Manuscripts
Born in exile
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The cambric mask
Manuscripts
Handwritten draft, in pencil, of the novel "The Cambric Mask," with title page, dedication and table of contents (autograph manuscript signed). Includes corrections in the author's hand. Versos blank.
mssHM 34543
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Lorraine! : a romance
Manuscripts
Handwritten draft, in pencil, of the novel "Lorraine!" with title page, dedication, acknowledgement, and incomplete table of contents (autograph manuscript signed). Includes corrections in the author's hand. Versos blank.
mssHM 34544
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Richardus Tertius : manuscript
Manuscripts
This manuscript is in two hands, and seems to follow the text of the copy in the University Library, Cambridge; folios 1 to 22 (half page) are in one hand and folios 22 to the end are in another. Preceding f. 1 is an old printed portrait of Richard III; bound in leather, blind tooled with slipcover, also has modern pencil autograph notes on beginning page.
mssHM 179
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Qur'an
Manuscripts
The volume is autograph in Arabic script; 6 pages with illuminated borders, in a tooled-leather binding with flap closing. The bookplate with signature of Theodora Duncan pasted down to first end page; some pages with old repairs made by a previous owner.
mssHM 82922
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Commonplace book--poetry
Manuscripts
A volume containing about thirty poems, copied out in two hands, possibly compiled by an English Catholic in exile. Both covers are detached, spine is missing and pages are loose.
mssHM 84419
Book the fourth. Containing the figures to twenty-four new French cotillons, as they are danced at the Assmeblies in Bath
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Printed in portrait and bound in landscape. Binding: contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf. Signature of "J. Grant" on title page.
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