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Sender: Page, Haven Benjamin
Recipient: Dwight, Jessie (Orage), (In Naples and Rome)
Letters: 3
Date(s): No dates
Location: BC MS 20c Orage, section 24
Note: One letter written from Naples and the other two from Rome
O'Riordan, Monseigneur to Dawson, Thomas
O'Riordan, Monseigneur
2 May 1904
Rector of Rish College, Rome
Sender: ? , Charis
Recipient: Read, Herbert
Letters: 2
Date(s): 7 Feb 1966: 1 n.d
Location: BC MS 20c Herbert Read, box 6
Note: Written from Rome. Filed under U/V
Sender: ? , Lilli?
Recipient: Read, Herbert
Letters: 1
Date(s): 10 Dec 1966
Location: BC MS 20c Herbert Read, box 6
Note: Attached is an exhibition ? programme for "Adole" in Rome. Filed under U/V
Sender: McCann, Frances
Recipient: Read, Sir Herbert
Letters: 12
Date(s): 11 Oct 1957 to 14 Dec 1965
Location: BC MS 20c Herbert Read, box 6
Note: Letters and one airmail written from Rome. Second airmail, postcard and Christmas card addressed to Sir Herbert and Lady Read, are written from India.
Blackwood, Frederick Temple Hamilton Temple, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava to Sala, George Augustus
13 Feb 1891 - 15 Sep 1894
Ambassador: StPetersburg 1879-81, Rome 1889-91, Paris 1891-96.13 Feb [18]91 - 15 Sep [18]94; "Monday" [c1891];
Sender: Pius VII, pope (1800-1823) b. 1742 (Luigi Barnaba Chiaramonte)
Recipient: [unknown]
Letters: 1
Date(s): [n.d.]
Location: BC Misc. Letters 2
Note: A single page in manuscript, in French, taken from a gold-edged book. Perhaps a copy (in translation) of an open letter written by Pius VII from his imprisonment by Napoleon at Savona and subsequently Fontainebleu, July 1811-March 1814. Subject matter includes a comparison between the impermanence of the temporal power and the enduring nature of the Holy See, the use of "noms" instead of the first person singular, and the phrase "naguere...a Rome" (formerly...in Rome) suggest the authorship of Pius VII.
Sender: Watts, Walter Theodore (Watts-Dunton)
Recipient: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Letters: 3
Date(s): 26 Dec 1874 - 2 May 1876; n.d.
Location: BC Misc, S/WD letters
Note: The original letters with typescript copies in a case lettered "Swinburne and Watts-Dunton letters". About some legal matter in France in which Watts-Dunton was acting for Rossetti; impressions of Rome and Florence; business matters.
Sender: Por, Oron?
Recipient: Orage, Jessie
Letters: 1
Date(s): 11 Nov 1934
Location: BC MS 20c Orage, section 31
Note: Writing from Rome and feeling the tremendous loss of A R Orage. Writes "Your loss is a tremendous loss for the idea he was standing and fighting in such a disinterested, splendid way. I will remember him all my life and act in his spirit".
Nicolas, Alexandre to Dezobry, Charles
Nicolas, Alexandre
23 Sep 1850
Comments by Bekker on Dezobry's "Rome au siecle d'Auguste"; request for books. In French. Extracted from Alexandre Nicolas, "De la vie et des ouvrages de C C Gallus", presentation copy from the auth...
Sender: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Recipient: Wheelwright, Miss
Letters: 2
Date(s): 22 Aug 1856; 7 Feb [1857]
Location: BC 19c Bronte 3 BRO/G. Inserted in Clement Shorter's copy of the first edition of Mrs Gaskell's "Life of Charlotte Brontë"
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Miss Wheelwright was a school-fellow of Charlotte Brontë. Both letters are addressed to "Miss Wheelright (sic)". The first letter returns to Miss Wheelwright her "precious letters". Mrs Gaskell was just going to Rome but hoped to meet Miss Wheelwright on her return. The second letter asks where Charlotte spent her holidays at Brussels, also for details about Charlotte and Emily's school life there.
Sender: Sheepshanks, John
Recipient: Gott, William
Letters: 6
Date(s): 4 Dec 1826 - 27 Nov 1855
Location: SC Gott Papers: MS 194/6/115-120
Note: 1) About works by Houbraken and others. 4 pp. 2) On an unfinished proof of a view of Rome by Middiman. 1 p. 3) On sales of books and works of art. 3 pp. 4) On various engravings. 4 pp. 5) About some engravings he has sent. 1 p. 6) Sending a tract he has had reprinted relating to the invention of a steam boat. 2 pp.