A. Letter from John Payne Collier to Thomas Amyot, making arrangements for an antiquarian reprint of an old play, with reference to the collector E.V. Utterson and the printer Frederick Shoberl; 8 June 1844. Letters from Amyot to Collier are in Add. 33963. Purchased from Marcus Wytenburg, Febr...
B. Letter from Gladys Marsden, wife of Wilfred Alexander Marsden, Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum, to her daughter Wilma, describing wartime conditions at the Museum; 3 Sept. 1939. Presented by the writer’s granddaughter, Mrs Mary Marden, May 2008. ff. . 230 x 180mm. British...
D. Letter from George Naylor, Vicar of Bramford, co. Suff., to Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, 1st Bart., as Comptroller of the Navy, relating to an uncharted inlet or channel in Maplin Sand, co. Essex; 24 Aug. 1802. Purchased by the Map Library from J. L. M. Gulley, 2007. Paper; 1 folio. 232 x 187m...
C. Sir Edward Nicholas: letter 'By his Majesty’s Command' to Prince Rupert, Oxford; 17 April 1644. Signed. Damaged by damp with some loss of text at the top. With a four-line autograph annotation by Charles I. Originally part of the Nicholas Papers, dispersed from West Horsley in the 19th cen...