Add MS 60753

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS.

Paper; ff. 122. British Library arrangement.

A. Two letters from Benjamin Disraeli to Major the Hon. C. J. Keith-Falconer, Conservative party organizer, on the subjects of female suffrage and Conservative policy concerning the Press; 26 Nov. 1872, 2 Nov. 1873. Purchased at Sotheby's, 17 Dec. 1979, lots 164, 168.

ff. 1-6. 179 x 115mm.

B. Two letters from Sir Sydney Cockerell to William Graily Hewitt, the calligrapher; 2 July 1918, 9 June 1925. Presented by David Wacher, Esq., nephew by marriage of the recipient.

ff. 7-9. 179 x 113mm.

C. Letter from Sigmund Freud to Prof. William Alexander Robson, of the London School of Economics; 22 Jan. 1939. Presented by the recipient, 15 Jan. 1980.

ff. 10-11. 227 x 143mm.

D. Pupil's exercise-book containing translations etc. for English lessons, written at an elementary school at Chemnitz, Germany; 1937. Presented by the writer of the exercise-book, Miss Irene M. Grisedale, of Haywards Heath, 21 Jan. 1980.

ff. 12-23. 208 x 167mm.

E. Letter from Richard Garnett (b.1835, d.1906), Keeper of Printed Books, British Museum to Alexander Moring sent with his introduction to the edition of George Eliot's Silas Marner, published in the King's Novels series, 1905; 17 March 1905. Presented by Messrs Bernard Quaritch, 11 Feb. 1980.

f. 24. 178 x 110mm.

F. Letter from Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes to Mrs Chandos Leigh, concerning mainly the international delegations then at Lausanne; 7 Dec. 1922. Presented by the Hon. Mrs Cynthia Carnegie, T. D., March 1980.

ff. 25-29. 328 x 207mm.

G. Letter from Charles Dickens to G. H. Lewes, offering Lewes a part in James Kenney's play, Love, Law and Physic; 16 April 1848. Purchased at Sotheby's, 3 March 1908, lot 423.

ff. 30-31. 180 x 114mm.

H. Two letters from Stevie Smith to Elizabeth Chilver, etc.; 1948, 1956. Partly typewritten. The later one includes autograph poems. Presented by Mrs R. C. Chilver, 20 March 1980.

ff. 32-40. 204 x 127mm.

I. Four letters from Frederic William Farrar, Dean of Canterbury, to Isaac Taylor, Canon of York; 1858, n.d. Presented by Dr Oliver Davies, of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, grandson of the recipient, May 1980.

ff. 41-48. 181 x 113mm.

J. Letter from John Flaxman, R.A., the sculptor, to (William?) Wilshere of Hitchin, co. Hertf., with a bill for sculpture purchased; 17 June 1800, with later endorsements by Wilshere(?). Presented by Miss Mary Katherine Woodworth, Dept. of English, Bryn Mawr College.

ff. 49-50. 196 x 163mm.

K. Lord Palmerston: Notes summarising his view of the proper spheres of action under the constitution of the two Houses of Parliament, based on his reading of an annual work by John Hatsell, formerly Clerk of the House of Commons; the work is probably the latter's Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons (1781). The notes bear a watermark date of 1859 and probably date from the House of Lords' rejection of Gladstone's budget of 1860, and the subsequent crisis; [1860-1861?]. Purchased at Sotheby's, 2 June 1980, lot 195.

ff. 51-52. 186 x 116mm.

L. Letter from the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, Master General of the Ordnance, to the 8th Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; 25 Dec. 1847, concerning plans for a better supply of water to the Vice-Regal Lodge. Purchased (with Add. 61818) at Sotheby's, 2 June 1980, lot 191.

ff. 53-54. 182 x 115mm.

M. Letter from Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford 1640 to his relation Anne, wife of George Radcliffe, on the latter's imprisonment for refusing to contribute to the forced loan; 4 May 1627. Purchased (with Add. 60753 N) at Sotheby's, 2 June 1980, lot 59.

ff. 55-56. 191 x 144mm.

N. Letter from John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute to Edward Weston, Under-Secretary of State for the Northern Department; 22 March 1762; together with a strip cut from another page, possibly a postscript to the first letter. Purchased at Sotheby's, 2 June 1980, lot 59.

ff. 57-58. 183 x 179mm.

O. Memorandum of a conversation between Thomas James Wise, Maurice Buxton Forman and W. Douglas Seymour at 25, Heath Drive, Hampstead;

6 Jan. 1934. Presented by W. Douglas Seymour, 12 May 1980.

ff. 59-62. 203 x 129mm.

P. 'El Triunfo del Amor': song in Spanish with accompaniment for guitar, beg. 'Del dulce amor me domino'; early 19th cent. Found loosely inserted in Quintus parts of two publications by Francisco Guerroro, Venice, 1589 (RISM G 4875, 4876), acquired by the Music Library. Transferred from the Music Library.

ff. 63-64. 213 x 155mm.

Q. Vellum strips; 15th cent. Fragments of text from several different MSS., formerly used to repair leaves of a 15th cent. Book of Hours, Sloane 2633. Latin. Removed in Feb. 1980 from Sloane 2633 in the course of rebinding.

ff. 65-86. 20 x 193mm.

R. Letters from Ralph Vaughan Williams and Sir Adrian Boult to Paul Hirsch; 11 and 12 April 1946. Presented by Robert Hirsch, Esq., June 1980.

ff. 87-88. 201 x 127mm.

S. Letter from Joan Cross, the singer, to Alexander Hyatt King; 21 April 1980. Presented by Dr A. H. King, June 1980.

ff. 89-91. 209 x 147mm.

T. Letter from Samuel Infanzon to Samuel H. Cunningham, written in Barcelona Military Prison; 20 Feb. 1906. Presented by J. E. Cunningham-Snell, Esq., 5 Aug. 1980.

ff. 92-93. 269 x 210mm.

U. Documents in Russian relating to the Russian garrison at Kherson; 1786.

ff. 94-96. 354 x 210mm.

1. f. 94. Testimony under interrogation of Private A. Sokolov in which he admits himself guilty of one theft of money from a chest belonging to Corporal A. Mengalev but declares himself innocent of a second theft from Corporal Mengalev concerning a frock coat stolen from the guard room; 8 April 1786.

2. f. 95. Report that Private Nin(k?)ita Seleznev has absented himself and has not been found; 15 April 1786.

3. f. 96. Letter to Colonel Karsakov enclosing a report on the former service of private Nikita Seleznev found as a deserter by the military cordons on the Cossack border; 21 April 1786. Presented by N. Sunderland, Esq., July 1980.

V. Letter from Philip Snowden, Viscount Snowden, to James Douglas Maynard, congregational minister; 23 Oct. 1917. Presented by Dr R. J. Hetherington, 21 Mimosa Close, Birmingham.

f. 97. 253 x 204mm.

W. Letter from Daniel O'Connell, M.P., to Joseph Sturge; 13 Oct. 1843. The letter contains references to the future basis of a continuing connexion between England and Ireland, and to Complete Suffrage, the latter being one of two principles of action recently put forward by Sturge and here approved of by O'Connell. For another letter from O'Connell to Sturge, dated 25 Jan. 1843, see Add. 43845, ff. 9-10. Purchased at Sotheby's, 28 Oct. 1980, lot 584.

f. 98. 181 x 116mm.

X. Correspondence between James Draper, of Frenchay, co. Glouc., and Edward Burrow, of Hull, co. York; 1762. Belonged in 1884 to G. A. Mortlock, Esq., of Hull. Incorporated in accordance with the Trustees' Minute of 19 April 1933.

ff. 100-102. 198 x 156mm.

Y. Letter from Graham Greene to the Rev. John C. Casey; 3 April 1980. Presented by the recipient, 29 Nov. 1980.

ff. 103-105. 200 x 158mm.

Z. Six letters and a postcard from Hannah Gluck, the painter (d.1978), to Mr A. Walker, one-time manager of James Newman, Artist's Colourman, Soho Square, concerning her researches into the making of hand-ground colours; 21 March 1964 - 10 Jan. 1966. Presented by the recipient.

ff. 106-119. 251 x 203mm.

AA. Two letters from Samuel Wesley to J. G. Graeff concerning the music of J. S. Bach, in particular 'Das wohltemperirte Clavier'; 21 May, 28 July [circa 1805]. Purchased at Sotheby's, 27 Nov. 1980, lot 330.

ff. 120-122. 225 x 185mm.