Nobility -- Great Britain
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
[Letters and documents concerning various members of the Arundell family].
Collection
Call Number: OSBORN FB42
Overview:
Manuscripts, in multiple hands, of ten business letters and legal documents concerning members of the Arundel family. The collection incldues two bonds of payment; several money orders; and two letters from R. Arundel to Sir Robert Clayton, drawing Clayton's attention to a "young lady of a considerable fortune," asking for Clayton's assistance in marriage-making for Arundel's son, and explaining what he would be willing to settle upon the couple.
Dates:
1665-1680
[Commonplace book].
Collection
Call Number: OSBORN FB155
Overview:
Copies of Parliamentary papers, including speeches, orders, petitions, and declarations. Most printed in Lords Journals or in Rushworth. Includes items from parliaments of Elizabeth I through James II, most between 1630-1680.
Dates:
circa 1680
Collection of letters, receipts, proofs, portraits, etc., concerning The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits, published by Cadell & Davies
Collection
Call Number: OSBORN FD45
Overview:
This finding aid is a partial inventory of the contents of Osborn fd45.
Dates:
ca. 1809-1820
[Miscellaneous Parliamentary manuscripts]
Collection
Call Number: OSBORN FB158
Overview:
Volume, in multiple hands, of seven booklets primarily on such topics as law, Parliament, government, and public finances. Parliamentary items include speeches by Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford, and Francis Seymour, Baron Trowbridge, complaining about forced loans, billeting of soldiers, and other grievances; a copy of the Spanish ambassador's complaints against George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, as well as his own excuses for the conduct of the Spanish during marriage negotiations...
Dates:
[17th century]
[Letterbook]
Collection
Call Number: OSBORN FC110
Overview:
Manuscript, in more than one hand, of a collection of about 315 copies of letters to Charlotte (Dyve) Clayton, Lady Sundon. Almost all the letters in the first volume are from Sarah Churchill, the Duchess of Marlborough, regarding the Duchess’ involvement in secret political affairs and intrigues, including those surrounding the son of James II, whom the Duchess calls "the Pretender." The first volume begins with "A list of Papers the Dutchess of Marlborough gave Mrs. Clayton to read, and beg’d...
Dates:
[18th century]
[Papers]
Collection
Call Number: OSBORN FC112
Overview:
Autograph items and copies.
Collection of letters and documents from his papers, chiefly relating to his service to the Prince of Wales, later George IV, king of Gt. Brit. (1762-1830).
Collection of letters and documents from his papers, chiefly relating to his service to the Prince of Wales, later George IV, king of Gt. Brit. (1762-1830).
Dates:
[ca. 1796-1830]
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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[Papers]
"Original letters collected by William Upcott of the London Institution. Marquesses. Second series."
Collection
Call Number: OSBORN D195
Overview:
Autograph MSS.
Letters mounted in an album.
Letters mounted in an album.
Dates:
1824
Horace Walpole collection
Collection
Call Number: LWL MSS 1
Overview:
The collection includes approximately 3,000 letters to and from Horace Walpole as well as other manuscript materials by him, including copies of Aedes Walpolianae and The Mysterious Mother, his commonplace books, his "Books of Materials," and various miscellanies.
Dates:
1725-1797
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library
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Horace Walpole collection