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Scarlett, James, Sir, 1769-1844. Sir James Scarlett manuscript material : 10 items, 1835-1842

Title: Sir James Scarlett manuscript material : 10 items, 1835-1842

· To Lady Blessington, Irish-born author and literary hostess : 10 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Aug 1835 : (BLES 1.006) : from Lancaster : begins, "A thousand thanks for your kind letter, which reached me yesterday." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Sunday" [1835] : (BLES 1.003b) : from New Street : begins, "I can refuse you nothing. A very severe and lasting cold & cough almost unfit me for company ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Tuesday" [1835] : (BLES 1.004b) : from New Street : marked "Private and Confidential"; begins, "I lost not time in complying with your desire ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 21 Oct 1836 : (BLES 1.003a) : from Abinger Hall : begins, "I would not thank you for your last kind present, till I had learned the value of it, by reading the book." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 6 Mar 1837 : (BLES 1.005b) : from Lincoln : begins, "The state of weather, combined with a terrible cold & cough which have not left me, prevented my calling on you ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Feb 1838 : (BLES 1.001a) : from New Street : begins, "Thank you for your book and your kind enquiries." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Mar 1838 : (BLES 1.001b) : from New Street : begins, "As you place yourself in my hands touching your communication with Barnes, I shall play the part of a loyal, as well as faithful ambassador, in using the best discretion to advance your object." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Nov 1838 : (BLES 1.004a) : from New Street : begins, "Many thanks for your kind note of yesterday. The weather has been so indifferent ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 25 Feb 1839 : (BLES 1.002a) : from New Street : begins, "Yesterday week I was on horseback in my way to visit you, but was driven back by a bitter storm of hail." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Apr 1842 : (BLES 1.002b) : from the Norfolk Hotel, Brighton : begins, "A thousand thanks for your kind enquiries. I had a smartish attack of erysipelas in the face & head, which confined me for a fortnight to my chamber, and almost to my bed." -- Along with 7 excised address panels to Lady Blessington, some dated and clearly associated with letters listed above. Mounted in v. 1 of the Blessington Correspondence. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.

ArchivalResource: 10 items

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Abbot, Charles, Baron Colchester, 1757-1829. Scrapbook of autographs, letters, biographies, news clippings and prints of English judges, ca. 1629?- ca. 1873?

Title: Scrapbook of autographs, letters, biographies, news clippings and prints of English judges, ca. 1629?- ca. 1873?

Letters, notes, autographs, obituaries, newspaper and magazine clippings, noble lineages, engravings, lithographs, and photographs of English judges and lawyers including material about their estates; arranged alphabetically, v. 1: A-C, v. 2: E-W.

ArchivalResource: 187, [1] leaves in 2 v. ; 42 cm.

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Scarlett, James, Sir, 1769-1844. Judicial opinion of Sir James Scarlett, 1829 December 23.

Title: Judicial opinion of Sir James Scarlett, 1829 December 23.

Judicial opinion on the wording of a declaration in the case of Greetham vs. Whitehead before the Court of King's Bench.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Scarlett, James, Sir, 1769-1844. Opinion in the case of the East India Company v. Mooneer ool Moolk, 1825.

Title: Opinion in the case of the East India Company v. Mooneer ool Moolk, 1825.

The case regarded the monetary transactions of William Palmer and Co. with the government of Bengal. The East India Company was established in 1814, in alliance with the East India Co.

ArchivalResource: 2 folded sheets (6 p.) ; 31 cm.

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Abell, Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe, d. 1871. The Blessington papers : manuscript albums, 1818-1856

Title: The Blessington papers : manuscript albums, 1818-1856

Chiefly comprised of correspondence addressed to the Irish-born writer and literary hostess Lady Blessington, the Blessington Papers were compiled by Richard Robert Madden for the composition of his Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington (1855). Notable correspondents among the several hundred include the English novelist Charles Dickens, the British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, and the English poet Walter Savage Landor. Also included are literary manuscripts; over forty are by Lady Blessingtion herself, while others are by submitters to the journals she edited. Much of the correspondence is published, both in Madden's life of Blessington, and in The Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents Fomred by Alfred Morrison (2nd ser., 1882-1893), "The Blessington Papers" (1895).

ArchivalResource: 6 volumes (containing 748 items)

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