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William Tipping Papers, 1688-2001
Creator
Tipping, William
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Format
Manuscript
Language
English
Description
4 boxes
2.4 linear feet
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Special Collections - Manuscripts Archival. Special Collections Use Only
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Manuscripts, English
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Houlston and Wright
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Ottewill, David
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Getty AAT genre
Correspondence
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18th century
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Correspondence
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20th century
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Diaries
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19th century
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Manuscripts, English
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19th-century
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20th century
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Photographic postcards
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Photographs, Original
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Compiled/Created
1688-2001
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The collection is open for research.
Summary note
Conists of personal papers of William Tipping Esq, of Brasted Park, Sevenoaks, in Kent, and Avray near Paris. He was the son of the successful Liverpool merchant John Tipping, who in his twenties traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East before turning to Tory politics and serving as director of the London and North Western Railway.
Includes a series of approximately one hundred and forty family letters, comprising some 450 pages, written on tours of Europe and the Middle East around 1840, several charmingly illustrated. Includes a copious run of retained drafts of letters to Isaac Taylor, the publishers Houlston & Wright, Dr. Robert Traill, the painter Josiah Gilbert, and others, concerning publication of plates after drawings made on his tours, as well as a quantity of additional family material (manuscripts, letters, books, 1777-1960s and beyond). Also includes a signed portrait of William Tipping. There are is also a quantity of additional family material, such as manuscripts, letters, photographs, brochures, books, and periodicals dated 1777-1960s and beyond.
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