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Box MS Add.7486/22, 24-31

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Contains 9 Results:

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Diary of Lady Blennerhassett, nd [late 19th century]

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7486/22
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Personal papers, correspondence, notes, drafts and writings of Charlotte Lady Blennerhassett, chiefly, and her husband, Sir Rowland Blennerhassett. This includes a series of Lady Blennerhassett's working notebooks, collections of reviews and her correspondence with family members, friends and prominent individuals including Ignaz von Dollinger, Lord Acton, Franz Xaver Kraus and members of the German nobility. Sir Rowland Blennerhassett's papers include copies of his speeches, political...
Dates: nd [late 19th century]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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Obituary notices of Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 1909-1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7486/24
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A small envelope containing newspaper obituaries from the Times, Morning Post, Daily Telegraph and National Biography.

Dates: 1909-1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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Notes on Sir Rowland Blennerhassett for an obituary article, [1910s]

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7486/25
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Comprises a list of Blennerhassett's contributions to periodicals and notes on his life for an article in National Biography.

Dates: [1910s]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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Speeches and memoranda of Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 1871-1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7486/26
Scope and Contents Comprising: Speech of Sir Rowland Blennerhassett in the debate on the second reading of Mr Fawcett's Bill (2 Aug. 1871); Speech of Sir Rowland Blennerhassett in the House of Commons on 17th July 1872 on proposing the second reading of his bill for the purchase of Irish railways by the state; speech on the second reading of the bill relating to University Education in Ireland (6 Mar. 1873); Memorandum on peasant properties in Ireland (1884); Inaugural address delivered at Queen's College,...
Dates: 1871-1898
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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'An Essay, Sir Roland', 1879-1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7486/27
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A bound volume labelled, 'Sir Roland Blennerhassett 1880 Munich' containing a manuscript essay.

Dates: 1879-1880
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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Articles and obituaries written by Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 1902-1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7486/28
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Comprising 7 articles in 'The Fortnightly Review' (1905-1909, annotated) by Roland Blennerhassett, 2 articles in 'The Contemporary Review' (1902) by 'Ogniben' and 5 obituaries by Roland Blennerhassett, including Arthur Strong, Lord Acton and the Duke of Devonshire.

Dates: 1902-1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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Political essays written by Sir Rowland Blennerhassett and intended for publication, 1900-1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7486/29
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With a handwritten list of contents.

Dates: 1900-1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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Draft chapters of a book, [1880s-1910s]

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7486/30
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Annotated typescript on the political history of modern Europe, the Congress of Vienna and Napoleon. Typescript labelled 'Chapters II and I complete and practically revised. Chapter III incomplete, but very good'

Dates: [1880s-1910s]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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Sir Rowland Blennerhassett assorted notes and draft of first speech at Birmingham (1861), 1861-1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7486/31
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Comprising two copybooks with notes on the principles of political economy and Maine's 'Ancient Law'. Together with a draft essay or speech on Napoleonic Europe, manuscript of a speech made in the Town Hall Birmingham at the meeting of the Catholic Union (Jan. 1861), Dublin Hospitals Commission report (Apr. 1887) and a draft, possibly of a speech, on the new Irish Land Bill (May 1881).

Dates: 1861-1887
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).