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Add MS 31852
- Record Id:
- 032-002024040
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002024040
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000054.0x0003a3
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 31852
- Title:
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FOURTEEN original letters (with two fragments) from Gilbert White to the Hon. Daines Barrington; 6 July, 1769-8 July, 1773, 13 June, 1777, and 22 Apr. 1780. All but three are printed in
Professor Bell's edition of White's Natural History of Selborne, 1877, vol. i. pp. 113 sqq., under the numbers i., ii., iii. and iv. (one letter in the original), v., vi. (fragment), vii., viii., ix., xi.-xiii. (one letter), xiv., xv., xlix. and L. (one letter) ; but they differ from the printed text, sometimes containing additional passages and varying in the dates. Paper; ff. 30. Folio.
- Scope & Content:
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Reverend Gilbert White, of Selbourne: Letters to Hon. D. Barrington: 1769-1780.
Hon Daines Barrington: Letters to, from G. White of Selborne: 1769-1780.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002024040
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002024040
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1769
- End Date:
- 1780
- Date Range:
- 6 Jul 1769-22 Apr 1780
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Exhibitions:
- Animal Tales, British Library, London, 7 August 2015
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Gilbert White, Letter f.1. Exhibited: Animal Tales, British Library, London, 7 August 2015
- Names:
- Barrington, Daines, judge; antiquary; naturalist, 1727-1800
White, Gilbert, Reverend of Selbourne