Add MS 61891

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS.

Paper and vellum; ff. 135. British Library arrangement.

A. Passport for travel between Marseilles and Paris issued by the municipal authorities of Marseilles and Lyon to Joseph Sellis (1771-1811), valet to Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland; Jan. 1791. French. Partly printed. Supplementing Add. 27851, 27852. Presented by Miss Phyllis Sewell, Sellis's great-great granddaughter, Jan. 1981.

f. 1. 385 x 250mm.

B. Miscellaneous letters to Montague J. Guest, M.P.; 1873, 1888, n.d. Including one (f. 28) from Lady Dorothy Nevill. Acquired in 1973 with Add. 57934-57941, and incorporated 29 Jan. 1981.

ff. 2-30. Largest size 190 x 117mm.

C. Memorandum by Pope Innocent XII concerning the assurances given by Louis, Duke of Savoy, to Pope Nicholas V, circa 1454; 3 July 1699. Latin. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books.

ff. 31-32. 193 x 137mm.

D. Letter from George Bernard Shaw to the Director of the B.B.C., complaining about a broadcast of his play 'Candida'; 8 April 1949. Typewritten, with autograph additions, but unsigned. Purchased at Sotheby's, 3 March 1980, lot 491.

f. 33. 254 x 203mm.

E. Letter from Dame Sybil Thorndike (Casson) to Lillian Gibbons; 14 Feb. 1969. Typewritten. Thanking her for a copy of an article concerning a performance in Winnipeg in 1905 published in The Tribune there (cutting enclosed). Presented by Miss Lillian Gibbons of Winnipeg, 26 Sept. 1980.

ff. 34-36. Largest size 235 x 158mm.

F. Three fragments of notarial deeds found in the former binding of Add. 48963; 1698, n.d. French. Partly printed.

Vellum; ff. 37-39. Largest size 390 x 130 mm.

G. Miscellaneous manuscripts; 11th cent.-1938. Presented by T. S. Williams, Esq., 24 July 1978.

Partly vellum; ff. 40-50.

1. ff. 40-42. Letter from T. S. Williams to Dr D. P. Waley, Keeper of Manuscripts, enclosing two letters from H. I. Bell of the Department of Manuscripts to his father, concerning the following item; 1938, 1978. 203 x 128mm.

2. ff. 43-44. Bifolium from a Greek Psalter; 11th cent. Psalm 22:5-24:1, and 27:5-28:9. Four folios are missing in the middle; i.e. these are 2 and 7 of a gathering of 8. 160 x 117 (117 x 82)mm. 1 col. 20 lines. Initials and titles gold. Ruled (dry-point) on hair-side, Leroy type ZODI. Vellum. 160 x 118mm.

3. f. 45. Postcard, in fine italic script, from Alfred John Fairbank to Geoffrey Tillotson, 17 Feb. 1935. 114 x 88mm.

4. ff. 46-50. Autograph inscription (for an Album) of 'GIN: discip: Basl:'; 16th cent. Latin. Wmk (part of) Eagle SK. 134 x 80mm.

H. Three letters from Eric Gill to Dunstan Pruden, concerning a bell commissioned for the chapel at Gill's house, Pigotts, and a lamp commissioned for the church at Gorleston, co. Norf.; 1932-1939. Partly typewritten. Purchased at Sotheby's, 19 Feb. 1981, lot 88.

ff. 51-53. Largest size 210 x 135mm.

I. Letters from André Gide, Roger Martin Du Gard and Paul Desjardins to Mme Alice Voinescu; 1929-1949. French. See also Add. 62114, ff. 81-104. Purchased from Mrs A. Price, 5 March 1981.

ff. 54-74. Largest size 222 x 175mm.

J. One page by Sir Michael Tippett discarded for revision from the ink score of the opera 'The Ice Break', Act I, Scene 9, with an explanatory note by the composer; July 1974. Autograph. The complete ink score in the final version is Add. 61802. Purchased from Maggs, Cat. 1012, item 306, 16 March 1981.

ff. 75-76. 380 x 253mm.

K. Letter from Sir Robert Peel to the Bishop of Exeter, 24 March [bef. 1850]. Presented by F. E. Leese, Esq., 25 March 1981.

ff. 77-79. 183 x 113mm.

L. Four letters from George Bernard Shaw to Henry Havelock Ellis; 1888, 1889. Concerning a proposed work on political economy by the former which was never written. Purchased from Lawrence of Crewkerne, 12 Feb. 1981, lots 581-584.

ff. 80-87. Largest size 204 x 127mm.

M. Letters from George Eliot to John T. Delane, editor of The Times, 30 Nov. 1859; Edward Lyulph Stanley, later Lord Stanley of Alderley, 28 Dec. 1869; and Florence Hill (1843-1873), [1869?]-1873.

ff. 88-101. Various sizes.

N. 'A List of his Majesties navy Royal hitherto desighned in the present expedition against the Dutch with their Commands, number of Men & guns April 30 1672', including 'a List of the French fleet or whit squadron'; [1672?]. Old folio marks 315, 317. Purchased with Add. 61912, 61913 at Sotheby's, 23-24 March 1981, lot 100.

ff. 102-103. 300 x 190mm.

O. Contemporary summaries of the terms of the Anglo-Dutch treaties of peace and alliance and of navigation and commerce concluded at Breda, 21/31 July 1667. Both are incomplete, the peace treaty omitting the preamble and articles 1-12 and part of article 13, the navigation treaty omitting the preamble and articles 1-33. Purchased with Add. 61891 N, 61912 and 61913 at Sotheby's, 23-24 March 1981, lot 100.

ff. 104-109. 290 x 210mm.

P. Edward Lear, 'How pleasant to know Mr. Lear', autograph poem with a self-portrait caricature, sent to Archdeacon Bevan; 14 Jan. 1879. This dedication copy differs in various respects from the text published first in Nonsense Songs and Stories (1895). Purchased at Christie's, 29 April 1981, lot 182A.

ff. 110-111. 305 x 205mm.

Q. Letter from Stefan Zweig to Emily Anderson; 1938. German. Typewritten and signed, with annotation by the recipient. Presented by Dr. Alexander Hyatt King, 28 July 1981.

f. 112. 228 x 180mm.

R. 'Proposed Plan for extending the Police Dismounted Horse Patrol', by Day (probably William Day, Keeper of the Criminal register at the Home Office, 1800-1841); [Sept. 1829-Nov. 1830?]. A plan for appointing additional men to patrol up to twelve miles from Charing Cross and for stationing them in principal towns and villages, annotated with requests for further information by Sir Robert Peel as Home Secretary, to which Day's answers are given on a separate sheet. Purchased at Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 115.

ff. 113-116. 317 x 200mm.

S. Letter from Henry Addington, prime minister, to George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth; 2 Dec. 1803. Concerning the appointment of Samuel Lysons as Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London, forwarded by Dartmouth to Lysons. Purchased from Henry Bristow, Cat. 271, item 2, 20 Aug. 1981

ff. 117-118. 235 x 188mm.

T. Petition from John Roettiers, chief engraver at the Mint, for expenses incurred in preparing a third great seal for Charles II in 1667; [1685-1688]. Draft. Partly printed in the Numismatic Chronicle, II (1840), pp. 198-199, and see also CSPD 1666-1667, pp. 525, 551. For another petition of Roettiers, see Add. 38854, f. 126. Belonged to J. Yonge Akerman, F.S.A., 1840. Purchased at Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 29.

ff. 119-120. 306 x 192mm.

U. Account of John, Joseph and Philip Roettiers, for expenses incurred in making the fifth great seal for Charles II; 25 Jan. 1678. Printed in the Numismatic Chronicle, II (1840), and see also CSPD 1677-1678, p. 76. Belonged to J. Yonge Akerman, F.S.A. Purchased at Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 29.

ff. 121-122. 298 x 192mm.

V. Letter from Percy Alfred Scholes to Alexander Hyatt King, Superintendent of the Music Room of the British Museum; 30 Jan. 1958. Presented by the recipient, Sept. 1981.

f. 123. 200 x 120mm.

W. Letter from Richard Garnett to W. J. Garnett; 22 June 1858. Supplementing the correspondence in Add. 37489. Presented by Mrs Barbara McCrimmon, 5 May 1981.

ff. 124-127. 235 x 198mm.

X. Autograph drafts by Thomas De Quincey of pp. v-x of the preface to Vol. I of Selections Grave and Gay (1853), the first English collected edition of his works. A collection of some of the proof sheets of this edition with autograph corrections by De Quincey is in Printed Books, press-mark C.60.o.3. Purchased from Maggs, 27 Nov. 1981.

ff. 128-131. 230 x 188mm.

Y. Autograph draft by Seamus Heaney of the poem entitled 'Traditions'; 1971. Published in Wintering Out (1972). With a photocopy of a covering letter from Heaney. Purchased at Sotheby's, 17 Dec. 1981, lot 230.

ff. 132-133. 230 x 203mm.

Z. Letter from Virginia Woolf to Mildred [Massingberd?], sent with a favourite copy of Sir Thomas Browne; circa 1901. Signed 'Virginia Stephen', and apparently unpublished. Purchased from Maggs, 19 Nov. 1981.

ff. 134-135. 152 x 101mm.