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Anecdotes of my own time - private
Title
Anecdotes of my own time - private, 1800 Mar 31 - 1811 Dec 9.
Physical Description
1 v. (62 p., with blanks) ; 24 x 19 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Several sections of the notebook, considerably edited and abridged, appear in the author's "Posthumous Memoirs of his own Time" (London, 1815).
Laid in: 3 small pages at end of text containing two more anecdotes.
Inside back cover: stamp of Pearce and Son's Stationers.
Binding: parchment.
In English.
Provenance
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Summary
Manuscript, in a single hand, of diary of anecdotes of the British nobility either witnessed by himself or related to him by "the highest and most reliable of authorities." Topics include the present [ca.1800] health and potential succession of those in the Bourbon and British royal families and the Treaty of London between England and France in 1801.
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Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2005
References
Sir Nathaniel William, Anecdotes of My Own Time - Private. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Sir Nathaniel William, Anecdotes of My Own Time - Private. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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