Item 763 - Letters from Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne, to Sydney Cockerell

Identity area

Reference code

Add. MS a/763

Title

Letters from Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne, to Sydney Cockerell

Date(s)

  • 12 Oct. 1930-20 Mar. 1931 (Creation)

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Item

Extent and medium

Letters: 5 single sheets; 1 newspaper cutting.

Context area

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Found with Sydney Cockerell's copy of Lansdowne's Roxburghe Club book, The double bottom or twin-hulled ship of Sir William Petty (1931), part of the printed book collection of Piero Sraffa which came to Trinity after his death in 1983.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

All letters written from Bowood, Calne, Wiltshire. They concern a visit from Cockerell to Lansdowne, the early rental of the Lord of Lixnaw [Kerry] on which Lansdowne published a piece in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Aug. 1931, and theread more

Allied materials area

Related units of description

Trinity College Library, Sraffa 461: The double bottom or twin-hulled ship of Sir William Petty

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