all the writers are given in the index. Among them are:- 1. John Fox, the Martyrologist, to Sir [William] Cecil, Sec. of State, asking licence to print his Tab...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Gaelic, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1532-1734
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34732
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Scope & Content:: Vol. VI. (II., ff. 311). 1752-1759, chiefly at Venice and Naples. Appended this volume are a few verses addressed to Steavens, and elegies upon his death and that of the Marchesa Catarina Trotti Gabrielli, in Italian and Latin, etc. Thomas Steavens, Secretary to Sir C Hanbury Williams: Correspo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1752-1759
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34875
Title:
Scope & Content:: GIBBON PAPERS. Vol. II. "Journal de mon [Edward Gibbon's] voyage dans quelques endroits de la Suisse," at the age of eighteen; 1755. In French. Partly autograph, partly (ff. 18-22) a copy. The first five pages are both in the original and, appended at the end (f. 23), in the copy. The tour laste...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1755
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34881
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Scope & Content:: Miscellancous Works. Vol. II. Contents:- 1. "Principes des Poids, des Monnayes et des Mesures des Anciens, avec des tables construites sur ces principes unfinished drafts of two treatises (the second including medieval Europe) written in 1759, printed in vol. v. p. 66. At the end are additiona...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1759-c 1770
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 35045-35047
Title:: Vols. I.-III. (ff. 329, 274, 276). "A RAMBLE on the Continent in 1824"; viz. from Southampton to Havre, through France by way of Rouen, Pars and Dijon to Geneva, through Switzerland and Italy as far south as Naples, to Elba and Corsica, returning, through France by way of Toulon, Lyon, Nevres, Paris, Boulogne and Calais to Dover.
Scope & Content:: Switzerland: Travels of J. J. A. Boase in: 1824-1855. Italy: Travels of J. J. A. Boase in: 1824-1855. France General: Journeys of J. J. A. Boase through: 1824-1865.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1824-1855
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 35050
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Scope & Content:: Vol. VI. (ff. 306). "A RAMBLE on the Continent in 1855"; viz. through Lombardy, the Tyrol and Austria as far south as Buda Pesth, returning through Prague, Dresden, Weimar, to Berlin, Lübeck, Hamburg, Brunswick, Brussels, Ghent and Calais. Visits to London, Oxford, Tiverton and Exeter are also r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 36119
Title:
Scope & Content:: (I. ff. 318). 1738-1743. includes: ff. 1-27, 48 Philip V of Spain: Papers rel. to negotiations with Gt. Britain: 1738-1750. ff. 5, 48 Sir Benjamin Keene, KB; diplomatist: Full powers to, as Envoy to Madrid and Lisbon: 1738-1751. f. 28 Walter Titley, envoy extraordinary at Copenhagen: Full powe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1738-1743
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 36278 R
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Scope & Content:: R. "Water-colour drawing of a Sun-rise in Switzerland"; 1875. Switzerland: Sketch of a sunrise in: 1875.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1875
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 36423
Title:
Scope & Content:: BUCKLER DRAWINGS. Vol. LXIX. (ff. 104). 1. Castles, etc., in France, England and Wales, including Avignon (ff. 2-6, 9), Aigues-Mortes (ff. 7, 8, 10-12), Careassonne (ff. 13-19), Lourdes (ff. 20-23), Oxford (ff. 26-37) and Burford Priory, co. Oxon (ff. 38-43); 1882-1896. f. 2. 2. Switzerland,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1881-1896
Extent:: 1 item

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