Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

Date:
1791-c.1930
Reference:
MS.7826
  • Archives and manuscripts

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About this work

Description

Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts collection's Autograph Letters Sequence.

Publication/Creation

1791-c.1930

Physical description

90 items

Acquisition note

Purchased from: Mrs. Barrett, London, March 1930; Stevens, London, July 1930, August 1930, September 1930, March 1931 April 1931, May 1931 and November 1931; Sothebys, London, March 1930 and February 1931; Desgranges, Paris, October 1930 and September 1931; Charavay, Paris, January 1932; Glendining, London, March 1932, August 1932, September 1932), September 1933 and January 1935; Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; D.G. More, May 1970. No provenance details recorded for nos. 36, 40, 44, 64, 77, nos. 46-47 found in a copy of Notes on Nursing (1860 edition) by Florence Nightingale, which had been bought at Hodgsons, London, July 1930; no. 71 found in a copy of Archives de la Médecine Homoeopathique, which had been bought from a Mr. Phelps c. June 1978. Accession details of nos. 32, 41-42, 50, 54-55, 67, 83, 85 and 89 not recorded.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

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  • Various - see Acquisition note.