Letters discuss agriculture, particularly Scottish farming and British farm productivity in general; the coal industry; Buckland's views on geology; and various scientific discoveries.
Subject (Name):
Buckland, William, 1784-1856 and Peel, Robert, Sir, 1788-1850
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture--Great Britain, Bible and geology, and Farm management--Great Britain
Personal correspondence ranging from thank-you notes to discussions of poetry and poetical nature to one letter in which Stockdale discusses his unhappiness with his "married state".
Manuscripts, in a single hand, of Blagden's correspondence with Lord and Lady Palmerston. 71 letters are addressed to Lord Palmerston and 27 to Lady Palmerston. The letters discuss personal affairs, including the health of Lord Palmerston, his travels, and social news about acquaintances, especially of the marriage negotiations of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, and of his daughter. Blagden also discusses political and military news, giving his correspondents extensive reports on the fighting at Madras and Seringapatam; the conclusion of a treaty between Sweden and Russia; and Dagobert Wurmser's actions against Napoleon Buonaparte in 1796. He also mentions sales of art collections, including those of the Duke of Orleans and the importation of an Egyptian statue to London, declaring that "the features of the countenance are sufficiently entire to assist in deciding the much-contested question, whether the acient Egyptians were Blacks," and comparing the statue to "our present negroes." Finally, the letters occasionally mention scientific matters and meetings of the Royal Society of London.
Description:
For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator. and The letters are grouped into three packets, each of which is contained in a paper wrapper with Charles Blagden's name written on the front.
Subject (Geographic):
France--Foreign relations--Great Britain., Great Britain--Foreign relations--France., Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1820., Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century., India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947., and Śrīraṅgapaṭṭaṇa (India)
Subject (Name):
Blagden, Charles,--Sir,--1748-1820., Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821., Palmerston, Henry Temple,--2nd Viscount,--1739-1802., Palmerston, Mary (Mee) Temple,--Viscountess,--1754-1805., Rumford, Benjamin,--Graf von,--1753-1814., Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli,--Nawab of Mysore,--1753-1799., and Wurmser, Dagobert Sigmund,--graf von,--1724-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Art--Collectors and collecting. and Science--Great Britain--History--18th century.
It also includes a charter granting lands from William I to Deorman., It includes a copy of the charter in Old English presented by William the Conqueror affirming the rights held by the citizens of London under Edward the Confessor., Manuscript, on parchment, in chancery script, produced in London at the beginning of the sixteenth century (during the reign of Henry VII)., and The text is an affirmation by King Henry VII of the rights given to the city of London by previous kings.
Description:
Binding: vellum wrapper., On the wrapper is written "Thomas Binkheued who sold it to Raph Wilbraham.", Purchased for the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection., and The manuscript was originally a roll, as can be seen by the sewing holes extending across the bottom of each page.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Kings and rulers, London (England)--Charters, grants, privileges, and London (England)--History
Subject (Name):
Henry--VII,--King of England,--1457-1509
Subject (Topic):
Charters--England--London, Laws--England, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscripts, in different hands, of a collection of several dozen primarily satirical and anonymous poems, many scatological. The majority of the poems are political satires, especially concerning the abdication of King James II and the accession of King William III; other targets include Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax; religious zeal; and France. Other poems satirize women, including Barbara Villiers (afterwards Palmer), Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland, with reference to her affair with rope-dancer Jacob Hall; Mrs. Moseley and her link with Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Baron Ashley and 1st Earl of Shaftesbury; and women's conduct generally. The collection also includes a broadside printing of Packington's Pound, as well as numerous satirical songs sung to its tune.
Description:
Binding: marbled covers, detached. and See "Early American Literature, vol. XIV, 1979, concerning the attribution of "A Fart" (p. 193).
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Court and courtiers, Great Britain--Politics and government--1660-1714, and Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century
Subject (Name):
Cleveland, Barbara Villiers Palmer, Duchess of, 1641-1709, Etherege, George, Sir, 1635?-1691, Hall, Jacob, James II, King of England, 1633-1701. aut, Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683, and William III, King of England, 1650-1702
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, English poetry--17th century, Political poetry, English, Songs, English, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life
"An Epitome of Mr. Levett's Treatise of the Ordering of Bees, by [T.F.?], Arm:," separately paginated, follows the author's own treatise., Annotated drawings of beehives in the same hand, p. 31 and p. 81., Manuscript on paper, in a single cursive hand, of a practical guide to profitable beekeeping for "any poor man that hath but a cottage and a Yard in it." The text covers every aspect of beekeeping from the initial selection of bees through directions for straining honeycombs. There is lengthy discussion of the proper location of hives, and the author recommends stacked wooden boxes, or "stalls," rather than the traditional straw hives., The author also comments on his own twenty years of experience with beekeeping; the outbreak of plague in Newcastle in 1636; the destruction of his first hives by the "Scots army" near Newcastle in February 1642; and his decision to write this work despite his lack of notes "haveing much idle time during my imprisonement at Winchester house.", and The text is followed by a detailed and heavily annotated thirty page table of contents in the same hand.
Description:
Accompanied by typed transcript of the Treatise of Bees &c only., Binding: nineteenth-century full calf., Blanks not digitized., Bound in modern page at front of volume annotated in a modern hand with bibliographic information and a summary of "T. F."'s biography., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Tightly bound with some loss of text in the gutter.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649, Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649--Prisoners and prisons, and Great Britain--Politics and government--1642-1660
Subject (Name):
Levett, John.--Ordering of bees
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture--Economic aspects--England--Northumberland, Bee culture--Early works to 1800, Bee culture--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Beehives, Beekeepers--Handbooks, manuals, etc, and Plague--England--17th century
Pembroke, Anne Clifford Herbert, Countess of, 1590-1676
Published / Created:
1600-1602.
Call Number:
Osborn b27
Image Count:
86
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of personal accounts on behalf of Lady Anne Clifford. The manuscript records gifts from various sources, such as gold "geven by my Lady of Warwick to my La. Anne at the court," and money allowed by her mother, Lady Cumberland, as well as its expenditure on clothes, charity, and play. Entries include sums "Given by my La. Anne for a reward to a poore woman that brought her Lap. apples & cakes," "for half a thousand of pynnes," "delivered to Mrs. Taylor for buying a white parchmt fanne for my Lady Anne," "geven by my Lady Anne to ii poore men in the fields," and "lost at cardes." The manuscript also records sums borrowed by Lady Anne, and the names of her creditors.
Description:
Binding: limp parchment., Dos-a-dos, two pages of pen trials and proverbs., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Signatures of Anne Clifford appear throughout the manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
England--Social life and customs
Subject (Topic):
Account books, Accounting, Maxims, Nobility--England, Women--Conduct of life, and Women--Social life and customs
Anonymous manuscript copy of Hoby's travel narrative, then unpublished, describing journeys into Italy, Germany, and France. Also contains anecdotes of Lady Jane Dudley, known as Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554), and her conversation with John de Feckenham
Description:
Possibly transcribed by or for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-1889). and Paper WM 1842.
Subject (Name):
Hoby, Thomas, Sir, 1530-1566.
Subject (Topic):
Courts and courtiers and Travelers' writings, English
Dedicatory preface to "the right honourable my most deare mother the Lady Elizabeth Cope," offering her this volume as "speciall testimony of his duty." and Manuscript, on paper, in a single secretary hand of a travel narrative relating Cope's observations and experiences during an 18-month sojourn in France. Following some careful general notes on French geography and history, Cope details his journey to Paris, where he toured the principal cathedrals, palaces, public buildings and parks. He viewed the Carnival observances and attended services at the Jesuit church in St. Germain, hearing a sermon "against the protestant religion, and....cheifly against the English nation" which was also attended by "the English queene." Cope then traveled through Orleans to Saumur, where he lived and studied for a year. He calls it "a very little Citty....but one of the most agreeable in France" and carefully describes landscapes, gardens, bridges and buildings, the politeness of its citizens, and local pastimes such as golf, tennis and squittles [skittle]. He also took excursions to sites such as Richelieu's palace at Champigny, and lived for some months in Angers, which he found "stuffd with churches." Cope returned to England via Paris and Rotterdam.
Description:
Binding: contemporary full red morocco, decorated in gilt, with central gilt lozenges on both boards., Ex libris John Mordaunt Cope. Purchased from Arthur Freeman on the Hazel M. Osborn Fund, 2004., Shelf mark on front pastedown., and Sir John Cope was the third son of Sir John Cope of Hanwell by his second wife, Lady Elizabeth Fane, daughter of the Earl of Westmorland. He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford in 1651; held a command at Dunkirk in 1662, and succeeded to the baronetcy in 1675. He married Anne Booth. Cope served as MP for Oxfordshire 1679-90, and for Banbury in 1699-1700. He died January 11, 1721 and was succeeded by his eldest son, also named John.
Subject (Geographic):
Angers (France)--Description and travel., France--Description and travel., Paris (France)--Description and travel., Saumur (France)--Description and travel., and Saumur (France)--Social life and customs.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Customs and practices., Cope, Elizabeth Fane,--Lady,--1610-1669., Cope, John Mordaunt,--Sir,--1732 or 33-1779--Bookplate., Cope, John,--Sir,--d. 1721., and Henrietta Maria,--Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England,--1609-1669.
Subject (Topic):
Carnival--France., Grand tours (Education), and Travelers' writings, English.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 239 political poems expressing loyalty to James II and entreaties for him to resume the English throne. Titles of such poems include His majestie's royal farewell to England and The confinement by Sir Robert L'Estrange. Other entries consist of songs in praise of King James, including A health to the King's return; A song to the tune of the King shall enjoy his own again; and A loyal Jacobean song. Many other poems lampoon or eulogize specific figures, such as Elegy on Mr. Ashton; An acrostic on John Tillotson; and an Epitaph on Algernon Sidney. Numerous poems mock the figures of William and Mary, including On the coronation of K. William and Q. Mary; and On the late metamorphosis of an old picture of Oliver Cromwells into a new picture of King William, the head chang'd the hierogliphicks remaining; others satirize the Protestant Church, Parliament, the Church of England, and the nonjuror controversy that followed the Revolution of 1688.
Description:
Binding: contemporary red morocco; gilt decoration. In gilt on cover: the arms of King James II, to whom the manuscript was presented about 1700. Title on spine: "Loyal Poems &c.", Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Strange. On flyleaf: T. A. W. L. Strange., Marbled endpapers., Pasted on flyleaf: dealer's description of manuscript., Table of contents at beginning of manuscript, and index at end., and Title from title page.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History--Revolution of 1688 and Great Britain--Politics and government--1660-1714
Subject (Name):
Great Britain.--Parliament |d (1689), James--II,--King of England,--1633-1701, L'Estrange, Roger,--Sir,--1616-1704, Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694, Russell, Archibald George Blomefield, 1879-1955, Sidney, Algernon,--1622-1683, Strange, Thomas,--Sir--Autograph, Tillotson, John,--1630-1694, and William--III,--King of England,--1650-1702
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--17th century, English wit and humor, Jacobites--Poetry, Nonjurors, Political poetry, English--Early modern, 1500-1700, and Verse satire, English