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Matthew, Tobie, Sir, 1577-1655,. Autograph letter signed from Sir Tobie Matthew to his father, the bishop of Durham [manuscript], 1604 May 10.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Sir Tobie Matthew to his father, the bishop of Durham [manuscript], 1604 May 10.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Comfort in solitude, 1679.

Title: Comfort in solitude, 1679.

Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of devotional texts including extracts from the works of St. Teresa of Jesus, Henry Suso, and Saint Catherine of Genoa, as well as a selection from Augustine's Confessions which follows the 1638 translation of Sir Tobie Matthew.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (148 p.) ; 19 x 16 cm.

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Burton, D., fl. 1607-1625. D. Burton collection of state papers and other materials, ca. 1607-ca. 1625.

Title: D. Burton collection of state papers and other materials, ca. 1607-ca. 1625.

Contents include copies of documents taken from Richard Hakluyt's Principal navigations, 1598-1600, and of others relating to Irish affairs from Part II of Fynes Moryson's An itinerary ..., 1617. Also, copies of Sir Ralph Winwood's papers when principal secretary of state, 1614-1617, with a few from an earlier and a later date, as well as many petitions; letters of recommendation; letters to and from envoys and agents in Spain, Savoy, Venice, Turkey, the Netherlands (one of 1617 mentions [Hugo] Grotius), Belgium, France, the county Palatine and Portugal; several letters from the lords-deputy of Ireland, Sir Edward Coke, Sir Tobie Matthew, Sir Thomas Smith, and Sir William Monson; two letters to Sir Walter Raleigh, one about a debt claimed by Peter Frobisher in right of his uncle, Captain Frobisher, and Raleigh's proposal for his last voyage to Guiana, [1614?]; a letter from Dr. Thomas Lodge and another discussing a debt owing to him; a letter and petition of Dr. William Fulke's daughter relating to her right to print his books; a copy of the French king's edict, January 1607, for drawing certain makers of tapestry from the Low Countries into France and Sir Francis Crane's proposal for a similar undertaking in England. Date range found in volume: 1607 on leaf 55v and 1625 on leaf 115v.

ArchivalResource: 136 leaves.

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Matthew, Tobie, Sir, 1577-1655. A true historical relation of the conversion of Sir Tobie Matthew to the holy Catholic faith ... [manuscript], ca. 1640.

Title: A true historical relation of the conversion of Sir Tobie Matthew to the holy Catholic faith ... [manuscript], ca. 1640.

Signed manuscript. At the end is an affidavit signed 1640 by Matthew and witnessed by Elizabeth Mordaunt, Anne Mordaunt, George Wintour, Edward Sulyard, Edward Guldeforde, Thomas James, Elizabeth Petre, Fran. Petre and Edward Young. A signed affidavit 1640 witnessed by James Louth 1641 also follows the next work -- Posthumus or The Survivour.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Samuels, Jack Harris, d. 1966,. English and American literary manuscripts and letters collection, 1663-1964.

Title: English and American literary manuscripts and letters collection, 1663-1964.

A collection of letters, manuscripts, proofs, and drawings of English and American authors, including 33 letters from Alan Gabriel Barnsley (Gabriel Fielding) to Derek Stanford; a letter from James Boswell to George Colman the younger; a letter from Wilkie Collins; a letter from James Fenimore Cooper to William Buell Sprague; a letter from Dinah Maria Mulock Craik; letters from E.M. Forster; letters from Sarah Grand to James B. Pond; letters from T.B. Macauley; a letter from Hester Lynch Piozzi to James Robson; letters and cards from G.B. Shaw; letters from R.B. Sheridan to Thomas Grenville and to C. Ward, and a letter from Elizabeth Ann Linley Sheridan to R.B. Sheridan; a letter from William Wordsworth to F.W. Faber; a letter to Alfred, Lord Tennyson to Benjamin Disraeli; letters from Anthony Trollope written to Frederic Chapman, Mary Christie, J.T. Fields, Frederic Harrison, and others; letters from Ellen Terry and Rhoda Broughton, and postcards from Evelyn Waugh to Graham Ackroyd. The manuscripts include examples by Max Beerbohm, Arnold Bennett, Elizabeth Bowen, John Burroughs, Ivy Compton-Burnett, A.E. Coppard, Baron Corvo, Cecil Day Lewis, Ronald Firbank, E.M. Forster, George Gissing, Sarah Grand, A.P. Herbert, Rudyard Kipling, Edward Lear, Henry W. Longfellow, Amy Lowell, John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester, G.B. Shaw, Edith Sitwell, and Logan Pearsall Smith. ADDITION: A 95 page letterbook of state papers by Sir Francis Bacon, including 26 letters by Bacon and 20 others, in three scribal hands. There are letters addressed to James I, Robert Cecil, Lords Northumberland and Southhampton, Sir Thomas Egerton, and many others.

ArchivalResource: 6.5 linear ft ( 354 items in 7 boxes & 22 volumes).

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Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans: Letters: 17th cent.includes:ff. 1, 1 b Sir William Cecil, Baron Burghley 1571; Lord Treasurer 1572: Letters to, from F. Bacon: 1595.ff. 3 b, 4 Elizabeth I of England: Letters to, from F. Bacon, on sending New Ye...

Title: Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans: Letters: 17th cent.includes:ff. 1, 1 b Sir William Cecil, Baron Burghley 1571; Lord Treasurer 1572: Letters to, from F. Bacon: 1595.ff. 3 b, 4 Elizabeth I of England: Letters to, from F. Bacon, on sending New Ye... Unspecified

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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