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271. Add MS 88942/5/1/3

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Title:
Talbot: Pocket notebook ('The Naturalists Pocket Book')
Scope & Content:
‘The Naturalists Pocket Book.’ (December, 1813). Daily diary for W. H. F. Talbot. Includes printed engravings of various insects, flora and fauna. National Trust Accession: 24529.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1813
Extent:
1 pocket notebook

272. Add MS 88942/1/46

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Miscellanea Philologica')
Scope & Content:
'Miscellanea Philologica' includes a few notes on the etymology of equivalent words in various indo-European languages. Back to front: contains 'Irish numerals according to Dr. O'Conner' and further notes on English, Irish and Greek etymology, also of names. Only a few pages are used. Notebook ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Indo-European languages
Date Range:
1829
Extent:
1 notebook (18 folios, 13 pages of text)

273. Add MS 88942/1/68-86

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Title:
Talbot: 'Rough' Notebooks 1-20
Scope & Content:
A series of 'Rough' notebooks, numbered 1-20 ('Rough 5' is missing).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1866-[1871]
Extent:
19 notebooks

274. Add MS 88942/1/116-119

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Title:
Talbot: Notebooks ('Athenaeum Club')
Scope & Content:
Notebooks 116-119 contain notes and translations of further cuneiform inscriptions from Nimrud and Nineveh in the British Museum. They include shorter notes on other tablets in the British Museum, corrections of Talbot's previous publications, and notes on etymology and religious beliefs. Each no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
[1855]-[1870]
Extent:
4 notebooks

275. Add MS 88942/1/312

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook (Lacock Tenants)
Scope & Content:
Accounts from August to December (no year given) regarding Lacock tenants (e.g. Baker, Tuck, Estcot, Webb's wife, Taylor, Estcot, Shewring, Cole, Fortune, Humphreys). With three sheets containing further records, one of which refers to 'Rent received in 3 years' and 'Repairs in 3 years'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (8 folios, 16 pages of text), 3 loose sheets (3 folios, 5 pages of text)

276. Add MS 88942/1/276

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Messrs. Coutts & Co')
Scope & Content:
Record of an account of William Henry Fox Talbot with Coutts Bank. First entry: 15 Dec 1840. Final entry: 20 May 1862.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1840-1862
Extent:
1 notebook (46 folios, 77 pages of text)

277. Add MS 88942/3/2/27

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Title:
Talbot: Publications concerning classics, mythology and assyriology
Scope & Content:
Print, 'The First three Hamath Inscriptions.' (undated). National Trust Accession: 35821.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
circa 1860
Extent:
1 file

278. Add MS 88942/4/2/5

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Title:
Talbot: Material concerning miscellaneous accounts, invoices and receipts
Scope & Content:
Receipts, ‘John Ballinger’ and ‘M. Mannings’ (1 October, 1853) and (13 December, 1855). National Trust Accession: 38472, 38588. Estimate, ‘Samuel Rogers’ and ‘Mr Hancock’ (26 June, 1874) and note of address for ‘Mr Henry Hancock’ (undated). NTA: 26573, 26570. Miscellaneous accounts, invoices a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1823-1863
Extent:
1 file

279. Add MS 88942/1/361

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Title:
Talbot: Loose notes (mathematics)
Scope & Content:
Mathematical notes, (August, 1836). 114 pages of text and diagrams. Includes three page note ‘Remarks on Mr Lubbock’s paper on Abel’s Theorem.’ National Trust Accession: 26834. Mathematical notes, (undated). 42 pages of text and diagrams. NTA: 26835. ‘On the Theory of Parallel lines.’ (undated...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1836-1874
Extent:
1 folder

280. Add MS 88942/1/3

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Title:
Talbot: Latin exercises
Scope & Content:
This folder of notes contains a bundle of loose Latin exercises in a wrapper labelled ‘Not of much account.’ Some texts are poems with indications of metres. The folder also contains a few drawings of botanical specimens. There are three more of these loose sheets with Latin exercises in noteboo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2 Sep [1809]
Extent:
20 loose sheets