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Reference (shelfmark):: RP 285/2
Title:
Scope & Content:: Four letters of Thomas De Quincey to Lady Nairne's agents. Published inaccurately in Review of English Studies, April 1933. Sotheby's sale catalogue, 28-29 October 1968, lot 524. ff 2-4;- Creation dates: 23 - 28 Aug 1833
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13 Nov 1968
Extent:: photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 285/3
Title:
Scope & Content:: Two letters of John Wesley to Mr Suter and to the Reverend Mr Bogie, preachers in Perth and Glasgow respectively. Sotheby's sale catalogue, 28-29 October 1968, lots 444, 445. ff 15, 16;- Creation dates: 16 July 1785, 1 Aug 1789
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13 Nov 1968
Extent:: photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 285/4
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter of James Fenimore Cooper to Alexander Balloch Grosart, with the recipient's note of receipt and reply. Sotheby's sale catalogue, 28-29 October 1968, lot 522. ff 17,18 Creation dates: 17 May 1847
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13 Nov 1968
Extent:: photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 286
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist and traveller (b 1817, d 1911), to J G Children Creation dates: 17 Oct 1841
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 14 Nov 1968
Extent:: 10 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 287
Title:
Scope & Content:: Ten letters of Spranger Barry, acto (b 1719, d 1777), to the actor John Sowden. Sotheby's sale catalogue, 28-29 October 1968, lot 437 Creation dates: 1750 - 1752
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15 Nov 1968
Extent:: 27 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 288
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letters of and conerning, and documents concerning Sir Jeffrey Amherst. Knight, Frank & Rutley's sale, 18 October 1968, lots 132, 133, 134, 136, 144 Creation dates: 1741 - 1820
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Nov 1968
Extent:: 1 film (140 frames)

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 289/1
Title:
Scope & Content:: Joint letter by Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon, Lord Byron, to Frederick North, Earl of Guildford, entreating Guildford's help in saving a man who, it was reported, was to be burned alive at Lucca for sacrilege. Unpublished. Ff 1-6 Creation dates: 12 Dec 1821
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 25 Nov 1968
Extent:: photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 289/2
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter of George Gordon, Lord Byron, to Thomas Claughton, concerning the purchase of Newstead. Unpublished. Ff 7-10. Sotheby's sale catalogue, 28-29 October 1968, lots 462, 463 Creation dates: 4 Sept 1814
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 25 Nov 1968
Extent:: photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 290
Title:
Scope & Content:: Various copy manuscripts and letters Creation dates: 1657 - 1803
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 26 Nov 1968
Extent:: 1 photocopy & 2 photocopies

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