First produced about 1722, this is a set of vocal and orchestral parts, copied in part by James Lewis on 13th February 1758, whose annotations reveal them to have been used at the last recorded performance on 28th December 1786.
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The list records a total of 24 performances before the King and Queen, presented by the Kings company over a nine month period.
This edition of Richard III is the first real translation of Shakespeare into Russian. The identity of the translator, who was probably working from the French of Pierre Prime Flicin Le Tourneur has not yet been established
20 good letters ; two in particular are packed with comment on the doings of contemporaries in the Royal Academy, to which Roberts had been elected as Associate in 1838 and as Academician in 1841. In another letter he writes of a picure he is painting of our dear little Queen.
Further correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of poetry and short stories and of a novel, Reality and Dreams. This supplements the major part of the archive acquired by NLS with the help of the Friends in 1992. Grant from the Philip Larkin Fund
Five volumes of letters received from ministers and a letter book 1656-69; they provide many insights into a soldier, politician, diplomat and naval commander who moved from one side to the other of the political divide.
Sketches dating from a time when the two brothers were collaborating on some pictures. The fateful holiday in Scotland when Ruskins portrait was started and Millais relationship with Effie Ruskin began is recorded b y William in a sketch entitled Crossing the Border.
Most of the collection is devoted to WH Rogers designs for publishers cloth bindings, with proof covers and proof engravings of titlepages.
Canova writes thanking Westmacott for the news that one of his sculptures has arrived safely in England and that it has met with the approval of the Prince Regent; this was probably the Naiade, now in the Royal Collection.
69 items representing the working library of the Birmingham industrial designer Reginald E Edgcombe, who was principal designer for Osler and Farraday, ranging from design theory, to practical handbooks and visual reference material.