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1. Add MS 64868 A-L

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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS. Paper; ff. 103. British Library arrangement.
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includes: f. 1 Johannes Brahms, composer: Anna Franz, née Wittgenstein; pupil of J Brahms: Postcard to A. Franz from Johannes Brahms: 1895: Germ.f. 2 Reverend Thomas Child, Swedenborgian minister: Letter to Mrs L. Prentis from Rev. Thomas Child: 1889: Signed.ff. 2-14v Mrs Louisa Prentis, ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1603-1952]
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12 items

2. Add MS 64868 I

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I. Letters to William Richard Carles, former Consul-General at Peking, from Stephen Wootton Bushell, orientalist, and Sir Marc Aurel Stein, explorer and archaeologist; 1902, 1922. Presented by John Nicolson, Esq. in 1988. ff. 71-73v. 178 x 112mm.; 264 x 201mm.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1902-1922
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 64868 C

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C. Four letters from John Bright, statesman, to Edward Alexander of Glasgow concerning the Reform Bill of 1866 and subsequent agitation for reform; 30 June-19 Nov. 1866. Purchased from Henry Bristow of Ringwood, Cat. 295, item 161, 29 April 1988. ff. 54-60. Largest size 180 x 116mm.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1866-19 Nov 1866
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1 item

4. Add MS 64868 J

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J. Seven letters from Charles Wycliffe Goodwin (b.1817, d.1878), judge and Egyptologist (see Dawson and Uphill, Who was Who in Egyptology, p. 119) from Shanghai to his family; 1865-1877. Followed by two letters lamenting his death in 1878. Goodwin's Egyptological papers are Add. 31268-31298. Pre...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1865-1877
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1 item

5. Add MS 64868 A

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A. Postcard from Johannes Brahms to Anna Franz, apologising for having to cancel a visit to her at Berchtesgaden; postmarked Ischl, 16 Aug. 1895. German. Anna Franz, née Wittgenstein, was a pupil of Brahms in Dusseldorf in the 1850s. Presented by Roy Douglas, Esq., 9 Oct. 1986. f. 1. 89 x 140mm.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Aug 1895
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1 item

6. Add MS 64868 F

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F. Letter from Charles Fitzgeffrey (d.1638) to Richard, 1st Baron Robartes, written from Fowey, co. Cornw.; 24 March 1633/4. The writer gives an eye-witness account of the damage caused to St Nicholas's Church there by a thunderbolt that struck the tower on 6 Jan. 1633/4. He also mentions wall-p...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Mar [1634]
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1 item

7. Add MS 64868 G

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G. Order of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, appointing Sir Bassingbourne Gawdy as Master of his Game, etc., in Norfolk; 1603. Signed. Formerly Phillipps MS. 29537 (part). Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, Esq. in 1988. ff. 66-67. 155 x 205mm.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1603
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1 item

8. Add MS 64868 K

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K. Letter from William Holman Hunt, painter, to [William?] Agnew relating to the engraving of 'The Shadow of Death'; 15 May 1878. Presented by Sir David Mackenzie Wilson, F.B.A., Director of the British Museum, in 1988. ff. 99-100v. 237 x 130mm.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 May 1878
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1 item

9. Add MS 64868 B

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B. Letters to Mrs Louisa Prentis née Janes, from the Rev. Thomas Child, Swedenborgian minister, 1889, and from W. P. Frith R.A, 1897, together with her correspondence (three letters in all) with the Ven. A. B. O. Wilberforce, Archdeacon of Westminster, 1910, and miscellaneous letters and notes o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1827-1939
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1 item

10. Add MS 64868 L

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L. Notes by Edward Clark for a lecture on Schoenberg's orchestral tone poem 'Pelleas und Melisande', given at the Institute of Contemporary Arts; [1952]. Removed from Clark's copy of the piano duet arrangement of the work by H. Jalowetz, now Music Library, h. 3993. j. (2), and transferred from t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1952]
Extent:
1 item