Name: Walpole, Horatio, 4th Earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, 1717-1797, http://isni.org/isni/000000... - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

1. Add MS 4320

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4320
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XXI (ff. 287). U-W. includes: ff.1-4 Paul Vaillant, bookseller, of London; nephew of Isaac Vaillant: Letters to T. Birch: 1743-1753. ff. 6, 9-12 Rodolph Valltravers, FRS: Letters to T. Birch: 1755-1763. f. 7 Sauveur François Morand, FRS; French anatomist: Letters to T. Birch: 1757-1764.: Fr. ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1737-1764
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12524
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women; Gilbert Banester, Tale of Guiscardo and Ghismonda
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an imperfect copy of The Legend of Good Women, a Middle English dream vision by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The volume also contains a copy of The Tale of Guiscardo and Ghismonda, a Middle English verse adaptation of the story from Bocaccio's Decameron,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18204
Title:: AUTOGRAPH letters and signatures of Royal and illustrious persons, chiefly of England and France, of the 19th century. Amongst them is the signature of H.M. Queen Victoria when Princess, dated in the year 1823. The collection is stated to have been formed by Mrs. Cockle, Governess to the children of William IV. when Duke of Clarence. Paper. Folio. [Add. 18,204.]
Scope & Content:: Cockle, Governess to the Fitz-Clarences: Collection of Royal autographs. Victoria of England: Autograph: 1823. Autographs English: Royal and illustrious persons: 19th cent. Autographs French: Royal and illustrious persons: 19th cent. includes: f. 3 Charles II of England: Letter to Lady Northumberlan...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 20061
Title:: "SAPIENTIA Salomonis, Drama comicotragicum" performed by Westminster Boys, or the "children of the Revels", before Queen Elizabeth. Paper; XVIth cent. The presentation copy to the Queen, stamped with the royal arms and the Queen's initials. From the library of Horace Walpole. An account of this manuscript is given by E.P.Wilson (1969) in English Drama 1485-1585, p92, in the Oxford History of English Literature series (HLR 720.9). A complete transcription, write-up and translation is in the Yale ...
Scope & Content:: London, England: Drama acted before Qu. Elizabeth by the children of Westminster: 16th cent. Elizabeth I of England: The drama Sapientia Salomonis was acted before her: 16th cent. Drama: Sapientia Salomonis, comico-tragodia: 16th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 20706
Title:: "THE History of the Lives and Actions of Thomas Cromwel, Earl of Essex, and his Descendants," down to the extinction of the title in 1687 ; by Arthur Collins. Paper; XVIIIth cent.; from the library of Horace Walpole. Small Quarto.
Scope & Content:: Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex: History of him and his descendants, by A. Collins: 18th cent. Arthur Collins, Author of the 'Peerage in England.': History of T. Cromwell, Earl of Essex, and his descendants: 18th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 21555
Title:: LETTERS and papers of the Walpole family; from 1729 to 1811: l. A character of Sir Robert Walpole [afterwards Earl of Orford], Prime Minister; 28 Sept. 1776, f. 1b. 2. A dialogue between Sir [Robert] Walpole and [William] Pulteney, Earl of Bath, in imitation of the dialogue between Horace and Lydia in Hor. Lib. III. Od. 9, f. 3. 3. "An Epigram in the Craftsman, Dec. 20, 1729," f. 5. 4. Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, to General Charles Churchill; June, 1743. Copy. f. 6. 5. H[oratio] Walpole [aft...
Scope & Content:: Walpole family; Earls of Orford: Letters and papers: 1729-1811. includes: f. 1 b Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford; Prime Minister: Character of: 1776. f. 3 Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford; Prime Minister: Dialogue between him and W. Pulteney, in imitation of Horace, Ode iii. 9: circ. 17...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1729-1811
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22042
Title:: MEMORANDUM-BOOK of George Vertue, containing various notes on antiquarian subjects, facsimiles of signatures, plans, etc.; 1730- 1734. From Horace Walpole's library. Paper. Duodecimo.
Scope & Content:: George Vertue, engraver: Memorandum-book: 1730-1734. Antiquities: Memorandum-book of G. Vertue: 1730-1734.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1730-1734
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22130
Title:: MISCELLANEOUS autograph letters; 1702-1829, viz.: 1. [Thomas Thynne] Viscount Weymouth to Sir Robert Southwell and to Edward Southwell, Secretaries of State for Ireland; Longleat, 16 Aug. 1702, 29 Nov. 1704, ff. 1, 4. 2. Knightley Chetwood, D. D. [afterwards Dean of Gloucester], to [James Butler] Duke of Ormonde; Camp at Val-Notre-Dame, 27 Aug. 1703, f. 6. 3. James Hervey, rector of Weston-Favel, to Mrs. Doddridge [widow of Dr. Philip Doddridge]; 20 Mar. 1756, f. 8. 4. Edmund Burke to Robert Dos...
Scope & Content:: includes: f. 1 Sir Robert Southwell, successively Clerk of the Privy Council, Envoy to Spain and Portugal, and Secretary for Ireland: Letters to, from Lord Weymouth: 1686, 1687, 1702. ff. 1, 4 Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth: Letters to Sir R. Southwell and to E. Southwell: 1702, 1704. f. 3 Sir...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1702-1829
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22626
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Scope & Content:: VOL. II. 1. A[lexander] Pope to Mrs. Howard; Friday [Oct. 1727], f. 3. 2. The same to the Hon. George Berkeley; n.d., f. 5. 3. M[artha] Blount [of Mapledurham in Oxfordshire] to Mrs. Howard; n.d., ff. 6, 7, 9, 11. 4. [Allan, lst Lord] Bathurst to [the same; 1725 ?]-1735, ff. 13, 14, 17, 19. 5. [Lion...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1712]-1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22628
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Scope & Content:: VOL. IV. 1. [John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol] to Mrs. Howard; n.d., and Ickworth, 10 Nov. 1719, ff. 3, 5. 2. E[lizabeth, Countess of] B[ristol, wife of the preceding], to the same; Ickworth, 19 Aug. [1727], f. 6. 3. [Carr, Lord] Hervey [eldest son of the above Earl of Bristol] to the same; 20 Aug. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1718]-1761
Extent:: 1 item