Manuscripts

Legal: Letters Patent to William E. Newton for Machine for burnishing & polish-enamelled paper, 1 piece, (1866, July 24)

Description: With Great Seal of Queen Victoria.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1571-1951.
Call number: KAL 1458
Creator: Kane, Gerald John (1901-1957)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from William P. Wreden, Jan. 5, 1961.
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Associated people: Kane, Gerald John, (1901-1957,); Abbott, Lyman, (1835-1922.); Akins, Zoë, (1886-1958.); Alden, Henry Mills, (1836-1919.); Alma-Tadema, Lawrence, (1836-1912.); Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, (1845-1947.); Babbage, Charles, (1791-1871.); Baillie, Joanna, (1762-1851.); Blackwell, Alice Stone, (1857-1950.); Bright, John, (1811-1889.); Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, (1776-1839.); Correia da Serra, José Francisco, (1750-1823.); Davis, Rebecca Harding, (1831-1910.); Emerson, Ralph Waldo, (1803-1882.); Fields, Annie, (1834-1915.); Fields, James Thomas, (1817-1881.); Gilder, Richard Watson, (1844-1909.); Gladstone, W. E. (1809-1898.); Greenwood, Grace, (1823-1904.); Hall, S. C., (1800-1881.); Hall, S. C. (1800-1889.); Holmes, Oliver Wendell, (1809-1894.); Irving, Henry, (1838-1905.); Marlowe, Julia, (1865-1950.); O'Connor, T. P. (1848-1929.); Peel, Arthur Wellesley, (1829-1912.); Rideing, William H. (1853-1918,); Sanborn, Kate, (1839-1917.); Scott, Walter, (1771-1832.); Sinclair, Upton, (1878-1968.); Stedman, Edmund Clarence, (1833-1908,); Steele, Frederick Morgan, (1843-1909,); Stoddard, Charles Warren, (1857-1934,); Thomas, Augustus, (1852-1917.); Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, (1819-1901.); Victoria, (1835-1916,); Ward, William Hayes, (1769-1852.); Wellington, Arthur Wellesley,
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