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Archive Print piece

ff2v

M.cccc.l.xxvii. die primo Iullii. [1 July 1477]

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Title: Qui mihi imitated (f.2r-v); Monita pedagogica, seu confabulatio scholastica

(ff.3r-4r)

Author: Coles, Benjamin

Attribution: [Latin]; B.C.

Date(s): 173- ?

Manuscript: Lt 53

Contents: Moral admonitions to a schoolboy on right behaviour. At end, "Done at Great

Forsters near Egham 20 January 1740/1, Philologus & philanthropos".

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Archive File

Letter from Arthur Smithells to: Robert Whytlaw-Gray; [no address]. 30th September 1922. Unhelpful influence of S V Arrhenius on AS; further about 'aerosol'. TS 2 ff; Carbon copy.

1922

[no address]. 30th September 1922. Unhelpful influence of S V Arrhenius on AS; further about 'aerosol'. TS 2 ff; Carbon copy.

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Letter to Arthur Smithell from: George Robert Thompson; Andersonian Buildings, 201 George Street, Glasgow. 28th April 1896. Further comment on V B Lewes; scientific education in Scotland and Leeds. MS 2 ff

1896

Andersonian Buildings, 201 George Street, Glasgow. 28th April 1896. Further comment on V B Lewes; scientific education in Scotland and Leeds. MS 2 ff

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Commonplace book containing culinary recipes and various household directions, in various hands, commenced by Jane Bolt in 1694 and completed by M.P. Gutch in 1841

Bolt, Jane

1694-1841

Text from f.33v to end inverted; signature of M.P. Gutch on f.1r; signatures of Jane Bolt on ff.1r and 2r; recipes dated 1840 on ff.1v and 2v and dated 1841 on ff.96r and v

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