Miscellany: English, 18th-20th centuries

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

1791-1943

187 items

Purchased from: Hodgsons, London, November 1905 (acc.92289) and October 1931 (acc.83555); Stevens, London, August 1918 (acc.43310), December 1919 (acc.62553), September 1925 (acc.78634), January 1929 (acc.89269), August 1930 (acc.63313), September 1930 (acc.56412, 56565 and 56576), October 1930 (acc.56428), November 1930 (acc.73104), March 1931 (acc.56474, 56477-56478, 56482-56483, 56485, 56490, 68126, 68130 and 68136), June 1931 (acc.68171), July 1931 (acc. 68209), August 1931 (acc.68222 and 68229) and December 1931 (acc.68293); Sotheby's, London, December 1922 (acc.16265), July 1931 (acc.57468, 57469 and 67540), November 1931 (acc.75332), December 1931 (acc.75871), April 1932 (acc.65129 and 65134), July 1932 (acc.65271), November 1933 (acc.67474) and May 1934 (acc.62777); R.V. Westcott, May 1927 (acc.45498); Charavay, Paris, March 1928 (acc.67375); Desgranges, Paris, June 1930 (acc.67390), September 1931 (acc.64714) and October 1935 (acc.69099); Glendining, London, December 1931 (acc.67596 and 67605), September 1932 (acc.67635 and 67716), December 1933 (acc.67818), August 1934 (acc.67835 and 67916), October 1934 (acc.67929), January 1935 (acc.67944 and 67947) and August 1935 (possibly an error for 1934) (acc.67880); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; E. Hall, Gravesend, circa January 1965 (acc.311503); Sophie Dupré, September 1991 (acc.348584); Winifred A. Myers, London, October 1991 (acc.348589) and October 1992 (acc.349021); Bloomsbury Book Auctions, London, October 1992 (acc.349050); Michael Silverman, December 1995 (acc.350127); Judith Grant, London, January 1998 (acc.350801); J.L.M. Gulley, London, August 1998 (acc.350981) and November 1998 (acc.351054). Presented by Mrs. Fothergill, September 1927 (acc.67370); H.J. Fuller, May 1929 (acc.91885); Miss E.C. Smith, Dublin, June 1932 (acc.89188); and Lambeth Palace Library, July 1998 (acc.350946). No.150 part of a batch of material transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum offices: provenance not known (acc.69200) and no.58 transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800), original provenance not known; provenance of nos.59 and 124 (acc.92291) and 66, 80-81, 85, 99-102, 125, 135, 147, 152, 156, 170, 172-173 and 175 (acc.67430) not recorded; no accession details recorded for nos.19, 38, 46, 60-63, 91, 119, 130-131, 139, 143, 146, 148-149, 154, 169 and 174.

Copy photographs of MS.7655/176, a letter by Charles Spurgeon, is held by Wellcome Images as L0049738-40

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