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Title: Dr Pepusche's song perform'd for his exercise in the theatre at Oxford July

13, 1713. Peace, Apollo, Britain

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1713

Manuscript: Lt 11

Contents: Extravagant celebration of the peace with France and panegyric on Queen Anne,

anticipating domestic peace in England. In the form of dialogue between Peace,

Britain and Apollo, with repeats, airs, duet, trio, trumpet song and chorus

marked; being an exerc

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An elucidation

Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)

[1927]

Cover title.

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Bibliotheca Askeviana, sive catalogus librorum rarissimorum Antonii Askew, M.D. : Quorum auctio fiet apud S. Baker & G. Leigh,... die Lunae 13 februarii MDCCLXXV. ... [etc.]

S. Baker and G. Leigh (London, England)

[1774]

Conditions of sale signed: S. Baker and G. Leigh, and dated: July 1774. - This work was printed on ordinary paper, priced at one shilling and sixpence, with errata on p. 149; variant 1 omits the errat...

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“How I came to Town in 1866”

1869

MS, possibly an early draft for Father & Son, or another autobiographical work; with corrections in the same hand; 6 pp; n.d. Includes: “My hand operated upon, Jan. 1869”; MS; 3pp; n.d.

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“A Medical Romance”

1926

MS draft for review; 2 pp; with accompanying note by Philip Gosse, dated 12 June 1926 With newspaper cutting from The Sunday Times, 20 June 1926, titled “Medical Quixote”

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Pass into Smol'nyi Institute

01 February 1918

Pass into Smol'nyi Institute valid until 1 February 1918. Signed by O D Kamneva as Charge d'Affaires of the Central Executive Committee. Issued from the Smol'nyi Institute, Petrograd, 24 January 1918....

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Note “Brange”

1875-1920

Concerning two addresses in French (?); by E.W. Gosse (?)

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Peacock’s Pocket Diary

1849-1928

Red brown leather; list (3 pp) of 17th and 18th century plays; includes cash account; income list at the back; no diary entries

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