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Devon (England)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Burney-Lear drawings collection

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS fd 59
Abstract:

The collection contains more than 1,000 drawings, sketches and watercolors by Edward Francis Burney, other members of the Burney family, members of the Hoare family, James Pattison Cockburn, and Edward Lear.

Dates: 1800-1866
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Burney-Lear drawings collection

Southcomb family papers

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 156
Abstract:

The Southcomb Family Papers document some aspects of the clerical careers of several generations of members of the Southcomb family, which held the rectorship of Rose Ash in Devon for over 200 years. Included are devotional commonplace books of Lewis Southcomb; 279 sermons, mostly dating from the first half of the nineteenth century, by four different family members; and the diaries of John Ladeveze Hamilton Southcomb.

Dates: 1696-1877, bulk 1818-1852
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Southcomb family papers