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MS 88 Small collections of correspondence and single items

Small collections of correspondence and single items, 18th-20th centuries

Date range:

18th-20th centuries


MS 88/1 Copies of letters between Charles Spalding and Granville Sharp, philanthropist, pamphleteer and scholar, 1777-82

The papers of Granville Sharp are in the Lloyd-Baker of Hardwicke Court collection at the Gloucestershire Record Office.

Former references:

A647

Size:

1 folder


MS 88/2  Eleven letters between Eleanor Bragg and her uncle, William Wilson (canon of Winchester, 1831-71, and vicar of Holy Rood, Southampton, 1824-73) 1857-63; correspondence between Eleanor Bragg and other members of her family, 1853-63

Former references:

A309

Size:

1 box


MS 88/3 Letter from J.D.Doswell, engineer to the Southampton Harbour Commission, to George Atherley, concerning repairs to the dock wall, 4 Dec 1821

Former references:

A225


MS 88/4  Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Ferrior of the First Regiment of Life Guards, Ninove, Flanders, to his brother Benjamin Ferrior, describing the British army assembled for the Waterloo campaign, reviews by Louis XVIII of France and other dignitaries, and the countryside of Flanders, 7 Jun 1815

Former references:

A794

A reading of an extract of this letter can be found under useful downloads.


MS 88/5 Letter from William Stubbs, Bishop of Chester, to Mr Brocklebank, accepting an invitation for a visit as Stubbs`would rather come to you than to the Palace', 2 Oct 1884

Former references:

A61


MS 88/6 Five letters from Charles Richard Sumner, Bishop of Winchester, to Revd Robert Morgan, Stockbridge, concerning the living of Little Somborne, Hants, 1828-9

Former references:

A157


MS 88/7 Letter from Sir Hugh Casson to the Vice Chancellor of the University of Southampton, with a self caricature, May 1977

Former references:

LF 780 UNI 8/113


MS 88/8 Copy of a letter from Mrs Isabel Florence Wilkinson to Richard Thomas Church, poet, novelist and literary critic, about their childhood, and Church's reply, 1972

Former references:

A514


MS 88/9 Letter from General Sir Hubert De La Poer Gough to Brigadier General Sir James Edward Edmonds about the official history of the Great War edited by Edmonds, 10 Feb 1935

Former references:

A329


MS 88/10 Letter, in German, from Leo Strauss to Dr L.Feuchtwanger, 1935 with German press cuttings relating to Spinoza

Former references:

LF 780 UNI 8/150

Size:

2 folders


MS 88/11 Copy of a letter of 15 Jun 1981 from Professor Dan Pedro to Professor H.Brian Griffiths, Department of Mathematics, University of Southampton, about David Hadden Guest, a former student of University College, Southampton, who was killed fighting in the Spanish Civil War

Former references:

Formerly A557

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