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.
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;-(...
Y. Letter from Captain Joseph Logan, 2nd Battalion, 95th Regiment (now the Rifle Brigade), to William Sylvester, describing the Battle of Waterloo; 10 July 1815. Printed in Brit. Mus. Quart., ix, 1934-1935, pp. 76- 78. ff. 86-87 b. Presented by Lady Warner.
L. Tabular list of fishes frequenting the waters of Sutherlandshire and more especially the neighbourhood of Durness, with their Latin, English and Gaelic names, and sundry notes; n.d. (watermark 1866). ff. 37-55. Bequeathed by the compiler's daughter, Miss L S. Mackay.
0. Letter from the Rev. Edward Bouverie Pusey, Regius Professor of Hebrew, Oxford, to William Spooner, Archdeacon of Coventry, deprecating his censure of 'Tracts for the Times'; 8 June 1837. ff. 61-62b. Presented, with Add. MS. 43734, by Edward P. Stapleton, 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...
T. Letter, written on rough cartridge drawing paper, from John Crome ('Old Crome'), painter, to his pupil, James Stark, criticising one of his pictures and giving advice; Norwich, Jan. 1816. Printed in W. F. Dickes, The Norwich School of Painting, 1906, pp. 111-112. Cf. Brit. Mus. Quart., ix, 19...
V. Letter and postcard-photograph from Ellen Terry, actress, to a child, Marjorie Walker; 30 Sept. 1904. ff. 76-78b. Presented by E. G. Millar, Esq., DLitt.
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.