MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XLV. Illuminated pedigree roll of the Hopton family of Armley, W.R., co. York; late 17th cent. Imperfect at the foot. The surviving part of the pedigree traces the family from Sir Ingram Hopton, who came to England with William I, to Christopher Hopton (d. 1585), who mar...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vols. XXVI-XL Materials relating to Thomas Chatterton, the poet, compiled by various persons, 19th-20th centt., and mostly assembled by Meyerstein in connection with A Life of Thomas Chatterton, 1930. Partly in Meyerstein's autograph. See also The Bodleian Library Record, iv, 1952-1953, pp. 235-236; D. S. Taylor, The Complete Works of Thomas Chatterton, 1971. Fifteen volumes. As follows:-
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Edward Harry William Meyerstein, author: Collections rel. to T. Chatterton: circ. 1760-1951. Thomas Chatterton, poet: Collections of E. H. W. Meyerstein rel. to: circ. 1760-1951.
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vols. XLI-XLIV. Meyerstein's collections for a biography of Captain Frederick Marryat, R.N., the novelist; assembled circ. 1931-1949. See also Meyerstein's 'Captain Marryat and the Ariadne', The Mariner's Mirror, xxi, 1935, pp. 285-304. Four volumes. As follows:-
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Edward Harry William Meyerstein, author: Collections rel. to Capt. F. Marryat: circ. 1931-1949. Captain Frederick Marryat, RN; novelist: Collections of E. H. W. Meyerstein rel. to: circ. 1929-1949. Edward Harry William Meyerstein, author: Notes and transcriptions, etc.: 20th cent.
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XXV (ff. iii+ 117). William Wordsworth''s Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807: the printer''s manuscript, conveyed in packets from Coleorton to the publishers Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme between 14 Nov. 1806 (postmark on f. 2b) and circ. early Apr. 1807. Partly autograph, with revisions and annotations throughout by the poet.
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XXIV (ff. 18). Miscellaneous literary autographs; 1600-1861. As follows:- (1) 'Charges sustained at Woollwich in the moneth of August 1600'. Signed by Fulke Greville, etc. f. 1. (2) Letter from Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, to Alexander Pope, relating to Sa...