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1. Stowe MS 752-754

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Stowe MS 752-754
Title:
ORIGINAL LETTERS addressed to Charles Lyttelton, LL.D., Dean of Exeter [1748-1762] and Bishop of Carlisle [1762-1768], President of the Society of Antiquaries [1765], chiefly of literary and antiquarian subjects; 1730-1768. Three volumes. Paper. Folio.
Scope & Content:
Charles Lyttelton, DD; FRS; Bishop of Carlisle: Correspondence of: 1730-1768.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1730-1768
Extent:
3 items

2. Stowe MS 756

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Stowe MS 756
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Scope & Content:
LETTER-BOOK containing copies of letters of a writer whose name is not given, addressed to " Dolly Sqr," her father, John Handley, his cousin, and others, on the subject of his love for the lady, and his desire to make her his wife; St. Albans and London, 6 April, 1725-29 Jan. 1725/6 Paper; ff. 21. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1725-29 Jan 1726
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 757

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Stowe MS 757
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Scope & Content:
LETTER from N[athaniel] B[rassey] Halhed [author of A Code of Gentoo Laws, 1776, and A Grammar of the Bengal Language, 1778, afterwards M.P. for Lymington 1791-1796] to the Rev. [George] Costard, on the antiquity and character of the Indian language and religion, in reply to a letter published by th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1779
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 760

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Stowe MS 760
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Scope & Content:
1. "FORMULÆ LITERARUM collected out of the most quaint authours in diverse languages." The only English authors mentioned are Sir Henry Wotton and Sir Francis Bacon. f. 2. 2. "Formes of Passeports in Latin, English, French, Italian, etc.," chiefly granted by Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchilsea, ambass...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 743-748

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Stowe MS 743-748
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS ORIGINAL LETTERS on historical, literary, and other subjects; 1570-1759. Six volumes, folio, chronologically arranged. A large proportion of the letters down to 1684 are addressed to Sir Edward Dering, of Surrenden, co. Kent, 1st Bart., M.P. (ob. 1644), and to his son, Sir Edward, 2nd Bart., M.P. (ob. 1684), those to the latter referring more especially to his duties as Commissioner for Claims in Ireland after the Restoration. Another series, of the latter part of the 17th cent. an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1570-1759
Extent:
6 items

6. Stowe MS 751

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Stowe MS 751
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Scope & Content:
ORIGINAL LETTERS Of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Sarah his wife, to James Craggs, Sen. [Postmaster-General in 1715], who was acting as financial secretary to the Duchess; 1711-1718. The Duke's letters are twenty-one in number, and with one exception (f l5), dated "Camp before Bouchain, t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1711-1718
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 743-760

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 743-760
Title:
CLASS XVII. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:
18 items

8. Stowe MS 759

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Stowe MS 759
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Scope & Content:
1. EPIT0ME Of Church history, from the birth of Christ to 1612. ff. 3-49 b. Followed (ff. 50-59) by notes, in the same hand, on the Apostles and Evangelists, the early Bishops of Rome, Jerusalem, and Alexandria, and other Fathers of the Church. At ff. 1 b, 2, are memoranda of commercial transactions...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 752

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 752
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. (ff. 240). 1. LETTERS of Smart Lethieullier, of Aldersbrook, co. Essex (ob. 1760), chiefly on Roman and Saxon antiquities, architecture, etc.; 28 Sept. 1743-1 April, 1760. ff. 1-105. Among the special subjects treated are:- The origin of burial in churchyards and inside churches; 1744-1746, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1743-1 Apr 1760
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 753-754

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 753-754
Title:
Vols. II., III. (ff. 301, 280). LETTERS On various topics; 10 May 1730-13 Dec. 1756, and 21 Feb. 1757-21 Oct. 1768. (At the end of Vol. III. a letter to Thomas Astle, 4 July, 1797, is inserted.) Among the writers are:- George Ballard, author of the History of Learned Ladies; Thomas Tanner, Bishop of St. Asaph; W. Thomas, author of History of Worcester; Elizabeth Elstob, author of a Saxon Grammar, etc.; Dr. Thomas Birch; Dr. William Stukeley; Daniel Dumaresq, of St. Petersburg; Jeremiah Milles, D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 May 1730-4 Jul 1797
Extent:
2 items