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71. Add MS 88942/1/67

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Add MS 88942/1/67
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Conundrums, Charades, Riddles')
Scope & Content:
This non-attributed notebook contains 100 questions (entitled 'Conundrums') with corresponding answers which incorporate wordplay. For example: '28. Why is a little negro like a white man? Because he is not at all (a tall) black'; and: '17. Why is a little thief like a Roman Emperor? Because he i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (54 folios, 20 pages of text)

72. Add MS 88942/1/370

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Add MS 88942/1/370
Title:
Talbot: Loose notes (etymology and philology)
Scope & Content:
‘English Etymologies’ (6 December, 1842). Collected etymological notes. 29 pages of text. NTA: 30883. ‘Barrow’ (undated). Etymological notes. Pages 1-11. NTA: 37819. ‘Amazons ( to be [reserved]).’ (undated). Etymological note. NTA: 36708. ‘Book’ (undated). Etymological note. NTA: 36731. ‘Mat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1835-1842
Extent:
1 folder

73. Add MS 88942/5/3/5

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Add MS 88942/5/3/5
Title:
Talbot: Almanack
Scope & Content:
‘An Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1783.’ (1783). Printed almanack with handwritten notes, in pencil, on the last six pages. Cover missing. NTA: 32094.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1783
Extent:
1 almanack

74. Add MS 88942/1/229

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Add MS 88942/1/229
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Cloaths')
Scope & Content:
The account book, probably by Lady Elisabeth and including entries of other family members, contains accounts for clothing and liveries from 1 June 1812 to 31 May 1813, for Lady Elisabeth, William Henry Fox Talbot and other family members. Notebook started: 1 Jun 1812.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1812-1813
Extent:
1 notebook (30 folios, 34 pages of text)

75. Add MS 88942/1/203

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Add MS 88942/1/203
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains mathematical notes dealing with integrals, equations of third degree, algebraic equations, integrals and differentials and trigonometric functions, and broken rational and irrational functions. It contains many auxiliary calculations; some results are copied from publicati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1837-1838
Extent:
1 notebook (28 folios, 49 pages of text)

76. Add MS 88942/1/204

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Add MS 88942/1/204
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains a mathematical essay (entitled 'Some additional remarks') on Euclidian geometry (angular sums in triangular figures). It is probably related to Add MS 88942/1/205, which treats parallel lines. The original pagination of the notebook (which begins with p. 19) indicates th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1860s]
Extent:
1 notebook (ii + 15 ff.)

77. Add MS 88942/1/217

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Add MS 88942/1/217
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
A notebook containing rough calculations, mainly algebraic equations of third and fifth degree, some analyses (integrals, differentials and trigonometric functions) as well as many auxiliary calculations. It is related to Add MS 88942/1/197.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (36 folios, 7 pages of text)

78. Add MS 88942/1/231

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Contains records (in pencil) of miscellaneous expenditure, from 9 June 1813 - 28 November 1815.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1813-1815
Extent:
1 notebook (54 folios, 116 pages of text)

79. Add MS 88942/1/237

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Add MS 88942/1/237
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Records expenditure (Castleford and Cambridge) from 31 Oct 1815 to October 1817. Notebook started: 5 Nov 1815.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1815-1817
Extent:
1 notebook (130 folios, 14 pages of text)

80. Add MS 88942/1/239

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Add MS 88942/1/239
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
A printed diary ('The Student's Journal'), inscribed (inside front flyleaf) 'W.H.F. Talbot A.D. 1816'. Contains miscellaneous notes, such as the names of places with latitudes/longitudes, co-ordinates of locations in the north of England, a 'Grecian Chronology', and a list of 'Illustrious Greeks'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1816
Extent:
1 notebook (73 folios, 23 pages of text), with 5 loose sheets