Collection: Miscellaneous mss., 2100 BCE-1992

Undated - Tournachon, Félix, 1820-1910, aeronaut. Paris France. To -- Dejolme. "...Veux tu me rendre le service d'inserer les 2 notes que voici." box 11

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Removed from Vincenzo Lunardi's An Account of the First Aerial Voyage in England... London, 1784 (Lilly TL620 .L8 A27 copy 2).

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Undated - Tytler, Patrick Fraser, 1791-1849, historian. 36 Melville Street. To James Maidment, Princes Street. Thanks him for the printed copy of an agreement made by the Boyd family to use in his History of Scotland and asks if the original exists and where. box 11

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Removed from An historical and critical essay on the life and character of Petrarch by Alexander Fraser Tytler, lord Woodhousele. Edinburgh, John Ballantyne and Co., 1810 (Lilly PQ4540 .W8).

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Undated - Waite, Arthur Edward, 1857-?. The False monarchy of demons. box 11

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Handwritten copy Includes diagrams in ink in front cover

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Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941, printer. Heath Mass. To Walter Prichard Eaton. Eaton's article on printers in the Bookman ; his press., 1924, August 9 - box 7

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1924, August 9 -

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Accompanied by cover Removed from Updike's Printing Types... Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1922 (Lilly Z250 .A2 U66 vol. 1).

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Vandermonde, Jacques François, -1746, physician. Extract from the Pen-ts'ao chang-mu by Li Chi Tsin, beginning, "Traduction du Chinois en françois, d'une histoire des drogues que porte pour titre Kan mo ou principale extrait des auteurs qui ont ecrits de la medecine," and an original essay beginning, "La Maladie que les Portuguais de l'Inde nomment Mordexin est une indigestion d'estomac...", 1730? - Bound Bound

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1730? -

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Bound in vellum Pagination is numbered 1-111 and 150-168 Translation begins with the fifth book Chinese characters of all names in the text written in corresponding margin Writer does not mention his own name but refers to his personal experiences at Canton in 1728 and at Macao in 1729-1730 Present volume used by Edouard Constant Biot, 1803-1850, engineer, sinologue, for his article in Journal Asiatique, VIII, Paris, 1839, p. 206-230. Formerly in the library of Paul Pelliot, 1878-1945, orientalist; leaf with note in Pelliot's hand laid in front of volume

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Walsh, Robert G. H., naval officer. Bath. "Signal book...carried...night and day, during the blockade of Alexandria by the Squad of Line of battleships...1840...", 1868, June - box 6

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1868, June -

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Neatly drawn colored illustrations of lights and flags including the flags of the fleet at Alexandria Accompanied by a photograph of Walsh

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Wardrop, Sir John Oliver, 1864-1948, consul general. 27 rue Erckmann-Chatrain, Strasbourg, France. To J. J. Cotton. Salisbury Hotel Folkestone, Angleterre. Personal letter about the family and mutual friends., 1923, November 8 - box 7

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1923, November 8 -

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Accompanied by cover Removed from Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani's The book of wisdom and lies. Hammersmith, Middlesex. Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1894 (Lilly PK9169 .O7 B5). Includes transcription

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Waring, George, 1806-1878, editor. To William Fison. Letter presenting a volume to him (Fison) in recognition of his cooperation towards its publication and in the settlement of family affairs "in reference to the residuary legatees.", 1865, November 6 - Bound Bound

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1865, November 6 -

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Mounted on the second blank leaf of Bosworth, ed., The Gothic and Anglo-Saxon Gospels with the versions of Wycliffe and Tyndale. London, John Russell Smith, 1865 (Lilly BS2549 .A4 1865).

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Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846, physician. Cambridge Massachusetts. To Dr. Lyman Spalding, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. "Will you as speedily as you can put me up sealed in a quill some of your smallpox matter? ...We want it to test the kine pock patients who were inoculated.", 1802, October 13 - box 3

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1802, October 13 -

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Waterman, James, 1819- , footman. Autobiography. An interesting and amusing autobiography of an English servant. Written in the third person., 1837-1843 - box 4

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1837-1843 -

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In ink Bound

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Undated - Tournachon, Félix, 1820-1910, aeronaut. Paris France. To -- Dejolme. "...Veux tu me rendre le service d'inserer les 2 notes que voici." box 11

Undated - Tytler, Patrick Fraser, 1791-1849, historian. 36 Melville Street. To James Maidment, Princes Street. Thanks him for the printed copy of an agreement made by the Boyd family to use in his History of Scotland and asks if the original exists and where. box 11

Undated - Waite, Arthur Edward, 1857-?. The False monarchy of demons. box 11

Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941, printer. Heath Mass. To Walter Prichard Eaton. Eaton's article on printers in the Bookman ; his press., 1924, August 9 - box 7

Walsh, Robert G. H., naval officer. Bath. "Signal book...carried...night and day, during the blockade of Alexandria by the Squad of Line of battleships...1840...", 1868, June - box 6

Wardrop, Sir John Oliver, 1864-1948, consul general. 27 rue Erckmann-Chatrain, Strasbourg, France. To J. J. Cotton. Salisbury Hotel Folkestone, Angleterre. Personal letter about the family and mutual friends., 1923, November 8 - box 7

Waring, George, 1806-1878, editor. To William Fison. Letter presenting a volume to him (Fison) in recognition of his cooperation towards its publication and in the settlement of family affairs "in reference to the residuary legatees.", 1865, November 6 - Bound Bound

Waterman, James, 1819- , footman. Autobiography. An interesting and amusing autobiography of an English servant. Written in the third person., 1837-1843 - box 4

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