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31. Add MS 75000 T

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T. Letter from Hugh Adcock (d.1722), land agent, to John Moore (b.1620, d.1702), Bosworth, co. Leic., 11 Jan. 1697/8, with a written survey of land at Upton (presumably Upton in Sibson parish, co. Leic.). Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, April 2001. ff. 42-43v. 305 x 195mm. Maps and Plans: Hu...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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11 Jan [1698]
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1 item

32. Add MS 75000 U

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U. Letter from John Warner, D.D. to John Coakley Lettsom, physician, enclosing some wry ‘bad lines’ written by ‘an abusive bard’ on Warner’s leaving London and praising his host George Augustus Selwyn, M.P.; Gloucester, 15 Oct. 1787. Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, May 2001. ff. 44-45v. 229 x...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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15 Oct 1787
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1 item

33. Add MS 75000 V

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V. Letter from Hugh Downman, physician and poet, to John Bell, Edinburgh publisher and bookseller, relating to the projected sale in Scotland of the third book of his poem Infancy; Exeter, 29 Aug. 1775. Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, May 2001. ff. 46-47v. 200 x 165mm. Poetry ENGLISH: Hugh D...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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29 Aug 1775
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1 item

34. Add MS 75000 W

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W. Letter from Robert Surtees, antiquary and topographer, to George F [?T] Fox of Durham, promising him a fossil from the works being carried on at Cleves Cross Cliff, Durham, and giving historical details of New Place and Crook Hall; Rushyford [postmark], 23 Jan. 1832. Purchased from J. L. M. ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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23 Jan 1832
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1 item

35. Add MS 75000 X

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X. Note by Sir John Silvester, 1st Bart., Recorder of London, addressed to Sir Henry Ellis of the British Museum; 29 April 1822. The enquiry, written on the envelope of an ‘old copy’ of the will of Henry VIII on which he was seeking an opinion, is accompanied by Ellis’s note of his sudden death...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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29 Apr 1822
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1 item

36. Add MS 75000 Y

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Y. Map of Ireland by I. Ridge, Irish engraver; n.d. [circa 1753-1775]. Engraved. The map was formerly found loose with 75296, 75297, diaries for 1768 and 1775 of William Alcock, M.P. in the Irish Parliament, whose annotations it bears on the verso. Cf. Andrew Bonar Law, The printed maps of Ir...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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[c 1753-1775]
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1 item

37. Add MS 75000 Z

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Z. Postcard from Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (b.1881, d.1942) to Simon Kra, editor; Salzburg, [21] March 1930. Partly printed. French. Refers to Aubrey Beardsley’s note about a poem of Verlaine in the possession of John Lane, and the manuscript of Rouget de Lisle’s ‘Hyme des Marseillais’, w...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
[21] Mar 1930
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1 item