Egerton MS 2805

MISCELLANEOUS autograph letters, etc. :-

A. Alfred Tennyson [Baron Tennyson 1884], Poet Laureate, to W. C. Bennett, with sketch of a pyramid of correspondence, signed yours ever tho' penny post-maddened"; Farringford, 22 Oct. 1864. f. 1. B. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, to Charles Ford, in reply to a letter printed in Swift's Works (ed. Sir W. Scott, 1814, vol. xix. p. 40), mentioning his fits of giddiness, the decay of his rents, his despair of the church, etc., with disparaging remarks on the Duke of Argyll Carteret; 22 June, 1736. Unsigned f. 4. and Lords Bathurst and From the Farnborough Fund.

C. Three original letters on Scottish affairs, viz. :-(1) [David Beaton al. Bethune,] Cardinal Archbishop of St. Andrews, to Francis I. of France, narrating the Earl of Hertford's second invasion of Scotland; Lisguo [Linlithgow], 5 Oct. 1545. Fr. Signed. f. 6;-(2) Henry [Stewart, commonly called Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots] to Charles IX. of France, denying complicity in Riccio's murder; Lislebourg [Edinburgh], 6 May, 1566. Fr. Signed. Paper seal. f. 7 ;-(3) [Jacques] Bossetel [al. Bochetel] de la Forêt, French ambassador to England, to Catharine, Queen-Dowager of France, on negotiations about Calais, that Killigrew tells him the Earl of Moray has probably embarked for France, etc. ; London, 29 Mar. 1567. Fr. Signed. f. 9. From the Farnborough Fund. D. Two letters of Francis Rawden-Hastings, 1st Marquis of Hastings, when Governor of Malta, about the movements of Lord Cochrane, who was about to take command of the Greek navy, addressed to (1) Vice-Admiral Sir Harry Burrard Neale, commanding in the Mediterranean; Malta, 18 Sept. 1826. Marked "private." f. 12; -(2) Stratford Canning [Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe 1852], ambassador at Constantinople; Malta, 21 Sept. 1826. f. 14. Paper ff. 17. Folio.