Manuscripts

Correspondence and documents (1632-1653)

Description: The material in the addenda consists of: Box 1 Correspondence and documents (>1600-1631) ; Box 2 Correspondence and documents (1632-1653) ; Box 3 Correspondence and documents (>1657, Feb. 5-1670). The subject matter in this collection: the Temple family, mainly during the period preceding and including the Civil War: family affairs (domestic quarrels, lawsuits, marriage arrangements); the management of the household and estates, chiefly at Stowe, Burton Dassett, Padbury and Finmere; relations with servants, tenants, and tradesmen regarding rents, the procuring of provisions, clothing and materials, and the landscaping of Stowe; and occasional reports on the current political situation.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: Approximately 1600-approximately 1697.
Call number: mssHM 46350-46536
Provenance: Purchased through Maggs Brothers from Sotheby's, Lot 453, October 9, 1973.; Purchased through Maggs Brothers from Sotheby's, Lots 79 and 80, November 20, 1973.

Correspondence and documents (>1600-1631)

Manuscripts

The material in the addenda consists of: Box 1 Correspondence and documents (>1600-1631) ; Box 2 Correspondence and documents (1632-1653) ; Box 3 Correspondence and documents (>1657, Feb. 5-1670). The subject matter in this collection: the Temple family, mainly during the period preceding and including the Civil War: family affairs (domestic quarrels, lawsuits, marriage arrangements); the management of the household and estates, chiefly at Stowe, Burton Dassett, Padbury and Finmere; relations with servants, tenants, and tradesmen regarding rents, the procuring of provisions, clothing and materials, and the landscaping of Stowe; and occasional reports on the current political situation.

mssHM 46350-46536

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Correspondence and documents (>1657, Feb. 5-1670)

Manuscripts

mssHM 46350-46536

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Temple family addenda

Manuscripts

Three boxes of correspondence and documents (>1600-1670); the subject matter in this collection: the Temple family, mainly during the period preceding and including the Civil War: family affairs (domestic quarrels, lawsuits, marriage arrangements); the management of the household and estates, chiefly at Stowe, Burton Dassett, Padbury and Finmere; relations with servants, tenants, and tradesmen regarding rents, the procuring of provisions, clothing and materials, and the landscaping of Stowe; and occasional reports on the current political situation.

mssHM 46350-46536

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Correspondence, documents, gamekeeper's notebook, and ephemera (1871-1929)

Manuscripts

The material in the addenda consists of: Box 1 - Correspondence, documents, gamekeeper's notebook, and ephemera (1871-1929), HM 82950-82968 ; Box 2 - Photographs of John Land, various estates and workers (1890-1928), HM 82969-82978 ; Box 3 - Oversize photographs of the comte de Paris, various family members, and Stowe House (1890-1900), HM 82979-82986.

mssHM 82950-82986

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