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Vol. CCCCXXIV (ff. 342). Jan.- Apr. 1890.

includes:

ff. 1, 62, 137 Sir William Reynell Anson, 3rd Baronet: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1888-1892.
f. 2 William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1872-1893.
f. 4 Justin McCarthy, MP: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1855-1895.
f. 6 Francis St. John Thackeray, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1858-1896.
f. 8 Wilfrid Meynell, author: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1878-1897.
ff. 10, 29, 46, 102, 159, 162, 243, 285 Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid, journalist: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1877-1892.
ff. 12, 335 Dorothy Tennant, afterwards Stanley; wife (1890) of H M Stanley: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1885-1897.
f. 14 Frances Anna Maria Russell, wife of John, 1st Earl Russell: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1860-1895.
f. 16 John Robert Strong Harington, Nonconformist minister: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.
f. 19 John Wareing Bardsley, Bishop of Sodor and Man, and (1892) of Carlisle: Letter to W. E. Gladstone.: 1890.
f. 21 Emma Louisa de Rothschild, wife of Nathan, 1st Baron Rothschild: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1885-1896.
ff. 23, 34 Elizabeth Rachel Chapman, writer: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1890-1897.
f. 31 Lord Charles James Fox Russell, son of John, 6th Duke of Bedford: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1878-1893.
f. 33 Sir William Blake Richmond, KCB; RA: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1879-1896.
ff. 36, 277 Thomas Power O'Connor, MP: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1879-1891.
ff. 37, 51 George Sigerson, physician, of Dublin: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1869-1890.
ff. 39, 200, 222, 259 Mariya Bashkirtseva, mother of Mariya Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva, the writer: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: [1889]-1891.: Engl. and Fr.
f. 41 Russell Day, Rector of Horstead, county Norfolk: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.: Lat.
ff. 43, 68 Count Arnold Jerome Povoleri Matthews,; afterwards Povoleri; formerly RC priest: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1889-1897.
f. 48 George Jacob Holyoake, reformer: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1864-1897.
ff. 53, 303 Georgiana Maria Glyn, wife of George Grenfell Glyn: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: [1869]-1890.
f. 55 George Grenfell Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton: Epitaph on, by W. E. Gladstone: 1890.: Lat.
f. 55 Epitaphs: On George, 2nd Baron Wolverton: 1890.: Lat.
f. 57 Harold Anson, Master of the Temple 1935: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.
f. 59 Oscar Browning, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1867-1891.
f. 64 Eugene Field, American author: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.
f. 66 John Temple Leader, formerly MP: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1888-1897.
f. 70 Matteo Schilizzi, newspaper proprietor: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1889-1892.: Engl. and Ital.
f. 73 Richard Barry O'Brien, author: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1886-1890.
f. 74 Susan Dabney Smedes, American author: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1889-1891.
f. 77 Arthur Sidgwick, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1888-1890.
ff. 79, 118 Major James Walter, author: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.
f. 80 Sydney Charles Buxton, Earl Buxton 1920: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1886-1896.
f. 82 J- H- Hill, of Manchester: Letter to, from W. E. Gladstone: 1890.: Printed.
ff. 83, 234, 266, 337 Hon Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel, poet: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1874-1893.
f. 85 Arthur George Villiers Peel, 2nd son of Arthur, 1st Viscount Peel: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1888, 1890.
ff. 86, 104 Reverend Andrew Martin Fairbairn, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, 1886: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1879-1896.
f. 88 Mary Sands, wife of Mahlon Sands: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1884-1895.
ff. 90, 250 Lady Florence Caroline Dixie, wife of Sir Alexander Dixie: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1882-1892.
ff. 94, 108, 110 Sir Thomas Herbert Warren, President of Magdalen College, Oxford: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1890-1897.
ff. 98, 99, 224 Hon William Henry Fremantle, Dean of Ripon: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1880-1896.
f. 101 Thomson Hankey, MP: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1853-1892.
f. 105 Francis Paget, Bishop of Oxford: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1890-1897.
ff. 106, 241 John Tyndall, scientist: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1874-1890.
f. 112 Sir Henry Drummond Charles Wolff, GCB; diplomatist: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1858-1890.
f. 114 Samuel Rolles Driver, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1882-1890.
f. 116 Edward Augustus Freeman, historian: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1854-1890.
ff. 120, 280 Arthur Howard Galton, author: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1887-1897.
f. 122 Sir John Stainer, musicologist and composer: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1878-1895.
ff. 123, 152, 307 Paul Belloni Du Chaillu, explorer: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1861-1890.
f. 129 Thomas Erskine Holland, Chichele Professor of International Law at Oxford; Knight 1917: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1875-1892.
ff. 130, 165, 325 Sir Edward Baldwin Malet, 4th Baronet; KCB; diplomatist: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1884-1897.
f. 132 Ludwig Diestelkamp, German clergyman: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.: Germ.
ff. 133, 155, 238 Edward Moore, Principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1886-1897.
f. 138 Sir Percy William Bunting, editor of 'The Contemporary Review': Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1886-1897.
f. 140 Arthur Gray Butler, Dean of Oriel College, Oxford: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.
f. 142 Falconer Madan, Bodley's Librarian: Letter to A. G. Butler: 1890.
f. 144 Alfred Joshua Butler, Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.
f. 145 Johanna Döllinger, niece of Johann Josef Ignaz von Döllinger: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1890, 1892.
f. 147 James Joseph Sylvester, mathematician: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.
f. 148 James Joseph Sylvester, mathematician: Sonnet to Gladstone: 1890.: Printed.
f. 148 Political and Satirical Poems: Verses on, or addressed to, W. E. Gladstone: 1864-1897.: Engl., Gr., Lat., Ital., Span., Swedish, Welsh.: Partly printed.
f. 149 Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1885-1897.
f. 154 James Moorhouse, Bishop of Manchester: Letter to J. H. Hill: 1890.: Copy.
f. 160 Mary Mackay, alias 'Marie Corelli'; novelist: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1889-1890.
f. 163 Wilfrid Philip Ward, biographer: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1890-1891.
ff. 166, 327 Ludwig Diestelkamp, German clergyman: Letters to the British Ambassador in Berlin: 1890.: Germ.
f. 167 David Binning Monro, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford: Letter to -: 1890.
f. 169 Percy Gardner, Professor of classical archaeology at Oxford: Address on Homer, with annotations by W. E. Gladstone: 1890.: Typewritten.
f. 169 Homer: Address on, by P. Gardner, annotated by W. E. Gladstone: 1890.: Typewritten.
ff. 197, 205 Maurice Jacobs, of Wadham College, Oxford: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1890-1897.
f. 199 Hon Philip James Stanhope, Baron Weardale 1906: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1880-1897.
f. 202 Sir William Arthur White, GCB; diplomatist: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1882, 1890.
ff. 203, 208, 213 Frederic William Farrar, Dean of Canterbury: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1878-1897.
f. 211 James Duff Law, of New Jersey, USA: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.
f. 214 Henrietta Maria Stanley, wife of Edward, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: [1869]-1890.
ff. 216, 299 Sir William Randal Cremer, MP: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1876-1890.
f. 218 St George Jackson Mivart, FRS; biologist: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1878-1890.
ff. 220, 232 Anthony Wilson Thorold, Bishop of Rochester and (1890) of Winchester: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1878-1890.
f. 227 William John Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1886-1891.
ff. 231, 240 Henry William Lucy, Knight 1909: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1877-1896.
f. 236 Charles James Patrick Mahon, known as The O'Gorman Mahon: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.
f. 239 J- Lewis Young, phonograph operator: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.
f. 245 Reverend John Sephton, of Liverpool: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.
f. 247 Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, Professor of Chemistry at Manchester: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1887-1894.
ff. 252, 257 Reverend Edmond Warre, Headmaster of Eton: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1890-1896.
f. 254 Josephine Elizabeth Butler, social reformer: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1868-1890.
f. 258 Charles Savile Roundell, MP: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1868-1896.
ff. 261, 275 Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth, KCIE; MP: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1879-1894.
f. 263 Charles Stewart Parnell, MP: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1888-1890.
f. 264 Richard Kearton, naturalist: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1890, 1895.
f. 267 Reverend Willis Probyn Nevins, theological writer: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1876-1890.
f. 271 Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet; artist: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1882-1893.
f. 273 William Tyler, RA; sculptor and architect: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.
f. 278 Francis Edward Thompson, master at Marlborough College: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1882, 1890.
f. 283 Thomas Colley, Archdeacon of Pietermaritzburg: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1885-1890.
f. 284 Peter Roscoe, of Bolton: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.
f. 286 Hamilton Fish, US statesman: Letter to Col. Gouraud: 1890.
f. 288 Sir Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland, 13th Baronet: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1886-1894.
f. 289 Reverend Thomas Murray Gorman, author: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.
f. 291 James Russell Lowell, American author and diplomatist: Letter to Col. Gouraud: 1890.
f. 292 Edward Richard Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Liverpool: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1868-1894.
f. 294 Mary Lucia Holker, wife of Sir John Holker: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1882-1894.
f. 296 Ernest Roland Wilberforce, Bishop of Newcastle and (1895) Chichester: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1873-1891.
f. 300 Sir William Wilson Hunter, Indian civilian, historian and publicist: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.
f. 301 Thomas Graves Law, Keeper to the Signet Library: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1878-1896.
f. 305 John Pilkington Norris, Archdeacon of Bristol: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1876-1890.
f. 308 Sir Edward Tyas Cook, KBE: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone.: 1879-1896.
ff. 309, 334 Rev. Robert Rainy, Principal, Edinburgh Free Church College: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1874-1892.
f. 311 Lloyd Stephens Bryce, American politician: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1889-1897.
f. 313 Christopher Knight Watson, Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1874-1890.
f. 314 Thomas Witham Croke, RC Archbishop of Cashel: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1886-1890.
f. 315 George Washburn Smalley, American journalist: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1872-1890.
f. 317 Robert Underwood Johnson, Editor, 'The Century Magazine', New York: Letter to, from W. E. Gladstone: 1890.: Printed.
f. 319 Henry Offley Wakeman, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford: Letter to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.
ff. 321, 324 Philip Henry Wodehouse Currie, Baron Currie; diplomatist: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1890.
f. 322 Margot Asquith, called Emma Alice Margaret; née Tennant; 2nd wife of Herbert, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1886-1895.
f. 328 Harry Quilter, editor of 'The Universal Review': Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1888-1890.
f. 332 William O'Connor Morris, Irish judge: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1887, 1890.
f. 339 Robert Anderson, Assistant-Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police; KCB 1901: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1889-1897.

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Add MS 44086-44835 : A SELECTION from the correspondence, official and private, literary manuscripts and other papers of William Ewart Gladstone…
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Names:

Acland, Arthur Herbert Dyke, 13th Baronet, politician and author, 1847-1926
Anderson, Robert, Assistant-Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police; KCB 1901
Anson, Harold, Master of the Temple 1935
Anson, William Reynell, 3rd Baronet
Asquith, Emma Alice Margaret, née Tennant; political hostess and diarist, 1864-1945
Bardsley, John Wareing, Bishop of Sodor and Man, and of Carlisle, 1835-1914
Bashkirtseva, Mariya, mother of artist Mariya Bashkirtseva, 1833-1920
Browning, Oscar, educationalist and historian, 1837-1923
Bryce, Lloyd Stephens, American politician
Bunting, Percy William, editor of 'The Contemporary Review'
Butler, Alfred Joshua, Fellow of Brasenose College Oxford
Butler, Arthur Gray, Dean of Oriel College Oxford
Butler, Josephine Elizabeth, social reformer
Buxton, Sydney Charles, 1st Earl, politician, 1853-1934
Carnegie, Andrew, philanthropist
Carpenter, William Boyd, Bishop of Ripon
Chaillu, Paul Belloni, traveller, zoologist and anthropologist, c 1831-1903
Chapman, Elizabeth Rachel, writer
Colley, Thomas, Archdeacon of Pietermaritzburg
Cook, Edward Tyas, Knight, journalist, 1857-1919
Cremer, William Randal, MP
Croke, Thomas Witham, RC Archbishop of Cashel
Currie, Philip Henry Wodehouse, Baron Currie of Hawley, diplomatist, 1834-1906
Day, Russell, clergyman, 1828?-1904
Diestelkamp, Ludwig, German clergyman, 1833-1912
Dixie, Florence Caroline, writer, journalist and feminist, 1855-1905
Driver, Samuel Rolles, clergyman and Hebrew scholar, 1846-1914
Döllinger, Johanna, niece of Johann Josef Ignaz von Döllinger, fl 1890-1892
Fairbairn, Andrew Martin, Scottish theological scholar, 1838-1912
Farrar, Frederic William, Dean of Canterbury, 1831-1903
Field, Eugene, American author, 1850-1895
Fish, Hamilton, politician, 1808-1893
Freeman, Edward Augustus, historian
Fremantle, William Henry, Dean of Ripon
Galton, Arthur Howard, author, 1852-1921
Gardner, Percy, classical archaeologist and numismatist, 1846-1937
Glyn, George Grenfell, 2nd Baron Wolverton, politician, 1824-1887
Glyn, Georgiana Maria, née Tufnell, wife of George Grenfell Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton, d 1894
Gorman, Thomas Murray, clergyman and author, fl 1890
Hankey, Thomson, MP; of Add MS 44374
Harington, John Robert Strong, Nonconformist minister
Hill, J- H-, of Manchester
Holker, Mary Lucia, wife of Sir John Holker
Holland, Thomas Erskine, Chichele Professor of International Law at Oxford; Knight 1917
Holyoake, George Jacob, freethinker and co-operator, 1817-1906
Homer, epic poet, ? 8th century BC,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000036354151X
Howorth, Henry Hoyle, KCIE, MP
Hunter, William Wilson, Indian civilian historian and publicist, 1840-1900,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000111987582,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95217118
Jacobs, Maurice, of Wadham College, Oxford
Johnson, Robert Underwood, Editor 'The Century Magazine' New York
Jones, Edward Coley Burne-, 1st Baronet, artist, 1833-1898
Kearton, Richard, naturalist
Law, James Duff, of New Jersey, USA; of Add MS 44509
Law, Thomas Graves, Keeper to the Signet Library
Leader, John Temple, formerly MP
Lowell, James Russell, American author and diplomatist
Lucy, Henry William, Knight 1909
Mackay, Mary, alias `Marie Corelli', novelist
Madan, Falconer, Bodley's Librarian
Mahon, Charles James Patrick, known as The O'Gorman Mahon
Malet, Edward Baldwin, KCB, 4th Baronet , diplomatist
Matthews, Arnold Jerome Povoleri, Count, afterwards Povoleri; formerly RC priest
McCarthy, Justin, MP
Meynell, Wilfrid, author
Mivart, St George Jackson, FRS, biologist
Monro, David Binning, Provost of Oriel College Oxford
Moore, Edward, Principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
Moorhouse, James, Bishop of Manchester
Morris, William O'Connor, Irish judge
Nevins, Willis Probyn, Reverend; theological writer
Noel, Roden Berkeley Wriothesley, poet and essayist, 1834-1894
Norris, John Pilkington, Archdeacon of Bristol
O'Brien, Richard Barry, author
O'Connor, Thomas Power, MP; of Add MS 44459
Paget, Francis, Bishop of Oxford
Parnell, Charles Stewart, MP
Peel, Arthur George Villiers, politician and writer, 1869-1956
Quilter, Harry, artist, critic and editor, 1851-1907
Rainy, Rev Robert, Principal Edinburgh Free Church College
Reid, Thomas Wemyss, journalist
Richmond, William Blake, KCB, RA, 1842-1921
Roscoe, Henry Enfield, Professor of Chemistry at Manchester
Roscoe, Peter, of Bolton
Rothschild, Emma Louisa de, wife of Nathan 1st Baron Rothschild
Roundell, Charles Savile, MP
Russell, Charles James Fox, son of John, 6th Duke of Bedford
Russell, Edward Richard, 1st Baron Russell of Liverpool
Russell, Frances Anna Maria, wife of John 1st Earl Russell
Sands, Mary, wife of Mahlon Sands
Schilizzi, Matteo, newspaper proprietor
Sephton, John, Reverend; of Liverpool
Sidgwick, Arthur, Fellow of Corpus Christi College Oxford
Sigerson, George, physician of Dublin
Smalley, George Washburn, American journalist
Smedes, Susan Dabney, American author
Stainer, John, Knight, musicologist and composer, 1840-1901,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000116420649,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51878988
Stanhope, Philip James, Baron Weardale 1906
Stanley, Henrietta Maria, political hostess and campaigner for women's education, 1807-1895
Sylvester, James Joseph, mathematician, 1814-1897
Tennant, Dorothy, afterwards Stanley; wife (1890) of H M Stanley
Thackeray, Francis St. John, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford
Thompson, Francis Edward, master at Marlborough College
Thorold, Anthony Wilson, Bishop of Rochester and of Winchester, fl 1890
Tyler, William, RA; sculptor and architect
Tyndall, John, scientist
Wakeman, Henry Offley, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
Walsh, William Joseph, Archbishop of Dublin, 1841-1921
Walter, James, Major; author
Ward, Wilfrid Philip, biographer
Warre, Edmond, Reverend Headmaster of Eton
Warren, Thomas Herbert, President of Magdalen College Oxford
Watson, Christopher Knight, Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries
White, William Arthur, Knight, diplomatist, 1824-1891
Wilberforce, Ernest Roland, 1895 Bishop of Newcastle and Chichester
Wolff, Henry Drummond Charles, Knight, diplomat and politician, 1830-1908
Young, J- Lewis, phonograph operator