Brandoin - Christie | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Brandoin - Christie

Shelfmark

MS. Beckford c. 27

Summary

Includes:

(fols. 4-8) Beckford's wrapper, with notes of letters to and from him, and a newspaper cutting, 1813-17

(fols. 9-49) John Britton, 1822-43, with (fol. 15cv) a reading-note quoted in Boyd Alexander, England's wealthiest son (1962), pp. 258-9 (and said to be on the verso of a letter to John Rutter)

(fols. 63-85) the Prince de Carency, 1788-9

(fols. 89-130b) Charles Chardin, 1789-1821, n.d., with bills for books, and news of the revolution in France