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Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 43924-43942

1. Add MS 43924-43928

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Add MS 43924-43928
Title:
DILKE PAPERS. Vols. LI-LV. Confidential diaries of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Bart., compiled intentionally for eventual publication (cf. Add. MS. 43924, f. 1, and Add. MS. 43927, f. 1) and forming the basis for part of the 'Memoirs' (Add. MSS. 43930-43941). Imperfect. The entries, which relate mostly to political matters, are irregular and they become less frequent after 1886: the final volume (43928) is mostly in the hand of Dilke's secretary, Harry Kynoch Hudson (C.B.E. 1918). Five ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1880-1892]
Extent:
5 items

2. Add MS 43929

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Add MS 43929
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Scope & Content:
DILKE PAPERS. Vol. LVI (ff. 174). Autobiographical notes of Sir Charles Dilke (including notes for his 'Memoirs'); 1852-1910. Mainly autograph. includes: f. 8 Carew, Pembrokeshire: Pencil sketch of cross at, by Sir C. Dilke: 1857.ff. 8, 9, 23, 25, 28, 30, 38, 40, 132-134 Art. Illuminations...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1852-1910
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 43930-43941

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Add MS 43930-43941
Title:
DILKE PAPERS. Vols. LVII-LXVIII. 'Memoirs' of Sir Charles Dilke: mainly in the handwriting of H. K. Hudson (C.B.E. 1918), his secretary, 1887-1911, with autograph corrections and additions by Dilke and also notes by his biographers S. L. Gwynn and G. M. Tuckwell. The period covered is from Dilke's birth until 1910, but little is mentioned after the year 1893. Imperfect. Twelve volumes.
Scope & Content:
Stephen Lucius Gwynn, DLitt.; MP: Notes by: 1911-1914. Harry Kynoch Hudson, CBE; Secretary to Sir C W Dilke: Drafts, transcripts, etc., by: 1887-1911.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1843-1910]
Extent:
12 items

4. Add MS 43942

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Add MS 43942
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DILKE PAPERS. Vol. LXIX (ff. 129). Notes, in diary form, relating to William Ewart Gladstone, 1872-1893, compiled by Dilke from his own papers (including the 'Memoirs') for the use of Gladstone's biographer John Morley (Viscount Morley of Blackburn 1908) who returned them to Dilke in 1903 (cf. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1872-1893
Extent:
1 item