Add MS 63520

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS.

Paper; ff. 41. British Library arrangement.

A. Letter from Admiral Sir William Young (d. 1821), relating to the death of Captain Cook's former astronomer, Captain James King; 20 Nov. 1784. Purchased from Winifred Myers (Autographs), Jan. 1985.

ff. 1-2. 240 x 196mm.

B. Letter from Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) to his half-brother, Alfred Bonnin; 10 April 1891. Presented by Miss Marjorie H. Bonnin, 20 Feb. 1985.

ff. 3-4. 178 x 112mm.

C. Letter from Deryck Cooke to John S. Weissmann, relating to Cooke's orchestration of Mahler's Symphony No. 10; 1964. Typewritten and signed. Purchased from May and May, Cat. 129, item 156, 14 March 1985.

ff. 5-8. 178 x 137mm.

D. Letter from Cecil Armstrong Gibbs to Herbert Howells relating to Gibbs' cantata, 'Behold the Man'; 15 Jan. 1955. Presented by the British Music Information Centre, 25 Feb. 1985.

ff. 9-11. 179 x 113mm.

E. Letter from George Lyman Kittredge to Walter Oakeshott in response to the announcement of the latter's discovery of the Winchester Malory manuscript (now Add. 59678); 23 Sept. 1984. Printed in Essays on Malory, ed. J. A. W. Bennett (Oxford, 1963), pp. 5-6. Presented by Sir Walter Oakeshott, 23 April 1985.

f. 12. 166 x 130mm.

F. Letter from Eric Partridge, lexicographer (1894-1979), to R. F. L. Bancroft, British Library, Department of Printed Books; 1 Nov. 1976. Supplementing Add. 62551 W. Presented by the recipient, May 1985.

f. 13. 218 x 60mm.

G. Letter from Charlotte M. Yonge to a reader, referring to her difficulties as an editor of the Monthly Packet; 7 Aug. [1851-1898]. For other Charlotte Yonge letters, see Add. 54920, 54921. Purchased from Henry Bristow, Cat. 285, item 209, 13 May 1985.

ff. 14-15. 134 x 90mm.

H. Letter from George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth, as Lord Chamberlain, to William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, President of the Board of Trade, concerning the removal of the body of William Pitt to the Painted Chamber, Westminster, prior to interment; [bef. 22 Feb.] 1806. Annotated in a hand found frequently in annotations to the Auckland Papers (Add. 34412-34471) and so probably at one time part of that collection. Purchased from Charles Higham (S.P.C.K.), Cat. 1985, item 317, 22 May 1985.

f. 16. 234 x 190mm.

I. Letter from William Windham, M.P., to Evan Nepean, Secretary to the Admiralty, concerning arrangements for a meeting with French Loyalists, probably in connection with the war in the Vendée; 8 Feb. 1794. Together (f. 19) with an engraving of Windham. Purchased from the Charles Higham (S.P.C.K.), Cat. 1985, item 317, 22 May 1985.

ff. 17-19. Largest size 223 x 185mm.

J. Letter from W. E. Gladstone to õõ Symonds [Arthur Symonds of the National Reform Union?], commenting on the policies of the Salisbury government; 21 May 1889. Presented, with 63520 below, by the Hon. Samuel Freedman, Q.C., LL.D., formerly Chief Justice of Manitoba, 28 May 1985.

ff. 20-21. 179 x 114mm.

K. Letter from John Bright to Henry Yates Thompson, bibliophile, then private secretary to the 5th Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; 1 March 1872. Concerning the Irish Education Question, Gladstone's Irish legislation, the Home Rule Movement and Yates Thompson's plan for Irish education. Presented, with Add. 63520 J above, 28 May 1985.

ff. 22-23. 179 x 113mm.

L. Letter from Florence Nightingale to Sir Robert Rawlinson; 17 July 1867. Rawlinson's reply is Add. 45769, ff. 172-175v. Purchased from Miss Helen Carter of Liverpool, July 1985.

ff. 24-25. 202 x 135mm.

M. Song by Richard Leveridge, 'Foolish swain thy sighs forbear'; 18th cent. Copy. Written on the verso of a printed title-page to The Monthly Mask of Vocal Music for Feb. 1706. Transferred from the Music Library, 30 July 1985.

f. 26. 307 x 210mm.

N. Verses by James Thomson on the death of William Aikman, the painter; circa 1731. Autograph. These eight verses were first published in the edition of Thomson's works prepared by George, 1st Baron Lyttelton, 1750, vol. II, p. 219. The present manuscript came originally from the Lyttelton (Hagley) sale at Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1974, lot 133. Purchased at Sotheby's, 22 July 1985, lot 56.

f. 27. 160 x 205mm.

O. Letter from Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin to 'My Dear Lord Bishop' [of Lichfield?], concerning the building of a church, probably the church of St Mary, Brewood, Staffs, begun in 1843; circa 1843. Illustrated with a small ground plan and drawing. Purchased from Henry Bristow, Cat. 286, item 121, 5 Aug. 1985.

f. 28. 250 x 202mm.

P. Letter from Sir Robert Peel as Home Secretary to Henry Hobhouse, Under Secretary at the Home Office, concerning the case of õ Wade, condemned to death for arson at Ipswich; 17 Aug. 1823. Supplementing correspondence in the Peel Papers (Add. 40357, 40358). Purchased from Maggs, Cat. 1061, item 158, 13 Sept. 1985.

ff. 29-30. 227 x 188mm.

Q. Five letters from Alan McCrae Moorehead (1910-1983), journalist and author, written from Italy to Mrs Charles Gleaves of New York City, relating to his work as a writer and to personal matters; 1957-circa 1958. Mostly autograph. Presented by Mrs Charles Gleaves through John Dreyfus, Esq., 14 Nov. 1985.

ff. 31-37. Largest size 327 x 225mm.

R. Joint letter from William Wordsworth and Henry Crabb Robinson to Catherine, wife of Thomas Clarkson the philanthropist, giving news of their recent tour together on the Continent and mentioning members of their respective families; 2 Sept. 1837. Not printed in The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Later Years, Part III, 1835-1839, 2nd edn., rev. by Alan Hill (Oxford, 1982). Purchased at Sotheby's, 18 Dec. 1985, lot 122.

ff. 38-39. 226 x 188mm.

S. Religious notes, written on the cover of a letter (postmarked 19 May n.y.) addressed to Ursula, Lady Rokeby (d. 1707), wife of Sir Thomas Rokeby, judge, at Sergeant's Inn, London, and apparently in her hand; [1690-1699?]. Purchased with Add. 63646 and 63647 at Sotheby's, 18 Dec. 1985, lot 223.

f. 40. 190 x 163mm.

T. Autograph copy by Sir John Betjeman of his poem 'County', first published in A Nip in the Air (1974); n.d. Written in ink with revisions in pencil on one side of a folio leaf of ruled laid paper without watermark. Presented by Mr John Murray at the wish of the writer's family, 12 Dec. 1985.

f. 41. 322 x 203mm.