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.
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, ...
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 ...
U. Papers relating to Edith Louisa Cavell. Letters addressed to Jane Newman, a former servant of the Rev. Charles Meares Powell, Vicar of Steeple Bumpstead, co. Essex, by whom Miss Cavell was also employed, 1886-1889, as a governess (see ff. 70, 71), from:-(1) May Powell, daughter of the Vicar, ...
E. Literary autographs, viz.:-(1) Letter from Henry Neele, poet, to Alaric Alexander Watts; 19 Mar. 1824. With a note (f. 7b) by the recipient. Goodspeed of Boston, Mass., U.S.A., cat. no. 237 (1935), item 1061. ff. 7, 8;-(2) Letter from John Maddison Morton, dramatist, to William Edward Church,...
B. Valentine sent by James Bobbett to his wife, Mary; mid xix cent. Hand-coloured engraving, with printed verses, followed (f. 3) by autograph verses. ff. 2, 3. Presented by the sender's son, A. J. Bobbett, Esq.
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...
I. Letters, etc., viz.:-(1) Order from Jane Marshall to Charles Lockyer, Accountant to the South Sea Company, to pay to Henry Marshall her last half-yearly dividend; 25 Jan. 1724. f. 24;-(2) Thomas Pelham (2nd Earl of Chichester 1805), as Irish Secretary, to - ; 14 Dec. 1783. f. 25;-(3) George T...
A. Vellum leaf (imperf.), now measuring 375 mm. X 230 mm., from a MS. of the homilies of St Gregory the Great on the Gospels, containing part of homily xxxvi (Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxvi, coll. 1273-1274). Beg. 'etiam [a] cogitatione'. Double cols. Of 32 lines. Written in France or Flanders. xiv ce...
D. Upper part of a vellum bifolium, now measuring 102?. mm. x 250 mm., from a MS. of the Decretum of Gratian, with marginal commentary, containing parts of Causa i, qu. I, capp. 22-80 (cf. E. Friedberg, Corpus Juris Can., 19-21, 1879, call. 366-386). xiv cent. f. 6. Taken from the binding of Re'...