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Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
Contemporary copies and translations of letters, mainly from Italy, reporting on European and Turkish affairs.
Most of the documents are dated 1596. The subjects include Spanish policy in June and July of that year, leading up to the capture of Cadiz by the English (cf. ‘Calendar of State Papers, Domestic series ... 1595-1597’); a rising of janissaries in Constantinople; and events in Italy and eastern Europe. These are followed (folio 33) by miscellaneous papers, mostly concerning the siege of Montauban in 1621.
Copy, with translation, of a letter of Dmitri Shostakovich to John McLeod.
Concerns variations by McLeod on a theme from Shostakovich`s Fifth Symphony.
Microfilm of proof-sheets, [1827, or before], of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott; and, letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.
The contents are as follows:
Proof-sheets of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott, volume v, pages 225-240, with autograph corrections by Scott, [1827, or before] (MS.496);
Letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland (MS.2991).
Microfilm of two books, 1692, 1697, of household recipes of Katherin Smith and correspondence and papers, 1818-1831, undated, of Sir John Sinclair on agriculture.
The correspondence and papers of Sir John Sinclair includes translations and copies of letters on his ‘Code of agriculture’ and letters of him to Sir Patrick Murray Threipland.