Crewe Manuscripts

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f. 29v Cutting from The Times, containing verses by R. M. Milnes headed ‘Lines written at the Funeral of Miss Berry, Nov. 27, 1852’ Part 30 Nov. 1852
f. 30r Letter from Mary Berry to R. M. Milnes Part 4 Dec. (1846?)
f. 30r Letter from Mary Berry to R. M. Milnes Part 14 Dec. (1846?)
f. 33r Watercolour sketch of the terrace of Mrs Lamb’s villa at Petersham (‘occupied by the Miss Berrys many summers’), by Mrs C. Stanley Part 1848
on a stub between ff. 34 and 35 Galley proof of a review (by Lord Houghton) of Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry Part 30 Dec. 1865
f. 36r Cutting from The Times, containing verses by R. M. Milnes headed ‘Lines written at the Funeral of Miss Berry, Nov. 27, 1852’ Part 30 Nov. 1852
ff. 7–8 Extracts from Lettres, mémoires, et negotiations particulieres du Chevalier d’Eon (1765), in the hand of Thomas Gray Part [c. 1765]
ff. 11–12 Metaphysical notes, in the hand of Thomas Gray Part 18th c.
f. 13 Metaphysical notes, in the hand of Thomas Gray Part 18th c.
f. 1r Receipt from John Rowe to Thomas Worrall Part 15 Mar. 1730
ff. 6–7 Assignment from John Oldmixon to Jacob Tonson II of the copyright of The Ladies Library, ‘written by a Lady’ (3 vols., 12mo) Part 7 Sept. 1714
ff. 28–9 Articles of agreement (apparently a draft) between Timothy Goodwin, John Walthoe senior, John Nicholson, Benjamin Tooke, Jacob Tonson I, John Walthoe junior, and John Darby Part 20 July 1716
f. 30r Receipts from Giles Jacob to Bernard Lintot Part 1719–1720
f. 1 Title: ‘Dépenses De la Révolution du 10 août’ Part c. 1800
f. 2r Printed pamphlet entitled Système rationnel de navigation aérienne, a circulation stable, fondé sur le principe de la séparation des appareils, ainsi que sur l’emploi du point d’appui et pratiqué au moyen d’un propulseur rotatif a effet alterno-continu, by Hippolyte Barnout Part 1857 View
f. 23r ‘Proposal for establishing an Aëronautic Fraternity’, signed by Charles Green (president), F.(?) Green, William Upcott, Edward Spencer, Jacob Henry Burn, and J.(?) Green Part 17 Feb. 1839 View
f. 24r Letter from Charles Green to P. N. Scott, 19 Aug. 1840, with a cutting from the Norwich Mercury, 22 Aug. 1840, containing a letter from Charles Green and a related note Part 19 and 22 Aug. 1840 View
f. 30r Letter from R. M. Milnes to Arthur Hallam, written during an ascent in a balloon on 29 May 1829, with later notes on the occasion of its composition Part 29 May 1829 View
f. 31r Cutting from The Times, containing a letter from G. S. N. headed ‘Children’s Balloons’ Part 31 Mar. 1857 View
f. 35r Cuttings from The Times, containing an article headed ‘A Balloon Voyage’ Part 27 July 1859 View
f. 37r Letter from Eugène Robertson to the Queen of the French Part 1 June 1831 View
between ff. 38 and 39 Cutting from the Illustrated London News, containing an article headed ‘The Late Charles Green’, with an engraved portrait Part 16 Apr. 1870 View
**B**, p. 5 ‘Sermon contre les Impies et blasphémateurs, &ca. &ca. Exorde’: an adaption of part of J. H. S. Formey’s preface to L’Anti-Sans-Souci Part
**B**, pp. 6–18 ‘Abrégé du Kode de la Nature Par M. Mirabaud … Londres | 1770’: adapted from Chapter XIV of Baron d’Holbach’s Système de la Nature Part
**B**, pp. 74–8 ‘Discours Eternel’: a verse treatise, in four parts (author unknown) Part
**B**, pp. 114–15 ‘Descripcion de Paris’: part of the fourth canto of Delille’s L’Homme des champs Part
**B**, p. 115 Verses, by an Augustinian friar Part
**B**, pp. 115–23 ‘Lettre. Le Silfe Oromasis, ò Kabaliste Abukibak’: Letter CXXXI of the Marquis d’Argens’ Lettres cabalistiques Part
**B**, pp. 128–41 ‘Lettre 3e. Le Kabaliste Abukibak, ò studieû Ben Kiber’: Letter CXXV of the Marquis d’Argens’ Lettres cabalistiques Part
**B**, pp. 143–68 (There is no writing on these pages, though all but the last have borders.) Part