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Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883. Manuscripts removed from The history of English dramatic poetry to the time of Shakespeare, and Annals of the stage of the restoration by J.P. Collier [manuscript], 19th century.

Title: Manuscripts removed from The history of English dramatic poetry to the time of Shakespeare, and Annals of the stage of the restoration by J.P. Collier [manuscript], 19th century.

Includes letters and information from T.E. Tomlins, Thomas Richards, Frederick Devon, M.J. Thorpe, J. Harland, P. Bliss, Sir Frederick Madden, W.H. Black and N.H. Nicolas, and several other copies of documents, W.b.502. W.b.502 (18) and W.b.502 (19) cataloged separately. W.b.502 (3) bears the impression of a seal stated to be Donne's. W.b.502 (107) refers to Blackfriars.

ArchivalResource: 151 items.

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Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).

Title: Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 10 volumes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01783/catalog View

Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857. Letter: 1840 May 23, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss.

Title: Letter: 1840 May 23, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss. 1840.

Asks if a Laing can supply him with an imprint of a seventeenth century broadside.

ArchivalResource: [3]p.

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Oxford University Registers, 1704-1866

Title: Oxford University Registers 1704-1866

ArchivalResource: 16 shelfmarks

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Notebooks of Philip Bliss, 1805-55

Title: Notebooks of Philip Bliss 1805-55

ArchivalResource: 13 shelfmarks

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Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889,. Autograph letter signed from James Orchard Halliwell Phillipps to Philip Bliss [manuscript], 1855 May 24.

Title: Autograph letter signed from James Orchard Halliwell Phillipps to Philip Bliss [manuscript], 1855 May 24.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857. Letter: 1845 Mar. 1, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss.

Title: Letter: 1845 Mar. 1, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss. 1845.

Requests information on Chapiters Exhortative , translated into English by James Whit.

ArchivalResource: [2]p.

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Hunter, Joseph, 1783-1861,. Autograph letter signed from Joseph Hunter, London, Reverend Dr. Philip Bliss [manuscript], 1836 May 28.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Joseph Hunter, London, Reverend Dr. Philip Bliss [manuscript], 1836 May 28.

The man presenting this letter is on his way to Oxford to consult some of the books in the library there on Shakespeare and Sir Thomas Gresham. Addressed to Dr. Bliss.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

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Philip Bliss manuscript material : 1 items, ca. 1811

Title: Philip Bliss manuscript material : 1 items ca. 1811

Philip Bliss, English antiquarian and book collector. Bliss wrote notes and the appendix to the 1811 edition of John Earle's 17th century work on characters, Micro-cosmographie. Holograph scrap-book, "Dr. Bliss's collection of characters" : (MISC 0678) : ca. 30 leaves made up of pasted-in notes, and prefaced by a number of miscellaneous papers, fragments of printed material, and one letter from an unidentified correspondent. Bound in tan boards, with a spine title lettered in pen. The work appears to be a bibliography of 17th century works on "characters," probably relating to Bliss's 1811 edition of John Earle's Micro-cosmographie. Shelved under "Bliss" with bound manuscript volumes.

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857. Letter: 1849 July 31, St. Mary Hall, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss.

Title: Letter: 1849 July 31, St. Mary Hall, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss. 1849.

Provides a letter of introduction for a printer by the name of William James in the hope that Laing can assist the man to find work.

ArchivalResource: [3]p.

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Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857,. Characters : manuscript, [18--]

Title: Characters : manuscript, [18--]

Transcriptions of characters in verse, chiefly from 17th- and early 18th-century printed broadsides, copied by or for Bliss.

ArchivalResource: 18 leaves ; 35 cm.

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John Earle, Microcosmography, edited by Philip Bliss, 1811

Title: John Earle, , edited by Philip Bliss Microcosmography 1811

ArchivalResource: 2 shelfmarks

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Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857. Letter: 1848 Apr. 22, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss.

Title: Letter: 1848 Apr. 22, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss. 1848.

Thanks Laing for replying so swiftly to his earlier letter and for contributing to his poetical collection.

ArchivalResource: [3]p.

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Shakespeare, John, of Lapworth. Receipts for legacies under the will of John Shakespeare of Lapworth, Warwickshire, yeoman [manuscript], 1652-1658.

Title: Receipts for legacies under the will of John Shakespeare of Lapworth, Warwickshire, yeoman [manuscript], 1652-1658.

The majority of the legatees were his relations. Also a sheet with Henry Shakespere's autograph as "Shakesper" and signature taken, according to Philip Bliss' note, from The image of both churches by John Bale.

ArchivalResource: 16 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/458628169 View

Letters and Legal Documents of Philip Bliss, 1837-52

Title: Letters and Legal Documents of Philip Bliss 1837-52

ArchivalResource: 2 shelfmarks

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Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857. Philip Bliss manuscript material : 1 items, ca. 1811

Title: Philip Bliss manuscript material : 1 items, ca. 1811

· Holograph scrap-book, "Dr. Bliss's collection of characters" : (MISC 0678), ca. 30 leaves made up of pasted-in notes, and prefaced by a number of miscellaneous papers, fragments of printed material, and one letter from an unidentified correspondent. Bound in tan boards, with a spine title lettered in pen. The work appears to be a bibliography of 17th century works on "characters," probably relating to Bliss's 1811 edition of John Earle's Micro-cosmographie. Shelved under "Bliss" with bound manuscript volumes.

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857. Letter: 1842 Apr. 12, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss.

Title: Letter: 1842 Apr. 12, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss.

Sends Laing a list of the tracts given by Baillie to Selden.

ArchivalResource: [4] p.

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Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857. Letter: 1830 Dec. 27, Oxford, to David Laing, 49 South Bridge, Edinburgh / Philip Bliss.

Title: Letter: 1830 Dec. 27, Oxford, to David Laing, 49 South Bridge, Edinburgh / Philip Bliss. 1830.

Encloses a balloting list and subscription for the Bannatyne club.

ArchivalResource: [1]p.

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Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298. [Legenda aurea, Latin].

Title: [Legenda aurea, Latin]. [13--]

ArchivalResource: 2 items : parchment ; 103 x 178 mm.

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Thomas Frognall Dibdin papers, 1798-1836.

Title: Thomas Frognall Dibdin papers, 1798-1836.

Letters on the publication of Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron; letters and clippings concerning the book collector Richard Heber, and letters, manuscripts, and printed material on Dibdin's various publications.

ArchivalResource: 3 volumes (.4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00807/catalog View

Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857. Letter: 1848 Apr. 6, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss.

Title: Letter: 1848 Apr. 6, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss. 1848.

Enquiry regarding Wood's Athenae.

ArchivalResource: [3]p.

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Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?. A poem by Nicholas Breton from Microcosmography, or, A piece of the world discovered : in essays and characters / by John Earle ...

Title: A poem by Nicholas Breton from Microcosmography, or, A piece of the world discovered : in essays and characters / by John Earle ... [18--]

ArchivalResource: [4] p., bound ; 30 cm.

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Repton, J. Adey (John Adey), 1775-1860,. Autograph letter signed from John Adey Repton to Philip Bliss [manuscript], [1839?].

Title: Autograph letter signed from John Adey Repton to Philip Bliss [manuscript], [1839?].

Presenting copy of his book, Some account of the beard, 1839.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857. Letter: 1842 Nov. 5, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss.

Title: Letter: 1842 Nov. 5, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss. 1842.

Announces his resignation from the Bannatyne Club due to financial reasons and offers his assistance to Laing in any research he may undertake.

ArchivalResource: [3]p.

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Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857. Letter: 1829 Apr. 6, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss.

Title: Letter: 1829 Apr. 6, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss. 1829.

Expresses his gratitude at having been elected to the Bannatyne Club.

ArchivalResource: [3]p.

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Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857. Notebook on Elizabethan black-letter ballads : manuscript, [ca. 1830-1856].

Title: Notebook on Elizabethan black-letter ballads : manuscript, [ca. 1830-1856].

Notes collected by Philip Bliss for his never completed project on Elizabethan black-letter ballads. The notebook includes a list of ballads from the collection of Richard Heber, autograph letters to Bliss and a printed catalog of black-letter ballads from the Illustrated London News.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 31 cm.

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Dyce, Alexander, 1798-1869,. Autograph letter signed from Alexander Dyce to Philip Bliss [manuscript], 1828 March 12.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Alexander Dyce to Philip Bliss [manuscript], 1828 March 12.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233649627 View

Philip Bliss letter to Mr. Rodwell and Mr. Martin, 1826

Title: Philip Bliss letter to Mr. Rodwell and Mr. Martin 1826

Sub-librarian of Bodleian Library, Oxford.

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

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Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857,. Autograph letters signed from Philip Bliss to various people [manuscript], 1839-1852.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Philip Bliss to various people [manuscript], 1839-1852.

Correspondents: John Payne Collier, William Pickering and J.T. Simes.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/230398099 View

Dyce, Alexander, 1798-1869,. Autograph letter signed from Alexander Dyce to Philip Bliss [manuscript], 1827 May 10.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Alexander Dyce to Philip Bliss [manuscript], 1827 May 10.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233649634 View

Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922. Lyman Abbott letter, 1877.

Title: Lyman Abbott letter, 1877.

TLS (New York, N.Y.; 1877 January 2) written by Abbott, as editor of The Christian Union, to Hubert P. Main, a Christian composer, requesting his help in writing a tribute to fellow religious composer Philip P. Bliss.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883,. Autograph letters signed and initialled from John Payne Collier to various people [manuscript], 1818-1882.

Title: Autograph letters signed and initialled from John Payne Collier to various people [manuscript], 1818-1882.

216 mostly autograph letters signed and initialed; also, newspaper clippings. Letters include references to various literary figures: several refer to E. Alleyn; (173) to Collier's copy of a masque with emendations in Chapman's hand; (26) to information about Churchyard; (32, 156) discuss his editions of Coleridge lectures; (127) to his having Drayton's copy of the Faerie Queene; (153) to [Forman's] diary describing Shakespearean performances; (34) to Greene's Menaphon; some to his work on John Bunyan; (126, 127) to a misplaced Southey manuscript. Shakespearean references include: authorship of Edward III; biographical information; facsimiles of plays; alleged forgeries; his house; his knowledge of law; monuments; portraits, and criticism. Scattered references to attacks on Collier occur in the Ebsworth letters and elsewhere; several concern the Perkins Folio; enclosed in (167) are copies of 16 title pages taken from the "corrected folio of 1632." Letters contain numerous references to his associations with the Camden Society, the Percy Society, and the Shakespeare Society. (216-223) are newspaper clippings, 1859-1860, discussing the authenticity of emendations in the Perkins Folio; with them is Collier's unpublished draft of his reply, March 25, 1860, to Sir Frederic Madden's letter in the Times.

ArchivalResource: 224 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/461319741 View

Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857. Letter: 1854 May 30, St. Mary Hall, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss.

Title: Letter: 1854 May 30, St. Mary Hall, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss. 1854.

Enquires on behalf of a Mr Jessop as to whether a manuscript copy of some of John Donne's sermons may be borrowed.

ArchivalResource: [2]p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/607663120 View

Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857. Letter: 1839 Apr. 8, Oxford, to David Laing, Edinburgh / Philip Bliss.

Title: Letter: 1839 Apr. 8, Oxford, to David Laing, Edinburgh / Philip Bliss. 1839.

Asks if a mistake can be corrected on his Bannatyne Club ballot paper.

ArchivalResource: [2]p.

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Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857. Letter: 1842 Sept. 22, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss.

Title: Letter: 1842 Sept. 22, Oxford, to David Laing / Philip Bliss. 1842.

Thanks Laing for a pamphlet on the psalms.

ArchivalResource: [1]p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/607663063 View

Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857,. Autograph copy in the hand of Philip Bliss of Englands Helicon [manuscript], ca. 1830.

Title: Autograph copy in the hand of Philip Bliss of Englands Helicon [manuscript], ca. 1830.

ArchivalResource: 95 leaves.

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Bright, Benjamin Heywood, 1820-c1840

Title: Bright, Benjamin Heywood 1820-c1840

ArchivalResource: 3 leaves

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Medieval manuscript fragments, ca. 850-1499

Title: Medieval manuscript fragments, ca. 850-1499

ArchivalResource: 17 items (20 leaves).

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Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889,. Autograph letter signed from J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps to Philip Bliss [manuscript], 1855 May 21.

Title: Autograph letter signed from J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps to Philip Bliss [manuscript], 1855 May 21.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233984291 View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Index to ownership/provenance information, primarily from printed books, held by Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource: 1 collection

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01529/catalog View

Le Keux correspondence, 1811-1879

Title: Le Keux correspondence 1811-1879

The collection consists of professional correspondence of John, Henry and John Henry Le Keux, including letters from publishers, artists, fellow engravers, patrons, and prospective students. Among the correspondents are Robert Batty, Edwin Guest, Augustus Charles Pugin, and Dawson Turner. A letter by George Doo encloses a copy of the Associated Society of Engravers' plan for publishing their National Gallery collection.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 1; Linear Feet: 0.42'

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Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857,. Commonplace book : manuscript, [18--]

Title: Commonplace book : manuscript, [18--]

Notes and extracts, chiefly from manuscripts at the Ashmolean Museum, containing poetry, biographical and historical sketches, ballads, and other materials concerning Thomas Campion, Thomas Beckett, Edward III, treasons against Queen Elizabeth, the genealogy of the Weston family, and other subjects. The bound volume contains the Battle of Finsborough in Old English verse, a portion of Guy of Warwick in Old French, and some French sonnets.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. and 4 envelopes (ca. 175 leaves) ; 27 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612759058 View

Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857. Letter: 1834 Dec. 13, Oxford, to David Laing, Edinburgh / Philip Bliss.

Title: Letter: 1834 Dec. 13, Oxford, to David Laing, Edinburgh / Philip Bliss. 1834.

Discusses the likely date of an edition of Riche his farewell to militarie profession.

ArchivalResource: [2]p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/607662443 View

Book collectors miscellaneous papers, 1649-1937.

Title: Book collectors miscellaneous papers, 1649-1937.

Letters dealing with book or manuscript acquisitions by American, English, and French book-collectors.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00907/catalog View