George Aust papers concerning the Secret Service, 1794-1800
Container / Volume:
Folder 2
Image Count:
19
Abstract:
This collection, with its painstaking accounts and administrative receipts, shows the daily complexities of managing a secret service.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --History --George III, 1760-1820
Subject (Name):
Aust, George, 1749-1829, Great Britain. Foreign Office --Officials and employees, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Thomas Coutts & Co, and Wickham, William, 1761-1840
Subject (Topic):
Ciphers, Cryptography --Great Britain, and Intelligence service --Great Britain
Manuscript notebook containing "Ane Paistry Book 1718," which consists of 76 recipes for pastries, meat dishes, soups, pies, pickled vegetables and roots, and flavored wines, followed by a detailed index; and "Some Receipts for dying Colours of all Sorts, Dundonald, August 4, 1719," which contains 24 pages of dyeing instructions for various colors and fabrics.
Description:
Binding: stitched paper wrapper., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Laid in: 6 recipes in several later hands., Last page inscribed: "William Fairlie of that Ilk, 1719.", and Manuscript title page: "Mrs. Cathrine Brisbane her paistrie Book. Fairlie Jully 7th, 1719./ My Lady Fairlie Her Paistry Book Fairlie Iwly 7th 1719."
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland--Social life and customs--18th century
Subject (Name):
Fairlie family and Fairlie, William
Subject (Topic):
Cooking, Scottish, Dyes and dyeing, Recipes, Women--Great Britain , and Women--Scotland
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of entries related to the regulation and administration of the Botesdale Book Society, a subscription library. The volume contains members' names, minutes of meetings, the results of the elections of the society president, lists of books purchased,and lists of books borrowed and of books to be sent for. The books mentioned in the volume include novels; plays; memoirs; histories, including "Revolution in America"; comedies; and periodicals.
Description:
Binding: contemporary vellum. Title written on cover: Botesdale Book Club, Began 1778. Ended 1789. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century. and Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century.
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading--Great Britain., Collection development (Libraries)--Great Britain., Library circulation and loans., Library rules and regulations., and Subscription libraries.
Followed by 1 leaf of notes. and Treatise on exception (syntactical figure), being an extract from the author's Sharḥ Sharḥ Dībājat al-Miṣbāḥ.
Description:
Fair nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 7 of 15 titles bound together., Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund., and The text corresponds to leaves 225 verso-226 verso of Arabic MSS 120.
Subject (Name):
Muṭarrizī, Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Sayyid,--1144-1213.--Kitāb al-miṣbāḥ fī al-naḥw.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Grammar. and Islamic binding.
