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
Name of creator
Repository
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 the… read more
Allied materials area
Related units of description
Trinity College Library, Sraffa 461: The double bottom or twin-hulled ship of Sir William Petty