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Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 138
Title:: George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron: 'Note to the lines where Capel Lofft is mentioned'
Scope & Content:: Autograph fair copy. The prose note explains the allusion to Capel Lofft in Byron's 'Hints from Horace' (published 1811), lines 693-696: 'Hark to those notes, narcotically soft! / The cobber-laureats sing to Capel Lofft! /Till, lo! that modern Midas, as he hears, / Adds an ell-growth to his egre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1811
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 140
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXL. Gabriele D'Annunzio: poem 'La Laude di Dante'; circa 1904. Fair copy. Italian. See Laudi del cielo, del mare, della terra e degli eroi, Istituto Nazionale per la Edizione di Tutti le Opere di Gabriele D'Annunzio, Book 2, Elettra (Verona, 1928), pp. 4-10. ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1904
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 141
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXLI. Charles Darwin: fragment of 'Insectivorous Plants', with some mathematical calculations relating to meridians on the verso; n.d. Draft. Published in 1875. See The Works of Charles Darwin, ed. P. H. Barrett and R. B. Freeman, vol. 24 (1989), p. 307. f. 1. 165...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 142
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXLII. Philippe Des Portes: rhymed maxims, epigrams and aphorisms; before 1606. Fair copies, with a few additions in other hands at the end. French. ff. 5. 190 x 138mm. Poetry FRENCH: Philippe Des Portes, poet: Rhymed maxims, etc., by Philippe Des Portes: bef. 160...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: before 1606
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 143
Title:: Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevskii: ChapterII of part 3 of the novel Униженные и оскорбленные [The Insulted and Injured]
Scope & Content:: Autograph draft. Cyrillic script in a small neat cursive hand. One complete chapter of Dostoevskii’s first full-length novel, headed Глава 6 in the manuscript but published as the second chapter in part 3. Begins: Онь именно влетель, с каким-то сияющимь лицомь, Ends: я выскажу все, все! The ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Russian
Date Range:: [1861]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 145
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXLV. Fredrik Axel von Fersen: document sent with some sealed papers to the Tribunal of the Swedish Court; 1787 (dated by the Tribunal, f. 1). Signed. Swedish. Included are two transcripts of the document, one typewritten, together with a German translation. ff. 3....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Swedish
Date Range:: 1787
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 146
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXLVI. Gustave Flaubert: short story 'Bibliomanie'; 1836. Fair copy. French. See G. Flaubert, Oeuvres Complètes. Oeuvres de Jeunesse Inédites, vol. 1 (Paris, 1910), pp. 132-147. ff. 14. 310 x 200mm. Gustave Flaubert, novelist: Short story Bibliomanie by Gustave F...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1836
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 147
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXLVII. Joseph Fouché: letter to his colleagues and friends; 1794. French. ff. 2. 305 x 200mm. Joseph Fouché, Duc d'Otrante: Letter to his colleagues and friends: 1794: Fr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1794
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 148
Title:: Autograph annotations by Anatole France. Signed ‘A.F’ at end. Anatole France [pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault]: Letter from M. B. in response to an article on orthography by Anatole France, marked up for printing by France; May 1898
Scope & Content:: Begins: ‘Monsieur, Au sujet de votre article de ce matin, ‘l'Orthographe' . . . Ends: ‘Veuillez , je vous prie etc.’ The letter is dated 16 May 1898 but probably in error for 17 May when Anatole France’s first article on orthography and spelling reform was published in the morning daily newspa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1898
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 149
Title:: Benjamin Franklin: Letter to William Strahan; Philad[elphia] 12 Feb. 1744/5
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Signed. Begins: ‘Sir I receiv'd your Favour p[er] Mr Chew dayed Sept. 10. and a Copy via Boston.’ Ends: ‘Your obliged humble Servant B Franklin’ Franklin acknowledges receipt from Strahan of 'Mr Middleton's Pieces' and places new orders: a range of pamphlets for friends of differ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1745]
Extent:: 1 item

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