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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 42257-42496
Title:: THE STEVENS TRANSCR1PTS. Transcripts of letters and papers relating to the history of the American Colonies, [1664?]-1784, but mainly concerned with the period 1776-1784, collected by Benjamin Franklin Stevens (b. 1833; d. 1902); late 19th cent. On Stevens and his collections of transcripts, mostly acquired by the Library of Congress between 1898 and 1906, see G. Manville Fenn, Memoir of Benjamin Franklin Stevens, London, 1903, pp. 172-181, 195-304; Handbook of Manuscripts in the Library of ...
Scope & Content:: Benjamin Franklin Stevens, bookseller; US Government Despatch Agent in London: Transcripts of letters and papers rel. to the American War of Independence collected by: late 19th cent. George III of England: Transcripts of letters and papers rel. to the American War of Independence (1776-1784), ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch and English
Date Range:: [783]-1857
Extent:: 240 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 42428-42437
Title:: B. DUTCH TRANSCR1PTS Papers copied from the Rijksarchief at The Hague. Each transcript is normally preceded by a sheet containing references to copies of the document in other archives, and is followed by a fair duplicate copy on blue Turkey mill paper (watermarks 1885, 1886). The transcripts of the Secrete Resolutien of the States General (42429-42434) have been kept in the order (not entirely chronological) in which they are listed in the catalogue (42428). Mainly Dutch. Ten volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch and English
Date Range:: [783]-1857
Extent:: 10 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 42438-42446
Title:: C. AMERICAN LOYALIST TRANSCRIPTS STEVENS TRANSCRIPTS Transcripts of memorials, etc., of American Loyalist refugees to the British authorities, copied from the American papers in the Royal Institution, now in the Public Record Office (see above). They are not included in the Index to the collection (below), but the originals are listed and indexed in the calendar of the Royal Institution papers published by the Historical MSS. Commission (see above). When received, they were in rough chronol...
Scope & Content:: American Loyalists: Memorials, etc., of: 1774-1783.: Copies, late 19th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 10 Sep 1774-30 Nov 1783
Extent:: 9 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 42447-42450
Title:: D. MISCELLANEA From a box labelled 'Source of originals not known' (see also notes in 42447, f. f). Four volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1778-1781]
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 42451-42496
Title:: E. INDEX STEVENS TRANSCRIPTS.The index consists of slips of thin paper which, when they reached the Museum, were arranged loose in boxes in a single chronological series. To enable them to be used as a rough index nominum, they were rearranged in alphabetical order, during 1954-1956, by D. H. W. Young, Esq., M.B.E., who also inserted on the slips the Add. MS. reference of the transcripts in cases where he was able to identify them with certainty; the absence of such notations from the slips ...
Scope & Content:: Dallas Hales Wilkie Young, grandson of G F Young, MP: Revised: in 1954-1956.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 46 items

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