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Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10243
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Scope & Content:: COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Autograph letter signed to his brother the Reverend George Coleridge, written towards the end of S. T. Coleridge's period of enlistment as a volunteer private in the 15th Light Dragoons; postmarked 9 March [1794]. Creation dates: [March 1794]
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 7 May 2014
Extent:: 3 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10244
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Scope & Content:: JAMES, Henry. Autograph letter signed to Charles Hagberg Wright, Secretary and Librarian of the London Library, in the aftermath of the attack attack carried out by the suffragette Mary Wood on John Singer Sargent's portrait of Henry James. Creation dates: 07 May 1914
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 Sep 2013
Extent:: 3 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10245
Title:
Scope & Content:: HOUSMAN, A. E. Autograph letter signed to J. W. Mackail on various topics including Mackail's biography of William Morris. Creation dates: 26 March 1900
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 29 Apr 2014
Extent:: 4 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10246
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Scope & Content:: WAGNER, Richard. (1) Barber and perfumer's bill for Wagner, signed (to acknowledge payment) by one Jakob Zeisel; 27 August 1881. (2) Pencil note in an unknown hand to Wagner's father-in-law, Franz Liszt, probably left by the Wagner family at Liszt's address in Rome on finding him not at home. In...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 29 Apr 2014
Extent:: 2 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10247
Title:
Scope & Content:: CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer. Autograph memorandum signed to A. G. Gardiner, editor of the Daily News, on the subject of the Tonypandy demonstration in South Wales. Bonhams, 21761, 19 March 2014, Lot 158. Creation dates: [09 Nov 1910]
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 8 May 2014
Extent:: Digital images (1 disc)

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10248
Title:
Scope & Content:: CASEMENT, Sir Roger. 6 autograph letters and 1 autograph postcard signed to A. G. Gardiner, editor of the Daily News, relating to the Peruvian Amazon Company and the use of slave labour in the Amazon. Bonhams, 21761, 19 March 2014, Lot 155. Creation dates: 1911 - 1913
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 8 May 2014
Extent:: Digital images (1 disc)

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10249
Title:
Scope & Content:: Collection of 900 manuscript documents including letters, cheques, bills, bonds, deeds, legal agreements and estate reports, being a part of the Clayton and Morris Papers from the Fairfax Library, illustrating the origins of English deposit banking. Creation dates: Circa 1650 - 1695
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 8 May 2014
Extent:: Photocopies (in printed catalogue of The Clayton & Morris Papers from The Fairfax Library 1650-1695)

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10250
Title:
Scope & Content:: LEWIS, C. S. Autograph letter signed to Herbert Palmer, discussing the latter's new book of poems. Creation dates: 23 January 1950
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 May 2014
Extent:: 2 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10251
Title:
Scope & Content:: KENSINGTON PALACE. 8 documents, being warrants issued to Jane Kien, housekeeper to King George II at Kensington Palace, allowing her to permit artists to take copies of pictures in the palace. Creation dates: [1728 - 1757]
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 23 May 2014
Extent:: 8 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 10252
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Scope & Content:: GRAND TOUR. Autograph letter signed by David Ker to Robert Bateson Harvey containing advice on how best to organise a grand tour for a 'young man of fortune' in Italy. Creation dates: 18th century
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 23 May 2014
Extent:: 1 photocopy

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