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Sir Christopher Myngs: copy of biographical entry from dictionary of national biography
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Commonplace book. English and American poetry : manuscript
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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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[Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, Sir, 1833-1898]. [English Church of St. George in Berlin: personal narrative, complaining about low pay and poor treatment by Morris & Co.], A.MS. (4 p.), ([1886, Dec. 2]), [London (Eng.)]
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Note: very fragile -- handle carefully; pages torn from a ledger. A "joke" entry between Burne-Jones and William Morris, copied out by John Henry Dearle, 1860-1932, from Burne-Jones' 1886, Dec. 2, entry in his Account book. A facsimile copy of the Account book is cataloged in Ephemera.
MOR 1
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John King biography
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This photostat copy was made from a carbon copy of a typescript owned by Mathilda King Griffin in 1955. It covers John King's life from his birth in Camp Floyd, Utah up to 1947 when he was eighty-five. His formative years taking care of cattle and his work as a cowboy in Boulder, Utah are detailed. Also included is genealogical information about his children.
mssHM 66752
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Fife, John: "Sir John Fife" [surgeon, Newcastle-on-Tyne] (typescript transcription of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry, 4 pp.)
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This collection contains the papers of English art historian Katharine Ada Esdaile (1881-1950), with the bulk of the materials relating to her research and writings on British monumental sculpture, sculptors, and church monuments from the medieval period to 19th century. Material types include personal writings, diaries, correspondence, business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials. Notably the collection includes more than 600 chiefly pre-World War II visitor booklets and pamphlets produced locally by British churches and approximately 3500 photographs taken or collected by Esdaile of sculpture, often funerary monuments in English churches, ranging from large churches like Westminster Abbey to small rural parishes. This collection provides a resource for viewpoints on monumental sculpture in the early 20th century (for instance as represented in book reviews by Esdaile) and for information about Esdaile's experience as a woman art historian in the early 20th century. Given the broadness of Esdaile's scope, from medieval to 19th century British monumental sculpture, the collection is less useful for specific information about monuments or sculptors. In addition, many of Esdaile's attributions in her notes appear to have been based primarily on her own instincts and do not have citations. Many of Esdaile's notes are handwritten on small scraps of paper or are fragments, sometimes making the information difficult to parse. The collection is chiefly Esdaile's files, but the dates on some items (such as post-1950 booklets) indicate the collection was added to and used after her death, presumably by her son Edmund Esdaile, who also made notes on items in the collection and appears to have done the preliminary organization of the papers after Esdaile's death.
mssEsdaile
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Two license books of John Larpent
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Register of licenses issued by John Larpent from Jan. 1801 to Jan 15, 1824. The entries include the names and brief descriptions of the plays for which licenses were granted, with the name of the theatre where it was to be performed, together with the entry for the license fee. In addition to the London theatres -- the Haymarket, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Adelphi and the Olympic -- there are entries for provincial theaters such as Norwich, Birmingham, Margate, Liverpool, Manchester, York, Hull, and Glasgow, sometimes with the name of the manager. A few plays are crossed out as "refused." There is an entry for "An address to be spoken on Master Betty's 1st appearance in London, Theatre Royal Covent Garden Dec. 1st 1804."
mssHM 19926
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Christopher Myngs' register of copies of dispatches, orders, sailing instructions, correspondence, etc. between the Admiralty and Myngs
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A register covering April 1702 - April 1704, containing copies of dispatches, orders, sailing instructions, correspondence, etc. between the Admiralty and Captain Christopher Myngs while the latter was in command of, successively, the "St. Michael," "Victory," and "Lancaster." The register contains entries written in several hands; with 316 pages followed by 1 blank page then reversed and beginning at the other end of the volume for 11 pages (there are a few additional blank pages throughout the volume). With the bookplate of Sir Thomas Miller, [5th] Baronet on inside front cover. Please note the volume is in fragile condition: the spine and boards are loose and damaged with additional damage to the leather covers; an unknown number of pages are missing from the beginning and end of the volume.
mssHM 82861