Crewe Manuscripts

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f. 10 Note from Jacques Defermon to —, with a summary of the reply Part 1798
f. 13 Letter from Jean-Gabriel-Maurice Roques, etc., particular commissioners for the loan against England, to Dominique-Vincent Ramel-Nogaret Part 13 Apr. 1798
ff. 17–25 Extract from the registers of the deliberations of the Directory, containing a proclamation regarding the execution of the law concerning the loan against England Part 11 Jan. 1798
ff. 26–30 Printed leaves from a booklet, headed Departement de la Seine: Emprunt national pour la descente en Angleterre Part c. 1798
f. 31 Printed leaflet, containing a poem entitled ‘La Visite en Angleterre, ou, Le Bal a Londres’ Part 1798
f. 32 Printed leaflet, containing a poem entitled ‘Chant guerrier pour la descente en Angleterre’ Part 1798
f. 33 Poem entitled ‘Vengeance!’, by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, in a mid-19th c. hand Part c. 1850
**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
**C**, pp. 1–3, 3a, 3b, 4–14 ‘Statuts de l’Ordre de l’Annonciation’, by Joseph Grosset(?) Part
f. 1v Print of Jean-Paul Marat Part c. 1793
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
f. 1r Note on the contents of the book Part 18th or 19th c.
f. 2 List of prominent people, including members of the royal family, with some addresses, in an unidentified hand Part 1721 x 1731
ff. 3–4 List of names, headed ‘The Names of the Gentlemen in Lincolnn Inn Fields’, in an unidentified hand Part early 18th c.
f. 6 ‘An Acrostick Epitaph on Mr Christopher Henley’s Tomb, in Stepney Church-Yard. in July 1693.’ In an unidentified hand. Author unknown. Part early 18th c.