Scope and Contents (fo. 1) Lords Justices and Lords Lieutenant of Ireland; (fo. 18) English nobility; (fo. 24v) 'Des Romischen Kunigs Ferdinandi Erblandische wappen'; (fo. 25) royal families and princes of Europe and the east; (fo. 40) cardinals; (fo. 44v) archibishops; (fo. 49v) bishops; (fo. 57) German nobility. There are occasional additions in 17th and 18th century hands. The drawing and colouring are crude. Many coats of arms are not coloured. On fo. 74v is 'And Die is cast John White' (18th century)....

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Note; by Sir Francis Darwin pp Charles Robert Darwin

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Diary of a journey through Germany, 8-29 September [1835], apparently in Baly's hand, 122 folios. On fo. 2 is an explanatory note in the hand of the donor. Running from the end of the volume are notes on the geological formations in the districts visited and financial accounts for travel expenses.

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Includes correspondence, sermons, lectures, articles and other miscellaneous papers.

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Journal by Harriet Miller of tours on the continent with her husband, Professor W.H. Miller, 1856 and later.

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Also includes a memorandum of 'Places worth seeing in Mr. Skynner's Tour with my cousin in June 1783', 90 folios. According to a note by John Lee of Hartwell inside the front cover, the writer was Colonel Sir William Lee, and the cousin William Lee Antonie Esq. of Colworth, Bedfordshire. Pp. 89-180 are blank. Inside the front cover: 'Hartwell Library repaired May 1831', in the hand of J. Lee.

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Letter from Thomas Henry Farrer to Charles Robert Darwin; written at [Germany]

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Scope and Contents Includes 81 letters from the archives of the Baumgärtner family of Nuremburg, the majority to Hieronymus Baumgärtner the elder (d. 1564). With one exception the letters are from those with surnames beginning M to W. Also including 28 letters of a miscellaneous character, about half being addressed to secular rulers or authorities, including members of the Lichtenberg family, and members of the ruling house of Saxony. Collection includes one printed item: Des XX Psalm Auslegung inn Reim ......

Scope and Contents M. Servetus, 'Libri Duo Dialogorum de septem Erroribus in Trinitate', printed at Hagenau, 1532. fo. 35: blank. fo. 39: Lau, 'Meditiationes de Deo, Mundo et Homine', printed at Frankfurt, 1717. fo. 66: blank. fo. 69: Lau, 'Meditationes seu Theses dubiae philosophico-theologicae eruditorum Disquisitioni Religionis cuiusvis et Nationis', printed at Freystad, 1719. fo. 84: blank. Servetus' work is presumably copied either from the original printing, or from the Regensburg, ?1721 reprint,...

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Journals of ornithological trips to Siberia, Holland, Heligoland and Germany and notes on the species Phylloscopus

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Hyacinth-flowered Larkspur

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Floricultural varieties

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Includes notebooks and diaries, correspondence with family and friends, miscellaneous literary papers and items concerning JHG's time spent in the army security forces both in England and Germany during and after the War.

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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Scope and Contents Letters from Thomas John Fairbank to his parents, Harold Arthur Thomas and Florence Kathleen Fairbank, sent whilst serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War. Particularly evident during his long posting in Gibraltar, the letters frequently contain descriptions of operating cases and sketches of joints and it is understood TJF’s father responded with advice on orthopaedics. The letters have been arranged in chronological order and by year into the following...

Scope and Contents Notebook inscribed ‘Feb. 15th ’45, Holland, Germany, Home, July 28th ‘45’ containing 18 pages of manuscript journal entries for the period 15 February to 28 July 1945.Following a period of leave TJF returned to the Netherlands and Field Surgical Unit No. 33. The journal records the progress of the unit as it followed the allied advance. After 2nd May there are just five very brief entries for the period May to July recording only the place names TJF travelled through on his journey...

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Journals and notebooks of Hoare's extensive European tours, mainly through Italy.

Scope and Contents A series of letters written by Brand while travelling on the Continent, some of which are incomplete. 38 of the letters are to Brand's sister Susan, addressed until October 1788 as Miss Brand of Newmarket, thereafter, from Nov. 1789, as Miss Carr of Hadstock, near Lincoln. There is one letter from Brand to the Rev. Joseph Hall, Rector of Bartlow, who was Brand's brother-in-law, and another from G. Pretyman to Miss Brand, apparently about the possibilities of preferment for Thomas. Most of...

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Letters written by WN to friends and family from the Far East, Germany and Holland whilst interned during the First World War; notes describing the riots in Hankow, 1927; photographs of China.