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1. Add MS 34874-34887

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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, journals, essays and correspondence of Edward Gibbon the historian (1737-1794); with additional correspondence and papers of his friend and executor John Baker Holroyd, 1st Baron Sheffield (1781) and Earl of Sheffield (1816), from whose grandson, the 3rd Earl, the collection was purchased
Scope & Content:
[For other Gibbon Papers, see above, 34,715, 34,716.] Fourteen volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
14 items

2. Add MS 34880-34882

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GIBBON PAPERS. Vols. VII.-IX. Miscellaneous Works and Commonplace Books of Edward Gibbon, mostly printed in the Miscellaneous Works. Three Volumes. Holograph, except where otherwise noted.
Scope & Content:
Edward Gibbon, historian: Miscellaneous Works and Commonplace Books: 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
3 items

3. 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

4. Add MS 34876-34879

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GIBBON PAPERS. Vols. III.-VI. Journals of Edward Gibbon; 17 Aug. 1762-Dec. 1764. Written partly in French, partly in English. Autograph. Four volumes. There were originally five, beginning with 24 Aug. 1761, but the first volume is now lost. Excerpts were printed by Lord Sheffield in two portions of his edition of Gibbon's Works, viz. biographical particulars in the notes to the memoir (vol. i. of each edition), and literary and historical memoranda separately (vol. ii. ed. 1796, vol. v. ed....
Scope & Content:
Edward Gibbon, historian: Journals: 1755-1764.: Eng. and Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 18th century
Extent:
4 items

5. Add MS 34875

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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

6. Add MS 34874

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Scope & Content:
GIBBON PAPERS. Vol. I. Six autobiographical sketches by Edward Gibbon, all holograph, being the materials from which Lord Sheffield arranged the "Memoirs" as published in the Miscellaneous Works (quarto ed., 1796, vol. i., octavo ed., with further extracts, 1814, vol. i.). The six sketches are m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1737-1807
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 34887

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Scope & Content:
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

8. 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

9. Add MS 34883

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

10. Add MS 34885

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