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Letter from James Ludovic Lindsay of 2 Cadogan Square, [London] to R A Rye, [Librarian of the University of London], 9 Jun 1907. Describing how Lord Crawford had used the De Morgan Mathematical Collection, now in in the University Library, to help him in founding the mathematical and physical science section of his own library at Haigh Hall, 'second only, I think, to the Imperial Library of Pulcowa Observatory in Russia [Pulkovo Observatory, near St Petersburg]'. Describing the printing of the 'great catalogue' of his library as 'a very heavy business'. A postscript expresses sympathy for the death of William Brenchley Rye 'a very valued assistant [in the Earl's library] at Haigh'.

Autograph, with signature.

'An Establishment of the Officers of his Majesties Customes in London and Outportes w[i]th such Salaries [as] they Receive Quarterly. Anno 1675', including:

1. 'Port of London. The names of the Severall Officers...', notably Patent Officers, watchmen, Coast Waiters, Weighing Porters, Surveyors, Landwaiters, Tidesmen, Landcarriagemen, Noontenders, and Watermen - in the margin of f.3 is written 'Midsomer 1675'.
2. A list of the establishment of the officers in the outports, with the names of the officers. There are no separate headings for different occupations, but the names are given with the occupation following, e.g. Pad stow (f.19), 'Gilbert Marshall collect[er] & waiter... Tho[mas] Castell wait[er] & searcher att ye Gunnell...' The totals of the salaries for each town are listed on f.29. (46 ports are listed, 47 including London.)
3. 'The names of Patent Officers in the Port of London', with their yearly salaries.
4. 'The names of the Patent Officers in the Outportes', with their yearly salaries.
   The total for the yearly salaries of all the officers for London and the out ports is given as £49,908.12s.2d. Separate totals are given at the foot of each page, and at the end of each section.

Certified copy of grain prices in Lanarkshire for 1799-1820. The first three leaves contain the prices for the upper ward of the country, 1799-1811, and for the whole county, 1812-1820. These are certified as 'a true copy of the fair prices...of grain before mentioned' in a declaration signed by John Marr, 1 Nov 1821. Each page also bears his signature at the foot. Another hand continues the list up to 1823, adding prices of beans, pease and malt. The document is twice endorsed as being a certified copy for 1799-1820.

Manuscript list of 38 names (including 3 on the dorse), with sums of money opposite each, dating from [1700-1750]. The document is headed by four other names, probably those of the 'preasers' or appraisers mentioned at the top of the page. On the dorse is written 'Messe bookes'.

Manuscript volume, 1590, entitled 'A generall collection of all offices of England with their fees in the Queenes gifte', giving details of the offices in the courts at Westminster, the Royal Household, military posts, and posts connected with royal houses, parks and forests. The manuscript also includes a valuation of clergy livings and the tithes payable to Queen Elizabeth I. An eighteenth century index is included.

Manuscript volume, 1606, containing a list of all the Offices of England, with the fees belonging to them in the gift of King James I. It contains particulars of the offices connected with the Law Courts, the Court, the Royal Household, garrisons, towns, fortresses, castles, parks, forests, and bishoprics. Of the King's artificers, the Sergeant Paynter was at the head with £100, while the Keeper of the Libraries was at the bottom with £3 6s. 8d.

Manuscript volume containing details of the 'London and country establishment of the revenue of the Excise', 1776, giving a list of the officers of the Excise, their salaries and the different duties from which they were paid.

Manuscript volume, 1669-1670, containing 'miscellanies' relating to Ireland, namely 'The establishment beginning Michaelmas 1669', including lists of salaries for civil officers, pensions and annuities, military payments, salaries for military officers and soldiers, the names of officers of regiments of horse and foot on 25 Dec 1670, provincial, noble and clerical subsidies, and a list of Parliamentary seats; 'A table for reducing plantation acres into English and ascertaining the King's rent in the severall provinces of Ireland according to the explanatory act', [1669]; an abstract of the demise made by King Charles II to John Foorth and Partners of the revenue of Ireland, 12 Jul 1669. There is an index, added by Sir David William Smith, 1st Baronet, in 1828.

Manuscript volume containing a verse play, a prose history, and several songs concerning the Escalade of Geneva undertaken by Duke Charles Emmanuel of Savoy on the 12 Dec 1602.
The play is entitled 'L'Escalade de Genève, Tragi Comèdie Representée pour la prémière fois' 12 Dec 1603. The history is called 'Histoire De la Miraculeuse Délivrance envoyée de Dieu à la Ville de Genève' 12 Dec 1602. The songs, or 'Chansons de L'Escalade', are in French (Savoyard dialect - 4 songs) and English (1 song entitled 'On the Twelfth of December with wicked intent'. The airs of the songs are often given, e.g. 'Sur l'air de la Vendange'. The index to the first lines of the songs is dated 22 Oct 1765.
The front cover of the leather binding is stamped in gold 'Gedeon Macaire Fils MDCCLXIV'.

Manuscript volume containing a transcript of English bards and Scotch reviewers: a satire (James Cawthorn, London, 1810), copied by Anne Livie and signed on 20 Nov 1817.

Papers relating to the loan made by Don Gaspar de Aponte for the war against Portugal and the siege of Olivenza, 1657-1675.

Diary of Sir Charles Stewart Loch. It concerns chiefly his work as Secretary to the Council of the London Charity Organisation Society from September 1876 to November 1887.

Letter from Joseph Locke to [Isambard Kingdom Brunel], 14 Jul 1846. Arranging to meet Brunel and Robert Stephenson.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Lady Julia Lockwood of 5 Great Cumberland Place, [London] to Mr Emanuel, jeweller of Bevis Marks, Bishopsgate Street, [London], 17 Jun [1829]. Requesting him to return 'the gold necklace as soon as possible for she wishes to return it to the lady at Paris by an early opportunity that offers'.

Autograph, unsigned.

Technical pencil drawing of front of locomotive and certain machinery from within the engine by unknown author.

Log book of the 'Speights Town' of Liverpool, 'bound to Madeira and Barbados', with entries from 28 Jan to 16 May 1788, and an undated account of expenses and goods bought at Madeira and Barbados on the back fly-leaves. The entries are in a Mariner's Journal Book, or the Liverpool ready-ruled Journal...by Egerton Smith (1787), a printed log-book, completed in manuscript. The ship's cargo included wine, sugar, and cotton. The front flyleaf is dated 'York 1788'.

Logan's personal papers, c1958-1983. See also ref. UP papers in the University of London Archives.

Letter from W Logan of the [Forth and Clyde] Canal Office to James Buchanan, Esq of 36 Candleriggs, [Glasgow], 28 Sep 1824. Giving information asked for by George Chalmers respecting the Forth and Clyde Canal.

Autographs, with signatures.

Drawing of Tring cutting in Hertfordshire, 1836, which was built as part of the London and Birmingham Railway.

Manuscript items relating to the proposed London and Birmingham Railway, 1830-1833, as follows.

1. Copy of an estimate by John Sinclair, civil engineer of Hartshill, Atherstone, of a railway between Coventry and Birmingham, dated 21 March 1832. (2 leaves. 12¾" x 8").
2. Notes on the projected route of the London and Birmingham Railway, from a plan 'deposited with the Clerk of the Peace', 1830. (4 leaves. 9" x 8").
3. List of cuttings, tunnels and other works on the railway line between London and Birmingham, [1830]. (2 leaves. 10" x 7¾").

Alphabetical list for applicants for the post of porter with the railway, giving name of applicant, residence, age, former employment, by whom recommended and remarks. Undated, probably c1837.

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

Manuscript survey of London Underground including summaries of rolling stock, organisation charts, diagrams of depots and equipment. Also includes typescript copies of weekly reports by (Cadet) Edwards from divisional offices (c 1928 March-July), memorandum on training of traffic operating officers.

The fonds consists of records created by the Society, documenting the financial, administrative and educational activities.

Letter from 5 Camden Street, Camden Town, [London] to Augustus De Morgan, 22 Mar 1837. Written in a facetious vein, congratulating De Morgan on his coming marriage. Long affects to have had a letter from a 'nameless correspondent' who intends 'to unite himself with a certain lady who we have always considered as belonging fairly to you'.

Autographs, with signatures.

Letters Patent creating Sir Robert Long, Auditor of the Exchequer, a Baronet on 21 May 1662.

Papers of Katharine Longley, 1812-1993, comprising research notebooks; correspondence files; material associated with the Wickham and Ternan families; photocopies of manuscript material; photocopies from periodicals; a copy of The Charles Dickens Birthday Book; material on The Mystery of Edwin Drood; typescript of A Singular Light; typescript of A Pardoner's Tale; typescripts of Charles Dickens: Towards the Truth; typescript essays; printed books; and photographs and negatives.

Letter from Thomas Longman of 39 Paternoster Row, London to [Augustus De Morgan], 20 Apr 1860. Thanking him for information 'about the poem by Lord Macaulay on the London University'.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from William Longson of 2 Garnet Street, Hillgate, Stockport to [Joseph Hume], 9 Nov 1825. Congratulating him 'for not receiving the presents offered to you in Scotland', which will 'repress the ... enthusiastic impetuosity of several Bodies of Workmen'. Agreeing with the views of [John Ramsay] McCulloch on the influence of the use of machinery on workmen's wages and the price of the commodities produced. Proposing to publish supporting this view.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Louis XIV to M Le Bret, President of the Court of Parliament at Aix[-en-Provence], 3 Sep 1704. Address: Versailles, [France]. Informs him that letters patent are being sent to the Court of which he is president, directing that effect be given to certain Articles of Agreement concerning the furtherance of trade and the reform of certain abuses in the Levant.

Written in another hand and signed by the King. Countersigned by Louis Phélypeaux, Marquis de la Vrillière, Secretary of State.

Report of rentals and tenants of the Lovat Estates, 1755.

Paper, 'To the Wealth Producing Classes of England', signed 'One of the People.' Written in support of the Co-operative movement. At the end is the following note, 'This was printed in a Maidstone periodical, The Co-operative Miscellany, in 1830. W. L.'

An account book, 1793-1800, belonging to Edward Lowe who owned land in Nottingham and Derbyshire. The account book includes details on servants' wages, business accounts and accounts with tradesmen. Also includes details of Lowe's marriage settlement with his wife Elizabeth.

Postcard and letter from Elias Avery Lowe of Casa Marina Hotel, Key West, Florida to [Thomas Julian] Brown, Department of Manuscripts, British Museum. (1) Postcard, 21 Feb 1959. (2) Letter, 13 Mar 1959. Congratulating Brown on his marriage.

The address on item (1) has been struck through and replaced with that of Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey; the card is postmarked Key West, however.

A collection of mediaeval and early nineteenth century legal documents, which include letters of administration, bankruptcy and insurance papers.

Correspondence and papers of Samuel Jones Loyd and the Loyd Family. The correspondence touches on a wide range of social and political history from the 1830s to the 1880s. There are a few items relating chiefly to the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 and the financial crash of 1797. There is also material on Loyd's religious life; political career; cultural activities; plantations in Ceylon and a detailed description of the island of Mauritius. The family correspondence is particularly illuminating on the life of a nineteenth century upper class family.

Letter from Baldassarre Boncompagni-Ludovisi, 1858, [To Augustus De Morgan]. Thanking De Morgan for his letter of 14 November 1858, giving information about Francesco Galigai's 'Pratica d'Arithmetica' (1548), and asking for further details. Letter enquires about the library of Dr [Daniel Mitford] Peacock and asks De Morgan to get Count [Guglielmo] Libri to send catalogues of sales he was to hold [in March and August 1859] in England and in Paris. Enquires about further editions of De Morgan's 'Arithmetical Books' (1847) and offers to get one printed in Rome.

Letter from Baldassarre Boncompagni-Ludovisi, 1856, [To Augustus De Morgan], asking him to make arrangements with Mr Ashbee for making facsimiles of pages in early printed books.

Letter from Baldassarre Boncompagni-Ludovisi, 1856 to [To Augustus De Morgan], asking for a copy of 'The Elements of the Mathematical art commonly called Algebra, expounded in two books, by John Kersey. 1717'.

Letter from John Lunan of Spanish Town, [Jamaica] to Rear-Admiral Sir Home Popham, 15 Oct 1819. Sending a copy of his book, which 'he flatters himself ... may assist Sir Home in obtaining a knowledge of our Slave Code'.

Autograph, unsigned.

Letter from William Lygon, Lord Beauchamp, of 13 Belgrave Square, London to Sir William Jameson Soulsby [private secretary to the Lord Mayor of London], 22 Jun 1914. Thanking him for his congratulations [on being made a Knight of the Garter].

Autograph, with signature.

Letters and cards by Rose Macaulay to Eric Gillett, editor and publisher, c1932-c1939.

Letter from Thomas Babington Macaulay of Holly Lodge, Kensington to Augustus De Morgan, 12 Aug 1858. Inviting him to discuss the meaning of the initials 'P M A C F' [apparently: 'Père Mansuete, A Cordelier (or Capuchin) Friar', Confessor to the Duke of York (afterwards King James II) and author of a broadside account of the death of King Charles II].

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Thomas Babington Macaulay of Holly Lodge, Kensington to[Augustus De Morgan], 14 Aug 1858. Referring to his interpretation of 'P M A C F' [apparently: 'Père Mansuete, A Cordelier (or Capuchin) Friar', Confessor to the Duke of York (afterwards King James II) and author of a broadside account of the death of King Charles II].

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Thomas Babington Macaulay of Albany to Augustus De Morgan, 14 Oct 1853. Thanking him for some papers. 'I am afraid I shall not live to write the history of the American war. Indeed heaven knows when I shall have done with King William'.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Thomas Babington Macaulay to Augustus De Morgan, 2 Jan [1853]. Answering an enquiry about Bishop Burnet. '... whoever wishes to obtain full information must read volume after volume of squibs, and controversial pamphlets. I have myself sermons, tracts and lampoons relating to the honest bishop which would fill a book-shelf.'

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Thomas Babington Macaulay of Holly Lodge, Kensington to Augustus De Morgan, 3 Nov 1857. Referring to Father Mansuete (Confessor to the Duke of York, afterwards King James II, and author of a broadside account of the death of King Charles II) and to the position of Roman Catholics in England at that time [late 17th century].

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Thomas Babington Macaulay of Holly Lodge, Kensington to Augustus De Morgan, 7 Nov 1857. Thanking him for a copy of his pamphlet [Answers to the questions communicated by Lord Overstone to the Decimal Coinage Commissioners; (London, 1857)]. 'I will frankly own to you that you seem to me greatly to overrate the advantages and greatly to underrate the inconveniences of the change which you recommend.

Autograph, with signature.

Papers of Alexander Macdonald, 1881, comprise a letter to John Salkeld, bookseller asking him to forward J Godkin's 'Land War in Ireland'.

Letter from George MacDonald of 39 Melville Street, Edinburgh to Mr [Robert] Balgarnie, 21 Jun 1885. Thanking him for an invitation, which he hopes to accept. 'I suppose the month of August would do for Scarborough - but so far we are not even sure that we shall not be in Bordighera before the end of that month. We are getting very good gatherings here.'

Autograph, with signature.