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11. Add MS 44085 L

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L. Two letters from Hester Gibbon, great-grandmother of the historian, to her son Edward Gibbon, army paymaster in Flanders (Director of the South Sea Company 1716), discussing Treasury arrangements for the remittance of money, with news of activities on sea and land (La Hogue was fought on 29 M...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1692
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1 item

12. Add MS 44085 M

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M. Letter from Ignazio Enrico Hugford, painter and engraver, to the Most Reverend -, asking for permission to publish works of art in his possession, probably in Serie degli Uomini i piu illustri nella Pittura, I3 vols., Florence, 1769-1776; Dec. 1771. Italian. f. 36. Presented by Edward Craig, ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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Dec 1771
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13. Add MS 44085 N

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N. Letter from Frank Thomas Bullen, novelist, to Richard Strachan, a colleague at the Meteorological Office; circ. 1897. ff. 37b-38b. Presented by Lionel R. ill. Strachan, Esq., son of the recipient.
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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c 1897
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14. Add MS 44085 O

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0. Letters of engineers, viz.:-(1) John Smeaton to John Rennie, 16 Aug. 1788. f. 39;-(2) James Watt to John Rennie; 2 Feb. 1791. ff. 40-41 b;-(3) John Rennie to James Walker; 20 Jan. 1812. ff. 42-43b;-(4) John Rennie to - ; 21 Sept. 1812. f. 44;-(5) Alexander Nimmo to - ; 15 Oct. 1828. f. 45. Pr...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1788-1828
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15. Add MS 44085 P

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P. Letters of, or relating to, Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, dramatist, mostly addressed to Henry Rowland Brown, viz.:-(1) Gilbert to H. R. Brown, desiring to borrow his wig and gown for a performance of Trial by Jury; 26 May 1906. Partly printed in S. Dark and R. Grey, TV. S. Gilbert: His Life ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885-1923
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1 item

16. Add MS 44085 Q

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Q. Letter from James Henry Leigh Hunt, author, to Edward Williams, asking him to identify a place mentioned by Chaucer; Hammersmith, 2 Apr. [1853-1859] . The quotations on f. 55 are in the hand of Hunt's daughter Jacintha. f. 54. Accompanied (f. 56) by an envelope containing a lock of hair and i...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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[1853-1859]
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1 item

17. Add MS 44085 R

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R. Four official letters to General Kokhanovich, Commandant of the fort of Kinbum at the mouth of the Dnieper, during the Crimean War; Mar. 1854-26 Sept. 1855. Russian. Picked up by F. A. Wetherall of H. M. S. 'St 8 Oct. Jean d'Acre' after the surrender of the fort (17 Oct. 1855). ff. 57-64. Pre...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
Mar 1854-26 Sep 1855
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1 item

18. Add MS 44085 S

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S. Letter from John Frederick Herring, senior, animal-painter, to William Powell Frith, R.A., agreeing to supply sketches of race horses for Frith's picture, 'Derby Day'; 22 Dec. 1857. Herring's actual sketches are in the Department of Prints and Drawings; see Brit. Mus. Quart., x, 1935-1936, pp...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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22 Dec 1857
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1 item

19. Add MS 44085 T

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T. Two documents from Tristan da Cunha, viz.:-(1) Sale by Mary Magdalen Glass, widow of William Glass, founder of the settlement, to William Daley, of her house with appurtenances for 100 dollars; 17 Jan. 1856, with reconveyance of the same to Alexander Cotton, 13 Feb. 1857. ff. 67, 68;-(2) Will...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1856-1884
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1 item

20. Add MS 44085 U

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U. Papers relating to Edith Louisa Cavell. Letters addressed to Jane Newman, a former servant of the Rev. Charles Meares Powell, Vicar of Steeple Bumpstead, co. Essex, by whom Miss Cavell was also employed, 1886-1889, as a governess (see ff. 70, 71), from:-(1) May Powell, daughter of the Vicar, ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1886-1896
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