'HIS GRACE OF OSMONDE', by Frances Hodgson Burnett, chh. i-xv (41680), and chh. xvi-xxxii, preceded by contents list (41681).Autograph. Printed 1897. Paper; ff. 228, 329. 12 in. x 7.7/8 in., 11 in. x 8½ in. A. D. 1897.
WILLIS PAPERS.Vols. III-V. Journals of the Rev. Dr Thomas Willis; 31 Jan. 1801-18 Apr. 1803. At the end of vol. V are included draft letters and notes of interviews of the same, and of Dr John Willis, 4 Sept. 1801-26 Mar. 1803 (ff. 42-57); these are followed (ff. 58-147) by a series of original letters addressed to the Rev. Dr Thomas Willis, etc., preserved in Willis's own arrangement, 24 Dec. 1788- 1 May 1803. Three volumes.
WILLIS PAPERS. Vols. VII-XLIII. Registers of Official Bulletins, 27 Oct. 1810-29 Jan. 1820 (the date of the king's death), for the most part apparently in the hand of Dr Robert Willis. Thirty-seven volumes:-
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Robert Darling Willis, MD: Registers of Official Bulletins conc. the King's health, written by: 1810-1820.
WILLIS PAPERS. Vol. XLIV. Fourteen monthly notebooks kept by Dr Robert Willis, during the early part of the king's third illness; 1810-1812. This period is covered by vols. vii-xii of the Registers of Official Bulletins (Add. MSS. 41696-41701). Notebooks A-D are in the shorthand system of Samuel Taylor.
WILLIS PAPERS. Vols. XLV-XLVII. Miscellaneous letters, memoranda,and drafts or copies of reports by the physicians in attendance upon the king, some in shorthand; 1804-1820. Part of this appears to be the material referred to, and used by, Francis Willis in the compilation of Add. MS. 41697. Three volumes. Folio.
J. J. MACINTYRE PAPERS. Vols. II, III (ff. ii + 203; ii + I30). 'The Physical and Historical Geography' of Australia, written by Macintyre mainly in criticism of British colonial policy, especially as regards the land question; 1840. Draft. Originally intended for publication but never printed, and submitted in MS. instead to Joseph Hume, M.P., the radical politician (see printed letter, 1 Jan. 1841, in Add. MS. 41743, ff. 1-6).
4I745, 4I746. J.J. MACINTYRE PAPERS. Vols. IV,V (ff.ii + 279; iii + I52). 'Walks on Deck and Rambles on Shore during a voyage of Circumnavigation of the Globe'. Narrative by Macintyre of a voyage to Australia via Suez and return via Panama, 4 Mar.-18 Nov. 1853. Draft prepared for publication (see notice prefixed to his The Cross and the Crescent as Standards in War, 1854) but apparently never printed. Incomplete, the narration ending with the author's departure from Caldera in Chile, 3 Oct. ...
VALENTINE HIRST COLLECTION. Vols. I-III . Pedigrees of various families, mainly 17th-19th centt.; some are collected from Chancery suits (see Add. MS. 41780, f. 138). The more considerable pedigrees have been indexed.