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241. Add MS 88942/1/344

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Add MS 88942/1/344
Title:
Talbot: Notebook (Accounts John Gale 'For Carpenter's Work')
Scope & Content:
Accounts headed 'W. H. F. Talbot Esq. To John Gale For Carpenter's Work done, and Materials supplied to the Farms and Cottages from Lady day to Michaelmas 1854'. With signature of John Gale (13 July 1855) across physically degraded penny stamp on f. 13. With summary information on front and back ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1854-1855
Extent:
1 notebook (i + 14 ff.)

242. Add MS 88942/1/345

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Add MS 88942/1/345
Title:
Talbot: Notebook (Accounts John Gale 'For Carptenter's Work')
Scope & Content:
Accounts headed: 'W. H. F. Talbot Esq. To John Gale For Carpenter's Work done and Materials used on the Manor of Lacock. From Michaelmas 1855 to Lady Day 1856'. With signature of John Gale (11 July 1862) across penny stamp on f. 19. With summary information to front and back covers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1855-1862
Extent:
1 notebook (ii + 19 ff.)

243. Add MS 88942/1/215

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Add MS 88942/1/215
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Elements of Plane Geometry extracted from the works of Playfair, Le Gendre, and others')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains mainly notes on mathematics and begins with copied extracts entitled 'The Elements of Plane Geometry'. It also includes a brief note dated 'April 18th 1817' on the conjunction of Mars and Saturn. With many blank pages, and a few pages cut out.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1816?-1817
Extent:
1 notebook (74 folios, 22 pages of text)

244. Add MS 88942/1/232

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Add MS 88942/1/232
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Henry 1st Dec 1815')
Scope & Content:
Lists expenditure for Talbot's travels in Britain and for various items between 1 Dec 1815 and 9 May 1820 when Henry was at Harrow and Cambridge. Includes the expense for a camera lucida on 16 January 1819. Notebook started: 1 Dec 1815. (The title to the front cover, bearing this date, is writt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1815-1820
Extent:
1 notebook (25 folios, 17 pages of text)

245. Add MS 88942/1/208

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Add MS 88942/1/208
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Essay towards a General Solution of Numerical Equations of all Degrees having Integer Roots')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains the first portion of a draft of 'Essay towards a General Solution of Numerical Equations...' (1875), i.e. numbered pages 1-12. For the remainder of the draft (beginning numbered page 13), see Add MS 88942/1/207. The file includes corrected printer's proofs.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1874?-1875
Extent:
1 notebook, plus printer's proofs

246. Add MS 88942/1/175

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Add MS 88942/1/175
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Revised translation of the Descent of Ishtar with a further Commentary')
Scope & Content:
Draft of 'Revised Translation of Ishtar's Descent, with a further Commentary' (1874). Kept with Add MS 88942/1/182.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1873?-1874?
Extent:
1 notebook (17 folios, 27 pages of text)

247. Add MS 88942/1/182

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Add MS 88942/1/182
Title:
Printer's Proof: 'The Legend of Ishtar Descending to Hades' by H. F. Talbot
Scope & Content:
Printer’s proof, originally kept with Add MS 88942/1/175. The printed text is annotated in pencil throughout with corrections and revisions.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1873]
Extent:
5 folios, 9 pages of text

248. Add MS 88942/1/26-37

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Add MS 88942/1/26-37
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'A'-'M'
Scope & Content:
Notebook 'I' from this sequence (which only came to light at a later stage in the cataloguing of Talbot's papers) is Add MS 88942/1/348.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Latin, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1840-1877
Extent:
12 notebooks

249. Add MS 88942/1/269

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Add MS 88942/1/269
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Presents & Charity')
Scope & Content:
Notebook recording money spent on charity and presents, from 17 March 1834 to 1 January 1843. Appears to be written by Charles Feilding (up to his death in 1837) and Lady Elisabeth.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1834-1843
Extent:
1 notebook (19 folios, 39 pages of text)

250. Add MS 88942/1/324

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Add MS 88942/1/324
Title:
Talbot: Notebook (Accounts John Gale 'For Carpenter's Work')
Scope & Content:
Accounts headed: 'W. H. F. Talbot Esq. D[ebto]r To John Gale For Carpenter's Work done, and materials used, on the Manor of Lacock, from Michaelmas 1852, to Lady Day 1853'. With the signature of John Gale (4 December 1854) across penny stamp on f. 18. Summary information on front and back covers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1852-1854
Extent:
1 notebook (i + 18 ff.)