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Register of admissions and minute book

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Description: A register of admissions for the Sadlers' Company (Shrewsbury, Shropshire), 1739-1854. The volume also contains list of Freeman of the Company since 1685, oaths, minutes of meetings, correspondence, etc. Please note: the volume has been placed in an archival box as it is very fragile; the spine is damaged, the covers and some pages are loose, please handle carefully.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1685-1854.
Call number: mssHM 82897
Creator: Sadlers' Company (Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from H. M. Fletcher, April 15, 1956.

Dawkins, Edward James, 1792-1865. [Letter book 2: Panama, 1826], A.MS. (bound volume: 143 p.), Plymouth & London (Eng.), Panama

Manuscripts

Contents: letter book contains copies of 29 letters, Mar. 25-Nov. 10; addressed to "Sir" [George Canning]. Note: leather binding is very fragile and damaged -- please handle carefully. Many pages are blank. VOLUME BOXED SEPARATELY AT THE END OF THE COLLECTION.

HM 77496

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Dawkins, Edward James, 1792-1865. [Letter book 3: Greece, 1830-1831], A.MS. (bound volume: 355 p.), Greece

Manuscripts

Contents: letter book contains copies of 155 letters, Jan.-Dec. 1830-Jan.-June 1831; addressed to the Foreign Office and two Foreign Secretaries (to 1830 Aberdeen & 1830-1831 Palmerston). Followed by: detailed list of letters in the volume (10 p.). Note: leather binding is very fragile and damaged -- please handle carefully. VOLUME BOXED SEPARATELY AT THE END OF THE COLLECTION.

HM 77511

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William Freeman letter book

Manuscripts

A Leeward Islands letter book containing 87 letters relating to the management of the estates, financial, and legal affairs of William Freeman. The majority of the letters concern the management of his estates in St. Kitts, Nevis, and Montserrat, the transatlantic sugar and indigo trades, the movement of enslaved persons, and other political, legal, and financial matters; letters include mention of the death of Charles II, the Monmouth Rebellion, and the invasion of William of Orange. The main correspondents are Henry Freeman (William's younger brother), and Robert Helme; there are also letters to William's sister-in-law Sarah Helme, other local merchants, and Sir Nathaniel Johnson, Governor of the Leewards from 1686 to1689. In early 1685, Henry Freeman had travelled to the Leewards to act on his older brother's behalf, with very mixed results, until Henry's early death in 1690. The volume is written in a variety of italic and secretary hands, by clerks and presumably William Freeman; it is in four gatherings, evidently once bound but now loose and secured at the inner margin with old tape. The volume also contains a duplicate copy of one letter laid in.

mssHM 84411

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Dawkins, Edward James, 1792-1865. [Letter book 1: Tuscany, 1816-1818], A.MS. (bound volume: 99 p.), (Italy)

Manuscripts

Contents: letter book contains copies of 88 letters, Oct. 5-1816-Aug. 4, 1818; of these, 75 are to Castlereagh & 13 are marked "separate" and include letters to Castlereagh and other officials. Note: leather binding is very fragile and damaged -- please handle carefully. Many pages are blank; end of volume contains 8 pages of expenses for Mar.-June 1826. VOLUME BOXED SEPARATELY AT THE END OF THE COLLECTION.

HM 77438

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[Beauchamp, Henry Herron, 1825-1907]. Journal, 1 vol. (15 p.), (1907, Jan.-Oct.)

Manuscripts

Note: extra-illustrated with clippings about the death of Sir Sydney Beauchamp, 1861- 1921; pasted into the Journal after the death of Henry Herron Beauchamp. Note: very fragile, with insect damage; loss of text. Majority of volume has blank pages, please handle very carefully.

HM 77559

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[-----]. [Arabian Nights: Vols. 3-4: photograph of the manuscript; Arabic text], 1 vol., ([ca. 1887]). Kirkpatrick Catalogue: 2546

Manuscripts

Note: with a letter from W. H. Chandler to Isabel Burton, Aug. 27, 1887, pasted into front of volume. With Richard Burton's autograph annotations. With much water damage, binding has come loose, very fragile -- please handle carefully. Cataloger's Note: original manuscript is in the Bodleian Library (MS. Bodl. Or. 550-6).

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