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Add MS 51404
- Record Id:
- 040-002226346
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001959211
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000913.0x00006e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 51404
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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(1) Letters to 1st Lord Holland from John Wigan, M.D., author; 1723-1739. Included (ff. 73-79) are Latin verses by Wigan, 'Wigan Foxo Suo' (copy) and lines beg. 'Conjuge cum dulci dotis quid quaeris, Amice', 1738. ff. 1-87b. (2) Letters to 1st Lord Holland from George Augustus Selwyn, M.P., wit; 1756-1769. ff. 90-173b. Preceded (f. 88) by a letter, circa 1755, from his mother, Mary, to Lord Holland. (3) Correspondence, etc., of 1st Lord Holland and (ff. 233, 234) Lady Holland with Horace Walpole (4th Earl of Orford 1791); 1746-1774. Mostly printed by W. S. Lewis and R. A. Smith, Horace Walpole's Correspondence, XXX, 1961. At f. 222 is a draft of a letter from Lord Holland, 1766, enclosing a proposed letter to George III which shows some similarity to that in Add MS 51375, f.15. Also included are:- (a) two copies (ff. 176, 178) of 'A Memorial to several Noblemen & Gentlemen of the First Rank and Fortunes', by Walpole, Dec 1752; printed in Memoirs of the reign of King George the Second by Horace Walpole, ed. Lord Holland, i, 1847, pp. 298-302 (see also Letters from George III to Lord Bute 1756-1766, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1939, pp. xxix-xliii);- (b) a fragmentary political allegory (f. 182) in Walpole's hand, undated; printed by Lord Ilchester, Letters to Henry Fox, Lord Holland, 1915, p. 110. ff. 174-234.
Includes correspondence and papers of:
Georgiana Caroline Fox née Lennox
Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams
George Augustus Selwyn
Mary Selwyn
Horatio or Horace Walpole
John Wigan
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001959211
036-002225689
040-002226346 - Is part of:
- Add MS 51318-52254 : THE HOLLAND HOUSE PAPERS. The Papers of the Fox, Fox-Strangways, and allied families, of Farley and Winterslow, co.…
Add MS 51375-51446 : Correspondence and papers of Henry Fox and his wife Georgina Caroline née Lennox
Add MS 51404 : (1) Letters to 1st Lord Holland from John Wigan, M.D., author; 1723-1739. Included (ff. 73-79) are Latin verses by Wigan, 'Wigan… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001959211[0003]/036-002225689[0027]/040-002226346
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 51318-52254
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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ff. 234
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1723
- End Date:
- 1774
- Date Range:
- 1723-1774
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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