Softbound notebook no. 35 with brown paper covers containing the manuscript of the play "Contrivances."
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Softbound notebook no. 35 with brown paper covers containing the manuscript of the play "Contrivances."
Softbound notebook with brown paper covers and ruled blue pages, containing manuscript text describing the mail route in Italy. The text accompanies and describes a pictorial representation of the mail delivery route, including details as to the principal cities, the inhabitants and their occupations, and the architecture.
Softbound notebook with marbled paper covers and ruled blue pages, containing manuscript text describing the route of mail delivery from Southampton, England, to India. Lecture accompanies and describes a pictorial representation of the mail delivery route, including details as to the principal cities, the manners, the streets, customs, inhabitants, the architecture, and every object of interest on the route from Southampton to Calcutta. Also included in the file are two pieces of ephemera, originally laid into notebook: one is a clipping for "Oswald Hughes's great pictorial and musical entertainment, entitled, The Route of the Overland Mail to China! Illustrated by a Colossal Diorama"; the second is a yellow admittance ticket for "Mr. Oswald Hughes's great pictorial representation of the route of the overland mail from England to India."
Softbound notebook no. 38 with brown paper covers containing the manuscript of the play "Grace Clairville."
Softbound notebook no. 40 with brown paper covers containing the manuscript of the play "Hereditary honours."
These fonds comprise 12 softbound manuscript volumes of lectures, plays, notes and ephemera by Oswald Hughes. The first manuscript is a lecture entitled: "Descriptive lecture on the Mail Route through Italy."
Hughes, Oswald, active 1850Softbound notebook no. 36 with brown paper containing the manuscript of the play "Ruth, or the lass that saved a sailor."
Softbound notebook no. 1 with brown paper covers containing the manuscript of the monologue "The 5 ages of woman."
Softbound notebook no. 42 with brown paper covers containing the paly "The gambler's daughter."
Softbound notebook no. 43 with brown paper covers containing the manuscript of the play "The night after the battle."