Showing 1681 results

Archival description
National Land Bank
GB 0096 MS 61 · 1695-1696

A copy of the original Minute Book of the National Land Bank, 1695-1696.

Blake , Joseph , fl 1695-1696 , secretary to the National Land Bank
Navy annuities
GB 0096 MS 726 · 1816

Printed receipt form, completed in manuscript on 5 Apr 1816, for £1497 18s. 7d paid by Alexander Browne for a share or interest of £1657 9s 2d. in the capital of 'Navy Five per Century Annuities'. Signed by John Hewitt for Ellis, Laurence & Amory.

Ellis, Lawrence and Amory
Naylor, Francis Hare
GB 0096 MS 270 · 1743-1772

Account books, 1743-1772, recording profits and rents due to Francis Naylor for land owned in various parts of Sussex.

Naylor , Francis Hare , d 1797 , land owner
Nelson, Horatio: letter
GB 0096 AL91 · Fonds · [1804]-1885

Letter from Horatio Nelson onboard HMS Victory to Lady Hamilton of Merton, Surrey, 12 Sep [1804]. 'My own dearest Emma your last letter was July 25th, and having received that in 5 Weeks I expected one by this days post which brought us English News to August 19th: but I know my Dear Emma the uncertainty of the arrival of letters and I am too well assured that you omit no opportunity. By this time I expect the Kent is in England and my letter got to the admiralty, We have not seen or spoke a Vessel since my letter via Paris of Sept 9th: this goes by Barcelona. Adl Campbell is on board and desires his kind compliments. God Bless you My own Emma and be assured that I long to see you and that I am Ever Ever your all your most faithfully [signature scribbled over]'. Postscript added in the same hand: 'Dr. Scott is come to look at Naples and Palermo before we go home.' Autograph, unsigned.The following papers are filed with the letter: a memorandum from W P Bennett, bookseller, of Birmingham, to H S Foxwell, Esq, explaining the circumstances of its purchase, 30 Oct 1885; a printed notice describing the letter and giving its price as £2 10s 6d.

Nelson , Horatio , 1758-1805 , 1st Viscount Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe , Vice-Admiral
New River, Bargain and Sale
GB 0096 MS 513 · 1649

Indenture of bargain and sale of 14 Feb 1649 by (1) Robert Hyde, serjeant at law, of Dinton, Wiltshire, Henry Hyde, merchant, of London, Edward Hyde, clerk, of Brightwell, Berkshire, and Frederick Hyde, of Middle Temple, sons of Sir Laurence Hyde of Salisbury, to (2) Henry Griffith, of London, of a thirty-sixth part of the New River 'brought from Chadwell and Amwell to London' or waterworks, formerly the property of Sir Laurence Hyde, and left by him in his will of 13 July 1637 for the payment of his debts. Consideration: £40 and £300. Signed and sealed by the parties of the first part, but the seal of Edward Hyde alone survives.

Unknown
Newbolt, Sir Francis George
GB 0096 MS 570 · 1930

Signature of Sir Francis George Newbolt, in pencil, on a printed dinner menu of the Norwegian Club. The dinner was held on 3 Dec 1930 at which time Newbolt was Vice-President of the Club, and took the chair.

Newbolt , Sir , Francis George , 1863-1940 , Knight , lawyer
Newgate Prison - a history
GB 0096 MS1126 · Fonds · c1910

"A history of Newgate with an account of some notorious criminals", [1910]: manuscript volume, which includes press-cuttings on prisons policy and pamphlets by the Penal Reform League.

Unknown
GB 0096 AL497 · Fonds · 1851-1975

(1) Letter from Francis William Newman of Weston-Super-Mare, [Somerset] to Mrs Thomas Mozley [Mozley's 2nd wife Elizabeth], 19 Oct 1887. Enclosing 3 photographs of himself, 1851, 1862, and [1850-1900]. Autograph, with signature.

(2) Letter from Miss Winifred Mozley of 2 La Providence, Rochester, [Kent] to [the Director of University of London Library], 1975. Sending the letter and photographs, which she had found among the papers of her brother, James Frederick Mozley. Autograph, with signature.

Newman , Francis William , 1805-1897 , Professor of Latin
Mozley , Winifred , fl 1975 , great-niece of Francis William Newman
GB 0096 AL342 · Fonds · 1864-1894

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.

Newman , Francis William , 1805-1897 , Professor of Latin
Newton family
GB 0096 MS 523 · 1680-1826

Collection of papers relating to the Newton and Seawells plantations in Barbados, 1706-1826, including accounts and financial documents, estate management reports, valuations, surveys, and correspondence.

Newton , family , fl 1680-1826 , of Barbados
GB 0096 AL479 · Fonds · 1861-1863

Letters and papers relating to Gottfried von Leibnitz's claim to primacy over Sir Isaac Newton in the discovery of calculus. Including correspondence between H Sloman, William Hepworth Dixon (editor of The Athenaeum), W Metcalfe, Augustus De Morgan and a Mr de Fanget, 1861-1863. Many items are autograph and bear signatures.

Morgan , Augustus , De , 1806-1871 , mathematician x De Morgan , Augustus Dixon , William Hepworth , 1821-1879 , writer Sloman , H , fl 1860-1863 , writer Metcalfe , W , fl 1861-1863 , correspondent Fanget , - , de , fl 1861-1863 , correspondent x de Fanget , -
Newton, Alfred Edward
GB 0096 SL V 71 · 1918

A manuscript of The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections, 1918, with a letter attached.

Newton , Alfred Edward , 1863-1940 , author
Newton, John: letter (1780)
GB 0096 AL322 · Fonds · 1780

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.

Newton , John , 1725-1807 , clergyman and poet
Newton, Thomas
GB 0096 MS 886 · 1710-1954

Personal papers of Thomas Newton, 1710-1807, including correspondence and papers regarding Thomas Newton's business, his relationship with Mary Newton (nee Hurst), the wardship of Sarah Frances and Thomas Richard Fairchild, literary manuscripts, legal and financial documents, 1753-1806. Papers of the executors and trustee of the Thomas Newton bequest, 1807-1954, including a bound volume of papers entitled 'The Newton Estate' 1794-1822; correspondence, memorandum and accounts of the drawing up of the Newton bequest 1805-1811; memoranda and correspondence relating to the admission of new trustees 1820-1878; inventory and sale catalogue of Newton's effects 1807-1821, correspondence from legatees, 1807-1830 and papers relating the administration of the Newton estate 1832-1954.

Newton , Thomas , 1719-1807 , writer
GB 0096 MS 852 · 1819-1870

Letters sent to John Bowyer Nichols and his son John Gough Nichols concerning articles in The Gentleman's Magazine from the following people: John Bull Gardener, 1835; Charles Jackson, 1864, 1869, 1870; John Edward Jackson, 1863; Zachariah Jackson, 1833; J. Jeffrey, 1820; H. Jeffreyson, 1819; Laetitia Jermyn, 1829; Edward Jesse, 1833; O. Jewitt, 1839; John Jones, 1835; J. Wharton Jones, 1868, 70; John Tomkins, 1834; Sir Charles George Young, 1851. Also includes a note, possibly a draft, signed by Edward Bellins beginning 'Mr. Walpole has omitted all mention among the English Painters of Gilbert Jackson.'

Nichols , John Bowyer , 1779-1863 , printer and antiquary Nichols , John Gough , 1806-1873 , printer and antiquary
Noezen, Daniel Erik
GB 0096 MS 130 · 1770

Manuscript volume containing a transcript made by Daniel Erik Noezen in [1770] for John Fiott Lee of a dissertation in Swedish on rural economy by Peter Kalm entitled 'Collegium in Oeconomiam'. The copy was passed to Lee in 1808, and was bound in 1822.

Noezen , Daniel Erik , fl 1770 , of Skara
Norfolk militia accounts
GB 0096 MS 525 · 1591-1594

Norfolk militia accounts, 1591-1594, signed by Richard Buntynge and Richard Pepys, chief constables of the hundred of Brothercross, for 'the armeing and settinge forthe of...souldiours' according to warrants received from the Deputy Lieutenant.

Unknown
Norman, George Warde: letter
GB 0096 AL261 · Fonds · 1870

Letter from George Warde Norman of the Bank of England to [Edward Pleydell-]Bouverie, 3 Mar 1870. Thanking him for his good opinion 'as to my pamphlet on Comparative Taxation'; undertakes to send him 'a small volume of Papers, which I had printed for distribution last autumn ... [I] feel that my literary career is over'.

Autograph, with signature.

Norman , George Warde , 1793-1882 , financial writer and merchant banker
GB 0096 MS 749 · c1762

Manuscripts relating to North American trade, namely:

  1. 'An account of the value of the imports into England from the North American Colonies from Christmas 1739 to Christmas 1761.' The account shows the value of imports from each of the 12 colonies, with an abstract of the total amount for each year.
  2. An account similar to the above, showing the value of exports from England to the North American Colonies, 1739-1761.
    There is no evidence to show by whom or for whom the accounts were drawn up. They appear to have been for official use.
Unknown
GB 0096 MS 997 · 1839

Contract between the North Midland Railway Company and Joel Buxton for the building of Masborough station in Yorkshire, 16 Dec 1839. Includes specification and prices for materials.

Unknown
GB 0096 MS 731 · 1780

Papers relating to property of John Michie, Director of the East India Company, at 'Muffets' or North Mimms, Hertfordshire, comprising a list of the fields, woods, etc. with their acreages, dated May 1780. There is also a list of those paying land tax, with the amounts, headed 'Present rate of North Myms Common' 7 Jul 1780.
On the reverse of one list is a brief memorandum headed 'By the Joint Committee of private Trade and Shipping', concerning an enquiry into the conduct of captain Peter Douglas of the Queen and Captain John Coggan of the Shrewsbury for 'parting company outward bound contrary to the orders of the Secret Committee' in 1777, dated 5 May 1780, initialled by four of the Company directors, and with a note that it was read in court. The documents are accompanied by a wrapper endorsed 'Muffets. (Account of Grounds by Messrs. Michie'.

Unknown
GB 0096 MS1146 · Fonds · 1874-[1926]

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.

North , W , fl 1874-[1926] , collector
Norwich poor relief papers
GB 0096 MS 646 · 1783-1784

Manuscripts relating to poor relief in Morwich, bound at the end of John Fransham's printed An exact account of the charge for supporting the poor of the City of Norwich (1720). The fourteen used leaves, composed in 1783-1784, contain:

  1. Table apparently showing the amount spent annually on poor relief from 1757-1784 in Norwich, the price of corn, and 'Observations for particular years.
    1. An 'Account of 1 year's expense of the New (or Duke's Palace) Workhouse, 1782', with a concluding memorandum on the cost for each pauper dated Jan 1783.
    2. Accounts for the workhouse in Norwich, giving a table of salaries, details of the diet and earnings of the inmates, 'of the spinning schools', and the 'earnings clear to the corporation'.
Unknown
GB 0096 MS 586 · c1950

Notebook containing a list of books, chiefly on the subject of mediaeval illuminated manuscripts, and notes on individual manuscripts, compiled ?1950.

Unknown
GB 0096 MS 417 · [1764]

Manuscript notebook, [1764], containing an introductory section on philosophy and three sections on logic, the third being unfinished. Two engravings, printed in France, are inserted in the text, and the manuscript is probably French in origin. The partly obliterated date of 1764 occurs at the end of section 3.

Unknown
Notes and papers on currency
GB 0096 MS 502 · 1884-1893

Three items concerning currency, once in the possession of Professor Herbert Somerton Foxwell, as follows.

  1. Papers on Japanese currency, namely two tables of, and remarks on, the values of Japanese metal and paper currency, endorsed by Professor Foxwell 'Soyeda on Japanese Currency October 1884', covering the years 1868-1884; a table ('The Annexed Table'), giving values in yen of imports and exports, 1872-1881; letter from Juichi Soyeda, 139 Queen's Road, Bayswater, W.London, written on 5 December 1884, to Foxwell at Saint John's College, Cambridge. The letter is signed 'Yours truly, obedient student. G.Soyeda'. The envelope bears the note in Foxwell's hand 'Japanese Paper Currency. G. Soyeda'. (20 leaves. 7¾" x 5" and 7¾" x 6¼").
  2. Copy of a 'Mémoire sur la préférence que l'on doit donner à la Monnoye d'argent sur la Monnoye d'or', Paris, Aug. 1720, and 'Réponse au Mémoire, etc.', undated. This is a typescript copy (carbon) made by Professor Charles Franklin Dunbar in October 1890. Includes numerous notes in Foxwell's hand, including the following: 'This manuscript was part of a volume of tracts etc. relating to Law & the Mississipi Scheme, unfortunately bought by [Dr] Bonar, & sent to Harvard during a week of vacation when I was away from Cambridge. I tried in vain to buy or exchange it back, but Profr. Dunbar kindly got this copy made of one item in the volume'. (17 sheets. 7¾" x 9").
  3. Two letters, both written by F.B.Forbes, 57 Rue Pierre Charron, Paris, on 13 April 1893 to Foxwell at Saint John's College, Cambridge. The letters and envelope are in an envelope bearing in Foxwell's hand 'F.B.Forbes. April 1893. Effect of sales of Council Bills on Price of Silver'. (8 sheets, 10¼" x 7¾" and (the second letter) 2 leaves, 6½" x 4¼").
Collated by Herbert Somerton Foxwell.
GB 0096 MS 150 · 1806

Manuscript notes taken from lectures by Dugald Stewart on political economy, 1806. The first lecture (of 42) is dated 3 Feb 1806. The notes are written on the verso only of every leaf.

Unknown
GB 0096 MS 609 · 1708-1821

Manuscript volume containing 'An account of Mr [John] Jenning's method of academical education, with some reflections upon it, in a letter to a friend who had some thoughts of reviving it. Written in the year 1728', and dated at Market Harborough, 31 Oct 1728. This may be the original account written by Philip Doddridge and sent to Isaac Watts.
This manuscript text is followed, in another hand, by copies of two letters from Robert Nelson, one, of 27 July 1708, to George Hanger giving moral advice on Hanger's departure for Turkey on business; the other, dated Epiphany 1713, to Gabriel Hanger on the same subject. There are also, in other hands, extracts from dissenting authors, one dated Oct 1821.

Possibly: Doddridge , Philip , 1702-1751 , non-conformist minister and schoolmaster
Notes on Calcutta banking
GB 0096 MS 227 · (1786-1791) 19th century

Manuscript volume containing a collection of notes, mainly extracts taken from the Calcutta Gazette in 1786, relating to the Bengal Bank and the General Bank of India, probably written in the 19th century.

Unknown
Notes on feudal law
GB 0096 MS 266 · c1675

Manuscript volume containing notes in Latin on Samuel Stryk's Examen iuris feudalis, which was first published in 1675 and was widely used as a legal text-book due to its brevity and clarity.

Unknown
Notes on Japanese exchanges
GB 0096 MS 412 · 1885-1886

Manuscript notes on the Japanese exchanges and markets made for Professor Herbert Somerton Foxwell by Juichi Soyeda, a Japanese banker, in 1885-1886.

Soyeda , Juichi , 1864-1929 , Japanese banker
GB 0096 MS 607 · 1541, 1721

An incomplete printed edition (Lyons, 1542) of the Annals of Tacitus in Latin, dismembered and laid down on blank sheets of paper, interleaved with many blank pages. Some pages contain manuscript annotations in Latin, and there are a few leaves completely in manuscript, written in the same hand, in French, at the present beginning of the volume (which lacks at least four folios) on political ideas, with particular reference to the works of Nicolo Machiavelli. The printed titlepage is inscribed 'Naples, 1 July, 1721', and the otherwise blank page on which it is mounted is dated 'Sep 1, 1721, Naples'. The suggestion of English ownership (and authorship) is strengthened by the further inscription on the titlepage 'Pret. 5 Carl. (?) Eng. 2s'.

Unknown
GB 0096 MS 236 · 1807

Manuscript volume, written on 1 Dec 1807, containing notes on trade with Goa, India, and the Far East, with extensive extracts from letters patent of 1 Jun 1637 granted to William Courten. This manuscript was originally bound with a copy of George Carew's Fraud and oppression detected and arraigned. Or An appeal to the Parliament of England in a short narative [sic] and deduction of severall actions at law, depending in the ordinary courts of justice in Holland & Zealand, between diverse subjects of the King of England, and the subjects of the States Generall of the seven United Provinces (London, 1676), in which the letters patent to Courten were printed.

Unknown
GB 0096 MS 472 · c1842-1867

Papers and drawings relating to the Nottingham and Lincoln Railway, c1842-1867, namely:

  1. Lithograph of Nottingham contract specification for execution of the works, to be completed before 1st June, 1846, with a list of 12 drawings to which the specification refers. (These do not, in most cases, correspond with the 12 numbered drawings that now accompany this document). (47 leaves. 12½" x 8").
  2. Three lists of equipment and materials, compiled for comparison of the total weights various types of lifting gear will bear, c 1845. (2 leaves. 13" x 8").
  3. Printed testimonials of Charles Kinder, railway engineer, 1851-1867, who was trained in the Newcastle works of Robert Stephenson, under whom he prepared the contract plans for and superintended the works on the Nottingham and Lincoln railway. (2 leaves. 9¼" x 7½").
  4. 12 engineering drawings, c 1842-1845, comprising a section and plan of the railway through Belper, 1842 (27½" x 51"); sections of cuttings and embankments, numbered 5a and 6a, incomplete (19½" x 23¼"); sections of cuttings and embankments, numbered 7a and 8a (19½" x 27½"); drawings and sections of a mile and ½-and ¼-mile posts (13" x 14¼"); elevations, plans and sections for a bridge for the Flood Road, numbered 10 (this corresponds with drawing No.10 listed in the contract, p.2.); tracing on linen (24" x 72"); elevations, plans and sections for a bridge over the branch of the River Trent near the 18th mile, numbered 8; tracing on linen (24" x 36"); elevations and sections of a bridge over the River Witham at Lincoln, numbered 9; tracing on linen (24" x 36"); plan, drawings and section for a lifting gear to the bridge for crossing the canal at 14.50 chains, numbered 9; tracing on linen (24" x 36"); plan and sections for a bridge for crossing the canal at 14.50 chains, numbered 9; tracing on linen (24" x 36"); elevation, plan and section of a bridge for the footway of Queens Road, numbered 8 (this corresponds with drawing No.8 listed in the contract, pp.1-2); tracing on linen (24" x 36"); printed plan and section, with manuscript additions, of the proposed railway line from Nottingham to Lincoln (this sheet, numbered 1, shows the town of Nottingham and 1 mile East - i.e. to the parish boundary), surveyed by J.G.Binns in 1844 (19½" x 27"); printed plan and section, with manuscript additions, of the proposed railway line from Nottingham to Lincoln (this sheet is unnumbered but is the final one of a set; it shows the city of Lincoln and 1 mile West), endorsed 'Nottingham and Lincoln Railway. The ends of the working plans and sections' (19½" x 26½").
Nottingham and Lincoln Railway
Nowottny, Winifred M.T.
GB 0096 MS 1081 · c1941-1969

Research and lecture notes, drafts, library request slips and three unidentified tins of film used and compiled by Nowottny in her work on Shakespeare's sonnets and other poetry, including a typescript copy of her MA thesis (1947-1959).

Nowottny , Winifred M T , fl 1946-1959 , poetry scholar
GB 0096 AL92 · Fonds · [1807-1861]

Fragment of a letter from Richard Oastler to an unknown recipient, [1807-1861]. Bearing Oastler's signature.

Oastler , Richard , 1789-1861 , factory reformer
GB 0096 AL93 · Fonds · 1833

Letter from Richard Oastler of Fixby Hall, Huddersfield, [West Riding of Yorkshire] to John Foster, Esq of 1 Vincent Square, Westminster, 23 Jun 1833. Chiefly relating to the Ten Hours Bill. Lord Althorp had advocated 2 sets of 8 hours as the maximum for children under 14 to work. 'The news came just in time for your Hudd meeting - one hour before we began - & thus before 15,000 to 20,000 people I had the opportunity of blowing the whole scheme to rags' [referring to a speech Oastler made at a meeting on 18 Jun 1833. Urging the London section not to yield a single point: 'If they yield they disgrace themselves and give us another year's excitement and in my opinion hurry on a bloody revolution'.

Autograph, with signature. With Oastler's black seal, bearing the motto: 'The Altar, the Throne and the Cottage'.

Oastler , Richard , 1789-1861 , factory reformer
GB 0096 AL94 · Fonds · 1848

Letter from Richard Oastler of 10 Edith Villa, Fulham to Colonel [W L] Moberley, 9 Feb 1848. Requesting that his letters or papers be redirected.

Autograph, with signature.

Oastler , Richard , 1789-1861 , factory reformer
Oates, C.F.
GB 0096 MS 1096 · Fonds · 1986-1993

Research materials compiled by Caroline Frances Oates for her PhD thesis, 'The Trials of Werewolves in Franche-Comte in the Early Modern Period', including photocopies, microfilms and photographs of original documents, with letter regarding the deposit of the material at Senate House Library, University of London (1986-1993). The thesis was published in 1993.

Oates , Caroline Frances , fl 1986-1993 , historian
O'Brien, Eoin
GB 0096 MS 931 · c1992

Photocopies and papers, c1992, relating to the publishing difficulties involving Samuel Beckett's Dream of Fair to Middling Women (Black Cat, Dublin, 1992) ed. Edith Fournier and Eoin O'Brien.

O'Brien , Eoin , b 1939 , writer
GB 0096 AL166 · Fonds · 1962

Letter from Sean O'Casey of Flat 3, 40 Trumlands Road, St Marychurch, Torquay, Devon to [Dr] J H P Pafford, [University of London Library], 21 Mar 1962. Saying that he would 'be pleased to put my name in any book of mine you like to send me'.

Autograph, with signature.

O'Casey , Sean , 1880-1964 , playwright and writer x Casey , John x O'Cathasaigh , Seán
GB 0096 AL362 · Fonds · 1937-1957

14 letters from Sean O'Casey to Peter Newmark, May 1937- Dec 1957. Topics covered include: literary critics and criticism; the Communist Party; the Roman Catholic Church; plays and playwrights; and the writing of O'Casey's works and their publication and performance in Britain, Ireland and the USA. Individuals mentioned include: James Evershed Agate, Samuel Beckett, Ugo Betti, T S Eliot, Jean Giraudoux, Eugène Ionesco, Eugene O'Neill, George Orwell, John Osborne, Terence Rattigan, Jean-Paul Sartre, and W B Yeats.

O'Casey , Sean , 1880-1964 , playwright and writer x Casey , John x O'Cathasaigh , Seán
Offley, A: letter ([1790])
GB 0096 AL432 · Fonds · [1790]

Letter from A Offley, c 1790. No address. To Mrs Walker. Supplies a character reference for a servant, Mrs Stent, who had among her recommendations that she 'stayd with ye dificall lady Manchester [Elizabeth Montagu, Duchess of Manchester] longer than most of her sarvents do but as to her [Mrs Stent's] temper it is warm and pashonat and she cant allways commande it ...'.

Autograph, with signature.

Offley , A , fl 1790
O'Flaherty, Liam
GB 0096 SL V 72, SL V 73, SL V 74, SL V 75 · c1930-1931

Holograph manuscripts of O'Flaherty's novels. SL V 72 is The Wild Swan, 1930. SL V 73 is The Ecstasy of Angus, 1931. SL V 74 is Skerrett, 1932 and SL V 75 is The Martyr 1933.

O'Flaherty , Liam , 1896-1984 , novelist
Ogden, Charles Kay: letter
GB 0096 AL448 · Fonds · [1924]

2 Letters from Charles Kay Ogden of the Royal Societies Club, St James's Street, London SW1, to Montague Summers, 14 Oct and 27 [Oct] [1924]. Discussing books being prepared by Summers: Witchcraft, Restoration Drama and Physical Phenomena of Mysticism.

Autograph, with signature.

Ogden , Charles Kay , 1889-1957 , linguistic psychologist
GB 0096 MS 421 · 1859-1860

Two holograph manuscripts, 1859-1860, of addresses made by David Graham Drummond Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Airlie. Also contains two letters from Professor J D A Ogilvy.

Ogilvy , David Graham Drummond , 1826-1881 , 5th Earl of Airlie
Oldham, James
GB 0096 MS 174 · 1842-1863

Book contains full notes on the administration and officers of the Port of London, customs and excise, freights, smuggling, etc., arranged in alphabetical order, preceded by an index, 1842-1863.

Oldham , James , fl 1842 , employee of the Port of London
GB 0096 MS 767 · [1831-1832?]

Manuscript operetta in several hands, perhaps including that of the author, Patrick Robertson, entitled 'La festa d'overgroghi, operetta seria comica, in due atti...parole inglesi-italiane dal Signor Coccalicchi. Rappresentata nella Casa Skenea, Edinburgo, Marzio 1832', and containing instructions to the printer. The manuscript is bound with a printed copy of Nugae Legales (according to the half-title only), containing the printed operetta and some other items. The printed version is fuller than the manuscript, and the leaves are laid down to the size of the manuscript leaves.

Unknown
GB 0096 MS 518 · 18th century

Manuscript volume entitled 'Messis Accademica, a Liborio Nicomede Comite Cini collecta', containing a collection of orations in Latin and Italian, including those made at the funeral of Joseph I in 1711 and the coronation of Charles VI in 1712 delivered by Clorindo Erimantico ('peregrino arcadie pastore'), orations made on the birthday of Charles VI and, headed 'Mysterium Magnum', for Leopold, Archduke of Austria, on 13 Apr 1716, and funeral orations for members of the imperial family. A number of the orations begin with an 'Expositio' followed by a 'Iudicium', and take as their text propositions of [Gottfried Wilhelm von] Leibnitz, [Rudolf] Count of Rabatta, and Count [Johann] Cobenzl. All the orations except those for Joseph I, the coronation of Charles VI and Archduke Leopold, include 'Epigrammata Extemporanea'.

Unknown