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W North collection, 1874-[1926], comprising a Leeds parliamentary election poster titled "Reaction versus Disunion", 1874; a report on potato disease by Robert Veitch and Son with sketches of vegetables, possibly by Veitch, 1892; and a children's poster titled "A Pageant of London", c 1926.

French revolutionary pamphlets collection comprises pamphlets by the Interior Ministry, the Police Ministry and other official bodies in the French republic. Pamphlet by the Chief of Police Sotin warns citizens that the enemies of the revolution are regrouping (c1794). A pamphlet of 1795 also urges vigilance.

Underdown ecclesiastical architecture and design collection, c 1760-1901, (bought from H. W. Underdown) includes: reproduction of print of Witham Friary (1760); print of drawing by Catton of Cromer, 1798; plate of engravings of arms and seals of Prior and Convent of St Saviour, Bermondsey, 1821; drawing of brass monument in North Mimms church (1823); photolithographs of monumental brasses in Norfolk and Westminster Abbey (1890s). Collection also includes prints of J. M. W. Turner watercolours painted at Farnley Hall.

Papers of John Urpeth Rastrick including memoranda, calculations and diagrams, including estimates for iron arch for Stratford-upon-Avon Railway Bridge; for a roof for William Foster; gasworks at Kidderminster; recipe for brass lacquer; lists of materials of six-horse Boulton and Watts engine, and of the contents of packing boxes, with diagrams of each item entered; notes, specifications and sketches for the Stratford and Moreton Railway; and detailed descriptions, statistics and sketches of bridges, railways and engines. Enclosing the following items: (i-ii) 2 sheets of rough calculations. (iii) Card bearing printed statistics of the Burnton and Shields Railway; annotated in MS and signed by Benjamin Thompson (23 January 1829). (iv) Printed wrapper sent from the Office of Ordnance to Messrs J Bradley and Co, [?at] Foster, Rastrick and Co Ironworks, Stourbridge; used for rough calculations and draft accounts in MS.

'Specification of the workmanship for the Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway', the specification itself is not in John Urpeth Rastrick's hand, but it includes notes added to the text by him. His signature appears on the dorse of the fly-leaf, with the date of 16 Oct 1829 and a note: 'the first specification for a railway that was ever made'.

Specification for Leeds and Selby Railway, contracts numbered 1 and 2, Sep 1830. This specification was owned by Rastrick but may not have been created by him.

Papers of John Urpeth Rastrick, 1830-1832, including valuations, lists of properties, calculations, sketches, estimates and plans for the Birmingham and Liverpool Railway [the Brimingham & Basford Railway and the Wolverhampton Branch), bound into one volume. In the hands of Rastrick and others, most items endorsed by Rastrick.

Includes 2 letters to Rastrick at the Waterloo Hotel, Liverpool: (a) leaves 52-53 - from Wiliam Trubshaw, Forton (near Newport, Shropshire) (17 February 1831); (b) leaves 54-55 - from John Barker, Wolverhampton (12 February 1831).

John Urpeth Rastrick's accounts for New Haw Farm [?and Sayes Court Farm], including wages paid out, entered into a volume entitled: 'The Useful Memorandum ... for 1851'.

Manuscript volume containing papers relating to William Wood and the minting of halfpence and farthings for Ireland, 1724-1725, comprising a copy of a satire on Wood entitled 'A full and true account of the solemn procession to the gallows at the execution of William Wood Esquire', which is a copy of part of a work which has been attributed to Jonathan Swift; and printed material, namely M B Drapier [i.e. Jonathan Swift], A letter to the shop-keepers...concerning the brass half-pence coined by Mr Woods (Dublin, 1724), By the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland. A proclamation...[beginning] Wheras a wicked and malicious pamphlet, 27 Oct 1724, [Jonathan Swift], Seasonable advice. Since a bill..., 11 Nov 1724, The presentment of the Grand-Jury of...Dublin, 28 Nov 1724, [R Lindsay], A letter from a friend to the Right Honourable [Chief Justice Whitshed], 1 Dec 1724, and A second letter from a friend to the Right Honourable, 4 Jan 1725. All the items are bound in a volume lettered 'Wood's Irish Coinage. MSS 1724'.

Copy of Augustus de Morgan's 'On the symbols of logic, the theory of the syllogism and in particular of the copula and the application of the theory of probabilities to some questions of evidence', published as a memoir in the Cambridge Philosophical Transaction.

Unpublished copy of Augustus de Morgans 'On some logical difficulties of language'. " Wants revision Jan 1 / 68" is written at the top of folio 2.

John Urpeth Rastrick's surviving diaries and financial records, and other notebooks, 1805-1854.

Spaccio della Bestia Trionfante. Proposto da Giove, Effetuato dal Consiglio, Revelato da Mercurio, Recitato da Sophia, Udito da Saulino, Registrato dal Nolano, Diviso in tre dialoghi, Subdiviso in tre parti e Consecrato al Molto Illustre ed Eccellente Cavaliero Signore Philippo Sidneo. Stampato in Parigi. MDLXXXIII.

'A Coppy of a letter Conceived to bee writt to the late Duke of Buckingham when hee first became a favourite to K. James. By Sir Francis Bacon. Conteyning some advises to the Duke for his Better direction in that eminent place of the Favourite drawne from him at the entreaty of the Duke himselfe'. This is the second, fuller, version of the letter, not the text of the quarto edition of 1661.

Correspondence and papers of Augustus De Morgan, principally relating to De Morgan's appointment to the Chair of Mathematics at London University (University College London) in 1828 and to his resignation therefrom in 1831. Includes letters to De Morgan from Edward Turner, Leonard Horner, Warden of the College, and Dionysus Lardner, and drafts of De Morgan's memoranda to the authorities of the University during his dispute with them.

Manuscript of a poem, Catullus, c1900 (manuscript 324) by Arthur William Symons.

Papers of John Urpeth Rastrick, 1811-1847, comprising a miscellany of correspondence (including drafts of copies of outgoing letters), with notes, engineering drawings and some financial papers (costings, receipts and invoices). Many of the notes and calculations are written in Rastrick's private cipher. Major correspondents include the London shipping iron merchants Henckell and Du Buisson; most of the letters were dispatched to or from London or the industrial areas of South Wales and the West Midlands.

Certification of the Chaves Echavarri Y Vidal family's nobility issued by Juan Alphonso de Guerra y Sandoval to Philip V of Spain, 1733.

Copies of deeds and other documents effecting the transfer and redemption of an annuity paid to Dona Catalina Mexia and Dona Ysabel de Castro originally to Anastasia de la Pena and subsequently to the Cofradia de el santissimo sacramento y Nuestra Senora de la Minerva of the parish church of St. Martin, Madrid, 1611-1616.

Three Archiepiscopal letters making appointments to the Chaplainship of Nuestra Senora de Atocha de Madrid.

Tumulto del dia 28 de Abril, del Ano 1699: representacion del Conde de Oropesa (al Rey); y la Respuesta, o Glossa, sobre la representacion del Conde.

Thirty Years War: Copie de la Declaration de Guerre Contre la Couronne de France faicte en Espagne, au nom de Roy; Declaration de son Alteze Touchant la Guerre Contre la Couranne de France.

Vida y muerte de D. Rodrigo Calderon.

Estados de la casa real de Espana y demas ramos. Y Nueua planta empezada a practicarse el ano de 1719 en el Ministerio del Cardenal Alveroni. Y en la Yntendencia gen. de Don Joachin de Barrenechea.

'Verdadera vida del sutil Duende critico de Madrid, Fr. Manuel de San Jose, Carmelita descalzo: El Duende Politico que da Cuenta de los presentes negocios, y anuncia los futuros de esta Monarquia ano de 1735'.

Elemens de Finances collection, [1690-1710], comprises an anonymous handwritten treatise dealing with the earnings and expenses of the kingdom - inferred to be France - ("cinq grosses fermes") and its administration. It also deals with financial administration in general.

Papers of Robert G Philip, [c1930-1950], comprising an unpublished work titled A ninth century view of Christ, based on the Anglo-Saxon poem Heliand. The manuscript comprises analysis followed by a translation of the poem.

Press-cuttings, articles on American politics, foreign relations and economic matters. Includes material on United States politicians (including Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, W. J. Bryan, William McKinley, John Sherman, Samuel J. Tilden, A.S. Hewitt, D. B. Hill, A. B. Parker, C (Carl?) Schurz), taxation, tariffs, the press, labour issues, the navy. Also includes personalia of Manton Marble.

Letters from Charles Kean to Thomas Grieve senior, 1850s; marriage certificates for Thomas Grieve senior to Livinia Ann Bailey, 1827, and to Elizabeth Goatley, 1835; marriage certificate of Thomas Walford Grieve to Hester Chalk, 1884; photograph of Elizabeth Grieve; passport of Thomas Walford Grieve, 1870; bills regarding the grave of Thomas Walford Grieve and the burial of Graham Walford Grieve, 1920.

Photographs of native Americans [Red Indians, American Indians] such as chiefs, warriors, and women. Includes portraits of Sitting Bull's son and Iron Horn. These photographs are assumed to have been taken in Dakota Territory.

Typescript copy of poem, "A sedative at daybreak" by Laurie Whistler. With etchings by Joan Hassall. This copy was a gift to Walter de la Mare. Inscribed "And to dearest WJdlM with love, always, from LW".

Minutes, 1926-2011; accounts: membership data of London Schools and Colleges Dining Club.

Information regarding the value of the trade of Britain and Ireland, 1698-1765.

A manuscript volume containing a transcript by George Chalmers of a discourse, [1558], by John Yonge recommending the establishment of a bank of money for the relief of the poor. The proposal is for this bank to be formed by the payment of a death duty by all members of society, consisting of the best garment of the deceased. The manuscript also contains a proposal for the reformation of the coinage and a dedicatory epistle to Queen Elizabeth I.

2 scrapbooks of letters, fragments of letters, stamped or franked envelopes, and autographs, collected by Henry Austin Dobson and his wife Frances. Selected individuals represented are listed below.

Volume 1 includes letters written by: Sir Walter Besant; Thomas Hall Caine; Sir Edmund Gosse; Sir Mountstuart E Grant-Duff; Coventry Kersey Deighton Patmore; Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington; and Samuel Wesley (the composer).
Additional signatures in volume 1 include: Robert Browning and Bret Harte.
The volume also contains a religious poem by Hannah More (probably not in her own hand).

Volume 2 includes letters written by: Sir George Biddell Airy; Richard Ansdell; Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury; Edward Bickersteth (the evangelical leader); Richard Doddridge Blackmore; Marc Isambard Brunel; Sir Andrew Buchanan; William Carus Wilson; William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, Duke of Portland; William Courtenay, Earl of Devon; Edward John Eyre; John Fane, Earl of Westmorland; Robert FitzRoy; Giuseppe Garibaldi; Sir Mountstuart E Grant-Duff; Kate Greenaway; William Walter Legge, Earl of Dartmouth; Charles Gordon-Lennox, Duke of Richmond; Robert James Mann; Friedrich Max Müller; Florence Nightingale; Clara Novello, Countess Gigliucci; Edward Bouverie Pusey; James Meadows Rendel; Edward Sabine (later Sir Edward); Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson; Frederick Benjamin Twistleton[-Wykeham-Fiennes], Baron Saye and Sele; Rev Christopher Wordsworth (later Bishop of Lincoln); and Charlotte M Yonge.
Additional signatures in volume 2 include: William George Armstrong; Sir Charles Barry, Nathaniel Beardmore (Mrs Dobson's father) and other members of his family; Sir Charles Tilston Bright; Randolph Caldecott; George Canning; Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey; Richard Cobden; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll); William Eward Gladstone; Benjamin Robert Haydon; William Hilton; Tom Hood (Thomas Hood the younger); Jean Ingelow; Sir William Jenner; Charles Kingsley; Henry Kingsley; Sir Charles Lyell; Giuseppe Mazzini; Horatio Nelson; Sir James Paget; Sir Robert Peel; George Ponsonby; Edward Sieveking (later Sir Edward); Sir William Smith ('Dictionary of the Bible' author); Richard Chevenix Trench, Archbishop of Dublin; Anthony Trollope; Horace Walpole (later Earl of Orford); Willoughby Hunter Weiss; Professor William Whewell.
The volume also contains a hymn written by James Montgomery for a member of the Beardmore family.

Many of the letters and autographs are undated.

Letter from Sir John Sinclair of 133 George Street, Edinburgh to James [Thomson] Gibson-Craig of Riccardton, 23 Apr 1825. Covering note enclosing a copy of Sinclair's pamphlet Defence of the landed and farming interests (1825).

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Sir Arthur Helps of the Privy Council Offices, [London] to Sir John Duke Coleridge (afterwards Lord Coleridge), 18 Jul 1872. Covering letter to a copy of Helps's book Life and Labours of Mr. Brassey 1805-1870(1872).

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Samuel Smiles of West Bank, Blackheath, London to Charles Manby FRS, 14 Dec 1868. Covering letter to a copy of Smiles's Life of George Stephenson etc (1868 edition).

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from William Cobbett of Botley, Hampshire to Mr Akerman of 183 Fleet Street, London, 15 Mar 1830. 'I beg you to pay particular attention to every part of this letter. It is a matter of the greatest importance.' Detailed instructions follow for the preparation of the petition against [Sir Robert] Wilmot-Horton's Emigration project, which appeared in the Register on Saturday 20 Mar 1830.

Autograph, with signature.

3 letters and a postcard from Guy Hamilton of The Athenaeum, London to Major [Harry George Julius] Heydeman MC, 1954-1955. Arranging to borrow illustrative material from Heydeman's collection for Hamilton's lectures on local history.

All items are autograph, with signatures.

Letter from John Newton of Charles Square, Hoxton, [London] to Rev Mr Charles of Milborne Port, Somerset, 21 Nov 1780. Commenting approvingly on Charles's forthcoming marriage: '... there is something in domestic life that seems suited to improve our meetness for speaking to our people ... I am told you want a curacy'; he suggests acting as supply for Mr [John] Berridge at Everton, [Bedfordshire], with travelling expenses and a fee of £20. Mentioning his recent transfer from Olney, [Buckinghamshire], to [St Mary Woolnoth], London: at Sunday evening services, the church is 'as full as an egg ... My letters in 2 vols. will be out before Christmas ...'.

Autograph, with signature.

2 letters from Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe of Woodcoate Lodge, [West] Horsley, Leatherhead, [Surrey] to Silvanus P Thompson, 1894-1898. (1) Asking Thompson to write a book on the life and work of Michael Faraday for a series which Roscoe is editing for Cassells, 25 Mar 1894. (2) Stating that he has read Thompson's book on Faraday and thinks it excellent, 17 Oct 1898.

Both letters are autograph, with signature.

Collection of letters formerly in the possession of Dr Geoffrey John Cusance de Mead, [1878-1930]. Correspondents include: Sir Squire Bancroft; John Arbuthnot Fisher, Lord Fisher; Sir Henry Irving; John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl Jellicoe; Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner; Charles Stanley Monck, Viscount Monck; John W Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough; [? Evelyn Strutt], Lady Rayleigh; Godfrey Tearle (later Sir Godfrey); and Florence Waller.

All items are autograph, with signatures.

Letter from Herbert George Wells of Easton Glebe, Dunmow, [Essex] to Mr [Frank T A] Ashton-Gwatkin, 21 Jun 1921. Commenting on Ashton-Gwatkin's work Kimono (1921) [published under the pseudonym John Paris].

All letter are autograph, with signatures.

Papers of John Urpeth Rastrick, 1800-1855, comprising a miscellany of correspondence (including drafts of copies of outgoing letters), with notes, engineering drawings, etc. Many of the notes and calculations are written in Rastrick's private cipher. Major correspondents include the London shipping iron merchants Henckell and Du Buisson; the 2nd Earl of Powis; John (later Sir John) Gladstone [father of W E Gladstone]; the lawyer, estate manager and politician James Loch and [?his son] George Loch; and Rastrick's sons and employees. Topics covered include the canal and railway interests of Rastrick and the other correspondents, as well as the iron industry. Most of the letters were dispatched to or from London or the industrial areas of South Wales and the West Midlands.

34 letters from Francis William Newman, 1864-1894. 32 letters addressed to Newman's nephew John Rickards Mozley; 1 letter addressed to Newman's sister Jemima Mozley; 1 letter addressed to J R Mozley's father-in-law Bonamy Price. Topics covered include: domestic and family affairs; Newman's brother John Henry Newman (Cardinal Newman); education (including Augustus De Morgan and University College London); New Testament criticism; religion and morality; classical literature; mathematics; wealth; current affairs (including Irish Home Rule and the American Civil War); William Ewart Gladstone; and John Ruskin.

All items are autograph, with signatures.

Facsimile of a letter from George Gordon Noel Byron of Venice to M [Giovanni Antonio] Galignani, editor of Galignani's Messenger, 18 rue Vivienne, Paris, 27 Apr 1819. Disclaims the authorship of The Vampire, which had been attributed to him in Galigniani's Messenger '... I desire the responsibility of nobody's dullness but my own ...'.

Facsimile copy of an autograph letter, with signature.

Letter from James Stephen, Master in Chancery's Office, London to James Cropper Esq of Liverpool, 7 Nov 1825. 'I have just recd. a letter from our friend [?Zachary] Macaulay informing me of an intended publication of the Liverpool anti-slavery society of which he supposes a copy has been also sent to me. I have not received it, but from what he says of its contents, am afraid of losing a post in saying to you that I earnestly request its publication may be at least suspended, till we can submit to the consideration of your Society the remarks we have to make on it ...' [no such tract was published by the Liverpool Society of the Abolition of Slavery around this time, perhaps due to Stephen's letter]. Discussing current aspects of the problem of emancipation and concludes that direct legislation by parliament is 'the only means by which anything good for the slaves can or will ever be effected. My hopes I lament to say of any early adoption of such means are very faint indeed, but it is nevertheless our duty to call for them ...'.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from John Burn of Orton, [Westmorland] to Thomas Cadell [the elder] Esq, 'bookseller, Strand, London', 26 Mar 1792. 'I have by the coach this day sent you Barry's Justice [i.e. E Barry Present practice of a justice of the peace (1790)] & in the margin have marked the vs & pages in our Justice [i.e. R Burn The justice of the peace and parish officer (1755 and many susbequent editions)] from which he has copied. I may safely say there is not one hundred pages, put the whole together of his 4 volumes, which is not copied from my father...'.

Autograph, with signature. Franked: 'Appleby'[-in-Westmorland].

Three letters from Dobson to Symington and carbon copies of 4 of Symington's replies to Dobson. Aug-Oct 1938. Topics covered include the book collection of Dobson's late father, Henry Austin Dobson; Dobson senior's correspondence with Edmund Gosse and others; Dobson's intentions to deposit his father's correspondence at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; arrangements for the correspondents to meet and library work.

Autograph and typescript; Dobson's letters bear signatures but the copies of Symington's do not.