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Title

Miscellaneous correspondence

Shelfmark

MS. Eng. d. 4026

Summary

(fols. 1-25; 47) collection of letters formed by Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, comprising:

letters to William Vernon Harcourt from: (fols. 1-15) William Whewell, Sept. 1831-Feb. 1840, with (fols. 9-10) a draft letter from Harcourt to Whewell, 1831; (fols. 16-19) Sir Roderick Murchison, Sept. 1840, [Sept.?] 1867;(fols. 20-1) his brother Egerton Vernon Harcourt, Nov. 1847; (fols. 22-5) Adam Sedgwick, July 1854, May 1860

letters to William Vernon Harcourt's wife Matilda Vernon Harcourt from: (fols. 26-33) her brother-in-law Egerton Vernon Harcourt, Oct. 1847-Jan. [1848]; (fols. 34-8) [Harriet ?], Nov. 1847; (fols. 39-41) her sister-in-law Louisa Johnstone, Dec. 1847; (fols. 42-5) W.H. Dixon, Dec. 1847

(fols. 46) note by [ Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt] concerning a miniature portrait of [Elizabeth Harcourt, Viscountess Harcourt] by Christian Frederick Zincke sold from the Royal Collection by William IV.

Also includes:

(fols. 48) letter from George Biddell Airy, Sept. 1860

(fols. 50-1) letter from John Louis William Thudichum, Feb. 1869