Great Britain
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Sir William Brown correspondence to Abbott Lawrence
Thomas Hollingsworth collection of Genealogical Data on the British Peerage
Thomas Henry Hollingsworth was a British demographer born in England, May 10, 1932. The collection consists of genealogical material on approximately 28,000 individuals dating from 1603-1938.
Victorian-era scrapbook collection
Personal assemblages illustrating the Victorian preoccupation with collecting and arranging pictures, 1876-1896.
William Cobbett petition
Collection consists of one hand-written petition to the House of Commons, February 15, 1830. The bound manuscript numbers eight pages. Cobbett's address was presented during the end of Tory rule. In the petition, cobbett argued for economic and political reform and the relief in agricultural areas where the farmers were seriously deprived.
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin materials
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) was a British mathematician and physicist. Collection consists of four letters of Thomson, ranging in date from 1878 to 1899, to Henry Dyer. Also in the collection are invoices and correspondence relating to the publication in 1904 of Thomson's lectures at the Johns Hopkins University.