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31. Add MS 74734 V

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V. Letter from John Benwell to John Shute Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington (b.1678, d.1734) relating to the management of his estates at Beckett and Milehouse Farm, co. Berks.; 24 May 1726. For correspondence of Viscount Barrington, see Add. MS 73726, and for estate papers from 1731, see Add...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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24 May 1726
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1 item

32. Add MS 74734 MM

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MM. Three letters from Alfred Henry Miles (b.1848, d.1929) to Ruth Chadwick, poet; 11 Nov. 1908-24 Jan.1910. The letters focus on Chadwick's poetry which she has asked Miles to read and criticise. In particular there is a reference to William Wordsworth's comment that poetry does not make mone...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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11 Nov 1908-24 Jan 1910
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1 item

33. Add MS 74734 G

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G. Surveying. Letter from [John?] Batten of Yeovil to S. F. Milford of Exeter, 31 Jan. 1823 [1824] prefaced by a copy of a letter from Mark Kennaway, Exeter attorney, to Batten, 21 Dec. 1823, detailing a dispute about the valuation of an estate at Mudford and mentioning that Kennaway had sent a...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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1823-1824
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1 item

34. Add MS 74734 CC

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CC. Postcard from Mrs Isabella Banks, writer and wife of George Linnaeus Banks (b.1821, d.1897), to Miss Penruddocke at Fyfield Manor House, Pewsey, co. Wilts.; 8 July [1876?]. Written from the British Museum and sending an article about ceramic painting [not present]. Purchased from J. L. M. ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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8 Jul [1876?]
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1 item

35. Add MS 74734 B

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B. Offprint relating to the seals of the see and city of Glasgow, from part of the appendix to John Smith (ed.), Burgh Records of Glasgow, 1573-1581 (Glasgow, 1832), with annotations in the hand of Sir Frederick Madden. This offprint was found with Detached Seal XXXV. 95, a cast of the seal of ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1832
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1 item

36. Add MS 74734 K

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K. Two anonymous Jacobean satirical ballads; circa 1613-1615. The first, 'A Cambridge Madrigall confuting Oxford Ballad' (ff. 53-53v) in sixteen eight-line stanzas, which begins 'A Ballade late was made', is a reply to Richard Corbett's satire of March 1614/5, beginning 'It is not yet a fortnig...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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c 1613-1615
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1 item

37. Add MS 74734 S

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S. Letter from the Duke of Wellington to the Earl of Auckland; 22 Oct. 1847. Wellington discusses coastal defences. Purchased at Christie's, 19 May 2000. ff. 87-88. 185 x 120mm. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington: George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland; 2nd Baron Auckland: Letter to Georg...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
22 Oct 1847
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1 item

38. Add MS 74734 HH

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HH John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough: letter to [Sir Charles Hedges], as secretary of state, from the camp at Asch; 24 Aug. 1702. Autograph, with an endorsement in Hedges' hand. A stray from the main sequence of Marlborough-Hedges letters, originally preserved in Hedges' family, afterwar...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1702
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1 item

39. Add MS 74734 L

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L. Letter from John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, to the Revd. Peter Titley; [1627]. Contemporary copy. This undated letter was occasioned by a dispute between Titley, Vicar of St. Wolfran's, Grantham, and the town's alderman Thomas Wheatley over the re-siting of the communion table in the chur...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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[1627]
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1 item

40. Add MS 74734 D

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D. Letters to Dr Arthur Norman Edward Delsart Schofield, of the Department of Manuscripts, Assistant Secretary of the British Museum, 1971-1974, on or after their retirement from office, from:— (a) David Alexander Robert Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres, Trustee of the B...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1971-1974
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1 item