‘Aeronautica’: prints, cuttings, and other papers relating to the history of ballooning
- Crewe MS/8
- Unidad documental simple
- 1784–1870
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On the spine is stamped 'Aeronautica'.
‘Aeronautica’: prints, cuttings, and other papers relating to the history of ballooning
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On the spine is stamped 'Aeronautica'.
Letter from A. V. Alexander to Lord Pethick-Lawrence
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Office of the Minister of Defence.—Is glad that Pethick-Lawrence was able to attend yesterday’s Indian independence celebrations.
Letter from Isaac Barrow to the Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge
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Pera, Constant[ino]politanae - After an apology for the long delay in writing to the Fellowship, he gives an account of his travels from Paris, with a description of his stay in Florence, prolonged because of the plague in Naples, which was predicted to spread to Rome whither he had planned to go next; heeding the warning that if caught by the plague he would not be able to leave, and it proving too difficult to reach Venice, he embarks on a ship to Constantinople. He describes the present state of affairs under the Grand Vizier, Koprulu Mehmed Pasha, who had come to power two years earlier: his work to restore the Ottoman name at home and abroad, recovering the islands of Tenedos and Lemnos, repelling an attack by the Venetian fleet, suppressing a revolt in Moldavia and Wallachia by removing their princes, repressing the infighting threatening the prestige of the empire, most recently undertaking an expedition to Transylvania on the pretext that Prince Ragotzy, a Turkish subject, had invaded Poland hoping to take the kingdom for himself. Barrow predicts that Christendom will find in the Grand Vizier its worst enemy and describes his punishment of Parthenius, the Patriarch of the Greek Church, who was accused of intrigue with the Duke of Muscovy despite the commonly held view that the accusations were false, and who was hanged and left on display in his Pontifical robes as a deterrent to plotters. Barrow closes with a promise to return to Cambridge within the year.
Docketed by William Derham, "Paper. 1. Dr Barrows Lr ...to the Fellows of Trin. Col. Cambridge from Constantinople. Caland August 1658. Publ. Lr 1. W.Ds.'
Trinity College, Cambridge
Cutting from a newspaper, containing a notice of the death of Charles Green
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Printed pamphlet entitled Air-Navigation by means of the Rotary Balloon, by John Luntley
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Print of a rotary balloon designed by John Luntley
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A model of this balloon was exhibited by Luntley at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (see the Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue, ii. 435: Class 10, No. 237). This print has no caption, but the copy in the Library of Congress is captioned ‘ROTARY BALLOON. Model exhibited in Class X, No. 137 [sic]. By J. Luntley.’
Cutting from a newspaper, containing an article headed ‘A Fearful Balloon Voyage’
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Cutting from a newspaper, containing an article headed ‘The End of an Aeronaut’
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Cutting from a newspaper, containing an article headed ‘Ballooning across the Atlantic’
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Cutting from a newspaper, containing a short notice headed ‘Prince Lucien Bonaparte and his Works’
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(Undated. The catalogue referred to in the notice was issued in 1862.)
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(Marked ‘Siehe S.377’.)
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Printed leaflet entitled Prospectus de la cinquante-unième ascencion de l’aéronaute Blanchard
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(Undated. Blanchard’s fifty-first ascent took place in 1800.)
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(The document bears a note on its provenance, dated at Annonay on 1 Jan. 1827.)
Cutting from an album amicorum, bearing an inscription by Jean-Pierre Blanchard
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The men depicted in the illustration are, from left to right, Walter Prideaux, John Hollins, William Milbourne James, Robert Hollond, Charles Green, and Thomas Monck Mason.
(No caption or date. Title and date supplied from British Museum No. 1858,0613.402. )
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(No caption or other printed information. Details supplied from Monck Mason’s Aeronautica.)
Print of a hot-air balloon with three men in the basket
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(No caption or other information.)
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W. Aldis Wright: Bible Revision (correspondence)
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Correspondence, notes, and printed material largely relating to W. Aldis Wright's work as Secretary of the Old Testament Revision Company. Includes correspondence from C. F. Clay, William F. Moulton, Bartholomew Price, T. H. Stokoe, Richard Wright, J. Troutbeck and others, along with several copies/drafts of letters by W. Aldis Wright. Notes by T. K. Cheyne, George Chawner, John Birrell, D. H. Weir and others. Includes material on use by others of the Revised Version, such as a request from [Charles Goldschmidt?] Montefiore, and on the disposition of surplus money given to the Old and New Testament Revision Companies [see also Add.MS.b.65].
Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar
W. Aldis Wright: Bible Revision (correspondence and notes)
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Correspondence, notes, and printed material largely relating to W. Aldis Wright's work as Secretary of the Old Testament Revision Company. Includes correspondence from: S. R. Driver; F. J. A. Hort; W. F. Moulton, J. Troutbeck, Maxwell Ben-Oliel; Connop Thirwell, G. C.M. Douglas, Frederick Field, John Dury Geden and Charles Kingsley along with several copies/drafts of letters by W. Aldis Wright to others. Notes by William Barnes; R. L. Bensly, Schiller-Szinessy, William Selwyn, and others. Includes material on the disposition of the remaining funds after the completion of the project.
Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar
W. Aldis Wright: Bible Revision (correspondence)
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Correspondence, notes, and printed material largely relating to W. Aldis Wright's work as Secretary of the Old Testament Revision Company. Some letters addressed to the Dean of Westminster, A. P. Stanley; to Canon Selwyn, and to others. Includes letters from: Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St David's; G. C. M. Douglas; E. H. Browne, Bishop of Ely then of Winchester; Frederick Field; John Dury Geden; A. P. Stanley, Dean of Westminster; Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff; Hormuzd Rassam; William Selwyn; J. Troutbeck; Duncan H. Weir, James Cartmell; Bartholomew Price; Philip Schaff. Several copies/drafts of letters by W. Aldis Wright to others. Much material regarding the relationship between the British and American Revision Committees.
Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar
W. Aldis Wright: Bible Revision (notes and correspondence)
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Notes, correspondence and printed material largely relating to W. Aldis Wright's work as Secretary of the Old Testament Revision Company. Includes letters from: Bartholomew Price; the Bishop of St David's [Basil Jones]; the Bishop of Llandaff [Alfred Ollivant], two Bishops of Winchester [Harold Browne and Samuel Wilberforce) and the Bishop of St Andrew's, Dunkeld and Dunblane [Charles Wordsworth]. Draft letters from Wright to R. A. [?] Massie and the editor of the Rock. Printed correspondence, members lists etc of the Old and New Testament Revision Companies. Notes on the Psalms, the Athanasian Creed, 'The Rephaim and other giant races of Scripture' [no 44] etc.
Also present: what purports to be a frontispiece to the Coverdale Bible of 1535, with an engraved portrait of Coverdale 'from a Drawing in the Possession of Dr Gifford' [from Erasmus Middleton's Biographia evangelica of 1816?] and a copy of 'Coverdale's Dedication' and 'Myles Coverdale unto the Christen Reader' [from Bagster's 1838 printing?]. A note in Philip Gaskell's hand judges the frontispiece to be 'slightly fishy: cd be a block printed on old paper'.
Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar
W. Aldis Wright: Shakespeariana (printed material, notes and correspondence)
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Predominantly printed material: extracts from journals and newspapers; prefaces; programmes and dinner menus of Shakespeare societies; examination papers; printed correspondence (including between J. O. Halliwell-Philipps and Robert Browning regarding the New Shakspeare Society); frontispiece purportedly from the 1599 edition of Venus and Adonis probably from the 1879 Sotheran facsimile edition. Letters from P. Lyttelton Gell, George Litting, Henry Weston Eve and John Doran.
Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar