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Archive of the Dandridge Family of Rousham, Oxfordshire
Collection
Archive of the Dandridge Family of Rousham, Oxfordshire
Extents: 0.30 Linear metres (6 boxes)
Dates:
18th-19th century
Archive of the Russell Family of Swallowfield, Berkshire
Collection
Archive of the Russell Family of Swallowfield, Berkshire
Extents: 5.71 Linear metres (65 boxes)
Dates:
1780-1918
Archive of William Beckford
Collection
Papers of William Beckford (1760-1844), author
Extents: 17.6 Linear metres (176 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
1515-19th cent., n.d.
Article concerning diary of Mrs. Bousfield
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2268
Typescript copy or draft of an article by Eve Palmer, Journey to Pretoria in 1878: Diary of Mrs. Bousfield, wife of the City's first bishop.
Extents: 14 ff.
Dates:
c1975
Autobiographical notes of James Legge, and his wife, Hannah Mary Legge
Collection
Autobiographical notes of James Legge, and his wife, Hannah Mary Legge
Extents: 0.31 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates:
late 19th-early 20th century
Autobiography and travel journal of Henry Alfred Napier, rector of Swyncombe, Oxfordshire
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 21829
Autobiography and travel journal of Henry Alfred Napier, Rector of Swyncombe, Oxfordshire.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
[1815]-1870
Autobiography of an unidentified merchant seaman, mainly an account of his travels as an engineer on various ships, c.1860-c.1880
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don e. 191
Autobiography of an unidentified merchant seaman
Extents: 190 pages
Dates:
late 19th century
'Breve ristretto delle Notizie Storiche riguardanti la Citta di Borgo San Sepolero ad uso specialmente dei Forestieri'
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. C. 99
'Breve ristretto delle Notizie Storiche riguardanti la Citta di Borgo San Sepolero ad uso specialmente dei Forestieri'
Extents: 44 Leaves
Dates:
Written in A.D. 1833 by V. Luzzi
Byron Brenan's diaries of a 'special mission through China, Japan, Corea and Formosa, 1896-97' with visitor book of his stern wheeler 'Shamrock'
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 17245
Byron Brenan's diaries of a 'special mission through China, Japan, Corea and Formosa, 1896-97' with visitor book of his stern wheeler 'Shamrock'.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1894-1898
Captain Benguey Photographs
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2358
Twenty-four stereoscopic glass slides of scenes in Coomassie (Kumasi), Ghana, taken by Captain Benguey on visit there in 1905, accompanied by J.E. Fell, provincial commissioner.
Extents: 24 slides : Two of the slides are broken.
Dates:
1905
Chinese Travelling Trunk (Ashoe Trunk)
Single Item
Shelfmark: JL 1051
Chinese travelling trunk made by Ashoe.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1800 - 1830
Collection of 7 notebooks detailing continental tours of Eliza and T.K. Hall, with travel journals and sketches
Single Item
Diaries of continental tours of Thomas K. Hall and Elizabeth ('Eliza') Hall, with travel journals and sketches
Extents: 1 box (7 volumes)
Dates:
1817, Jun 1818-Jun 1819, 1826-1827, 1829, n.d.
Commonplace book and album of Horace Hayman Wilson
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 1286
Commonplace book and album of Horace Hayman Wilson
Extents: 136 Leaves
Dates:
1829-1842
Copy Diary of Sylvia G. Ward
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2279
Copy diary, 1926-1945, of Sylvia Ward, recounting her experiences en route by sea to West Africa shortly after her marriage in September 1926 and life in the Gold Coast and Mauritius thereafter.
Extents: 132 ff.
Dates:
20th century
Copy journal of James Henry Archer-Burton
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2215
Photocopied typescript, 1989 of journal, 1894-1902 of James Henry Archer-Burton Matabele Jim, transcribed and edited by his son James R. Archer-Burton using British South Africa Company correspondence and other material now held in the National Archives of Zimbabwe; includes photocopied photographs.
Extents: 172 pp.
Dates:
1989
Copy of journal kept by Robert James Bleakley
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS.Ind.Ocn.s.269
Copy of journal kept by Robert James Bleakley as a Colonial Office cadet in Singapore, 1937-1940, including an account of a visit to China. Typescript.
Extents: 308 ff.
Dates:
1937-1940
Correspondence and Papers of Lord Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury
Collection
Correspondence and Papers of Lord Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury (1801-1893), politician.
Extents: 0.60 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates:
1823-1847
Correspondence and reports of Angus Whiteford Acworth, FSA
Collection
Lease for a year of Haughton Hall plantation, Jamaica, from John
Tharp to William Blake and Samuel Torrent James, 1776
Lease and release of a 96 acre plantation in Hanover and Westmoreland,
Jamaica, with 83 slaves, from Dame Anne Clark to Sir Simon Haughton Clarke,
1798
Copies of judgements made in the Grand Court of Jamaica against Samuel
Horlock, 1777 and Robert McMurdo, 1786,...
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
[1776-1975]
Correspondence of Henry Dundas and Robert Saunders Dundas
Collection
Letters, mainly to the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville, relating to the West Indies.
Extents: 2 Volumes
Dates:
1781-1830
Correspondence of Henry Herbert, Lord Porchester, mainly concerning his travels in France and Spain
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8367
Correspondence of Henry Herbert, Lord Porchester, mainly concerning his travels in France and Spain, 1821-1822.
Extents: 38 Leaves
Dates:
Apr [1821?]-May 1822