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Add MS 89402
- Record Id:
- 032-003458985
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003458985
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100084043429.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89402
- Title:
- Two volumes of anonymous love letters identified as being between Francis Smyth and Mary Plumer
- Scope & Content:
- Forty anonymous love letters identified as being between Francis Smyth (1737-1809) and Mary Plumer (1741-1824), transcribed in two volumes. The majority of people and place names are anonymised, with some names added later in pencil. The volumes document the romantic, financial, familial, and social affairs of a young couple in the mid-18th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003458985
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 89402/1 : Volume 1: Anonymous love letters identified as being between Francis Smyth (1737-1809) and Mary Plumer (1741-1824)
Add MS 89402/2 : Volume 2: Anonymous love letters identified as being between Francis Smyth (1737-1809) and Mary Plumer (1741-1824)
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- 032-003458985
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 2 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1758
- End Date:
- 1762
- Date Range:
- 1758-1762
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 388mm x 325mm (vol 1) 388mm x 321mm (vol 2).
Binding: Two notebooks bound with string in original marbled paper covers.
Pagination: volume 1, 57 pp.; volume 2, 58 pp.
- Former Internal References:
- Deposit 11216
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from Dean Cooke Rare Books Ltd. June 2019.
- Arrangement:
- Forty letters arranged chronologically.
- Publications:
- Philip Benton, The History of Rochford Hundred, Volume 1 (Rochford: A. Harrington, 1867), p. 44.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Plumer, Joseph, 1716-1747
Plumer, Mary, 1741-1824
Plumer, Thomas, 1711-1781
Smyth, Francis, 1737-1809