K. Letter from Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, to Margaret, 2nd wife of Edward Adolphus Seymour, 11th Duke of Somerset, on the anniversary of Waterloo; 18 June 1851. f. 30. Presented by Thomas Vincent Dickinson, M.D.
L. Two letters from Hester Gibbon, great-grandmother of the historian, to her son Edward Gibbon, army paymaster in Flanders (Director of the South Sea Company 1716), discussing Treasury arrangements for the remittance of money, with news of activities on sea and land (La Hogue was fought on 29 M...
M. Letter from Ignazio Enrico Hugford, painter and engraver, to the Most Reverend -, asking for permission to publish works of art in his possession, probably in Serie degli Uomini i piu illustri nella Pittura, I3 vols., Florence, 1769-1776; Dec. 1771. Italian. f. 36. Presented by Edward Craig, ...
N. Letter from Frank Thomas Bullen, novelist, to Richard Strachan, a colleague at the Meteorological Office; circ. 1897. ff. 37b-38b. Presented by Lionel R. ill. Strachan, Esq., son of the recipient.
0. Letters of engineers, viz.:-(1) John Smeaton to John Rennie, 16 Aug. 1788. f. 39;-(2) James Watt to John Rennie; 2 Feb. 1791. ff. 40-41 b;-(3) John Rennie to James Walker; 20 Jan. 1812. ff. 42-43b;-(4) John Rennie to - ; 21 Sept. 1812. f. 44;-(5) Alexander Nimmo to - ; 15 Oct. 1828. f. 45. Pr...
P. Letters of, or relating to, Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, dramatist, mostly addressed to Henry Rowland Brown, viz.:-(1) Gilbert to H. R. Brown, desiring to borrow his wig and gown for a performance of Trial by Jury; 26 May 1906. Partly printed in S. Dark and R. Grey, TV. S. Gilbert: His Life ...
Q. Letter from James Henry Leigh Hunt, author, to Edward Williams, asking him to identify a place mentioned by Chaucer; Hammersmith, 2 Apr. [1853-1859] . The quotations on f. 55 are in the hand of Hunt's daughter Jacintha. f. 54. Accompanied (f. 56) by an envelope containing a lock of hair and i...
R. Four official letters to General Kokhanovich, Commandant of the fort of Kinbum at the mouth of the Dnieper, during the Crimean War; Mar. 1854-26 Sept. 1855. Russian. Picked up by F. A. Wetherall of H. M. S. 'St 8 Oct. Jean d'Acre' after the surrender of the fort (17 Oct. 1855). ff. 57-64. Pre...
S. Letter from John Frederick Herring, senior, animal-painter, to William Powell Frith, R.A., agreeing to supply sketches of race horses for Frith's picture, 'Derby Day'; 22 Dec. 1857. Herring's actual sketches are in the Department of Prints and Drawings; see Brit. Mus. Quart., x, 1935-1936, pp...
T. Two documents from Tristan da Cunha, viz.:-(1) Sale by Mary Magdalen Glass, widow of William Glass, founder of the settlement, to William Daley, of her house with appurtenances for 100 dollars; 17 Jan. 1856, with reconveyance of the same to Alexander Cotton, 13 Feb. 1857. ff. 67, 68;-(2) Will...