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Spain. Europe. Nation. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 40.0000.

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Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 118 Collections and/or Records:

18 letters of and to Andrew James Cochrane Johnstone.

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Identifier: Acc.8967
Scope and Contents

Concerning his business affairs in Spain and Portugal.

Dates: 1808-1833.

43 letters addressed to David Roberts.

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Identifier: Acc.11760
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Addressed to Roberts in London, Spain, Egypt and India by correspondents in Scotland and Spain concerning artistic and social matters.

Dates: 1831-1843.

`Continuation of Memoirs of Campaigns on the Peninsula from 1st December 1812 to 11th November 1813. By Captain James Stirling of the 42nd Regiment Royal Highlanders.`, 1812-1813.

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Identifier: MS.23631
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The volume includes four pages of sketches depicting the native Spaniards and their dress. Also included, at the back of the volume, is a list of the places visited and cumulative totals of the distances traveled by the army during its deployment in this period.

Dates: 1812-1813.

Divisional letter book of John Bisset, Commissary-General in Spain.

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Identifier: Acc.10322
Scope and Contents

Lacking the last few leaves of text and an unknown number of gatherings of block f.

Dates: 1812.

Geographical and general map, over two sheets, of the Balearic Islands by Thomas Lopez., 1793.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(19)-(20)
Scope and Contents From the Series: Some of the maps were acquired by General Sir George Murrary during his active service, others later for historical purposes. They are arranged as follows: Peninsula (numbers 1-88); France (numbers 89-95); uncertain locality (numbers 95-96); Canada (numbers 97-106); Flanders (numbers 107-133); various military actions, 1761-1846, and undated, especially those of 1813 (numbers 134-164). A list has been placed at the front of each volume; only the manuscript items have...
Dates: 1793.

Incomplete manuscript of a review for the "Quarterly Review" : "A Year in Spain. By a young American", by Washington Irving., 1831.

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Identifier: MS.42313
Scope and Contents The manuscript is a review of a publication by Alexander Slidell Mackenzie. It includes several pages from Mackenzie`s work, each bearing annotations in Irving`s hand.Correspondence between the folios of the manuscript and the pages of the printed article :folios 1-12 = pages [319]-323;folios 13-27 = pages 329-333;folio 28 - not included in the published article;folio 29 = page 334;folios 30-31 = page 339;...
Dates: 1831.

[Incomplete sketch map of] Movements on the 30th [July 1813]., 1813.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(85)
Scope and Contents From the Series: Some of the maps were acquired by General Sir George Murrary during his active service, others later for historical purposes. They are arranged as follows: Peninsula (numbers 1-88); France (numbers 89-95); uncertain locality (numbers 95-96); Canada (numbers 97-106); Flanders (numbers 107-133); various military actions, 1761-1846, and undated, especially those of 1813 (numbers 134-164). A list has been placed at the front of each volume; only the manuscript items have...
Dates: 1813.

Journal of Sir Alexander Bannerman of Elsick, of tours in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, The Levant, Turkey and in Europe, with descriptions of yachting and sporting visits to Scotland.

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Identifier: Acc.13494
Scope and Contents The journal includes an eye-witness account of Napoleon III`s arrival in Paris in 1852. In 1853, Bannerman records visits to the Pyramids and Jerusalem and gives a detailed account of a Bull Fight in Cadiz in 1853. In 1861, Bannerman records visits to Constantinople, Athens and Malta.The accounts of foreign tours are interspersed with descriptions of several yachting expeditions, mostly starting from Cowes, to Ireland and Scotland but also to Europe. In 1854-1856,...
Dates: 1852-1867

Letter of Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch, to his factor.

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Identifier: Acc.11981
Scope and Contents

Concerns Graham`s observations on river and canal defences in Spain and their possible application on his estate.

Dates: 1821.

Manuscript, "A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, by Fray Antonio Agapida", by Washington Irving., 1828-1829.

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Identifier: MSS.42310-42312
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is in three volumes. Sections of the manuscript would appear to be in the hand of a copyist.

With the manuscript is a brief outline, by Earl Harbert of Tulane University, of the history of the manuscript.

Dates: 1828-1829.

Manuscript, "History of the United Netherlands from the death of William the Silent to the synod of Dort", by John Lothrop Motley., 1860, or before-1867.

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Identifier: MSS.42494-42497
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates: 1860, or before-1867.

Manuscript of the title-page, dedication and preface for the "History of the Peninsular War" by Robert Southey., 1822.

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Identifier: MS.42556
Scope and Contents

The manuscript has the following arrangement :

folio 1 : title page;

folio 2 : dedication to "The King", George IV;

folio 3 : preface.

The date of the manuscript has been taken from the preface which was dated by Southey, "Keswick 22 July 1822".

Dates: 1822.

Manuscript, "The History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from the year 1807 to the year 1814", volume one, by William Napier., ? 1826-1928.

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Identifier: MS.42501
Scope and Contents

The manuscript has been annotated, "Copied out by Col. W. Napiers Lady". Included are three maps, in manuscript, of battle plans.

Also included is a letter, 27 December 1901, of J.B. Hughes relating an anecdote about Napier; and a newspaper cutting, "Napier`s `Peninsular War`", from "The Times", 29 March 1928.

Dates: ? 1826-1928.