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Add MS 43474-43487
- Record Id:
- 032-002056382
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002056382
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000039.0x00016b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 43474-43487
- Title:
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GEORGE SMITH MEMORIAL BEQUEST
- Scope & Content:
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The following, Add. MSS. 43474-43487, were bequeathed to the British Museum (subject to a life-interest of her children) by Mrs Elizabeth Smith (d. 1914), as a memorial of her late husband, George Murray Smith (d. 1901), head of the firm of Smith, Elder and Co. In 1933 Mrs Smith’s three surviving children decided, under powers given them in Mrs Smith’s will, to relinquish their further life-interest in the MSS. And transfer them forthwith to the Museum, on the condition that they should be kept permanently together as the George Smith Memorial Bequest. See Brit. Mus. Quart., viii, 1933-1934, pp. 79-80, and ‘Memoir of George Smith’ in Dict. Nat. Biogr., Supplt., i, 1901, pp. xi-xlix. Add. MSS. 43505, 43738 are to be regarded as a supplement to this Bequest.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002056382
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 43474-43476 : GEORGE SMITH MEMORIAL BEQUEST. Vols. I-III. The autograph fair copy of ''Jane Eyre'' by Charlotte Bronte.
Add MS 43477-43479 : GEORGE SMITH MEMORIAL BEQUEST. Vols. IV-VI. The autograph fair copy of 'Shirley', by Charlotte Brontë.
Add MS 43480-43482 : GEORGE SMITH MEMORIAL BEQUEST. Vols. VII-IX. The autograph fair copy of "Villette" by Charlotte Brontë.
Add MS 43483 : Emily Brontë, 'The Gondal Poems'. George Smith Memorial Bequest Vol X
Add MS 43484 : GEORGE SMITH MEMORIAL BEQUEST. Vol. XI (ff. 76). 'The Wolves and the Lamb', a play in two Acts, by William Makepeace…
Add MS 43485-43486 : GEORGE SMITH MEMORIAL BEQUEST. Vols. XII, XIII. 'The Ring and the Book', by Robert Browning: the autograph manuscript,…
Add MS 43487 : GEORGE SMITH MEMORIAL BEQUEST. Vol. XIV. ''Sonnets from the Portuguese'' (here simply headed ''Sonnet…
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 14 items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1841
- End Date:
- 1869
- Date Range:
- [1841-1869]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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George Murray Smith, publisher: bequeathed in his memory.
Elizabeth Smith, d 1914 widow of George Murray Smith, publisher: Bequeathed.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Smith, Elizabeth, wife of George Murray Smith, publisher, 1825-1914
Smith, George Murray, publisher, businessman and founder of the Dictionary of National Biography, 1824-1901