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William Govett Romaine: Letters to him
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9768
Scope and Contents
The 200 letters in this collection, mostly to Romaine or his wife Frances, provide glimpses of his official activities at many points in his career; written by a wide range of peers, Government and Admiralty officials, and colonial officers, mostly only one or two from each correspondent; so that the collection has rather the character of an autograph compilation perhaps made by his wife, or else his daughter, Augusta Enthoven, theatrical historian and collector. There is a letter from Sir...
Dates:
1854-1892 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Greenwell: Letters to Spencer George Perceval
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5343
Scope and Contents
Letter 35 is not in Greenwell's hand.
Dates:
1876-1908
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William Gunter: Naval Chaplain's Journals 1864-70
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9427
Scope and Contents
William Gunter (1838-1901), Royal Naval chaplain (1864-81), Rector of Abberton (1888-1901). He served on HMS Egmont in South America in 1864 and 1867, to which years two of the journals relate; the third volume relates to service in home port (1870). 3 Volumes; Lett's Diary for 1864, 1867, 1870, intermittent entries. [1] 8 OCT 1864 - 31 DEC 1864. [2] 1 JAN 1867 - 31 DEC 1867 (with letter from KATIE WARD (niece) [3] 1 JAN 1870 - 28 NOV 1870 (brief entries).
Dates:
1867-1870
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Hay: Religio philosophi
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8463
Scope and Contents
An unsigned manuscript translation into French of the fourth edition (London, 1771) of Hay's Religio philosophi. There are two inserted items in English: a letter from Arnold C. Klebs, 11 July 1929, at the front of the volume, and an obituary notice of Klebs by Erik Walker, 1943, at the back.
Dates:
1771 (Circa)
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William Hayley: letters to William Long
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2613
Scope and Contents
89 letters, including some undated and/or incomplete. Also including: 'Proposals for publishing a Life of the late William Hodges Esq.' 25 May 1797; two versions of the poem 'Peace to these Reliques! Once the bright attire ...', Mar. 1800 (epitaph on George Steevens, d. 1800, another version printed in J. Nichols (ed.), Literary Anecdotes, London, 1812, 2, p. 657); 'Private Squib: The adventures of an unfortunate Muse', undated and unpublished. Item 90: letter from Henry Richards Luard to...
Dates:
1793-1812
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William Haywood: Ten sermons, preceded by a prayer for use in St John's College, Oxford
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3009
Scope and Contents
fo. 2: 'Laus Deo. By me William Haywood. November xxvi 1629.' Many leaves have been removed. Bound with the MS is a printed copy of T. Sternhold and J. Hopkins, Whole Book of Psalmes collected into English Meeter, London, 1629.
Dates:
1629 (Circa)
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William Hazlitt: Letters from him and concerning him
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8533
Dates:
1817-1977
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File
William Henry Hatchard Elliott: Totnes Church Library Catalogue
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6313
Scope and Contents
A catalogue of the books in Totnes church library, Devon, made on slips, 298 folios. Accompanying the catalogue is a draft article describing the library for the Totnes church parish magazine, and a letter from T.H. Elliott to W.H.H. Elliott, 22 October 1903.
Dates:
1903
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File
William Henry Playfair: Memoranda
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6305
Scope and Contents
The volume contains notes on bridge construction and on watercolour painting (fos 2-12); a journal of an excursion from Edinburgh to Arran and back, 1-9 May 1811, with notes of expenses (fos 13-20 and 44r-43r); undated notes of other travelling expenses (fo. 47r); pencil sketches, one of a crane at Bell Rock Lighthouse (fos 47v and 45); and addresses of London tradesmen (fo. 42v). Fos 42-47 are entered from the back of the book. Fos 20v-42r are blank. Administrative / Biographical History
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Herbert: Typographical Antiquities
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3313-3318
Scope and Contents
Drafts of proposed re-impressions, prepared for press by William Herbert. Autograph and other hands.
Dates:
1793-1795 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Hewett: Memoirs of Tobias Rustat Esq.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7773
Dates:
1849
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Holman Hunt: Letters to Henry Virtue Tebbs and Mrs Tebbs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8667
Dates:
1862-1874
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Homan Thorpe: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8784
Scope and Contents
Diaries, notebooks, laboratory notes and field observations, correspondence, conference notes, research and lecture papers and notes, publishers' correspondence, University papers, Royal Society material, papers on conservation, psychical research, photographs and tape recordings.An addition to the collection in 2018 includes offprints of publications by Thorpe c. 1930s-1980s and a small quantity of interfiled miscellaneous publications by others, along with a series of the...
Dates:
1918-1984 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Hudson: Treatise on the court of the star chamber
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3106
Scope and Contents
Labels inside front cover: '2708/2', and '732/2'.
Dates:
1750 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Hugh Plommer: Correspondence and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9367
Dates:
1930-1983 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Hyde Wollaston: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7736
Scope and Contents
The collection contains notebooks containing medical notes and records of various scientific experiments, correspondence, lecture notes and various miscellaneous papers. Box 1 Miscellaneous There are two sets of material, one containing copies of articles, notes, letters, etc., the other consisting of letters and notes in brown envelopes to or from L.F. Gilbert. Notebooks 1st series: 1-4. scientific notebooks 'O', 'H', 'G', and 'D'; 5. 'Tours', notes on Wollaston by Henry Warburton; 6. 'Ink...
Dates:
1786-1967 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Kemp: letters to him, including letters from Charles Darwin and Robert Chambers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10252
Dates:
1840-1861
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William Langhorn: Series of meditations
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.28
Scope and Contents
Topics: 'Whitsunday', 'An Altar', 'Upon the sight of an Hearse standing by a Green', 'Good Friday', 'Easter Day', 'A Garden' (3 versions), 'Warr', 'Against Fear and Distrust', 'A False Wife', 'A Husband of a False Wife', 'Ascension Day', 'Suddaine Death', 'Ille Newes', 'The variability of success in disturbed times', 'Prosperous Success in wicked undertakings', 'My Garden', 'The Augmentation of my Garden', verses and anagrams. All apparently unprinted. fo. 1: writer's name, with some Latin...
Dates:
1629 (Circa)
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William Lewin: Paintings of British Birds' Eggs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6300
Scope and Contents
A series of paintings of the eggs of British birds made from the specimens in the Portland museum, 97 folios. There is an index at fo. 91.
Dates:
1789-1798 (Circa)
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William, Lord Conway of Allington and family: Letters and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7676
Scope and Contents
The collection contains around 4,300 letters, of which the majority are between Martin Conway and his relatives, principally his parents William and Elizabeth Conway; his first wife Katrina, and her mother and stepfather, Abigail and Manton Marble; and his daughter Agnes and her husband George Horsfield. Of correspondents outside the family, only letters to and from Henry Bradshaw and Karl Pearson (the latter nearly all typed copies) survive in any great numbers. The collection also includes...
Dates:
1822-1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Manning: Journal of tours, England, 1744-45.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9457
Scope and Contents
1744: Yarmouth - Norwich - Swanton - Blickling - Wolterton - Holt - Cley - Stiffkey - Wells - Holkham - Brancaster - Houghton - Raynham - Hillington - Kings Lynn - Narford - Downham - Denver Sluice - Littleport - Ely - Cambridge - Barnwell - Newmarket - Bury St. Edmunds - Ickworth - Culford - Euston - Thetford - Wymondham - Norwich - Yarmouth. 1745: Yarmouth - Kings Lynn - Holbeach - Halfway House - Lincoln - Gainsborough - Sandbeck - Sheffield - Attercliff - Wentworth Woodhouse - Wakefield...
Dates:
1744-1745
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
William Margetts: journals
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10274
Dates:
1784-1807
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William May: Commonplace book, Cambridge, Latin and Greek studies
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9980
Dates:
1676-1683
Conditions Governing Access:
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William McGillivray: 'Some account of the trade carried on by the North West Company'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 252
Scope and Contents
Manuscript account, 58 pages in total, divided into sections and with crossings-out and corrections. The rear page is marked 'Sketch of the Fur trade of Canada. 1809'. This account formed the basis of the publication 'On the origin and progress of the North-West Co.' (London, 1811) and has variously been attributed to Duncan McGillivray or David Thompson.
Dates:
1809
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Milner Fawcett: Architectural Notes and Sketches
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6233
Scope and Contents
Architectural notes and sketches.
Dates:
1886-1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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