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1. Add MS 72850-72864

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Title:
A. Correspondence and Letterbooks
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[1648-1705]
Extent:
15 items

2. Add MS 72852-72855

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Title:
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, fu...
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

3. Add MS 72858-72864

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Title:
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 ...
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

4. Add MS 72851

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. II. Letters from Sir Robert Southwell to Petty, 1674-1687, and his wife, 1679-1688, with a few drafts or copies of Petty's replies, two original letters (ff. 210-214) from Lady Petty to Southwell, 1687, 1688, which appear to have been added to the volume after binding in the 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1673-1688
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 72856

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. VII. Letters from Petty to his wife, Elizabeth (née Waller, widow of Sir Maurice Fenton, 1st Bart.); 1672-1685. The letters were written during separations, chiefly while Petty was in Ireland, and accordingly they cover only 19 March-27 Aug. 1672, 24 April-26 July 1675, 24 May...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1672-1685
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 72857

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PETTY PAPERS. VOL. VIII. Personal correspondence and papers of Petty and his family; 1648-1691, n.d. The flyleaves (ff. i-ii) contain a list of the papers by the 6th Marquess of Lansdowne. With two labels by James Matthews, (f. iii) 'Lady Petty's Correspondence with her Children, 1684', and (f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1648-1691
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 72850

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Scope & Content:
PETTY PAPERS. VOL. I. General correspondence of Sir William Petty; 1649-1687. Including (f. ii) a list of contents by the 6th Marquess of Lansdowne, labels by James Matthews (ff. iii, 167), and annotations throughout by both. For an item by item list, see Slatter, 'Report', I, pp. 44-62, and for...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1649-1687
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 72852-72853

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Title:
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 i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1663-1688
Extent:
2 items

9. 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, &...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1661-1686
Extent:
2 items

10. 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 Bowo...
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