- MSA/1/27
- Item
- 16 Sep 1831
Part of Manuscript Albums
Signed by creator.
Part of Manuscript Albums
Signed by creator.
Letter from William Wyon to "My dear Louisa" concerning entry to the Royal Academy
Part of Manuscript Albums
Describes in detail the process of obtaining membership of the Academy. Signed by creator.
Letter in French from Chateaubriand to an unidentified correspondent
Part of Manuscript Albums
Signed by creator.
Letter of introduction from Roderick Murchison to "Buckland" concerning C. T. Kleinschrod
Part of Manuscript Albums
Letter of 1 side describing Kleinschrod's background and interest in the "great canal" linking the Danube and the Rhine. Signed by creator. Copy.
Letter of thanks from J. J. Meeke to S. W. Silver
Part of Manuscript Albums
Signed by creator.
Letter on House of Commons headed paper concerning the Religious Worship section of the 1851 Census
Part of Manuscript Albums
Letter of four sheets discussing the matter in some detail. Includes a postscript referring to an interview with Mr Selwyn, MP for Cambridge University, on the matter.
Letter to Charles Hunter Blair from an unknown correspondent concerning High Sheriffs
Part of Manuscript Albums
Letter of thanks for a gift of 'The Sheriffs of the County of Durham' and goes on to briefly discuss various High Sheriffs. Copy.
Part of Manuscript Albums
Consists of letters from people of local and national significance.
Part of Manuscript Albums
Consists of letters from people of local and national significance.
Contains of 2 albums of letters, including some by people of local significance like Thomas Bewick, Richard Grainger, George Stephenson, George Otto Trevelyan, Robert Spence Watson and Joseph Swan and others written by such household names as A.E. Houseman, Horatio Nelson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, William Wilberforce, Michael Faraday, William Ewart Gladstone, Thomas Carlyle, Walter Besant, Mary Shelley, Charles Babington, Garibaldi, Victor Hugo, Ellen Terry and Robert Southey. Other letters include a request for an address to facilitate the delivery of a bear skin from David Walton (1859), an account of the pranks of the 'Borrowlow Bogle' from J. Arkle (1856), the refusal to grant Madame de Bury's request that an officer in the Indian Army be promoted by Richard Airey (1860), a description of his house in China by James Bruce Elgin (1860) and a discussion of French politics and her newly-married life in the country by Frances [i.e. Fanny] Burney (1792).
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