Additional Manuscripts: Presented by the Earl of Derby
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Country
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GB
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Language of name of institution
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eng
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Contact information: postal address
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96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
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Contact information: phone number
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0044 (0)1937 546060 (Customer Services)
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Contact information: email
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mss@bl.uk
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Reference number
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Add MS 28534-28548
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (official language of the state)
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Additional Manuscripts: Presented by the Earl of Derby
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Language of title
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eng
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Creator / accumulator
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British Library
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Date note
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18th century/1842
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Language(s)
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deu
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dut
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eng
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fra
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ita
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lat
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por
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spa
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Extent
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15 storage units
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Scope and content
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This section of the Additional manuscripts comprises manuscripts presented by the Earl of Derby to the British Library. A great part of this section is composed of eleven volumes (Add MS 28534-28544) with correspondence of Emanuel Mendes da Costa (1717-91), naturalist and Fellow of the Royal Society of London, with men of science and others, from 1737 to 1787. The volumes are arranged alphabetically and include an index of names. It includes Joseph Salvador's last letter written in Coroneka on January 22, published in Woolf (1962) and Lixl (2009).
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Archival history
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Manuscripts presented by the Earl of Derby.
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Administrative / Biographical history
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The British Library was founded in 1973 in the sequence of the British Library Act. Several organisations were brought together to create a national library, including the British Museum.
The British Museum was created in 1753 as "one general repository" to hold the collections of Sir Hans Sloane, Sir Robert Cotton, and Robert and Edward Harley. When it inherited the library of George III in 1823, its printed books doubled in number, prompting a move to the site of the current British Museum. Opening in 1857, the British Museum Library’s Round Reading Room became an iconic destination in the literary landscape of London. The room welcomed many famous visitors including Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, George Bernard Shaw, and Virginia Woolf. During World War II, some of the British Museum Library's most precious treasures were moved to a secure cave in Aberystwyth, with round-the-clock guards.
The actual British Library's building in St Pancras opened its doors to the public in November 1997. The Library became the largest public building constructed in Britain in the last 100 years.
Over the last 250 years, the British Library has become one of the greatest libraries in the world. Its physical collections are growing all the time, and so are its digital collections, which include Digitised Manuscripts, the UK Web Archive, and over one million rights-free images.
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(source: History of the British Library)
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Author of the description
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Carla Vieira, 2022
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