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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 34874-34887 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

11. Add MS 34881

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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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1759-c 1770
Extent:
1 item

12. Add MS 34882

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Miscellaneous Works. Vol. III. Contents:- 1. "Remarques critiques sur un passage de Plaute," see above, 34,880, art. 2 c; another copy, not autograph. Fr. f. 1. 2. Letter to -, on the Government of Berne, probably circ. 1758 (printed, vol. ii. p. 1). Fr. f. 4. 3. "Doutes Historiques sur la...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

13. Add MS 34883

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Vol. I. (ff. 372), 1750-1774.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1750-1774
Extent:
1 item

14. Add MS 34883-34885

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GIBBON PAPERS. Vols. X.-XII. Original Letters (a few are drafts) of Edward Gibbon; 1750-1794. The great majority are addressed either to Lord Sheffield or to Gibbon's step-mother, but there are also letters to this father, his aunts Miss Porten and Hester Gibbon, Lady Sheffield and her daughter Maria, George Deyverdun, Dr. Priestley (three drafts), Dr. Robertson (draft) and others. Three volumes. Folio. Selections are printed in vols. i. and ii. (1814 cd.) of the Miscell. Works.
Scope & Content:
Edward Gibbon, historian: Correspondence: 1750 - 1794.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1750-1794
Extent:
3 items

15. Add MS 34884

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Vol. II. (ff. 329), 1775-17 Sept. 1783 (when Gibbon left England for Lausanne).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1775-1783
Extent:
1 item

16. Add MS 34885

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Vol. III. (IE 236), 18 Sept. 1783-1794.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1783-1794
Extent:
1 item

17. Add MS 34886

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GIBBON PAPERS. Vol. XIII. Original letters addressed to Edward Gibbon; 1755-1794. The names of the writers will be found in the index. They include, besides his family and intimate friends, Madlle. Curchod, both before and after her marriage, her husband Jacques Necker and her daughter Madame de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1755-1794
Extent:
1 item

18. Add MS 34887

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GIBBON PAPERS. Vol. XIV. Miscellaneous Papers and Letters relating to Gibbon and his family or to his friend and executor Lord Sheffield. The principal contents are:- 1. Documents, accompts, etc., concerning Edw. Gibbon personally, including (a) Certificate of admission as a Freemason, 19 Dec....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1753-1872
Extent:
1 item