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Title:
Talbot: Notebook (regarding Letters Patent)
Scope & Content:
A notebook containing copy texts relating to Talbot's Letters Patent for the calotype process: 'Improvements in obtaining Pictures or representations of objects' (8 February 1841). Talbot's Patent had included the proviso that 'the said Mr Henry Fox Talbot shall cause a particular description of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1841-1851]
Extent:

1 notebook (106 folios, 79 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('1847')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains brief accounting records with regard to 'Dr. A Hervè' [sic] (7 August - 17 October) and Dr. D. Kinnebrook (27 July - 20 October 1847). Towards the back of the notebook is a list of the costs of advertising in different publications (e.g. Literary Gazette, Athenaeum, The Time...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1847
Extent:
1 notebook (24 folios, 5 pages of text)

223. Add MS 88942/1/303

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('W. H. Fox Talbot')
Scope & Content:
Modern notebook on Talbot's parents, probably completed by Matilda Talbot (1871-1958), Talbot's granddaughter. It includes extracts and summaries of letters and possibly diary entries by Talbot's mother, spanning 1792-1835.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
1 notebook (52 folios, 17 pages of text)

224. Add MS 88942/1/304

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Memoranda')
Scope & Content:
The notebook is largely unused save for a few brief notes on miscellaneous tasks concerning the garden, books, and London. Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard is noted, indicating that the notebook was used some time after 1849, when Layard first began to publish on the ancient Assyrian city.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1849
Extent:
1 notebook (69 folios, 4 pages of text), with a loosely inserted bookplate

225. Add MS 88942/1/305

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
A full notebook, completed from inside front cover to inside back cover, containing a long list of mainly English names (some struck-through). The notebook was evidently started before June 1831 (one page is headed 'Continuation June 1831' and the facing page contains the date 'Feb 1832').
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1831-1832
Extent:
1 notebook (34 folios, 70 pages of text)

226. Add MS 88942/1/306

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Nicholls Account')
Scope & Content:
The account book contains a record of various expenses incurred by 'Nicholl' (the possessive apostrophe is omitted on the title to the front cover). Undersigned by and formerly attributed to Nicolaas Henneman - see signature (dated 2 January 1844) on the final page. See also Add MS 88942/1/284 (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1841-1844
Extent:
1 notebook (46 folios, 78 pages of text)

227. Add MS 88942/1/307

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook (not used)
Scope & Content:
A notebook that has not been used.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 0 pages of text)

228. Add MS 88942/1/308

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook (not used)
Scope & Content:
A notebook that has not been used.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 0 pages of text)

229. Add MS 88942/1/309

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Visiting book')
Scope & Content:
With 'Visiting Book' printed on the front cover, the book is alphabetically divided at the right margin. Contains various names (no addresses).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (54 folios, 21 pages of text)

230. Add MS 88942/1/310

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a few notes, calculations and small sketches in pencil that appear to be related to Lacock Abbey (the notebook begins with the dimensions of the 'North window of Gallery') and the garden (various measurements given in paces). With the notebook is a single sheet (originally...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (18 folios, 8 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 1 page of text)