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2. Add MS 72852-72853
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- Add MS 72852-72853
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- PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. III, IV. Letters and papers chiefly from Petty and his wife to Sir Robert Southwell, and his family; 1663-1688. Each volume has a contents list on paper water-marked '1830', by William Petty-Fitzmaurice, Earl of Kerry (d. 1836), who was probably responsible for their acquisition; with 20th cent. additions by the 6th Marquess of Lansdowne. For an item by item list, see Slatter, 'Report', I, pp. 79-97. Formerly Bowood Vols. 9, 10. Two volumes. Mounted on guards and bound in bro...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- 1663-1688
- Extent:
- 2 items
3. Add MS 72852-72855
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- PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. III-VI. Correspondence between the Petty and Southwell families, consisting chiefly of letters from Petty to Sir Robert Southwell, with many related papers and enclosures, relating particularly to Petty's shipping experiments and Irish affairs; 1661-1698. Petty's letters are originals, endorsed by Southwell, and Southwell's are drafts and copies. A few items such as medical notes by Southwell (72852, ff. 102-105), which have no connection with Petty, are also included, furthe...
- Scope & Content:
- Sir William Petty, political economist: Correspondence, etc., with Southwell family of Sir William Petty: 1661-1687.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1661-1698
- Extent:
- 4 items
4. Add MS 72858-72864
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- PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. IX-XV. Letterbooks of Petty and his agents; 1671-1686. These were part of a sequence of volumes once in the collection of William Burton Conyngham, grandson of Mary, wife of Petty's eldest son Charles (d. 1696) by her second marriage. On his death in 1796 they were bought first by the collector Austin Cooper of Dublin (1759-1830), and then by Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1831, becoming first Phillipps MS 6486, and then 14332-14349 (see Slatter, 'Report', I, p. 113). They were purc...
- Scope & Content:
- Ireland: Letterbooks rel. to Sir W. Petty's Irish estates: 1671-1700.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1671-1686
- Extent:
- 7 items
5. Add MS 72861-72862
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- PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. XII, XIII. Letterbooks of John Rutter about Petty's Irish affairs; 1672-1674. Copies in several clerical hands. Many of the letters are written to Petty in Dublin from Rutter as his agent at Glanerought. Austin Cooper MSS 73, 72. Phillipps MSS 14346, 14345. Lot 817 at the Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, 27 April 1911. For an item by item list of contents, see Slatter, 'Report', I, pp. 120-127, and for individual addressees, see the index to the present catalogue. Formerly Bowood V...
- Scope & Content:
- Sir William Petty, political economist: Letterbooks of his agents: 1671-1687.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1672-1674
- Extent:
- 2 items
6. Add MS 72863-72864
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- PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. XIV, XV. Letterbooks of Thomas Dance about Petty's Irish affairs; 1686-1700. Including a few letters from Lady Petty's sister, Bridget Cadogan, to Petty. With contemporary pagination (1-130; 1-165) and index sections at the beginning of the first and the end of the second volume. Austin Cooper MSS 74, 75. Lot 818 in the Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, 27 April 1911. For an item by item list of contents, see Slatter, 'Report', I, pp. 143-173, and for individual addressees, see the ...
- Scope & Content:
- Sir William Petty, political economist: Letterbooks of his agents: 1671-1687.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1686-1700
- Extent:
- 2 items
7. Add MS 72862
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- Scope & Content:
- PETTY PAPERS. VOL. XIII (ff. iv + 22). 12 July 1673-5 Jan. 1674. John Rutter, agent of Sir W Petty in Ireland: Letterbooks, containing his letters to Sir W. Petty and others of John Rutter: 1672-1674: Copies. includes: f. 4v Walter Galway, merchant, of Youghal: Letter from J. Rutter to Walter Galway...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 12 Jul 1673-5 Jan 1674
- Extent:
- 1 item
8. Add MS 72854-72855
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- Title:
- PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. V, VI. Letters and papers from Petty, his wife and sons, to Sir Robert and Edward Southwell, with drafts and copies of the Southwells' replies; 1661-1686. Some of the originals of Southwell's letters are in Add. 72851 above. A preliminary note by Abraham Hill, F.R.S., 1703 (f. 1), indicates that it was he who placed the documents in their present order; he adds, 'Sr Will Pettys letters beside other considerable matters, containe a good vindication of his proceedings, & the ot...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1661-1686
- Extent:
- 2 items
9. Add MS 72861
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- Scope & Content:
- PETTY PAPERS. VOL. XII (ff. iii + 39). 26 July 1672- 29 June 1673. John Rutter, agent of Sir W Petty in Ireland: Letterbooks, containing his letters to Sir W. Petty and others of John Rutter: 1672-1674: Copies. includes: ff. 9v-10, 32 Maurice Connell, in Kerry: Letters from J. Rutter to Maurice Conn...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 26 Jul 1672-29 Jun 1673
- Extent:
- 1 item
10. Add MS 72853
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- Add MS 72853
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- Scope & Content:
- PETTY PAPERS. VOL. IV (ff. iii + 223). Correspondence, etc., between Petty and Sir Robert Southwell, 1684-1687, continuing the preceding volume, followed by correspondence, 1687-1688, between Petty's eldest son, Charles, and Southwell's son, Edward; 1684-1688. As in the preceding volume, the enclosu...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1684-1688
- Extent:
- 1 item