Content Description Twenty-six, 5" x 6.5", engravings of famous London landmarks printed by Joseph Thomas Wood on glazed cards. The card titled "London Bridge from the Surry side of the River Thames" has a note handwritten on the back that mentions William and Mary. All titles are written under the printed images in English on the left side, and French on the right. The titles of the cards are as follows:London Bridge from the Surry side of River ThamesThe Colosseum Regents...

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Receipt, 27 June 1716, signed by G[odfrey] Kneller, for 18 pounds for an annuity plan from the British government.  Plan as "an act for granting to Her Majesty new Duties of Excife [excise] and upon feveral [several] imported Commodities, and for eftablifhing [establishing] a yearly Fund thereby, and by other Ways and Means to raife [raise], Nine hundred thoufand [thousand] Pounds by Sale of Annuities, for the Service of the Year 1710, and other Ufes [uses] therein mentioned."

Scope and Contents Collection provides insight into the life of Algernon Charles Swinburne and his contemporaries, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frederick Sandys, Theodore Watts-Dunton, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Lucy Madox Brown, William Michael Rossetti, and William Sharp. Materials include handwritten letter and autograph of Queen Victoria; Vanity Fair caricature of Swinburne by Carlo Pelligrini, pseudonym Ape; letters from siblings Christina, William Michael and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Thomas...