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Letter from Benjamin Heywood Bright to Philip Bliss, [1820-1840?], relating to Shakespeare and Ben Johnson.

Small mounted oil painting by Thomas Creswick, of a steam train passing Leighton Buzzard on the London and Birmingham Railway line. A note on the reverse suggests that the work was painted in 1837.

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.

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.

Papers of Robert Saudek (1881-1935), consisting of: case files with specimens of handwriting, drawings, photographs, some correspondence, and biographical information about the individuals relating to research about twins in collaboration with Ernest Seeman, 1928-1935; detailed research files on pairs of twins used by Saudek and Ernest Seeman, and also H.H.Newman and H.J.Muller, in published articles on the graphology and mental and physical characteristics of twins, 1921-1937; general research files containing specimens of handwriting with some correspondence arranged under various categories such as mental and physical illness, occupation or life experience, 1908-1936; general graphological research files, including correspondence with other academics and illustrations and notes for published works, 1918-1949; other research material, including material relating to the Sociedad Argentina de Grafologia and tools for conducting intelligence tests, 1924-1934; photographic material, including a photograph of Saudek and glass plate negatives of his published handwriting specimens, 1926-1927.

Notes, correspondence, press-cuttings and ephemera found in the Burns library. Correspondents include Charles Booth (1903). Press-cuttings cover subjects such as unemployment, local government, religion, and trades unions. Also includes a scrapbook of William Cobbett letters (1831-1832) and minutes of Liverpool branch of Association of All Classes of All Nations (1837-1839).

Cavalier Playing Cards collection, 1886, comprises a bound volume containing a pack of cavalier playing cards, designed in the era of Charles II, forming a complete satire of the Commonwealth, published by the Clarendon Historical Society, with accompanying typescript explanation on each card by Edmund Goldschmid (1885-1886).

Letter, 1960, from James Baxter to John Pocock, thanking him for the review of his two plays, The Wide Open Cage, and Jack Winter's Dream.

Letter to an anonymous correspondent in which Octave Uzanne mentions his six months in Brittany, 1918. He claims to have benefitted from the fresh air there.

Copy of the newspaper, The Post Boy. Includes letter to Lady Rokeby of Northallerton, Yorkshire.

Letter from John Tayler to a Mrs Marshall describing how he and his family are settling in to Lincoln, 1924.

Will of James Dotin, 1745; inventory of Mount Edge plantation, Barbados; indenture regarding sale of Baxter Valley by John and Elizabeth Dotin to William Duke, 1749; disposition by Edward Hay regarding authenticity of these documents, 1773.

Correspondence of William Carey, John Campbell, Jospeh Hume, Thomas Babington Macaulay and John Philips, 1805-1847, comprising a letter from Joseph Hume to John Campbell, Apr 1843, regarding the petition from Montrose against the Factory Bill; a letter from Thomas Babington Macaulay to an unknown recipient, 6 Apr 1847, regarding the probable loss of his seat in Parliament; a letter from John Philips of Aberdeen to his brother, 19 Apr 1815; a letter from William Carey of Calcutta, to his father, 31 Dec 1805, describing conditions in India; and a letter from John Campbell to his "Christian Brethren" in Copenhagen, 7 Jan 1807.

Papers of the Incorporated Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers comprising an annual report for 1945.

Papers of Francis Tebbs Havergal, 31 Oct 1883, comprising a letter to accompany the volume of Monumental Inscriptions in Hereford Cathedral (1881) he sent to Sir Albert Woods and set of coloured plates of coats of arms from Hereford Cathedral.

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 Joan Gili, 1844-1997, comprise Catalonia: press-cuttings, leaflets regarding cultural events; some minutes, circulars of the Anglo-Catalan society, 1976-1995; leaflets by British-based exiles protesting against Spanish government; Monserrat manifesto, 1970; memoranda on Catalonia to international organizations, 1950s; posters from Barcelona, 1844-c 1933.

Papers of Matthew Manning, [1974-1990], comprising automatic drawings; drafts including of The Link, The Strangers; correspondence of Peter Bander; magazine articles about Manning and psychic phenomena.

Invoices, reviews and accounts including manuscript reviews by Herbert Foxwell of works by the historian William Arthur Shaw; details of Foxwell's monthly expenditure on books, sorted by location; invoices from bookshops, [1880-1925].

Reports, conference papers on library classification, thesauri, planning of library services, 1952-[1974]; National Pahlavi Library project papers, reports, [1975]-1978; teaching notes on librarianship, 1964; correspondence, [1940-1991].

Miscellaneous correspondence; poster regarding anarchist bomb in Liege, c 1910; miscellaneous photographs including John Burns (c 1906), crowd at Trafalgar Square after Zinoviev letter controversy, 1924; ephemera including trade union membership cards.

This handwritten volume is concerned with the freedom of trade which has caused the disappearance and bankruptcy of many small businesses. Bruyard also alludes to the fact that the only reason French manufactures are still exported is due to the war in which England presently is engaged and which absorbs a lot of attention and financial resources. The author claims that once the English have their hands free, the French will soon find out that they have little resources in comparison with the English. In the inner margin of the first page is a note stating 'Remis à M. de Montaran, le 9 Xbre (December) 1782.'

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.

Papers of John Holroyd regarding imports and exports of Ireland, 1764-1783.

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

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 for rebuilding London Bridge to the design of the late John Rennie, Esq'. Dated at the Guildhall, 5 Dec 1823. Belonged to John Urpeth 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).

'A memoriall concerning the free-trade now tolerated between France and Holland', addressed to Sidney Godolphin.

Manuscript volume containing papers relating to William Wood and the minting of halfpence and farthings for Ireland comprising transcripts of a report of the Committee of the Privy Council of 24 Jul 1724 and the ensuing Order in Council of 6 Aug 1724, both relating to Wood's Irish coinage, with a copy of 'Mr Wood's Proposals'.

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'.

'Some reflections on the life of William Shakespeare' by James Corton Cowell, 1805, consisting of two essays, the first of 36 p. and incomplete; the second essay occupies p. 55-87. Cowell is the first critic known to have attributed Shakespeare's plays to Bacon.

Fowre Sermons containing the life & Actes of the moste famous virgine St. Katherine of Sienna written by the Reverend Fa: Lewes de Granada. Pencilled note on the fly-leaf suggesting that this is a translation by Francis Meres, 1565-1647.

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.

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.

Decorated copy of a deed (13 January 1677) amalgamating two church societies of shoemakers and giving revised and clarified rules for the new Fraternities. Another deed (11 September 1731) gives further modifications and clarifications. The scribe gives the date of the folio as 1732.

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.

Al Exmo. Senor Duque del Infantado mi senor en ocasion de auerse ejecutado en su Villa de chamartin una fiesta de toros, con Motiuo de la boda, que se espera desu Hija con el exmo. Senor Conde de Niebla: Romanze.

A collection of documents relating to houses in the Calle de la Paz, Madrid, 1589-1778.

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.

Regla de los hermanos del hospital de senor sant benito el viejo.

Volume containing material relating to the life and execution (in 1621) of Rodrigo Calderon; the Aragon conspiracy of 1648; and the expulsion of the Jesuits by Charles III in 1667. The latter includes copies of letters exchanged between Charles III and Pope Clement XIII.

Instructions to Innocent de Massami, Bishop of Bertinoro, Nuncio to Philip IV of Spain, concerning the proposed marriage of the Infanta Maria to Charles, Prince of Wales, 1623.

'Annales o historia de Madrid que hasta el ano de 1658 escrivio D. Antonio de Leon Pinelo'.

Notarial warrant authorizing possession by order of Ludovico Ortiz, mayor of Madrid, to Francisco de Castaneda of the premises in the Canos del Peral in the vicinity of Salamanca, sold to him by Ana de Vivera, 24 Jul 1543.

A moral treatise "dedicado al Senor Don Francisco de Oriar, mi Senor, dignidad en la santa inglesia de Toledo".

Findings in a suit brought by the monastry of Santa Catalina de Sena (in Madrid) against the Conde de Camarata.