(aa) 1, 2. Photographs of a letter from George Washington to Judge Samuel Phillipps, of Andover, Mass., Mount Vernon, 28 Sept. 1796, and of Phillipps' reply (in draft), 28 Oct. 1796. Apparently unpublished; whereabouts of original unknown. Presented by George Charles Williamson, Litt. D., throug...
(bb) 1-3. Photocopies of a report by Joseph Planta, Keeper of Manuscripts, to the Trustees of the British Museum, 13 May 1785, on the subject of MSS. at that date missing, accompanied by a list of the items, from a volume of the B.M. archives, entitled 'Original Letters and Papers', Vol. II, 178...
(h) Negative photocopy of notes on the flyleaf of St. Augustine's Of the Citie of God ( 1610 ), in the hand of Ferdinando Gorges, son of Sir Ferdinando Gorges the Proprietor of Maine, 166[?2]. Presented by the Chiswick Book Shop, New York ( the owners of the book at the time ).
(k) 1-5. Three photographs of pages of selected items in a collection of MSS., etc., connected with W. H. Ireland, the Shakespeare forger, formerly in the possession of an American living in Florence, together with (4) a complete list of the items forming the collection and notes by the donor (5...
(l) 1-3. Negative photocopies of Bodl. MS. 243 ( Summary Cat., no. 1933 ), ff. 2, 2 b, and 114: an English Commentary on the Gospels according to St. Luke (f. 1) and St. John (f. 1 16), by John Wycliffe, with the text of each Gospel preceding each subdivision of the commentary. (The Gospel of St...
(t) Reproduction in colour of a portion of the second folio of the Statutes of Wye College, co. Kent (founded in 1448), given by Merton College to Wye College in 1947. Attached is a printed note by the donor relating to Godmersham, at which the Master had licence in 1451 to acquire lands for the...
(w) Photograph of a seal of John Pollok, attached to a grant of land in St. Andrews to St. Salvator's College of which Pollok was a witness; 21 Apr. 1453. Presented By E. A. Langslow Cock, Esq.
(x) 1, 2. Photographs of two deeds of Richard Brigge (al. Brugges), Lancaster King of Arms, relating to the Manor of East Sutton, co. Kent ( with seals ), from the originals now preserved in the Kent County Archives, Maidstone. Presented by H. S. London, Esq., F.S.A., Norfolk Herald Extraordinary.
(cc) 1, 2. Photographs of the title and sub-title pages of the first volume of sermons in the Quechua language of Peru, entitled 'Exhortationum Moralium pro Indis', by Fr. G. Greboner, S.J ( 1685 -1766), one of the Jesuit missionaries in Ecuador ( died at Quito 11 June 1766, having entered the J...
(n) 1-4. Negative photocopies of St. Paul's Cathedral MS. W.D.4 ('Liber L'), ff. 131-134, inventory of MSS. belonging to St. Paul's Cathedral, temp. Henry III, preceded by a letter on the subject from G. W. Henderson, Sub- Librarian and Keeper of the Muniments.