Miscellany: English, 18th-20th centuries

Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

c.1795-1923

51 items

Purchased from: Sotheby's, London, December 1919, February 1931, November 1931 and November 1933; Puttick and Simpson, May 1930; Stevens, London, March 1931, April 1931 and July 1931; Glendining, London, December 1931, February 1932, September 1932, September 1933, October 1934 and January 1935; Desgranges, Paris, October 1935; Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945, presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; E. Hall, Gravesend, circa January 1965; F.E. Whitehart Rare Books, July 1992; J.L.M. Gulley, London, September 1995 and January 1996 Julian Browning, May 1998. no. 29 presented by Mrs. Fothergill, September 1927; nos. 37-40 presented by Mrs. Scattergood, February 1937. Provenance details of nos. 8, 23, 43-44, 50 not recorded; no accession information recorded for no. 30. (Accessions 56320, 56483, 62824, 67287, 67370, 67430, 67474, 67595, 67648, 67677, 67769, 67929, 67971, 68130, 68133, 68194, 68565, 69099, 69839, 72200, 75331, 75332, 311503, 348961, 350000, 350150 and 350903.)

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.