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21. Add MS 75000 D

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D. Letter from Richard Gifford (b.1725, d.1807) to his daughter, Euphemia; 24 March 1787. Gifford discusses his daughter’s education as a boarder at Leicester and his own health. He refers to a letter he had received from M. Perrache, the miniature painter, requesting the portrait he did of Gi...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
24 Mar 1787
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1 item

22. Add MS 75000 JJ

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JJ. Account, with illustration,by Rawdon Lubbock Brown, historian, of the recovery of the tombstone of Thomas de Mowbray, 12th Baron Mowbray and 1st Duke of Norfolk (d.1399); circa but after 1839. Copy, partly engraved. Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, Nov. 2001. ff. 79-80v. 274 x 215mm. Engrave...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
after 1839
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1 item

23. Add MS 75000 U

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U. Letter from John Warner, D.D. to John Coakley Lettsom, physician, enclosing some wry ‘bad lines’ written by ‘an abusive bard’ on Warner’s leaving London and praising his host George Augustus Selwyn, M.P.; Gloucester, 15 Oct. 1787. Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, May 2001. ff. 44-45v. 229 x...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1787
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1 item

24. Add MS 75000 H

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H. Elizabeth Billington, singer: anonymous verses inviting her to dinner; circa 1809-1818. Autograph draft. These are headed 'To Mrs Billington A Card.' and begin 'Know sweetest of the Syren race / I dreamt I dind in Francis Place'. The original rhyme-words, now deleted, were 'Syrens, how / B...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1809-1818
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1 item

25. Add MS 75000 GG

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GG. Letter from P. H. van Diest to Clement le Neve Foster, H.M. Inspector of Mines, thanking Foster for corrections to the proof of van Diest's book on Bangka and its tin stream works. Van Diest mentions having sent samples of ores for display at the Great Exhibition in Paris. Foster published...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1866
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1 item

26. Add MS 75000 T

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T. Letter from Hugh Adcock (d.1722), land agent, to John Moore (b.1620, d.1702), Bosworth, co. Leic., 11 Jan. 1697/8, with a written survey of land at Upton (presumably Upton in Sibson parish, co. Leic.). Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, April 2001. ff. 42-43v. 305 x 195mm. Maps and Plans: Hu...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jan [1698]
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1 item

27. Add MS 75000 X

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X. Note by Sir John Silvester, 1st Bart., Recorder of London, addressed to Sir Henry Ellis of the British Museum; 29 April 1822. The enquiry, written on the envelope of an ‘old copy’ of the will of Henry VIII on which he was seeking an opinion, is accompanied by Ellis’s note of his sudden death...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1822
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1 item

28. Add MS 75000 K

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K. Letter from Sir William Reid (b.1791, d.1858), Governor of Malta, to The Rt. Hon. Sir G. Seymour (b.1797, d.1880), Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in Vienna; 4 March 1857. Reid encloses a letter [not present] from a Mr Leonard requesting the good offices of Her Majesty's Embassy in Vienna in a...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
4 Mar 1857
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1 item

29. Add MS 75000 CC

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CC. Correspondence of Edward Lynam of the British Museum Map Room, T. Chubb, and F. A. Wadsworth relating to English county cartography and the Map Room's holdings; 1929-1932. Five letters. Presented by the Anglesey County Archivist who found them inside a copy of Thomas Chubb’s book The print...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929-1932
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1 item

30. Add MS 75000 G

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G. Letter from Elizabeth Ann Linley, afterwards Sheridan to an unnamed correspondent; 1772. Possibly copy, imperfect at beginning and end. This gives an evidently contemporary account of her flight from Bath with her future husband Richard Brinsley Sheridan on 'that fatal Wednesday', 18 March ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1772
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1 item