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

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Category: Mons and Retirement - 1914, 23rd August - 5th September

R.C.Money (GS) Typed transcript of Tape no,455, pp.4/5.

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Letters from R A S Macfie to George Hall.

29/Jun/1909 - 26/Jan/1910

4 ALSs (29 June, 5 and 15 October 1909, 26 January 1910) from R A S Macfie to George Hall. 2 pp. + 2 pp. + 1 p. + 2 pp.

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Category: Enlistment/Recruitment/Training

H.R.Stone (GS) Typed notes A, pp 1-4. France (5-11).

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Vie de Benjamin Franklin, écrite par lui-même, suivie de ses oeuvres morales, politiques et littéraires, dont la plus grande partie n'avoit pas encore été publiée : traduit de l'anglais, avec des notes, par J. Castéra (v.1)

Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790); Castéra, Jean Henri (1749-1838)

an VI de la République [1797-8]

Vol. 1: pp. 167, 369, 372-3, 374, 375 and 376-7 wrongly numbered pp. 169, 371, 374-5, 375, 374 and 378-9 respectively. Sign. R4 wrongly signed R3. -- v.2.: pp. 346 and 437 wrongly numbered 446 and 137...

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Vie de Benjamin Franklin, écrite par lui-même, suivie de ses oeuvres morales, politiques et littéraires, dont la plus grande partie n'avoit pas encore été publiée : traduit de l'anglais, avec des notes, par J. Castéra (v.2)

Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790); Castéra, Jean Henri (1749-1838)

an VI de la République [1797-8]

Vol. 1: pp. 167, 369, 372-3, 374, 375 and 376-7 wrongly numbered pp. 169, 371, 374-5, 375, 374 and 378-9 respectively. Sign. R4 wrongly signed R3. -- v.2.: pp. 346 and 437 wrongly numbered 446 and 137...

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A supplement to the Plantæ Eboracenses printed in the second volume of these Transactions

Teesdale, Robert; Teesdale, Robert

[1798]

Taken from the Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol.5, pp.35-96.

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The generous conqueror: or, The timely discovery. A tragedy; as it is acted at the Theatre Royal, by His Majesty's Servants

Higgons, Bevil (1670-1735)

1702

The issue with congratulatory poem on A2r signed: Henry Grahme. Sig.C (pp.5-12) is repeated.

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Category: Ypres: The Second Battle of Ypres - 22nd April to 25th May 1915

R.H.D.Tompson (GS) Diary 9.5.15 - 25.5.15. Description of the battle and stories of French and of Joffre. Shortage of ammunition (pp 262/A & 268/272). Correspondence between Kitchener and French on reinforcements.

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Essays and talks:

Mid-Late 20th Century

Address to the Society of Civil Service Authors. TS, 19pp. Catechists and Commissars: the Church at El Salvador. TS, 14pp. Herbert Read. Various TS drafts, 20pp. On the Third Day: talk. TS, 19pp. ...

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Virginius: a tragedy : in five acts, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

Knowles, James Sheridan (1784-1862)

1823

Prologue by J.H. Reynolds, epilogue by Barry Cornwall.

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