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Percy, Thomas, (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, antiquary

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Surname: Percy
Forenames: Thomas
Gender: Male
Date: 1729-1811
Biography: ODNB link for Percy, Thomas (1729-1811) Bishop of Dromore antiquary
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P143854 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P22636 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Thomas Percy
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
literary MSS
See information in published source
See HMC Guide to the papers of antiquaries and historians; Location index to English literary MSS
2
c1753-1811: corresp, papers and genealogical and ballad collections
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 22592-95, 27879, 32323-39, 34756, 38728, 39547, 42515-17; RP413, 1632, 2619, 3781
3
letters to him from various correspondents
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Eg MS 201
4
corresp, papers and literary MSS
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
5
1750-1805: corresp and papers
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Percy
NRA 17151 Percy
6
papers
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Add a 265-66, 269
7
corresp and papers (5 boxes)
Harvard University: Houghton Library
MSS Eng B 891, 893
NRA 20129 Harvard Univ MSS
8
literary papers
Northamptonshire Archives Service
E(S)
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
9
c1760-89: papers
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Eng misc b 38
10
1761-1804: letters and papers
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Eng lett d 59
11
letters and papers (10 items)
Boston Public Library
NRA 11046 Boston Library
12
sermons
Shrewsbury School Library
Auden-Percy MSS 1-2
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
13
c1767: metrical romances transcribed for him (5 vols)
Harvard University: Houghton Library
MS Eng 748
NRA 20129 Harvard Univ MSS
14
1801: 'A statement of what passed' (1 vol)
Harvard University: Houghton Library
MS Eng 955
NRA 20129 Harvard Univ MSS
15
1774: dictionary of Bridgnorth dialect
Shropshire Archives
MS 1175/2
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
16
genealogical collections rel to the Percy family
London Metropolitan Archives: City of London
CLC/521/MS03071
17
1776-1804: corresp (11 items) and literary MSS
Huntington Library
See Guide to literary MSS 1979
18
notes rel to Hudibras
Trinity College Dublin
MS 960
See TK Abbott, Catalogue of MSS (1900)
19
annotated collection of ballads
British Library, Modern English and Reader Services, Humanities and Social Sciences
See RC Alston, Books with manuscript (1994)
20
annotated copy of Allan Ramsay's Evergreen
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MSS 494-95
21
annotated copy of Langbaine's English Dramatick Poets
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
La III 647
22
1802-07: letters and MSS (17 items) from Thomas Robinson
Harvard University: Houghton Library
MS Eng 734.3
NRA 20129 Harvard Univ MSS
23
1755-60: letters to Thomas Apperley (copies)
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Facs b 56
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
24
1763-65: letters to Thomas Birch
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 4316
25
1798: letters to JB Blakeway
Shropshire Archives
See List of Accessions 1970
26
1773-1790: corresp with James Boswell
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
GEN MSS 89
NRA 22146 Boswell
27
c1788-1806: letters from the Marquess of Buckingham
National Library of Ireland
MS 5022
28
1769-90: letters to Sir Robert Chambers
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Autogr d 4, Eng poet b 6
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
29
1762-83: letters to Sir David Dalrymple
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS 25296
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
30
1762-65: letters (14) to Evan Evans
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
NLW MS 2039D
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
31
1762-73: corresp (54 items) with Richard Farmer
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 28222
32
1762-83: letters to Lord Hailes
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Acc 7228 8987
NRA 17690 Dalrymple

See NRA(S)0909
33
1773-1805: letters to Earls of Hardwicke
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 35350, 35611, 35728-763 passim
34
1760-73: letters from Samuel Johnson
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Eng lett c 132
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
35
1767-1811: corresp with Edmond Malone (c50 items)
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Malone 26-27, 39
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
36
1768-79: corresp with George Paton
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Adv MSS 29 3 8, 29 5 5-8
NRA 23720 Paton
37
1767-72: letters to Samuel Pegge
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Eng lett d 46
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
38
1778-79: letters from John Pinkerton
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS 1713
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
39
1757-63: corresp with William Shenstone
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 28221
40
1786-89: letters (12) to JC Walker
Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum
Perceval Bequest
See Location register of English literary MSS 18th-19th cent
41
letters to John Watson
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society
MS 332
See Catalogue of MSS and Deeds (1931)
42
1800-21: corresp with Jane West
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Eng lett d 71
43
1761-70: letters to Thomas Warton, incl notes and transcripts of ballads
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 42560
44
1765-1811: corresp
Alnwick Castle
NRA 836 Percy
45
c1760-1811: corresp
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Adv MSS 22 3 11, 22 4 10
46
1788: letters and accounts rel to the purchase of Scottish firs
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Dep c 408(6)
NRA 8117 Oxford Agric
47
letters (36)
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
NRA 18661 Osborn coll
48
library, with marginal notes, and papers
Queens University, Belfast
Percy
See Pilgrim Trust Annual Report, 1969, p32