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Letter and copies of admission, Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire
Letter, Beirut, Lebanon
Letter from Daniel Pipone in Beirut to Donato Soranzo in Damascus, informing him of his plans to travel to Acre, and thence to Ramleh, and seeking his opinion on the spice trade and on the poor cargoes carried by the galleys. Signed holograph. Trace of wafer seal. Endorsed with '+'.
Letter, Beirut, Lebanon
Letter from Santo di Santi in Beirut to Ambroxio Malipiero in Tripoli [Syria], concerning the trade in cloths and cotton. Signed holograph. Seal wanting.
Letter, [Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire?]
Note from A[llpress] Ashton to his brother [?W G Ashton] referring to a note which he is enclosing for addressing 'as I cannot make out the name [of] the person who wrote it. I take it to be Francis but am not sure.' Undated, holograph, written on a scrap of paper torn from another document, no address. Endorsed in pencil with numerical calculations.
Letter, Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire
Letter-book, letters from Egypt and Syria, 1834-36; letter book, 1845-48; account book, 1844-54
Letter books of Robert Cust
Letters from Robert Cust, chiefly in India, to correspondents in England. Most of the letters cover many pages.
Letter, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire
Letter, Candia, Crete
Agent's letter from Francesco Giustignan in Candia to Marco Bembo in Pera, discussing Bembo's commercial requirements. Signed holograph on two sides. Trace of wafer seal.
Letter, Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Letter from Henry Bates, trainer of hawks, to an unidentified gentleman [Sir Thomas Pope?], acknowledging receipt of a hawk, with hood and bells, for training. Holograph.
Letter (draft), Scilly Islands, Cornwall
Another letter from John Breare to John Johns on accounts and methods.
Letter from A. Jonsson, Sigurdur Grimsson and Sigurdur Jonsson to J. Hjaltalin
Letter from Bishop John Bale to Archbishop Matthew Parker
Letter, in Bishop Bale's hand, giving information on manuscripts dispersed after the Dissolution, how his library had been seized and aasking for help in tracing them.
Letter from Commissioners for Office of Earl Marshal, London
Letter from commissioners for the office of earl marshal to [Dudley] North, later 4th Baron North, informing him that he is to be made a knight of the Bath at the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales on 4 November following. Whitehall, signed by the duke of Len[n]ox, by the earls of Suffolk, Not[t]ingham, and Pembroke, and by C[lement] Edmondes. Traces of seal. Endorsed with ?eighteenth-century endorsement identifying the recipient and his family.
Letter from Giovanni di Guglielmo Tencami (commercial), Ferrara, Italy
Letter from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Pierre Guy
Written from Chiswick. Rousseau mentions proofs he is returning to Guy, possibly of pages of the Dictionnaire de Musique (1767); asks Guy to assist the bearer of the letter, who is the son of Mr Pulleyn ['Pullein'], Rousseau's host in Chiswick, and who is planning to reside in Paris for a few months; asks for books and other items to be sent; and outlines his coming itinerary. With an engraving of Rousseau.
Letter from Nicolo Dolfin in Venice to Blasio Dolfin in Alexandria
The letter discusses the trade in jewels, pearls, slaves [i.e. enslaved people] and other commodities with the countries of north-western Europe and the Near East. Signed holograph on two sides. Wafer seal on silk.
Letter from the Ely General Meeting to the Bp. of Ely, Ely, Cambridgeshire
Covering letter, with an enclosure [not here], on some matter discussed in the Bishop's absence. They have had a conference with Mr. Woodbine who is to report to the Bp. The Bp. had sent the meeting a letter under cover to the Rev. Mr. Jones. Signed: C.N. Cole.
Letter from the Medical department of the Privy Council Office to the Vice Chancellor (E.Atkinson)
Signed by John Simon.
Letter from the President and Council of the Royal Asiatic Society to the Vice Chancellor (E. Atkinson)
Letter from the privy council to Robert, Lord Spencer
Signed by T[homas Egerton], lord Ellesmere, R[obert] Cecil, earl of Salisbury, H[enry] Howard, earl of Northampton, and Gilbert Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury.
Letter from Thomas Dod to Felix Calverd, Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire
Letter from Thomas Dod to Felix Calverd setting forth his claim to both moieties of Whittlesford rectory, his grandfather having married the daughter of Thomas Ventrys who purchased it. Addressed to 'Felix Calverd Esq. att Mr Hawkings on College Hill, London'.
Letter from Voltaire to the Comte du Tressan
Letter in recommendation of Wolfgang Mayer of Basel
Letter, London (Lincoln's Inn)
Formerly enclosing a bill for John Rabet.