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Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10827
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Le Livre Nomme Decacornon'. French manuscript on vellum. ?Paris. A treatise on the Ten Commandments, with a supplement on charity, and with numerous anecdotes taken from the Bible as well as tales of chivalry. Creation date: First half 15th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 7 Oct 2016
Extent:: 6 colour photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10828
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Scope & Content:: WATTS, Mary Seton. Five autograph letters signed. Creation dates: 1890s.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 9 Nov 2016
Extent:: 14 photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10829
Title:
Scope & Content:: CHARLES II (1630-85). Order to John Pigott to march 'one hundred soldiers' to Canterbury. Signed 'Charles R' at head of document. Creation date: 5 November 1672.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 14 Nov 2016
Extent:: 1 photocopy sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10830
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1. DARWIN, Charles. Autograph postcard (signed 'C.D.') to James Torbitt, asking him how much land he has used to cultivate his potato varieties. 11 March 1880. 2. WOOLF, Virginia. Autograph letter signed [1936] and autograph postcard (1933) signed to Peggy Belsher, secretary at Hogarth Press. T...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17 Nov 2016
Extent:: 12 photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10831
Title:
Scope & Content:: Manuscript document, signed by Admiral JAMES SAUMAREZ, R. N. (1757-1836), being a secret list of 26 points of 'Additional Rendezvous' for the British fleet in the Baltic. Creation date: 31 March 1808.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17 Nov 2016
Extent:: 1 photocopy sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10832
Title:
Scope & Content:: EINSTEIN, Albert. Typed letter signed, to Heinz Niedermeier, referring to the miserable situation of the Gutmann family. He has written a letter addressed to the French consulate at Vienna. Creation date: 2 November 1938.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 17 Nov 2016
Extent:: 2 photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10833
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1. BERLIOZ, Hector. Autograph letter signed, to Peter Cornelius, enquiring whether he will be in Vienna. Letter in French (1866). 2. DONIZETTI, Gaetano. Autograph letter signed, to Gian Agostino Perotti, St. Marks, recommending the bearer of the letter (the cellist Maximilian Bohrer). Letter in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Italian
Date Range:: 17 Nov 2016
Extent:: 2 photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10834
Title:
Scope & Content:: SINGAPORE, CHANGI P.O.W. CAMP. An archive including original drawings (2 signed by Ronald Searle), manuscript entertainment programmes and 'newspapers', typescript diaries, photographs and ephemera. Collected by a soldier held prisoner. Creation dates: c. 1941-1945.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 24 Nov 2016
Extent:: Digital images on compact disc

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10835
Title:
Scope & Content:: DOYLE, Arthur Conan. Three autograph letters (two signed, one with signature removed) to 'Jessie' [Drummond], giving an account of his struggles to set up a medical practice in Southsea whilst trying to establish himself as a writer. With five items of printed ephemera. Creation dates: 1882-1890
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 22 Nov 2016
Extent:: 10 photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10836
Title:
Scope & Content:: GORDON, Charles George, General (1833-85). 'Eden, and its two sacramental trees'. Autograph manuscript signed. Creation date: 26 February 1882.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Sep 2016
Extent:: Digital images on compact disc

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