Crewe Manuscripts

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
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
6 Prose pieces in the hand of Thomas Gray Item 18th c.
9 ‘Berryana’: papers relating to Mary and Agnes Berry Item c. 1845–66
11 Papers relating to a loan opened by the French Directory to finance an invasion of England Item 1798–9
21 Documents relating to copyrights of Jacob Tonson and others Item 18th c.
34 Illustrations, etc., collected by Richard Burton for his Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Medinah and Meccah Item 1853–6
43 History of Charles IX, Books I and II, by Antoine Varillas Item late 17th c.?
45 Chapbooks, prints, and cuttings relating to notable criminals Item 1733–95
46 Visiting book of Robert Burns’s cottage Item 1841–5
49 Transcript of the will of King Henry VII, with an engraving Item c. 1750 and 1622
24A ‘Frontispieceana’, Vol. 1: engravings, woodcuts, etc., mainly from books, 16th–19th c. Item 1816
**B**, pp. 19–71 ‘L’Ether, ou l’Être Suprême Élementaire; Poeme Philozophike et Moral, à Priori. En Cinq Chants’, by Martin De Bussy Part
**B**, pp. 79–88 ‘Constance ou Courage dans le Malheur’: an account of the death of Socrates, adapted from Les Exemples célèbres by Henri Lemaire Part
**B**, pp. 96a–b Note on the importance of a woman’s reputation Part
**B**, p. 102 ‘Diskour sur l’Ode’ Part
**B**, pp. 103–13 Extracts from Examen de l’Homme des Champs Part
**B**, pp. 123–8 ‘Letre 2e. Le Kabaliste Abukibak, ò studieû ben Kiber’: Letter CXXIV of the Marquis d’Argens’ Lettres cabalistiques Part
f. 16 Law regarding the opening of a national loan for an invasion of England Part 5 Jan. 1798
ff. 2–10 Transcript of a letter from Jean-Paul Marat to Philippe Rose Roume de Saint Laurent, 20 Nov. 1783 Part c. 10 Feb. 1784
No. 1 Letter from Friedrich Benedikt Carpzov to Nicolaus Heinsius the elder Part 26 Feb. 1673
No. 10 Copy of a letter from the Duke of Bedford to the Archbishop of Armagh Part 16 July 1806
f. 4v Notes on the 1st Marquess of Winchester Part c. 1856
f. 20r Letter from the Marquess of Winchester and Walter Mildmay to Richard Stanley (one of the tellers of the Receipt) Part 17 July 1568