Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to Henry Yates Thompson, 1903 Nov. 6.

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Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to Henry Yates Thompson, 1903 Nov. 6.

Asking for a donation to build a library for Lady Margaret Hall.

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Spooner, W. A. (William Archibald), 1844-1930

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Warden of New College, Oxford. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to Henry Yates Thompson, 1903 Nov. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872277 Head of New College, Oxford. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Darlington, to Joan Severn, 1898 Sept. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 765488815 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to Joan Severn, 1917 Nov. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 765472202...

Pierpont Morgan Library. Henry Yates Thompson Collection.

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Cahoon, Herbert, 1918-2000

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Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928

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Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), book-collector, was born at Dingle Cottage, near Liverpool, on 15 December 1838. He attended Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1862), and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1867. He was private secretary to the viceroy of Ireland, the 5th Earl Spencer, between 1868 and 1873, and travelled widely from 1862 to 1875. Thompson was the Sandars reader in bibliography at Cambridge University in 1901 and 1904. He formed a large collection of illuminate...