A. Letter from George Saintsbury, Emeritus Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University, to Alan R. Wheeler; 10 April 1924. ff. 1-1 b. Presented by the recipient.
includes: f.1 George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, critic: Letter to A. R. Wheeler: 1924. ff. 2-4 Registers, Parish: Index to transcript of the Register of Up Waltham, co. Suss: Typewritten. ff. 2-4 Waltham, Up, Sussex: Index to transcript of Parish Register: 20th cent.: Typewritten. ff. 5-8 Olivi...
B. Index to the transcript of the Parish Register of Up Waltham, co. Suss. Typewritten (carbon copy). ff. 2-4. Presented by the Society of Genealogists.
C. Four documents relating to Olivia Wilmot, afterw. Serres, self-styled Princess Olive of Cumberland (cf. also f. 24 below), viz.:-(1) Visiting card, n.d. f. 5;-(2) Manifesto to the Polish nation as heir of Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski, the last King of Poland; 5 Sept. 1821. Printed. f. 6;-(...
D. (1) Note, in German, by Charlotte, wife of Ferdinand Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico; [circ. Sept. 1866?]. f. 9;-(2) Envelope addressed by Princess Helena Augusta Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria, to the Duchess of Cambridge; 5 April 1871. ff. 10, 11. Presented by H. J. Barnett, Esq.
E. Miscellaneous documents, viz.:-(1) Letter, in Serbo-Croatian, from the Chancellor of the Sanjak of Bosnia to the Provveditore of Dalmatia, on behalf of Djura Djurashinovic Opashtovic, a weaver; 5 Feb. 1528 (date of reception according to an Italian note). Cf. Brit. Mus. Quart., viii, 1933-193...
G. Two letters from Sir Edward William Elgar, Bart., to William Barclay Squire of the British Museum and Robert Farquharson Sharp, Keeper of Printed Books, respectively; 18 Aug. 1924, 15 Nov. 1929. ff. 29-30, 31.
H. Two vellum leaves from two contemporary German missals, containing parts of the Prefaces, Canon, and Office of the Dead; xv cent. Double cols. Of 32 and 34 lines respectively, with rough tinted drawing of the Crucifixion before the Canon (f. 32b). From the binding of a printed Hildesheim miss...