F. Letter from "g. ff." (George Fox), founder of the Quakers, to Margaret Fox, his wife, written on his way to London; 2^mo 3 day [3 Feb.] 1678. Endorsed "this for m. ff. swarthmor." Sotheby's sale, 26-28 Mar. 1923, lot 439. f. 78.
E. Three letters and a petition, in French, of the early 14th cent., viz.:-(1) Letter mentioning a debt owed by the Prior of Holy Island. f. 74;-(2) Letter, apparently to the Prior of St. Leonard's, Stamford, reporting that John de Ellerker desires to sell land in Stamford which would be suitabl...
P. Letter from John Adams (al. Alexander Smith), last surviving mutineer of H.M.S. Bounty, to the inhabitants of Calcutta, thanking them for presents sent to the island by the ship Hercules; Pitcairns Island, 1 May 1822. Signed. f. 114. . Presented by Mrs. Francis Cotton.
Q. Letter from Albert Samuel to his father, Isaac Samuel, of 4 Redcross St., London, E.C., sent by balloon post from Paris during the siege; 7 Sept. 1870. Fr. f. 116. Presented by Maurice Samuel, Esq.
G. Note, with pen-and-ink vignettes, by Geo[rge] Cruikshank, caricaturist, requesting a seat to be reserved for him at the Shakespeare dinner; [Apr. 1869]. Written on the back of a letter to himself from Thomas Pillow, junior, of 16 Water Lane, E.C., 2 Apr. 1869. f. 79. Presented by Messrs. Hodg...
I. Photographs of an autotype copy in the Public Record Office of a lost leaf (two pages) containing a Prolusion and Verses in Latin, presumably by John Milton. The original leaf was found among the papers of Sir F. U. Graham, 3rd Bart., of Netherby, in the same box as Milton's Commonplace Book ...
A. Song, "The Devil's Progress," or "Huggle Duggle": an arrangement, with pianoforte accompaniment, of the song printed in Wit and Mirth : or Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1699, pp. 108, 109. Beg. "Friar Bacon walks again, and Doctor Faustus too." f. 1 b. Presented by A. Hughes-Hughes, Esq.
S. Letter from T[homas] H[enry] Huxley to [William Adam Loch] in answer to a letter criticising the theory of evolution; 19 Sept. 1864. f. 123. Presented by Lt.-Col. G. H. Loch, C.I.E., son of the recipient.
N. Letter from John D[ickson] Batten to the Bishop of Chichester, reporting on the pigments used for the 13th cent. picture of Our Lady and Child on the wall of the chapel in the Bishop's Palace at Chichester ; Aug. 1923. Typewritten. The picture itself was reproduced as frontispiece to The Burl...