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1. Add MS 39839

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JONATHAN SWIFT; correspondence with Esther Vanhomrigh (" Vanessa"), 1711-1722. Printed from this MS. by A. Martin Freeman, Vanessa and her Correspondence with Jonathan Swift, 1921. Included are letters to Sir Andrew Fountaine (f. 2) [4 Nov. 1711, see Journal to Stella, ed. Aitken, p. 332], and M...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1711-1722
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1 item

2. Add MS 39840

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SKETCHES and notes (supplementing Add. MSS. 39780-39792) of monuments by John Flaxman, R.A., in the hand of Maria Denman, his sister-in-law, based on the sculptor's plaster-casts which passed into her possession at his death in 1826 (cf. Sir Sidney Colvin, The Drawings of Flaxman, pp. i, 2). The...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
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1 item

3. Add MS 39841-39842

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LETTERS (142) of [William Wyndham Grenville, Baron] Grenville [Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1791-1801, First Lord of the Treasury 1806-1807] to [Ludwig Josef Maria Georg, Graf and (1807) Fürst von] Starhemberg [Austrian Ambassador to England 1793-1810 (with intervals)]. Two vols.: Vol. I, 5 Sept. 1793-6 Dec. 1797; Vol. II, 12 Jan. 1798-2 May 1801, and n.d. French. Holograph, for the most part signed with Grenville's initial only. The letters relate mainlv to the measures to be take...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1793-1801
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2 items