Volume 4 of four volumes of transcripts of papers relative to Swedish affairs: the third of three volumes of copies of letters in Swedish from Carl. M. Wasenberg, the Swedish ambassador at London, to Count Gyllenborg, 9 Jan 1741 to 8 June 1742; with copies of five letters from Gyllenborg between 10 Feb. 1741 and 17 Dec. 1743, 9 Jan 1741 to 17 Dec 1743
At fols. 86, 262, 266, 280 and 290 are copies of five letters from Gyllenborg, 1741-1743; and at fols. 272, 274, of two letters from Count Carl Tessin, dated at Fontainebleau and Paris, 10/21 and 16/27 April, 1742.
This volume is much stained by damp.
Dates
- Creation: 9 Jan 1741 to 17 Dec 1743
Extent
301 Leaves
Language of Materials
- Swedish
Shelfmark
MS. Rawl. D. 572
Other Finding Aids
William D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae partis quintae fasciculus primus viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum classes duas priores, ad rem historicam praecipue et topographicam spectantes, complectens(Oxford, 1862), no. D. MSS. Rawl. D. 569-572.
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series(7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. III, no. 13338, 13339, 13340, 13341.
Custodial History
The following note by Rawlinson is on the first fly-leaf in MS. Rawl. D. 569: —"These four volumes of MSS. belonged to Stephen Poyntz, esq., who was envoy in Sweden and plenipotentiary at Soissons" in 1728. "R+R."
Physical Facet
On paper, in folio
Repository Details
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