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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 57708
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Scope & Content:: R.U.S.I. MAPS. Vol. LXXIII (1-13). Lake Ontario (south shore). 1. 'Esquis des côte depuis Oswego jusques a la Baye de F[r]ontenac', by 'Capt. Wllyamos' (possibly a phonetic spelling of 'Williams'); circa 1760. 1:380000 approx. 'Echelle de 12 mile' (= 2 inches). Map oriented with North-North-We...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 57709
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Scope & Content:: R.U.S.I. MAPS. Vol. LXXIV (1-3). 1-3. 'Lake Ontario & River St Lawrence from the lake to Fort William Augustus' in three pieces, taken from a French draft that was on board the prise Williamson belonging to Monsr La Broquerie' almost certainly by Paul Labrosse (cf. Add. 57710, f. 2), thoug...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1750
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 57712
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Scope & Content:: R.U.S.I. MAPS. Vol. LXXVII (1-17). Places on L. George and L. Champlain. 1. Sketch map of L. Champlain, L. George, and the upper reaches of the Connecticut R., with the Indian path between Connecticut and L. Champlain; circa 1755. No scale given. French. The map also shows Ft. William Henry on...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 57716
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Scope & Content:: R.U.S.I. MAPS. Vol. LXXXI (1-5). Large maps. 1-2. Chart of Narraganset Bay and Rhode Island; mid 18th cent. 1:24000 approx. Scale bars of 10000 yards (= 15 inches) and 6 miles (= 15.75 inches). R.U.S.I. no. A 30.91A,B. Each part 660 x 985mm.; formerly one sheet 1320 x 985mm. 3. 'Plan of th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1730-1779
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58005
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'Sea-Pictures', cycle of songs for voice and orchestra, op. 37
Scope & Content:: Full score. Signed 'Birchwood Lodge Aug. 18 1899' (f. 57). Annotated in red ink, pencil and crayon. 'Written for Norwich Festival, 1899' (f. 2). Manuscript presented to Sidney and Madge Jebb Scott, Christmas 1902 (a letter from their daughter (?) Margaret returning the manuscript to Carice Blake...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1899
Extent:: 1 volume (i + 57 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58024
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Scope & Content:: ELGAR COLLECTION. Vol. XLI. Symphony No. 1 in A flat, op. 55; signed 'Roma 1907' (f. 1) and 'Rome and Hereford 1908' (f. 161). Full score. Annotated in blue crayon and pencil and with engraver's markings. Dedicated to Hans Richter. See also Add. 47907 A, 63155, 63160 and 63162. Published Novello...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1907-1908
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58030
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Scope & Content:: ELGAR COLLECTION. Vol. XLVII. Concerto in B minor: full score. Solo violin line partly printed. Annotated in red and green inks and with printer's pencil and blue and red crayon markings. Published Novello & Co., 1910. ff. 226. 378 x 275mm. Bound in red cloth [leather?] by Wilson and Phill...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1910
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58435
Title:: Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, autograph poems
Scope & Content:: Autograph collection of poetry by Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, courtier and poet (1563-1626). Inscribed ‘For the Countess of Pembroke’, i.e. the poet’s sister Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, writer and literary patron (1561-1621). ff. i-ii W. Blott: letter to H.J. Cooke, ag...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1590-1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58436
Title:: GEORGE ELIOT: correspondence of, together with some letters relating to Mary Ann Evans al. George Eliot; 1856-1880. Printed as indicated in G. S. Haight, The George Eliot Letters (1975-1978). Purchased from Mrs A. S. Womersley of Wilmslow, co. Chest., 13 Feb. 1975. Paper; ff. 20. British Library arrangement. 1. ff. 1-2v. George Eliot to her brother, Isaac Evans; 1856. Imperfect. Haight, VIII, pp. 155-156. 2. ff. 3-5v. G. H. Lewes to the Rev. James R. Quirk; 1859. Haight, III, p. 135. ...
Scope & Content:: Marian Cross, née Evans; alias ''George Eliot''; novelist: Correspondence of and rel. to George Eliot: 1856-1880: Partly imperf. includes: ff. 1, 15 Isaac Pearson Evans, brother of ''George Eliot'': Letters to, from George Eliot: 1856, 1880: Imperf. and autogr. copy. f. 3 George Henry Lewes, w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1856-1880
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 59677
Title:: Pierre Sala, Fables
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of 13 animal Fables in French verse, written by the French poet Pierre Sala (b. c. 1457, d. c. 1529), and dedicated to Louise de Savoy (b. 1476, d. 1531), Duchess of Angoulême and regent of France. This manuscript was intended as a presentation copy, but wa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1525-1526
Extent:: 1 volume

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