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Jean Baptiste de la Curne de Sainte-Palaye Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 34
  • Fonds
  • 1768

Contains six manuscript volumes of extracts concerning French antiquities from manuscripts by de la Curne de Ste Palaye and Denis-François Secousse.

La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, Jean-Baptiste de, 1697-1781

Isabella Tylor Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 251
  • Fonds
  • 1893

In the days of old. A Quaker child, 1893. The original typescript has critical notes by Samuel Butler and Holman Hunt at the end.

Tylor, Isabella, 1893

Duke of York and Albany Frederick Augustus Collection

  • CA RBD MSG 195
  • Collection
  • 1778-1821

This collection consists of translations from Terence, begun in 1778, and correspondence on military, political and private matters, 1787-1821, mostly addressed to Thomas Coutts, banker.

Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827

Henry Ellis Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 143
  • Folder
  • 1828

Ellis's 'Notes of my journey to France in 1828' is illustrated with engravings and plans.

Ellis, Henry, 1777-1869

Mary Corse Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 81
  • Fonds
  • between approximately 1820 and 1838

Fonds includes The Duel, a prose short story, December 1838, 68 pages. Also included are prose pieces by Susan Corse, dated March-August 1838, and Elements of the philosophy of the human mind [approimately 1860?].

Thorton Leigh Hunt Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 74
  • Fonds
  • undated

This manuscript is the final portion of a treatise on political economy. There are also prose stories and fragments.

Hunt, Thorton Leigh, 1810-1873

Edward Wolfe Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 68
  • Fonds
  • 1754-1761

This is the pay ledger for Wolfe's Regiment of Marines.

Wolfe, Edward, 1685-1759

Richard Gough Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 62
  • Fonds
  • 1765

Anecdotes of Painting in England, annotated with manuscript.

Peter Heywood Manuscript Collection

  • CA RBD MSG 60
  • Collection
  • 1796-1810

Collection consists of papers of a British naval officer, who sailed on the Bounty. Includes notes and observations on voyages in the South Atlantic and East Indies including directions for navigating the Straits of Banquey and other oriental passages (1801), notes on the Cape of Good Hope (1796) and St. Helena (1805). Also, "Nautical Remarks and Memoranda of Occurences on Board H.M.S. Polyphemus, Donegal and Nereus between 22 Oct. 1806 and 19 Nov. 1810". With a note on reason and a chart of the Road of Basque. Items marked "Morgan" on paper watermarked 1797 and 1805.

Heywood, Peter, 1773-1831

James Forbes Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 276
  • Fonds
  • 1788, 1796-1799, 1834

The fonds consists of manuscript travel journals, engravings, and letters of naturalist, artist, and author James Forbes. The fonds containsa five-volume fair copy of a manuscript travel journal prepared by Forbes describing his travels and stays in Germany, Italy, and Switzerland during 1796 and 1797. Entries describe the climates, cultures, art, monuments, and historical sites of the places he visited. Some entries also reflect current events, such as the French Revolution, and comparison between the places he visited and his native England. The journals were prepared by Forbes ostensibly for his daughter, to whom the first volume contains a dedication. The fifth volume contains an addendum dated 1799. The The fonds also contains two letters, one a letter to Forbes from his grandson, the Count of Montalembert, and one a letter from Forbes to his sister, Eliza Fothergill, dated 1788. The final materials in the fonds are two hand-coloured engravings of illustrations created by Forbes in 1771 and 1783, and published by Richard Bentley (London, 1834).

Forbes, James, 1749-1819

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