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• RA SP/M/15/23: Mary of Modena to Le Comte de Soissons, 26 March 1685
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• RA VIC/MAIN/F/47: Correspondence about Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, June - December 1887
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• RA GEO/MAIN/36792: Queen Charlotte to the Prince Regent, 28 July 1816
• RA GEO/ADD/32/2453: Essay on the geography of Hungary [1746-1805]

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