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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number MS OGDEN/63
TitlePretyman Autographs (Commoners)
Datec1820-1828
DescriptionVolume containing signatures, c1820-1828, of eminent men of the period in England, collected by Arabella Pretyman (or Williams), comprising 304 autographs on franked letters. Label on front cover: 'Commoners'.
Extent1 volume
CustodialHistoryPart of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century.
AcquisitionPart of the C K Ogden Library acquired by UCL in 1953.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Related MaterialUniversity College London Special Collections also holds four volumes of autographs of members of the Houses of Commons and the Lords, collected by Arabella Pretyman (or Williams), c1813-1840 (Ref: MS OGDEN 69-70).
FindingAidsHandlist at University College London Special Collections.
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