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The Davy Notebooks Project (coming 2024)
Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was one of the most significant and famous figures in the scientific and literary culture of early 19th-century Britain, Europe and America. His notebooks are a fascinating mix of genres, containing his thoughts, scientific experiments, poetry, geological observations, travel accounts, and personal philosophy.
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Satterthwaite Letter Books
Benjamin Satterthwaite spent a large part of his life as a resident representative or factor in the West Indies for his family’s firm and a group of Lancaster merchants. The Letter Books contain hundreds of copies of the letters written by him to his family and business associates, bound into three volumes.
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John Welch
Over 300 letters and other items such as field postcards, photographs, menu cards and other ephemera. The collection offers a compelling, personal impression of life at the Front in the First World War. Conversational in tone, the letters bring to life the experience of an officer in the British Army during one of the defining conflicts of modern history.