Box MS Add.8812/1-239: Box 1
Contains 291 Results:
Joseph-Pierre Frénais: Correspondence, 1765-1779
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
From Joseph-Pierre Frénais to Abbé Terray, 21 Oct. 1765
He will undertake editing of the Gazette of agriculture, finance and commerce which Terray proposes; not having seen the prospectus, and not knowing the plan or the idea behind the publication, he will not know how to proceed until he returns to Rennes and learns Terray's views of 'this patriotic work'
From Joseph-Pierre Frénais to [?], 11 Oct. 1779
Obliged to [?] for purchase of a muff; M. Du Vernay received his bearskin; they will pay [?]'s father if they find him at Metz, otherwise they will pay in Paris; their stay at Saverne is prolonged by hard work; they plan to leave tomorrow
Jan Christian Smuts: MS notes for speech on British Commonwealth of Nations and its future, made at the dinner in his honour in the Royal Gallery, House of Lords, 15 May 1917
Includes copy of dinner menu, annotated by Smuts' military secretary, the only 'non-member' present; with letters of provenance
Cambridge satirical poem: 'Dealogue between Chips the Carpenter and his Wife', 1814 (Circa)
Plan for, and invitations to an entertainment 'when Balls and Routs and Fetes begin.'; mentions 'Llanduff's good Bishop... the King's Professor', i.e. Richard Watson (1737-1816), Regius Professor of Divinity 1771-1816, Bishop of Llanduff 1782-1816; and 'Don Wiskerando Sidney's pride', i.e. William Chafy (1779-1843), Master of Sidney Sussex College from 1813
Gustave Flaubert: Notes on French history
Notes on the history of the Regency after the death of Louis XIV, taken from Duclos and Lemontey. Flaubert used them in his 'Bouvard et Pécuchet', pp.153-157. With page torn from catalogue, André Poursin et Cie., 176 Rue Montmartre, Paris (item 399). In a cover marked 'Vente Flaubert'.
Notes from Duclos, 'Mémoires', vol. 1
Notes on the history of the Regency after the death of Louis XIV, taken from Duclos and Lemontey. Flaubert used them in his 'Bouvard et Pécuchet', pp.153-157. With page torn from catalogue, André Poursin et Cie., 176 Rue Montmartre, Paris (item 399). In a cover marked 'Vente Flaubert'.
Notes from Lemontey, 'Histoire de la régence', vols. 1-2
Notes on the history of the Regency after the death of Louis XIV, taken from Duclos and Lemontey. Flaubert used them in his 'Bouvard et Pécuchet', pp.153-157. With page torn from catalogue, André Poursin et Cie., 176 Rue Montmartre, Paris (item 399). In a cover marked 'Vente Flaubert'.
André Poursin, catalogue page
Notes on the history of the Regency after the death of Louis XIV, taken from Duclos and Lemontey. Flaubert used them in his 'Bouvard et Pécuchet', pp.153-157. With page torn from catalogue, André Poursin et Cie., 176 Rue Montmartre, Paris (item 399). In a cover marked 'Vente Flaubert'.
Covers, 'Vente Flaubert' and André Poursin
Notes on the history of the Regency after the death of Louis XIV, taken from Duclos and Lemontey. Flaubert used them in his 'Bouvard et Pécuchet', pp.153-157. With page torn from catalogue, André Poursin et Cie., 176 Rue Montmartre, Paris (item 399). In a cover marked 'Vente Flaubert'.
James Clerk Maxwell: Papers about his property, 1871-1888
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Agreement between Clarendon Press, Oxford, and James Clerk Maxwell on copyright of 'A treatise on electricity and magnetism', 10 May 1871
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
'Valuation of paintings... books and effects of the late Mrs Catherine Mary Dewar or Clerk Maxwell, widow of the late Mrs Clerk Maxwell, at 11 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge', 18 Mar. 1887
Valuation, Catling & Mann, Cambridge (items not mentioned individually)
Plan of the estate of Craiglochie, Perthshire, 1887
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Roup Roll [accounts] of 'house furniture and plenishing which belonged to the late Mrs Clerk Maxwell... sold at Ardhallow, Dunoon...', Nov. 1888
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
John Couch Adams: Astronomical Society, 1873
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Letter from Arthur Cayley to John Adams, 18 Nov. 1873 (Circa)
He sends his 'solution... substantially equivalent to yours' but the details are very different; it can wait, if Adams intends to publish his; will Adams support Newcomb for the medal?; Cayley's list of suggested names for the Royal Astronomical Society's Council
John Adams: List of proposed members of the Royal Astronomical Society Council
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Pastor Martin Niemöller: Sermons, 1937-1939
Cyclostyled copies of the last sermons preached by Niemöller before he was sent to a concentration camp; secretly circulated
2 Timothy 2, 8-14, 24 Apr. 1937
Cyclostyled copies of the last sermons preached by Niemöller before he was sent to a concentration camp; secretly circulated
1 Peter 4, 7-11, 8 May 1937
Cyclostyled copies of the last sermons preached by Niemöller before he was sent to a concentration camp; secretly circulated
Isaiah 55, 6-11, 6 June 1937
Cyclostyled copies of the last sermons preached by Niemöller before he was sent to a concentration camp; secretly circulated
Acts 5, 34-42, 27 June 1937
Cyclostyled copies of the last sermons preached by Niemöller before he was sent to a concentration camp; secretly circulated
Envelope marked 'Niemöller's sermons' and 'brought back from Frau Riedt, Oberammergau... Jan 1939 when she found distributing them too dangerous. She was a Catholic.', Jan. 1939
Cyclostyled copies of the last sermons preached by Niemöller before he was sent to a concentration camp; secretly circulated
Sir Edmund Gosse: Autobiographical note, 1918
Notes on his literary career and achievements, 1868-1918, written to accompany 'a sifting from the mass of articles which I have published, as a rule anonymously...'; he destroyed many articles