Stanzas by Percy Bysshe Shelley, ',When the lamp is shattered," printed in the Posthumous Poems, 1824, p. 194; see also Oxford edition (1905), p. 661. Autograph. The paper is stamped with the name of Robert Cole. A note, dated 1840, by William Upcott. f. 75.
Rev. John Maughan, rector of Bowcastle, co. Cumb., to -, on the inscriptions of the Bewcastle cross, with criticism of the readings of the Rev. D. H. Haigh; Bewcastle, 18 Feb. 1856. f. 76. Presented by Charles Hercules Read, Esq.
Sir William Jones, the Orientalist, to [Arthur Lee, the American statesman ?], on N. B. Halhed's Code of Gentoo Laws, American affairs, etc.; Crishna nagar, Bengal, 28 Sept. 1788. f. 86.
William [Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV.] to communicating, for the information of Mrs. Clayton [a nurse?], the result of the autopsy upon his infant daughter Elizabeth; St. James', 4 Mar. 1821. Appended are fragments of a letter from E- Harper to - about the Queen's accouchement, 11 De...
Two letters of advice from Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, to [Roger Manners, 5th] Earl of Rutland, " goinge to travell," 1597, and ',uppon his departure." Followed by " The omissions of Cales Voyage [the expedition to Cadiz] in anno 1596," by the same, printed in Hakluyt's Voyages (1 812), ...
Accompt for the building of the Danish Church in Well Close Square, London, 1696, with note that " Mr Cibber [Caius Gabriel Cibber, father of Colley Cibber] the architect took nothing for his trouble, and the pulpit was given by Prince George of Denmark." f. 100. Presented by Charles Davies Sher...
Rubbing of a 'brass (imperfect) in Yealmpton Church, near Plymouth, co. Devon, to Jacobus --, late 14th cent. f. 101 b. Presented by Rev. Henry James Warner.
Draft answer by Rauff Holynshed and Laurence Holynshed to a bill of complaint by Sir John Savage (d. 1492 ?), for a trespass at Wildboarclough, near Macelesfield, co. Chest. The defendants represent that they are servants of [Thomas Stanley] Earl [of Derby, cr. 1485], whom Sir John wrongfully ou...
1. Journal-letters of Captain Arthur Conolly and Lieutenant- Colonel Charles Stoddart, from their prison in Bokhara, 2 Jan.- 22 May, 1842. Printed almost completely in Sir J. W. Kaye's Lives of Indian Officers (2nd edition, 1889), ii. pp. 159 sqq. Prefixed are earlier letters, three of Stoddart,...