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1.
Catalogue of Dr. Hutton's library, 1815

Creator:
Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823
Call Number:
LWL Mss Vol. 54
Image Count:
80
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript catalogs of Dr. Charles Hutton's books, each volume in a single hand, arranged in alphabetical order and including information on place and date of publication, size, and number of volumes. The first volume contains books from his general ...
Description:
Charles Hutton (1737-1823) was a mathematician, professor, and foreign secretary of the Royal Society from 1777-1783. He was interested in applied mathematics and open to innovations from the continent, active in experiments with military technology,...
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Mathematicians, Books and reading, Collectors and collecting, Private libraries, Science and technology libraries, and Intellectual life
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Catalogue of Dr. Hutton's library, 1815

2.
Catalogue of Dr. Hutton's library, 1815

Creator:
Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823
Call Number:
LWL Mss Vol. 54
Image Count:
116
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript catalogs of Dr. Charles Hutton's books, each volume in a single hand, arranged in alphabetical order and including information on place and date of publication, size, and number of volumes. The first volume contains books from his general ...
Description:
Charles Hutton (1737-1823) was a mathematician, professor, and foreign secretary of the Royal Society from 1777-1783. He was interested in applied mathematics and open to innovations from the continent, active in experiments with military technology,...
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Mathematicians, Books and reading, Collectors and collecting, Private libraries, Science and technology libraries, and Intellectual life
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Catalogue of Dr. Hutton's library, 1815

3.
Breaking up of the Blue Stocking Club [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1 March 1815]
Call Number:
Folio 75 W87 807 v.4
Collection Title:
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The Blue Stocking meeting over a tea table has dissolved into one of furious combat. Five pairs of women beat each other with their fists and tear at each other's hair and clothes. One woman empties a boiling pot of tea over her prostrate foe while an...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
By Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Topic):
Intellectual life, Women in England, Fighting, and Clubwomen
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Breaking up of the Blue Stocking Club [graphic]

4.
Breaking up of the Blue Stocking Club [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1 March 1815]
Call Number:
815.03.01.04+
Collection Title:
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The Blue Stocking meeting over a tea table has dissolved into one of furious combat. Five pairs of women beat each other with their fists and tear at each other's hair and clothes. One woman empties a boiling pot of tea over her prostrate foe while an...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
By Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Topic):
Intellectual life, Women in England, Fighting, and Clubwomen
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Breaking up of the Blue Stocking Club [graphic]

5.
Papers of the Earl of Morton, 1745-1807

Creator:
Morton, James Douglas, Earl of, 1702-1768
Call Number:
OSB MSS 72
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
30
Abstract:
The collection contains scientific, political and personal correspondence of the Earl of Morton and the first Lady Morton; a travel diary kept by Sholto, Lord Morton in 1784; and a few folders of letters to George Douglas, Earl of Morton (1761-1827). ...
Description:
James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton (1702-1768) was educated in Edinburgh and at King's College, Cambridge. An amateur scientist and mathematician, Morton was the first President of the Edinburgh Society for Improving the Arts and Sciences; served as P...
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland., France, Great Britain, and Scotland
Subject (Name):
Belle-Isle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de, 1684-1761., Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788., Clairaut, M., 1713-1765., Decker, Matthew, Sir, 1679-1749., Douglas, Robert, -1745., Douglas, William, -1747., Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782., Farquharson, Francis., Geoffrin, Marie-Thérèse Rodet, 1699-1777., Hoey, Abraham van, 1684-1766., Irwin, Anne, Viscountess, 1696-1764., König, Samuel, 1712-1757., Le Monnier, Louis Guillaume, 1717-1799., Le Monnier, M. 1715-1799. (Pierre-Charles),, MacLaurin, Colin, 1698-1746., Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755., Morton, George Douglas, Earl of, 1761-1827., Morton, James Douglas, Earl of, 1702-1768., Morton, Sholto Charles Douglas, Earl of, 1732-1774., Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de, 1683-1757., Saint-Germain, comte de, -1784., Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., West, Benjamin, 1730-1813., Bastille., Royal Society (Great Britain), and Select Society.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Enlightenment, Influence, Natural history, Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, Philosophes, Telescopes, Design and construction, Intellectual life, Politics and government, and Civilization
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Papers of the Earl of Morton, 1745-1807

6.
Travel diaries, [circa 1770].

Creator:
Burney, Charles, 1726-1814
Call Number:
Osborn c194
Image Count:
341
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript diaries, in two hands, describing Burney's tour of Italy and France in 1770. The first volume begins with an explanation of the purpose of his tour, to collect information about music, and of the diaries, to record the incidents of the tou...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
France, Italy, Europe, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bassi, Laura, 1711-1778., Burney, Charles, 1726-1814., and Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Subject (Topic):
Music, Travelers' writings, English, Social life and customs, Description and travel, and Intellectual life
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Travel diaries, [circa 1770].

7.
Letters describing life in England, 1790

Call Number:
LWL Mss Vol. 115
Image Count:
270
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, in a single hand with numerous corrections, of a collection of 15 letters describing life in England, translated into French, possibly from German. The letters discuss English lotteries; the proliferation of newspapers; the constitution a...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Great Britain., England, France, and Versailles (France)
Subject (Name):
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834., Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793., and Necker, Jacques, 1732-1804.
Subject (Topic):
Cockfighting, Elections, Hunting, Lotteries, Slave trade, Newspapers, Nobility, Travelers' writings, French, Description and travel, History, Women, Intellectual life, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Letters describing life in England, 1790

8.
[Diaries], 1776-1788

Creator:
Blagden, Charles, Sir, 1748-1820
Call Number:
Osborn fc16
Container / Volume:
1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, in a single hand, consisting primarily of scientific and travel notes. The manuscript begins with Blagden's notes during his service as a surgeon in the army during the American Revolutionary War between 1776 and 1780. Stationed in the C...
Description:
Sir Charles Blagden (1748-1820), was a physician and secretary of the Royal Society. In 1772, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1776 he became a surgeon in the army and served on a hospital ship during the American Revolutionary War....
Subject (Geographic):
United States., France, Great Britain, England, and United States
Subject (Name):
Blagden, Charles, Sir, 1748-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Science, History, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Intellectual life, Social life and customs, and Personal narratives, British
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Diaries], 1776-1788

9.
Letters between B. Strutt and J. Pattison, 1778-1782

Call Number:
Osborn fc156
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Album containing the correspondence of Benjamin Strutt of Colchester and John Pattison Jr. of Witham. The letters are highly literary in nature, and contain many references to, playful imitations of, and comments on MacPherson's <title>Ossian</title>,...
Description:
Available on microfilm.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796, Pattison, John Jr., 1758-1782., Strutt, Benjamin, 1754-1827., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Classical studies, English literature, English poetry, Friendship, Sentimentalism in literature, Students, Books and reading, and Intellectual life
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Letters between B. Strutt and J. Pattison, 1778-1782

10.
A catalogue of the library of the right honble earl of Chesterfield, at Ethrope, Bucks., 1778 Jun

Creator:
Edwards, A.
Call Number:
LWL Mss Vol. 80
Image Count:
65
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Holograph catalogue of Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield's library at Ethrope. The manuscript begins with an explanation of the shelving system at the library, followed by an index to the volume which divides the work by book size and language. ...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Betterton, Thomas, 1635?-1710., Cervetto, Giacobbe, 1682-1783., Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Earl of, 1755-1815., Darly, Matthias., Dryden, John, 1631-1700., Duck, Stephen, 1705-1756., Edwards, A., Hogarth, William, 1697-1764., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Collectors and collecting, Nobility, Books and reading, Private libraries, and Intellectual life
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A catalogue of the library of the right honble earl of Chesterfield, at Ethrope, Bucks., 1778 Jun