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Total number of records: 11

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botanical gardens1
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Jw Robinson Co, Los Angeles1
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Archive Item

Letter from John Lindley, with related material.

Lindley, John

1833-1865

Comprises 1 autograph letter from John Lindley to a Mr Walker dated 1 May 1833 (with a transcript), 1 printed portrait of Professor Lindley extracted from the Illustrated London News for [11 October o...

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Consultancy Report and Move to Leeds

1997

(1997); 1 file. Correspondence relating chiefly to the Stand Magazine Consultancy Report, and Stand’s move from Newcastle to Leeds. Includes: • Jon Silkin’s ms notes and cc ts breakdown of St...

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Extracts from the writings of divers eminent authors, of different religious denominations; and at various periods of time. Representing the evils and various pernicious effects of stage plays, and other vain amusements

Murray, Lindley (1745-1826)

1789

Republished later as 'The sentiments of pious and eminent persons on the pernicious tendency of dramatic entertainments, and other vain amusements'.

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Mixed Correspondence

1996-1998

(1996-1998); 1 file. Correspondence relating largely to Stand business and editorial matters. Includes: • 8 letters from Jon Silkin to Rodney Pybus; photocopy of letter from consultants and propo...

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Siegfried Sassoon, typescript of broadcast 'A Tribute to Sir Max Beerbohm'

Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967)

1956 - 1967

Comprises a typescript of Siegfried Sassoon's radio broadcast 'A Tribute to Sir Max Beerbohm', recorded in Heytesbury on 28th June 1956, for Home Service transmission, and produced by Douglas Cleverdo...

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Edmund Blunden, autograph manuscript poems

Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974)

c.1930-1958

Comprises ten autograph manuscript poems by Edmund Blunden, partly dated between ca. 1930 and 1958. All but one bear the author's signature. Most of them are working copies with many revisions to the ...

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Lord Halifax's Ghost Book

Halifax, Charles Lindley Wood Viscount (1839-1934)

1962

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Hortus cantabrigiensis, or, An accented catalogue of indigenous and exotic plants cultivated in the Cambridge Botanic Garden

Donn, James (1758-1813); Pursh, Frederick (1774-1820); Lindley, John (1799-1865); Cambridge Botanic Garden

1823

Errata: p. 397. Publisher's advertisements: p. [399]-[400].

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Shakespeare's comedy of The tempest (Quarto)

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dulac, Edmund (1882-1953); Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas (1863-1944); Peter Harrington, London; JW Robinson Co, Los Angeles

[1908]

Frontispiece and 39 colour plates tipped in on mounts.

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