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Add MS 40166 O
- Record Id:
- 040-002091907
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002091893
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001555.0x0001c2
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- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 40166 O
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O. Miscellaneous letters and papers. Among the more important are 1. Two letters from Rod[olph] de Valltravers to Thomas Pennant, the naturalist, about exchange of specimens with foreign collectors. Dat. Amsterdam, 7 Mar. 1760, Upsala, 27 Sept. 1760. ff. 96, 98.
2. Two letters from [Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland 1763] to George Augustus Selwyn, politician and wit; 25 Nov. 1762, n. d. ff. 100, 102.
3. Letter from Frederick the Great of Prussia to Maj.-Gen. Charles Frederick Beckwith, commander of the British Legion in the Prussian service, ordering him to retain in Westphalia the infantry of the Legion and Grumbachs battalion; Leipzig, 5 Feb. 1763. Fr. Signed Federic. Cf. letter no. 14425 in the Politiscbe Correspondenz Friedrich's des Grossen, xxii, p. 506, note. f. 103.
4. Letter from John Mcpherson (1st Bart. 1786) to [Thomas] Becket, bookseller in the Strand, offering a MS. for £100 (no doubt the MS. of Critical Dissertations on the origin . . . of the ancient Caledonians, by his father John Macpherson, D.D.), with a draft reply by Becket, 13 Dec. 1766. f. 104.
5. Regulations relating to payment of salaries, etc., in the Theatres Royal of Manchester and Liverpool under the joint-lessees Joseph Younger and George Mattocks. The Manchester theatre was opened in 1775 (cf. R. W. ]Procter, Manchester in Holiday Dress, 1866, p. 67), and Younger retired in 1781 (ib., p. 79). f. 106.
6. Letters to Lt.-Gen. Sir George Beckwith, commanding the troops at the reduction of Martinique, from (a) Commodore George Cockburn, accepting the captaincy of Port St. Pierre, 28 Feb. 1809. f. 109;-(b) Rear-Adm. Sir Alex[ander Forrester Inglis] Cochrane, imperf., [1809]. f. 111.
7. Letters to Edward Foss, the legal biographer, from various correspondents (the names are given in the Index),1817-1867. ff.112-143, passim.
8. Letters to Thomas Payne, subsequently Payne and Foss, bookseller, from [George John, 2nd Earl Spencer, n. d., f. 119, and from Thomas Grenville, 27 July 1823, 18 Dec. 1845, ff. 123, 125.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002091893
040-002091907 - Is part of:
- Add MS 40166 A-S : 40166. MISCELLANEOUS FRAGMENTS, LETTERS AND PAPERS.
Add MS 40166 O : O. Miscellaneous letters and papers. Among the more important are 1. Two letters from Rod[olph] de Valltravers to Thomas Pennant,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002091893[0014]/040-002091907
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 40166 A-S
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1760
- End Date:
- 1867
- Date Range:
- 1760-1867
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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