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Manuscripts
Papers of Elizabeth Montagu, chiefly letters, with some manuscripts. The papers deal with literary affairs, personalities, and gossip, including references to current books and plays; social and everyday life of Elizabeth Montagu at her homes at Sandleford Priory, London, Bath, and Turnbridge Wells; her travels to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sandleford, Spa (1763), Paris (1776), and Scotland (1766 and 1770); current political events, including the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, the Seven Years War, the coronation of George III, the John Wilkes affair, and the trial of Warren Hastings; coal mines and mining in Northumberland.
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![Montagu, Elizabeth (Robinson). [Fragment of a work on literary criticism]: Essay on the Writing and Genius of Shakespeare](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN43QGW%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)