A. Letter of [Sir] William W[ithey] Gull [M.D., 1st. Bart.] to Dr. [William ?] Anderson, on a matter of medical etiquette, 74 Brook St., 4 July 1881. f. 1. Presented by Dr. Sidney Badcock.
B. Letter of Rev. William Adams [perhaps of Lincoln College, Oxford, incorporated also at Cambridge, Rector of Welsh Bicknor, 1641] to - Staverton of Leominster, on the marriage-law, 30 June [1670]. f. 3. Presented by Rev. James Harvey Bloom.
C. Letter of Miss Georgina Hogarth, sister-in-law of Charles Dickens, to [Richard] Renton; 64a Kenway Rd., 29 Apr. 1913. f. 4. Presented by the addressee in 1915.
D. Letter of E[lizabeth (née Farren, the actress), wife of Edward Stanley, 12th Earl of] Derby, to John Hayes, 22 Aug. 1826. f. 5. Presented by E. E. Leggatt, Esq.
E. Letter of [Arthur Wellesley, 1st] Duke of Wellington to Gen. Dumouriez, begun 4 days before the Battle of Waterloo and finished 2 days after the battle. He concludes " Jamais je n'ai vu une telle bataille que celle d'avant hier, ni n'ai remporté une telle victoire ; et j' espère que c'est fin...
F. Drafts of two songs by Thomas Lovell Beddoes, autogr., viz. -(a) Beg. " Lady, was it fair of thee " (Siegfried's song in Death's Jest-book, begun in 1825, publ. 1850). Works, ed. Gosse, 1890, ii, p. 115. f. 9 ;-(b) " If there were dreams to sell " (" Dreampedlary," published posthumously in 1...
G. 1. Leaf (from a binding) of a late 13th cent. MS. of the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei, containing ll. 275-344 of D. Reichling's edition (1893). f. 10. 2. "Agriculture-The Source of Wealth to Nations": tract by, T. Yeates, addressed to John Lee, LL.D., of Hartwell House, co. Bucks. (...
H. Ricercari by Bernardo Pasquini, copied from the originals in the Berlin Royal Library by John South Shedlock ; followed by a thematic catalogue of the other contents of the volume (dated 1697-1702), in the same hand. ff. 22, 34. Presented by the the transcriber.
I. 1. Letter of W[illiam] S[mith] Rockstro to [Samuel] Butler, author of " Erewhon," enclosing a puzzle-canon, Mar. 1892. f. 45. 2. Exercises in counterpoint by H. F. Jones, corrected by Rockstro, from whom both Butler and Jones took lessons (see f. 49). Preceded (f. 50) by canons in Rockstro'...