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Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10957
Title:
Scope & Content:: SMEATON, RENNIE AND LEATHER - THE AIRE & CALDER NAVIGATION. Volume of 'Engineers Reports on Aire & Calder Navigation'. Creation dates: 1771-1829, and 1754.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 23 Mar 2017
Extent:: Digital images on 7 compact discs

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10958
Title:
Scope & Content:: BOSWELL, James. The Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides (2nd edition). Inscribed by Boswell to Edmond Malone. With Malone's manuscript corrections throughout for the third edition produced the following year. Creation date: 1785.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 12 Apr 2017
Extent:: Digital images on compact disc

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10959
Title:
Scope & Content:: KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Autograph letter signed to Colonel Hart, regarding finding a position for his servant Kadir Baksh as he prepares to leave India. 'I can vouch for his being a good table servant'. Creation date: 8 Mar [1889] - year added in another hand.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 28 Apr 2017
Extent:: 1 photocopy sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10960
Title:
Scope & Content:: HUGO, Victor (1802-1885). Autograph letter signed, dated 1 Dec only (no year). The author thanks his correspondent for their excellent letter. Letter laid down to a card. Creation date: [19th century].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 2 May 2017
Extent:: 1 photocopy sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10961
Title:
Scope & Content:: RUSTEM PASHA (1810-1896). Autograph letter signed to Mrs Forbes, regretting that he is unable to accept an invitation (when he would have had the pleasure of meeting Sir Evelyn Wood). Creation date: 27 Nov 1893.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2 May 2017
Extent:: 2 photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10962
Title:
Scope & Content:: MARIE-AMELIE, Queen Consort of France (1782-1866). Autograph letter signed to an unidentified duchess, expressing concern for her health, and thanking her for her concern following an accident whilst riding in her coach with the King. Creation date: 27 Oct 1839.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 2 May 2017
Extent:: 2 photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10963
Title:
Scope & Content:: Louis-Jean-Marie de Bourbon, duc de PENTHIEVRE (1725-1793). Autograph letter signed to an unnamed correspondent (probably the lawyer Louis Roy) thanking him for his work on his behalf and asking him to undertake another task. Creation date: 22 Nov 1789.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 2 May 2017
Extent:: 1 photocopy sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10964
Title:
Scope & Content:: ELISABETH-CHARLOTTE, Duchesse d'ORLEANS (1652-1722). Autograph letter signed to her 'belle doudou' [her half-sister Amalie Elisabeth von der Pfalz] advising her on health matters. Creation date: 16 Jun 1703.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 5 May 2017
Extent:: 5 photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10965
Title:
Scope & Content:: MASKELYNE, Nevil (1732-1811). Autograph letter signed to Messrs Loggen & Pearson, Attorneys at Law. And another ALS (1804) and printed tables ('Track of His Majesty's armed Brig Lion'). Creation date: 20 Jun 1798 and 1804.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 May 2017
Extent:: 14 photocopy sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10966
Title:
Scope & Content:: ALEXANDER-SINCLAIR, Admiral Sir Edwin Sinclair (1865-1945). Autograph letter signed to the artist W. L. Wyllie. Letter describes the downing of a zeppelin. Creation date: 22 May 1916.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 3 Apr 2017
Extent:: 2 photocopy sheets

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