Richard Mackenzie Bacon: correspondence and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6239-6248
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Edward Harbord, 3rd Baron Suffield to R. M. Bacon and others
Dates
- Creation: 1752-1844
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Extent
8 volume(s) (8 volumes)
1 file(s) (1 box-file)
1 bundle(s) (1 bundle)
Language of Materials
English
Other Finding Aids
Full details in descriptions box in Manuscripts Reading Room
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Received with the Sedley Taylor Collection, 1920.
Bibliography
Some of the papers were published in R.M. Bacon, ed., Memoir of Edward third Baron Suffield (Norwich, 1838).
Subject
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 (mathematician) (Person)
- Harbord, Edward, 1781-1835 (3rd Baron Suffield, politician) (Person)
- Keppel, George Thomas, 1799-1891 (6th Earl of Albemarle, army officer) (Person)
- Coke, Thomas William, 1754-1842 (1st earl of Leicester of Holkham, politician and agriculturist) (Person)
- Ellice, Edward, 1783-1863 (merchant and politician) (Person)
- Bathurst, Henry, ?1744-1837 (Bishop of Norwich) (Person)
- Boileau, Sir John Peter, 1794-1869 (Knight, antiquary) (Person)
- Braham, John, ? 1777-1856 (singer) (Person)
- Dickens, Charles John Huffam, 1812-1870 (novelist and journalist) (Person)
- Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-, 1803-1873 (1st Baron Lytton, writer and politician) (Person)
- Bartholdy, Jacobludwig Felix Mendelssohn, 1809-1847 (composer) (Person)
- Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864 (composer) (Person)
- Opie, Amelia, 1769-1853 (novelist and poet) (Person)
- Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (1st Baronet, novelist and poet) (Person)
- Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858 (banker, botanist and antiquary) (Person)
- Turton, Thomas, 1780-1864 (Bishop of Ely) (Person)
- Airy, Sir George Biddell, 1801-1892 (Knight and astronomer) (Person)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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