Crewe Manuscripts

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
fourth flyleaf at the front Letter from Philoctès Sidney Sanchamau to ‘— Seconda Représentant du Peuple’ Part 13 Jan. 1794
f. 5r ‘Substance of an Information given unto One of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace’ (author unknown) Part
f. 7r Untitled verses, in French (author unknown) Part
f. 15r Untitled verses (author unknown) Part
f. 25r Untitled verses (author unknown) Part
No. 4 Letter from T. G. to Jacobus Gronovius Part 1 Nov. 1685
No. 5 Letter from Lord Weymouth to Sir Robert Southwell Part 15 Dec. 1688
No. 9 Copy of a letter from Earl Spencer to the Duke of Bedford Part 18 June 1806
f. 22r Letter from the Marquess of Winchester and Walter Mildmay, probably to an officer of the Receipt of the Exchequer Part 20 May 1568
inside front cover Cutting from The Times, containing part of a letter from E.A., headed ‘Aërial Travelling’ Part 13 May 1863 View
f. 10 Print of separate portraits of Robert Hollond, Monck Mason, and Charles Green, lithographed by A. Butler from his own painting Part c. 1838 View
f. 12r Print of Charles Green, lithographed by G. P. Harding from his own drawing from the life. Published by Harding himself Part 9 July 1839 View
f. 14 Print of a hot-air balloon with three men in the basket Part c. 1838 View
f. 26r Print of (Jean-Pierre) François Blanchard, engraved by F. W. Bollinger. Published at Zwickau by Schumann Brothers Part c. 1800 View
f. 31r Cutting from The Times, containing letters from C. H. H. and C. R. headed ‘Children’s Balloons’ Part 20 Mar. 1857 View
f. 31r Cutting from The Times, containing a letter from Lang and Co. headed ‘Children’s Balloons’ Part 26 Mar. 1857 View
f. 33r Printed score of ‘Le Voyage aérien’, a song by Gustave Nadaud (version No. 1, for baritone or contralto and piano), illustrated with a lithograph by Celestin Nanteuil Part c. 1860 View
f. 36r Cutting from a newspaper, containing an article headed ‘Ballooning across the Atlantic’ Part c. 1859 View
f. 36r Cutting from a newspaper, containing an article headed ‘The End of an Aeronaut’ Part 1858 View
f. 36r Cutting from a newspaper, containing a humorous reference to an advertisement announcing that ‘Chauvin has discovered the law of balloon-driving’ Part c. 1858 View
f. 28r Cropped half-title of An Account of the First Aërial Voyage in England by Vincent Lunardi, signed by Lunardi Part 1784 View
f. 1 Title: ‘Collection de differentes Traductions de Pasquinades, critiques, et Brochures, et d’autres Discours et Projets politiques, et commerciales, qui sont sortis à Londres. Le Tout interressant et Instructif pour connoître les affaires d’apresent; et compilé à Londres 1743.’ Part 1743
ff. 2-4 Table of contents Part 1743
f. 9 Print captioned ‘Slavery’ Part 1738
f. 11 Print captioned ‘The European Race Heat IIId. Anno Dom. MDCCXXXIX.’ Part 1 Apr. 1739
f. 35 Description of the next five items (ff. 36-41), in French Part 1743
f. 42 Title of the next item, in French Part 1743
ff. 43-65 ‘Memoire sur l’importance du commerce du tabac[,] sur les moyens d’en etablir des plantations dans les Colonies Francoises, la facilité d’y reussir et de supplanter les Anglois dans cette branche de commerce’, by Etienne de Silhouette(?) Part 1739
ff. 66-9 Transcript, in French, of a contract between Clément Huber and the fermiers generaux relating to the importation of tobacco via England Part 4 Feb. 1739
ff. 137-74 French translation of An Address to the Electors and other Free Subjects of Great Britain, occasion’d by the late Secession (by Benjamin Robins) (1739) Part c. 1739