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31. Add MS 74237 U

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U. F. Vavasour: Letter to [Brian Fairfax the younger]; 1 Sept. n.y. Partly French. The letter, which is addressed to his house in the Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, from Weston, near Otley, and postmarked 4 Sept., mentions the death of 'pauvre Melle Asheton'. Two further letters of the same write...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and French
Date Range:
Early 18th century
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1 item

32. Add MS 74237 C

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C. Certificate of James Porter (b.1710, d.1786) as Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte, that George Barker is living at Pera; 22 April 1752 O.S. Signed. Ambassador's seal. Porter, knt. 1763, was ambassador at Constantinople, 1746-1762 and at Brussels, 1763-1765. Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, J...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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22 Apr 1752
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1 item

33. Add MS 74237 FF

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FF. Letter from Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, engineer and [1768] a director of the Société de la Carte de France, to [a member of the Society Treasurer's staff] rel. to payments etc. due for the Cassini Survey of France; Montigny-Lencoup, 21 April 1766. French. For another letter (of 1788) by Perr...
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Western Manuscripts
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French
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21 Apr 1766
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1 item

34. Add MS 74237 TT

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TT. Letter from David Casley, Deputy-Keeper of the Cotton Library, to Richard Graves the elder, antiquary, giving brief details of the following Cotton MSS.: — Vitellius E. xvi, art. 2; Cleopatra D. iii, art. 6; Vespasian A. iv; Claudius A. viii, art. 19; Nero D. iii, art. 1; n.d. [between 1713 ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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[1713-1729?]
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1 item

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W. Col. Philip Skene, formerly Governor of Crown Point and Ticonderoga: Letter to — Baker, woolstapler of College Street, Northampton; 5 Oct. 1807. This letter, written while Skene was farming in Buckinghamshire, discusses the price of wool and the prospects for the English wool trade in North ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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5 Oct 1807
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1 item

36. Add MS 74237 V

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V. John I. Thornycroft: Letter to Sir Richard Owen; Eyot Villa, Chiswick Mall, 23 Feb. 1886. 'My wife will be honoured as your Valentine on this occasion'. Stamped at head with 'Coll. Sherborn / Ex Litt. Ricardi Owen / Don. R. S. Owen.'. Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, 15 June 1999. Paper;...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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23 Feb 1886
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1 item

37. Add MS 74237 AA

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AA. Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Bart.: Letter to Dr Miller Maguire; 22 Jan. 1902. Dilke refers to his 'Literary Gossip' column in the Athenaeum, 18 Jan. 1902, p. 84, in which he had pointed out that Kipling's poem 'Islanders' has 'spoilt your case by overdoing it'. Signed. Purchased from...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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22 Jan 1902
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1 item

38. Add MS 74237 EE

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EE. List of official expenses, n.d. [circa 1761]. Draft (?). Fragm. Includes an entry for Henry Moore Esq. (Bart.1762) as Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica, 'for trouble he hath been at in making a Survey of the said Island'. This would seem to refer to the survey by Thomas Craskell and James Si...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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[c 1761]
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1 item

39. Add MS 74237 I

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I. Fragment of an essay by William Carew Hazlitt (b.1778, d.1830), beg. 'The Ideal (or perfect) style of art . . .'; n.d. With pencil annotations and a typewritten copy; n.d. Together with a letter from William Hazlitt (b.1811), son of William Carew Hazlitt to A. Vogue relating to the fragment ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
24 May 1864
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1 item

40. Add MS 74237 GG

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GG. Letter from Charles Smyth, M.P. for Limerick City, to John Bagwell; Dublin, 7 March 1752. Relates to the sale of lands, previously included in the Down Survey and in a survey by [George?] Miller (Eden/Bendall M342). Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, Aug. 1999. Paper; ff. 103-104. 235 x 192...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1752
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1 item