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Arthur Moore collection
This collection consists of the correspondence and business records of Arthur Moore (1666?-1730) and his immediate family in England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Correspondence of Lady Mary Holland
This is a collection of 20 letters, dated 1771-1777, from Lady Mary Holland (ca 1746-1778), wife of Stephen Fox, to Françoise Payne (lLater Lady Lavington), wife of the governor of the Leeward Islands. They consist of social and domestic news from one politician's wife to another.
Correspondence of Olga Novikova
Collection of correspondence written to Olga Novikova, a 19th century cosmopolitan Pan-Slavic lobbyist, from influential English and European members of her salon.
John Armstrong collection
Collection of primarily political and military letters and manuscripts written by Colonel John Armstrong of the British Army of the early 18th century, an engineer and expert on the Dunkirk fortifications in France.
Letters, literary manuscripts, and personal papers of the Porter family
The Porter family papers consist of letters, literary manuscripts and personal papers of an English literary family from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century. Two-thirds of the almost 3000 items in the collection consists of the correspondence of the siblings, Sir Robert Ker Porter (1777-1842), Jane Porter (1776-1850), Anna Maria Porter (1778-1832), and other members of the Porter family.
Letters received by Edward Weston
The collection consists of 141 letters and related items bound together in a single volume and received by Edward Weston (1703-1770, Under-Secretary of State for the Northern Province, and editor of the London Gazette) from diplomats and governmental agents on the Continent, during the Wars of the Austrian Succession. The letters mostly concern military and political matters.
Papers of William Smith
Politician's archives from an English 18th and 19th century Protestant Dissenter, or individual who does not accept and follow all the tenents of the Anglican Church. Includes a collection of letters received, speech drafts, printed announcements, etc.
Star Chamber collection
Collection of volumes and loose items pertaining to the Star Chamber, a court that existed in England at the Palace of Westminster from approximately the 15th century through 1641, when it was abolished by the Long Parliament.