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Manuscripts.

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Last letter written by Mary Queen of Scots, on 8 February, 1587 (the night before her execution), to her brother-in-law, Henri III of France.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.54.1.1
Scope and Contents

Mary has been unable to obtain her papers in order to make her will. She is to be executed the following morning at 8 o`clock. She has been deprived of her chaplain. She recommends her servants to her brother-in-law, and begs that money may be provided to found an obit and to make the requisite distribution of alms.

Dates: 1587.