Archive Reference (shelfmark): RP - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9394
Title:
Scope & Content:: FARREN, Ellen. Manuscript volume in ink entitled 'Book of Tastes', a sort of autograph book kept by the music-hall actress in the form of questionnaires completed by various theatrical celebrities, dated on the title page 'November 31st 1864'. Creation dates: Circa 1864-1865
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4 Nov 2008
Extent:: 7 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9395
Title:
Scope & Content:: AUSTEN, Elizabeth Motley. Account books from the family of Elizabeth Austen, distant relative of Jane, listing bills both for Elizabeth's household and for her personal requirements. Creation dates: 1772 - [1782]
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 6 Nov 2008
Extent:: 3 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9396
Title:
Scope & Content:: ELIZABETH I. Second Great Seal of Elizabeth I on a manuscript Pardon of Alienation from the Queen to Anthony Mapowder of Venn Ottery. Bonhams, 16204, 04 Nov 2008, Lot 388. Creation dates: Nov [1597]
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 11 Nov 2008
Extent:: 3 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9397
Title:
Scope & Content:: MAUDUIT, Israel. Printed copy of 'A Voyage round the World in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, ... compiled ... by Richard Walter, M. A.', London, 1748, with a 3 1/2 page tipped-in manuscript in Maudit's hand discussing the true authorship of the book (probably Colonel Benjamin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 11 Nov 2008
Extent:: 3 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9398
Title:
Scope & Content:: COKE, Thomas (1747-1814). METHODISM. Autograph Letter Signed, 'To the Conference', including a postscript to Jabez Bunting, written while sailing to establish the first Methodist mission in Asia, giving an account of his voyage so far and his plans on arrival. Bonhams, 16204, 04 Nov 2008, Lot 43...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 14 Nov 2008
Extent:: 12 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9399
Title:
Scope & Content:: PEPYS, Samuel. Letter Signed as Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board, to the 'Masters Attend[an]t, M[aste]r Shippwr[igh]t, Clerks of ye Checq, Stores & Survey at Chatham', requiring them, on the orders of the Lord High Admiral James Duke of York, to commandeer the Duke of Richmond's yacht in ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 14 Nov 2008
Extent:: 1 photocopy

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9400
Title:
Scope & Content:: ARNOLD, Thomas (1795-1842). Autograph Letter Signed to F C Blackstone, describing his impressions of Rugby School a month after taking over as headmaster. Creation dates: Sep 1828
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2 Dec 2008
Extent:: 2 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9401
Title:
Scope & Content:: FREEMASONRY. 19 manuscript warrants to the Boxmaster (i.e.treasurer) of Mary's Chapel Lodge, Edinburgh, authorising charitable payments. Creation dates: 1676 - 1690
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Nov 2008
Extent:: 7 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9402
Title:
Scope & Content:: DUDLEY, Robert, Earl of Leicester (1532/3-1588). Original proclamation, signed by Dudley as Governor-General of the Netherlands, declaring all Dutch harbours to be Free Ports for all traffic not being contraband, thereby revoking Elizabeth I's 'Sea-Placard' of April 1586. Creation dates: Oct 1586
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch
Date Range:: 22 Nov 2008
Extent:: 2 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9403
Title:
Scope & Content:: Various copy manuscripts. Creation dates: Sep 1590 - circa 1630s
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 25 Nov 2008
Extent:: 3 photocopies

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