Manuscripts

The judges declared : manuscript

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Description: A manuscript in English, with slight staining. Original note of transfer states: "Removed from duplicate discarded ; i.e. former acc. no. 97062, Bridgewater 43/F20." The discarded book (RB 97062) was William Camden's Tomus alter et idem, or, The historie of the life and reigne of that famous princess, Elizabeth, printed in London in 1629; it was discarded on January 4, 1941.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: Approximately 1650.
Call number: mssHM 83589
Provenance: Transferred from the Printed Books Dept., January 2, 1941.
Dimensions: 21 cm :
Associated organization: Bridgewater House Library,

The memorial : portrait of a family : manuscript

Manuscripts

A bound autograph manuscript by Christopher Isherwood; with a 98 word inscription to W. H. Auden, dated January, 1933. The final page is also dated: "London Sep. 1928" and "Berlin Nov. 1930," many of the pages have been trimmed to various lengths and there is some staining but no loss of text.

mssHM 83281

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Thomas Clarkson letter to Henry Clarke Wright, approximately 1846

Manuscripts

An autobiographical autograph letter written by Thomas Clarkson to "Dear Sir;" the letter is entitled "Extraordinary Phenomenon in the Origin of the Abolition of the Slave Trade as it relates to myself." Though the letter is addressed to "Dear Sir" there is strong evidence it was written to Henry Clarke Wright, American abolitionist. The letter recounts Clarkson's sixty year's crusade against enslavement: his efforts to end the trade of enslaved persons in Great Britain, the foundation of The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and his work with William Wilberforce. The letter is mounted on paper, with some slight staining and a crossed-out pencil profile portrait on recto of the blank leaf; also enclosed is a typewritten transcription of the letter.

mssHM 84410

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Sanyō-ki : [manuscript]

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Begins with numerous titles for those who work in the mines, followed by vocabularies of instruments, minerals, etc.; many illustrations of tools, maps, diagrams, etc.; a number of illustrations in black and red line; based on a number of mines in the Akita, Okachi and Yamamoto districts; slight worming. It was copied by Iwama Kaneaki for Ishiguro Takao, a mining official, in Meiji 11, (1878), from a work whose preface is dated Tempō 11, (1840).

mssHM 81211

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Traité des matières colorantes

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An extensively annotated extra-illustrated work in two volumes: a chemist's working copy of a significant treatise on the development of chemical procedures of dyeing textiles. Volume 1 contains 544 pages with 39 textile samples; volume 2 contains 646 pages with one folded engraving, illustrations, and 34 textile samples. Both volumes contain annotations on separate sheets, with some intertextual annotations as well. In addition, there are twelve cloth samples of indigo dyeing, with detailed manuscript notes on the samples, which are unique to this copy of the work by Schützenberger. The volumes are bound with contemporary calf spines, marbled paper boards; there is some foxing and slight staining on a small number of pages.

mssHM 84114

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Manuscript material

Manuscripts

This small group consists mainly of materials dealing with the production of Denny's two plays. There are multiple copies of each of these plays, but each has slight variations. "Black Bart, The Lone Robber of Calaveras," was performed at California's First Theatre by the Troupers of the Gold Coast in 1946 and 1952, then at the Balboa Park Puppet Theatre in San Diego by the Junior Theatre Summer Work Shop in 1950, and finally in 1961 by the Triangle Club at the three-day Apple Festival in Julian, California. Included are scripts of her play and an essay written by Denny about Black Bart (b. 1829). Her other play, "Lola Montez, The Spider Dancer," was performed at California's First Theatre in 1948 and 1949 by the Troupers of the Gold Coast; and included are scripts of the play, an incomplete short story about Lola Montez (1818-1861), song lyrics, and the music written by Edward C. Hopkins.

mssHM 65643-65679

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Booke of ayds for Knightinge the King's eldest sonne & for marriage for his eldest daughter: manuscript

Manuscripts

Volume about James I, Henry, Prince of Wales, and Princess Elizabeth.

mssHM 171

The judges declared : manuscript

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