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Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Letters mostly to Lord Byron of correspondents with surnames from Silvestrini-Tournier., 1810-1823, undated.

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Identifier: MS.43508
Scope and Contents The letters to Lord Byron have been arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent surname. When first made available for consultation, before foliation, the wrapper of Sir George Sinclair had been housed in Ms.43449. It was moved to f.7 of this folder on cataloguing.Letters of Francesca (Fanny) Silvestrini to Lord Byron, 1819 and undated: folios 1-6;Wrapper of a letter probably of Sir George Sinclair to Lord Byron, 1813: folio 7;Letters of Constance...
Dates: 1810-1823, undated.

Letters of and concerning Francis C Kinchant, Cornet, 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys); with press-cuttings concerning the reinternment in Edinburgh of Charles Ewart, also of the 2nd Dragoons., 1815-1938.

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Identifier: MS.15385, folios 1-66
Scope and Contents NOTE S&C The contents are as follows: (i) Letter, 23 October 1813, of Philip Hunt to his sister, enclosing a recipe for a cure, known as ‘The Chelsea pensioner’, for gout and rheumatism and also enquiring after ‘Miss Kinchant’ (folio 1); (ii) Letters of Francis Kinchant (folio 4); (iii) Copy of a letter, 1817, describing the death of Kinchant at Waterloo (folio 14); (iv) Correspondence and notes, 1894, 1910, 1917, of Vivian McLaughlin and Major-General J C Kinchant concerning Francis...
Dates: 1815-1938.

Letters of and concerning Madame de Stael to John Murray II., 1813-1819, undated.

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Identifier: MS.42560
Scope and Contents The letters of Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein, Madame de Stael, to John Murray [II] have been arranged in chronological order before related letters of other people.Temporary numbering of the letters has now been replaced by foliation.Letters of Madame de Stael to John Murray [II] including a draft reply and a copy of a letter of General Jean Victor Marie Moreau to his wife, Eugenie, about his injuries at the battle of Dresden, 1813: folios 1-50;...
Dates: 1813-1819, undated.

Letters of and concerning William Fletcher, valet of Lord Byron., 1811-1837.

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Identifier: MS.43425
Scope and Contents Correspondence of and to William Fletcher has been ordered before those letters concerning him.Letters of Lord Byron to William Fletcher, 1816 and [1823]: folios 1-3;Letters of William Fletcher to Lord Byron, 1810-1811, and 1824: folios 4-9;Letters of William Fletcher to John Cam Hobhouse, 1811, 1824-1825 and 1835: folios 10-19;Letters and a copy of a letter of William Fletcher to Augusta Leigh, 1824, ?1836 and 1837: folios 20-31;...
Dates: 1811-1837.

Letters of and concerning William Wordsworth., 1826-? 1846, 1940.

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Identifier: MS.42588
Scope and Contents Letters to John Murray II. Letter, 4 December 1826 (postmarked, 8 December 1826), of William Wordsworth to John Murray II. Letter, 2 December 1834, of William Wordsworth to John Murray II. Part of a letter, postmarked 9 December 1834, of William Wordsworth to John Murray II. The fragment is of the address of John Murray only. Above the address is an annotation in the hand of John Murray II : "The Poet Wordsworths...
Dates: 1826-? 1846, 1940.

Letters of and to Lord Byron concerning Newstead Abbey; with letters of the Webb family of Newstead Abbey mainly to John Murray, publishers., 1779-1975.

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Identifier: MS.43513
Scope and Contents The letters of and to Lord Byron have been placed at the start of the sequence, followed by letters between other correspondents relating to Newstead Abbey.Copy of a letter of Lord Byron to John Hanson, 1817: folios 1-2;Letter of Lord Byron (in an unknown hand) to John Palethorpe, signed by John Hanson and Owen Mealey, 1812: folio 3;Correspondence between Lord Byron and Robert Rushton, with a receipt of Edward Rushton to John Murray [III] for the purchase...
Dates: 1779-1975.

Letters of Austen Henry Layard to Elizabeth Eastlake., 1856-1893.

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Identifier: MSS.42336-42340
Scope and Contents The letters here of Austen Henry Layard to Elizabeth Eastlake cover nearly four decades of friendship. Eastlake was a writer and, like Layard, had many connections in the art and literary worlds, which is reflected in this correspondence.Layard and Eastlake had many common friends and acquaintances, including John Murray [III]. Additionally, Layard had also been friends with Charles Eastlake, the husband of Elizabeth, and it was Layard who encouraged her to write a memoir of...
Dates: 1856-1893.

Letters of Charles, John and Newton Hanson to various correspondents; with some copies of replies of John Murray II., 1824-1849, undated.

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Identifier: MS.43436
Scope and Contents The letters have been arranged alphabetically by correspondent name.Letters of Charles Hanson to John Cam Hobhouse, 1824 and not dated: ff.1-4;Copy of a letter of Charles Hanson to Francis Hodgson, 1824: ff.5-6;Letter of Charles Hanson to John Murray II, 1824: ff.7-8;Letter of John Hanson to Augusta Leigh, 1828: ff.9-10;Letters of John Hanson to John Murray II, 1815, 1829, 1836-39 and not dated: ff.11-29;Letters of...
Dates: 1824-1849, undated.

Letters of David Barnett, Lady Stair`s House Museum, Edinburgh, to May Merkley, Williamsburg, Ontario, Canada, on matters relating to Robert Burns.

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Identifier: Acc.12119
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Includes a lock of the hair of Burns`s widow Jean Armour and a copy of the deed relating to the Glenriddell Manuscripts.

Dates: 1918-1936, undated.

Letters of David Hume to recipients with surnames beginning with A-M., 1727-1776, undated.

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Identifier: MS.23151
Scope and Contents

The recipients of the letters include: Colonel James Abercromby, Hugh Blair, Thomas Bradshaw, Alexander Carlyle, George Carre (Lord Nisbet), Dr George Cheyne, James and Thomas Coutts, John Craufurd, Mrs Dysart, Lord Elibank, Alexander Home, John Home, David Hume, Francis Hutcheson, Matthew Maty, and Andrew Millar. Those to Bradshaw, Cheyne, Craufurd, and one of those to Lord Elibank are drafts; those to Mrs Dysart are copies.

Dates: 1727-1776, undated.

Letters of David Hume to recipients with surnames beginning with M-S and unidentified recipients., 1727-1776, undated.

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Identifier: MS.23152
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The recipents of the letters include: William Mure, James Oswald, Michael Ramsay, William Rouat, Adam Smith, John Stewart, and unidentified. The final letter is a corrected draft; several of those to Mure, all to Oswald, and one to Ramsay are copies.

Dates: 1727-1776, undated.

Letters of Douglas Kinnaird to Lord Byron., 1822-1824.

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Identifier: MS.43456
Scope and Contents The letters have been arranged chronologically. Letters of Douglas Kinnaird to Lord Byron, 1822, with copies of letters of Richard Crabtree and James Dearden to Douglas Kinnaird at folios 29 and 44 respectively, and a letter of Edward Burtenshaw Sugden to Thomas Brand, Lord Dacre, and Sir Francis Burdett at folio 45: folios 1-47; Letters of Douglas Kinnaird to Lord Byron, 1823, with a letter of Ransom and Co. to Lord Byron at folio 80: folios 48-95;...
Dates: 1822-1824.

Letters of H H Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, to the Earl of Rosebery, with copies of some of the Rosebery's replies., 1891-1926, undated.

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Identifier: MS.10001
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Most of the letters were written between 1894 and 1909 during the periods when H H Asquith was Home Secretary in the Earl of Rosebery's administration and a Vice President of the Liberal League under Rosebery's presidency. Both personal and political matters are discussed.

Dates: 1891-1926, undated.