Miscellaneous: German, 18th-20th centuries

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

1762-1926

132 items.

Purchased from: R.V. Westcott, May 1927 (acc.45498); Seine stalls, Paris, January 1928 (acc.67388) and July 1930 (acc.63924); Charavay, Paris, October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700); Stevens, London, March 1930 (acc.56583), March 1931 (acc.56474 and 56485), September 1930 (acc.68105) and December 1931 (acc.68290); Charavay, Paris, April 1931 (acc.64715); Heck, Vienna, August 1932 (acc.65880, 65892, 65894, 65895 and 66450); Gonelli, Florence, April 1933 (acc.66093); Glendining, London, November 1933 (acc.67807 and 67808); Sotheby's, London, November 1933 (acc.67468 and 67469); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection. Accession details of nos.2, 49-50 not noted; possibly bought from Sotheby's, London, November 1933 (acc.67468). No accession details noted for nos.47, 54 and 70.

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