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Sender: Griesbach, Johann Jakob, 1745-1812
Recipient: [unknown]
Letters: 1
Date(s): 18 Mar 1775
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 2 Griesbach
Note: Addressed "Dear Sir". The material was formerly bound into a volume containing also transcripts of the letters, which is now shelved in a separate author/alphabetical sequence following the main sequence of Miscellaneous Letters.
Sender: Griesbach, Johann Jakob, 1745-1812
Recipient: White, Joseph, 1745-1814
Letters: 1
Date(s): 1 Jun 1771
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 2 Griesbach
Note: The material was formerly bound into a volume containing also transcripts of the letters, which is now shelved in a separate author/alphabetical sequence following the main sequence of Miscellaneous Letters.
Sender: Jenkins, Thomas, d. 1798
Recipient: Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803
Letters: 4
Date(s): 22 Mar 1774 - 7 Jul 1797
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 2 Jenkins
Note: The material was formerly bound into a volume which is now shelved in a separate author/alphabetical sequence following the main sequence of Miscellaneous Letters. The bound volume includes a biography of Jenkins which is fuller than that contained in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Sender: Hayley, William, 1745-1820
Recipient: Thornton, John, d. 1780
Letters: 39
Date(s): 21 Sep 1774 - 17 Apr 1779
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Hayley
Note: Carbon copy transcription. Includes index and poems by Hayley.
Sender: Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761
Recipient: Highmore, Miss
Letters: 1
Date(s): 20 Jul 1750
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 2 Richardson (2)
Note: With a portrait, cutting, and photocopy. Apologies for his delay in writing, due to his participation in other people's affairs and also to "an increase of my old malady", passes some remarks on content and happiness, mentions the loss of two of Miss Highmore's friends in a twelve month period, praises a sonnet of hers, discusses various acquaintances, declares his intention of making a law that the ladies should send him two letters for one. The material was formerly bound into a volume containing also a transcript of the letter, which is now shelved in a separate author/alphabetical sequence following the main sequence of Miscellaneous Letters.
Sender: Evelyn, John
Recipient: Plot, Robert, Dr
Letters: 1
Date(s): 9 Dec 1687
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Evelyn. In envelope, with a typescript copy
Note: Information concerning the life of Sir Richard Brown, Plot's father-in-law, for Anthony Wood's "Athenae Oxoniensis". Transcript of the inscription on his monument, with the note: "For he would be interr'd in the Church-yard, close to the wall of the Church, where is a black marble ballustred over him, with a short Latine inscription. This English one being in an Ile within the Church. The letters are all Capitol". Reference to his "accademical learning" and his relations with Charles I and Charles II. His life in France and his religious beliefs, his services to the King and the attraction of his character.
Sender: Evelyn, John
Recipient: Thoresby, Ralph
Letters: 1
Date(s): 19 Jul 16[99]
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Evelyn. In folding cloth case, guarded, with typescript copy
Note: Apologises for delay in answering Thoresby's letter, due to his involvement in an estate appeal to Parliament, and to the death of his only son. Discussion of the cures achieved by Mr Stroaker ("Phil. Trans.", 256) by laying on of hands. Wishes to send him a Nanteuil print.
Sender: Fairfax, Ferdinando, 2nd Baron Fairfax of Cameron
Recipient: [unknown]
Letters: 1
Date(s): 24 Sep 1640
Location: BC MS Yks 5
Note: Letter signed. Expressing willingness to serve in Parliament. Folio, 1f.
Sender: Fairfax, Charles
Recipient: Fairfax, Ferdinando, 2nd Baron Fairfax of Cameron
Letters: 1
Date(s): 8 Apr 1646
Location: BC MS Yks 4
Note: 2ff.
Sender: Thompson, J.
Recipient: Freebairne
Letters: 1
Date(s): 3 May 1722
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Jacobite 1722
Note: Official transcript of letter suspected of being of a treasonable nature, and written by Jacobites. Bound with four autograph letters from the Hon E. Cartaret, Postmaster General to Charles Viscount Townshend.
Sender: Sawyer, G.
Recipient: Forbes, Tho.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 3 May 1722
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Jacobite 1722
Note: Extract from letter. Official transcript of letter suspected of being of a treasonable nature, and written by Jacobites. Bound with four autograph letters from the Hon E. Cartaret, Postmaster General to Charles Viscount Townshend.
Sender: Forester, L.
Recipient: Fisher, Mrs
Letters: 1
Date(s): 4 May 1722
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Jacobite 1722
Note: Letter enclosed with note to Mr Peter Commins at Mr Benjamin Tooke's the "Bookseller", near Temple Bar to forward the letter to Mrs Fisher. Official transcript of letter suspected of being of a treasonable nature, and written by Jacobites. Bound with four autograph letters from the Hon E. Cartaret, Postmaster General to Charles Viscount Townshend.