Add MS 64082 A-N

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS.

Paper; ff. 72. British Library arrangement.

A. Letter of Richard Westmacott, sculptor, (b.1799, d.1872) to William Wyon, chief engraver at the Royal Mint; 1 Aug. 1838. With three ink sketches presumably by Wyon derived from Benedetto Pistrucci's laudatory medal for George IV ('Naval Aid to Greece') of 1824. See Laurence Brown, A Catalogue of British Historical Medals 1760-1960, i (1980), no. 1221. Purchased from Winifred A. Myers (Autographs) Ltd., Cat. 13, item 113, Jan. 1987.

ff. 1-2. 184 x 116mm.

B. Two letters from Margaret Chinnery to her husband William Chinnery, Senior Clerk at the Treasury, relating principally to their son George Robert; 1814, 1815. Imperfect. Purchased with Add. 64093-64095 from Winifred Myers (Autographs) Ltd., Cat. 13, item 120, Jan. 1987.

ff. 3-6v. 234 x 193mm.

C. Papers relating to Blenheim Palace Gardens; 1705-1710. Purchased from Winifred A. Myers (Autographs) Ltd., Cat. 13, item 11, Jan. 1987.

ff. 7-13v. 329 x 210mm.

1. ff. 7-8v. Trees brought from Oxford for planting; 1705.

2. ff. 9-13v. Three bills by Tilleman Bobart, giving names and weekly wages of men employed in the gardens by Henry Wise, Superintendent of the Royal Gardens; 1709-1710.

D. Three letters written by Émile Zola during his exile in Britain to his friend E. A. Vizatelly; 29 July, July, 10 Sept. 1898. French. Signed with pseudonym 'Émile Beauchamp' (f. 14v). Quoted in part in E. A. Vizatelly, Émile Zola. Novelist and Reformer (1905), pp. 420-421; see also With Zola in Exile (1899), by the same. Purchased at Sotheby's, 22 May 1987, lot 319.

ff. 14-19. 180 x 113mm. 'Walton July 1898' written in a different hand and former sales price (5 guineas) on f. 16.

E. Account of the marriage in December 1755 of John Spencer, afterwards 1st Earl Spencer, and Georgiana Margaret Poyntz, 'wrote by a Lady who had it from a Relation of Mrs Poyntz'; 18th cent. For a related account, see Lady Llanover (ed.), The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs Delany (1861), 1st series, III, pp. 399-402. Transferred from the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle, as a gift from Mr. R. R. Butler, 27 Jan. 1987.

ff. 20-23. Largest size 334 x 208mm.

F. Three Special Train Notices of the Cape Government Railways relating to the conveying of the body of Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic, on 8 Dec. 1904 from Beaufort West to Norvalspont; 5, 6, Dec. 1904. Also included (f. 24) is a modern photograph of a portrait of President Kruger, inscribed 'J.E.L. /1899'. Owned by William H. Shaw of Riddings, co. Derby, founder of Shaw's hardware and builders' merchants company, and then by Thomas Hopkinson (d.1985), of Ladbrooks, co. Derby, Chairman and Managing Director of Shaw's. Presented by A. J. Wall, B.Sc. (Eng.), C. Eng., M.I. Mech. E., brother-in-law of Thomas Hopkinson, in 1987.

ff. 24-28. 340 x 210mm.

G. Invoice from James Wyld to Frederick Crace for maps, etc., of London purchased between 21 Feb. and 31 Dec. 1842; [13 Nov. 1843]. Crace's collection of maps and plans of London are now held by the Map Library, and the prints and drawings, with a few plans, by the British Museum Department of Prints and Drawings. See A catalogue of maps, plans and views of London, Westminster and Southwark, collected and arranged by Frederick Crace, edited by his son John Gregory Crace (1878). Purchased from Renard Books, July 1987.

ff. 29-30v. 225 x 188mm.

H. Letter from Thomas Grenville to Sir William Hamilton on behalf of Victor Louis Charles Riquet, Comte and later Duc de Caraman; 25 May 1799. Presented by J. Harold Kittleson, Esq., Sept. 1987.

ff. 31-32v. 235 x 185mm.

I. Sixteen letters addressed to Sir Robert Smirke, relating to the British Museum, etc.; 1844. Purchased from Ben Weinreb Publications Ltd., Oct. 1987.

ff. 33-52v. Largest size 250 x 196mm.

J. Letter, written presumably in Modena, containing an account of the finances of the Franceschetti family, circa 1789-circa 1833, and addressed to the Chief-Lieutenant; circa 1833. Draft. Italian. Bears British Museum stamp of 4 May 1892. Found in the Newspaper Library, Colindale, on 2 Sept. 1987 in a copy of Il Messaggiere Modenese, Dec. 1818 (press-mark PP. 9240. b.) and transferred to Manuscript Collections.

ff. 53-60. 300 x 200mm. Three separate bifolia originally contained within a fourth which served as a postal cover, with traces of an unidentified red wax seal, addressed to the Councillor of State and possibly reused in the Councillor's office as a loose cover for the draft notes.

K. Two receipts signed by Jean Baptist Bourgignon d'Anville, Premier Géographe du Roi, for payment of 90 livres received from his father-in-law, M. Testart, in respect of part payments of his wife's dowry; Paris, 23 Jan. 1745 and 22 Jan. 1747. Purchased from Henry Bristow of Ringwood, Cat. 293, item 26, Oct. 1987.

ff. 61-62. Larger receipt 130 x 197mm.

L. Letter from Montagu W. L. Corry, 1st Baron Rowton, to 'Cecil' (?) concerning the Rowton Houses; 5 Feb. 1903. Unidentified annotations in pencil by a previous owner, including a note that the present letter was 'Given me by Mr. Laybourne, Chief Constable'. Purchased from Henry Bristow of Ringwood, Cat. 292, item 239, 1977.

ff. 63-65. 204 x 127mm.

M. Three letters from Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese, 3rd Bart., lieutenant-general, to Helena Swiderska; [1976-1977]. Preceded by notes by Hanna Swiderska, Assistant Keeper, Department of Printed Books, British Library, the daughter of the recipient, on the circumstances of the correspondence. Presented by Hanna Swiderska, 21 July 1987.

ff. 66-70. Largest size 200 x 140mm.

N. Two fragments of a theological treatise concerning in part man's duty to God and parents; mid 17th cent. (hand). Latin with Dutch translation. From the former binding of Sloane 3177. Incorporated in July 1987.

ff. 71-72v. Both fragments approx. 200 x 70mm., with sixteen lines of text on each side. One fragment originally formed the edge of a page with a narrow margin on the recto. The text on the second fragment aligns with that on the first, with the loss of only a few letters from the middle of each line, and from the right-hand edge on the recto. On the evidence of the verso, where line ends are preserved at both edges, the width of the written column was approximately 120mm.