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Manuscripts
William Blackstone letter to Thomas Townshend
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The legal opinion set down here should be seen against the inclosure movement of the 18th century, and concerns the rights of free-holders to village lands used in common and to long-time encroachments onto commons. The manuscript is incomplete.
mssHM 55659
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This letter is perhaps written to publisher Thomas Cadell (it is just addressed to "Dear Sir"). In this letter, Brooke is talking about the printing of songs for one of her musicals that is going to be performed at Covent Garden. The year of the letter is not present but it may be 1782.
mssHM 79864
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First letter, dated June 29, 1729, to Thomas Pelham-Holles, 4th Duke of Newcastle, with letter to Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, on verso with an enclosure (to Newcastle) of an unsigned, undated intelligence report in cipher [from Port Ste. Marie], deciphered in French. Third letter, dated July 19, 1729, to Newcastle (enclosing a document, not found).
BLA 188
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This letter written by Tuckett from Bath is addressed to Scottish astronomer Thomas Dick. The letter is concerning the orbit and supposed satellite of Venus. The letter includes a sketch entitled: "Supposed orbit of the satellite of Venus as seen from the Earth."
mssHM 71749
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From The Huntington Library Bulletin, No. 1 (May, 1931), pp. 203-204 : This letter from George III to Thomas Townshend, secretary of state in Lord Shelbume's administration, is printed in The Correspondence of King George the Third (London, 1928), VI, 157. The editor, Sir John Fortescue, described it as printed from a" draft, written on a page of Mr. Townshend's letter of same date." Mr. C. F. Morshead, the present Librarian at Windsor Castle, states that it "has no alterations of any kind" and "appears to be a fair copy of the King's original draft in the possession of the Huntington Library."
mssTownshend
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In the handwriting of Lady Chatham; endorsed by Thomas Townshend. Formerly with mssHM 810.
HM 829