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1. Add MS 81080 A

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A. Facsimile copy of the evidence of Assad Farran, an interpreter on Stanley’s Emin Pasha relief expedition, regarding life at Yambuya Camp from 22 June 1887 to 8 June 1888; 4 March 1890. Farran’s evidence documents alleged atrocities committed by members of the expedition, including Major Edmu...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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4 Mar 1890
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2. Add MS 81080 B

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B. Letter of Charles Meyer; 6 Nov. 1805. Meyer offers his services to the president of an un-named learned body. Purchased from Maggs Bros. with the aid of a grant from the Friends of the British Library, February 2005. ff. 7-8v. 238 x 190mm. Charles Meyer, bookbinder: Letter of: 1805.
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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6 Nov 1805
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1 item

3. Add MS 81080 C

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C. Orders for the funeral service of the late Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Keyes, G.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G., D.S.O.; 1945. Typescript. Presented by Mr John Young of Kilmarnock, April 2005. ff. 9-26. Mostly 330 x 205mm. Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes: Orders for...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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1945
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1 item

4. Add MS 81080 D

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D. Letter of Andrew Fuller to John Sutcliff discussing a dispute in India between the British Army and the East India Company; 16 Aug. 1796. Purchased from J.L.M. Gulley, April 2005. ff. 27-28v. 192 x 155mm. Andrew Fuller, Baptist minister and theologian: John Sutcliff, founder of the Baptis...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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16 Aug 1796
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1 item

5. Add MS 81080 E

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E. Michael Holroyd’s speech to The British Library’s 4th Annual Literary Dinner; 27 June 2005. Typescript with ms annotations. Presented by the speaker. ff. 29-39. 297 x 211mm. Sir Michael de Courcy Fraser Holroyd, Kt.; biographer: Speech to the British Library's Fourth Annual Literary Dinn...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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27 Jun 2005
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1 item

6. Add MS 81080 F

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F. Accounts of official expenditures; 1635-1640. Possibly a draft listing from the Exchequer, with corrections. Covers the period from June 1635 to Michaelmas 1640. Entries are grouped under headings such as Great Wardrobe, Works, Jewel House, Repairs of Parks, and Revels. From the collectio...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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1635-1640
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1 item

7. Add MS 81080 G

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G. ‘A short account of the life of the unfortunate Thomas Bedworth’; circa 1815. Written in one hand on ff. 1-3v; note in another hand on f. 4 states the document was delivered to one of the principal officers of Newgate and in the same hand on f. 4v the document is described as Bedworth’s confe...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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c 1815
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1 item

8. Add MS 81080 H

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H. Letter of Karl Wilhelm Dindorf; 1 Feb. 1856. Dindorf writes [to the Oxford University Press?] of his reaction to the discovery of forgeries by Constantine Simonides who had sold Dindorf a work by Uranius on the Kings of Egypt. Dindorf had intended to edit the work, and a preface and specime...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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1 Feb 1856
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1 item

9. Add MS 81080 I

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I. Letter from Phillips Gretton to Sir Joseph Jekyll; 30 Apr. 1725. Gretton offers Jekyll a copy of his publication supporting Archbishop Tillotson. Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, Jan. 2005. f. 52. 220 x 180mm. John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury: Sir Joseph Jekyll, Master of the Roll...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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30 Apr 1725
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10. Add MS 81080 J

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J. Letter from John Millington to Mr Parker at Clowes Printing Office, Blackfriars, London; 3 March 1829. Millington is lecturing on printing at the Royal Institution and asks Parker for assistance in providing models of printing machinery for the lectures. He also asks if Parker knows the add...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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3 Mar 1829
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1 item