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Booke of ayds for Knightinge the King's eldest sonne & for marriage for his eldest daughter: manuscript
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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
This book of signals contains text and illustrations. This volume formerly belonged to Sir William Chaloner Burnaby.
mssHM 18939
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Bound volume of English and American poems, includes an index; copied out and signed by Mary Gillham. With marbled covers and slight damage to the spine and corners. The volume includes poems by, among others: Washington Allston, Robert Burns, S.T. Coleridge, Lady Jane Grey, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Robert Herrick, L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), Caroline Sheridan Norton, James. G. Percival, William R. Spencer, Henry K. White, and Nathaniel P. Willis.
mssHM 82902
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This volume of approximately 600 pages is a selection of letters transcribed by Edmond Malone from the mid-18th century Birch MS 4173 (British Library) volume; the letters are descriptive of the life and times of James I, his court and the political intrigues of the day. There are references to, among others: Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Edward Coke, Sir Walter Raleigh, the death of Henry, Prince of Wales, the divorce of the Earl of Essex and Lady Frances Howard, and the Gunpowder Plot; Malone also adds many explanatory notes to the original manuscript. The volume has a brown calf binding with "MS. Malone Papers, 1608-1613" on the spine, which is slightly damaged.
mssHM 2904
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This book of signals contains text and illustrations.
mssHM 18938
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Accounts of foreign and domestic affairs of Charles I, including the English landing on the Isle of Ré, the Seige of La Rochelle, Privy Council proceedings involving Sir John Corryton, and a description of "the Late deceased Prince of Bohemia."
mssHM 45148
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This material includes contemporary copies of letters, witness examinations and court documents. Letters, (1741-1746), HM 82796-82819: copies of letters to and from, among others, James, Prince of Wales [James III/VIII], Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, Donald Cameron [of Lochiel, 19th Chief], Charles Edward, Prince [Bonnie Prince Charlie], Sir John Murray, and Simon Fraser [Master of Lovat]. The letters are numbered I-XXII and are cited in the court documents and were used in evidence against Lord Lovat during his trial.
mssHM 82796-82835