Add MS 51020

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; aft. 1466-1951, n.d.

Paper; ff. 76. Folio.

A. Seven letters, and the end of an eighth, from Sir Frederic Madden to John Gough Nichols, the antiquary; 1829-1840, n.d. Presented by R. C. Smith, Esq.

ff. 1-13b.

B. (1) Four letters of Robert Johnson, Judge of Common Pleas in Ireland, to Dr [Thomas Brooke?] Clarke, rel. to the former's trial for a libel on Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, Viceroy of Ireland; 1805. ff. 14-21b;-

(2) Letter from Brownlow North, Bishop of Winchester, to [Dr T. B. Clarke?] rel. to Channel Island livings; 5 Sept. 1815. Signed. ff. 22-23b:-

(3) Poem on Charles O'Dempsey, the rebel Irish chieftain executed in 1735, beg. 'The wind sang round the ivy tower, and blustery blew the night'; 19th cent. Fair copy, followed (ff. 24b-25b) by historical notes in the same hand. Corrections in the notes suggest that it may be the author's. Printed in T. Mathews, An Account of the O'Dempseys, 1953, pp. 197-9, where it is said to have been published in the Union Magazine, Mar. 1845. ff. 24-25b. Presented by the City Librarian, Edinburgh.

ff. 14-25b.

C. Letter of Henry II, King of France, to Philibert Babou de la Bourdaisière, Bishop of Angoulême and French ambassador in Rome; 3, 10 Dec. 1558. French. Signed by the King and by Florimond Robertet, Seigneur d'Alluye. Mostly cipher. For a deciphered transcript by M Edmond Lerville, see Departmental Pamphlet 2099. See also B.M.Q., xxx, 1966, pp. 94-8. Belonged to Benjamin Fillon; see E. Charavay, Inventaire des autographes et documents historiques réunis par M. Benjamin Fillon, i, 1878, p. 32, and the Fillon sale, 16-17 Feb. 1877, lot 125.

ff. 26-30.

D. Letters to Mrs Louise Kirby, widow of Laurence Kirby, barrister, of Alexandria, afterwards wife of Sir James Mackie, K.C.M.G., from (a) Maj.-Gen. Charles George Gordon; 15 Nov. 1880. Includes (f. 33) an Arabic currency note issued by him at Khartoum. ff. 31-34;- (b) Sir William Francis Butler; 4 Sept. 1890. ff. 35-35b. Presented by Miss A. B. Mackie.

ff. 31-35b.

The following articles, E and F, were incorporated in accordance with the Trustees' Minute of 19 Apr. 1933.

E. Letter from Jean de Reszke, the singer (d. 1925), to Mme –; n.d. French.

f. 36b.

F. Account of rioting in Mount Street, Mayfair; 5-9 June 1792. Apparently a magistrate's fair draft compiled after the arrest, upon a warrant irregularly altered by the Chief Constable, of about forty persons for dancing at the Pitt's Head public house in Little Stanhope Street.

ff. 37-39.

G. Arthur Henry Hallam, 'Sonetto scritto a Genova'; Dec. 1827. Italian. Autograph fair copy. Printed in his Poems, 1830, p. 87. Presented by Simon Nowell-Smith, Esq., F.S.A., through the Friends of the National Libraries.

f. 40.

H. Letter of Vice-Adm. Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle to William IV, as Duke of Clarence; 20 Nov. 1818. Presented by R. Harris, Esq.

ff. 41-42.

I. Letter of Francis Scott Key, author of the words of 'The Star-Spangled Banner', to Clotworthy Birnie; 6 May 1816. See E. S. Delaplaine, Francis Scott Key, 1937, pp. 431-2. Presented by Leander McCormick-Goodhart, Esq., O.B.E., through the Friends of the National Libraries.

ff. 43-44b.

J. Letters to Joseph Schmuck, Professor of Music, Bombay, from (a) Giuseppe Garibaldi; Aug. 1861. Italian. Signed. ff. 45-46b;- (b) Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson; 27 July 1882. ff. 48-51. Presented by the Misses Louise, Elsie and Olive Schmuck, daughters of the recipient.

ff. 45-51.

K. Letter of Sir Anthony Panizzi to James Montgomery Stuart; n.d. Presented by Dr A. N. L. Munby.

ff. 52-53.

L. View of the Calais garrison, etc., with their wages; aft. 1466-bef. 1471. Not earlier than 1466, the year the Calais Staple Merchants were first required to contribute annually to the garrison's upkeep £10,022 4s 8d, the precise total of money available given at the end of the present MS. See Sir J. H. Ramsay, Lancaster and York, 1892, ii, p. 235. Not later than 1471, when Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, whose Captaincy of Calais is here mentioned, died. English. Printed in S. Bentley, Excerpta Historica, 1831, pp. 25-8. For similar Calais documents, see Public Record Office, Lists and Indexes, xxxv, pp. 140-1; Historical MSS. Comm., Various Collections, ii, 1903, pp. 322 sqq.; and Add. MSS. 46455, 46456, passim. Belonged to successive members of the Bentley family, publishers. See sale of the executors of Richard Bentley II, Sotheby's sale-cat., 18-19 Feb. 1963, lot 377; Quaritch's cat. no. 841, 1963, item 73.

ff. 54-55.

M. Letter and postcard from Stefan Zweig, Austrian author (d. 1942), to Miss Emily Anderson; 12 Dec. 1938, n.d. Presented by A. H. King, Esq.

ff. 56-57.

N. Drawings of Cornish inscribed monumental stones (ff. 58, 59), with descriptions of the stones and other local information in the form of a letter (ff. 60-61), possibly in the hand of Thomas Tonkin (d. 1742), the Cornish antiquary; aft. 1700. The drawings may have been copied from those of the same stones sent to Tonkin by Edward Lhuyd with his letters of 15 Oct.,

29 Nov. 1700. See Letters I and II of the series published by W. Pryce in Archaeologia Cornu-Britannica, 1790. Endorsed (f. 61b) in a later hand, 'Mr Edward Lhwyd's Account of his search after Antiquities, &c. in Cornwall'. Not apparently related to any of the Tonkin manuscripts described by H. L. Douch in 'Thomas Tonkin', Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, iv, part 2, 1962, pp. 145-80. Transferred from the Department of Prints and Drawings.

ff. 58-61b.

O. Letters of Jean Louis Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi, historian, to Marchese Cesare Lucchesini and Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabroni, introducing the Countess of Bessborough; Geneva, 4 Oct. 1821. French. Presented by the Municipal Libraries and Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.

ff. 62-65b.

P. Seven letters of John Morley, Viscount Morley, to Mrs Anne Cobden-Sanderson, the suffragette; 1881-1883. Presented by Richard Cobden-Sanderson, Esq.

ff. 66-73b.

Q. Photograph of Gen. Francisco Franco, Caudillo of Spain; 1951. Signed. Presented by Richard Gilbertson, Esq.

f. 74.

R. Residence certificate issued to Marie Charles Hay des Netumières by the commune of Rennes, dépt. Ille-et-Vilaine; 22 Jan. 1793. French. Printed, with MS. additions. Presented, with Add. Ch. 75559, 75560, by Mrs J. W. Harding.

ff. 75b-76.