Add MS 57486

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; circa 1736-1954, n.d.

Paper; ff. 64. British Library arrangement.

A. Letter to 'George' from Philip Arthur Heseltine (the composer 'Peter Warlock'), relating to the proposed publication of his edition of 'Giles Earle. His Booke' (Add. 24665); 21 Aug. 1930. Presented by Mrs Elsie Roberts, 1972.

f. 1. 260 x 200mm.

B. Letter of General Charles George Gordon, 'Chinese Gordon', to Romulus Gessi, concerning his meeting with Ismail and the period spent as prisoner in Egypt; 25 Dec. 1879. Included are a typewritten transcript and a photograph of Gordon. Purchased from Stargardt, 23-24 Nov. 1971, lot 1090.

ff. 2-14v. Largest size 320 x 220mm.

C. Letter of Joseph Planta (b.1744, d.1827), Principal Librarian of the British Museum, to [Thomas Astle?] on the completion of the Cotton Catalogues; 4 July 1796. Presented by Canon Bernard John Wigan, 22 Jan. 1972.

ff. 15-16v. 230 x 188mm.

D. Letter of John Griffin, poet, to Dr Thomas Dale, physician, describing his travels in Italy; 6 March 1815. Includes red wax seal with Griffin's monogram. Presented by John William Amner, Esq., 26 Jan. 1972.

ff. 17-18v. 247 x 199mm.

E. Three poems of John Masefield, O.M., viz:- 'The Cold Cotswolds' (ff. 19-22), 'Camp des Romains' (f. 23) and 'Verses' (f. 24); n.d. Purchased through the Arts Council, 8 April 1972.

ff. 19-24. Largest size 260 x 200mm.

F. Letter from Edward Stanley, Lord Stanley, afterwards (1851) 14th Earl of Derby, to Benjamin Hawes, M.P., (K.C.B. 1856), reporting a large attendance at the British Museum on Easter Monday; 27 March 1837. Presented by Miss Winifred A. Myers, 27 April 1972.

ff. 25-27. 180 x 113mm.

G. Autograph manuscript of a poem by Sergei Konstantinovich Makovsknj, with a transcript. Found in a typewritten copy of Sobranie Stikhov, 1905, and transferred from the Department of Printed Books.

ff. 28-32v. Largest size 270 x 210mm.

H. Letter from Christian David Ginsburg, Hebraist, to his daughter Ethel, relating to his examination of M. W. Shapira's forged manuscript of Deuteronomy, offered for sale to the British Museum in 1883 (see Add. 41294): 3 Sept. 1883. Presented by Mrs Margaret Legg, June 1972.

ff. 33-35. 180 x 110mm.

I. Two letters to Miss Rose E. McCann. Presented by the recipient.

ff. 36-39. 200 x 127mm., 160 x 122mm.

1. ff. 36-37. Letter from Radclyffe Hall relating to the Catholic Herald; 1 Nov. 1942.

2. ff. 38-39. Letter from Lady Una Troubridge regarding Radclyffe Hall's place of burial; 13 March 1944.

J. Two letters from John Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S.A. to Major Thomas Coulson, the Franklin Institute, Pennsylvania; 25 June 1936, 29 June 1939. Signed. Presented by C. O. Lilly, Esq., 15 Sept. 1972.

ff. 40-42. Largest size 235 x 178mm.

K. Autograph fair copy, with revision, of 'Olive', a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne; n.d. First published Oct. 1888 in the English Illustrated Magazine, and subsequently printed in Poems and Ballads, Third Series (1889). Bequeathed by Miss Miranda Olivia Watts, for whom the poem was composed, 28 Oct. 1972.

ff. 43-46. 320 x 203mm.

L. Ralph Vaughan Wiliams: autograph short score of fanfare 'So he passed over and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side'; n.d. Published in Fanfare, vol. I, no. 4 (Nov. 1921), p. 70. Supplementing Add. 50361-50842, etc. Presented by Mrs Ursula Vaughan Williams, widow of the composer.

f. 47. 350 x 270mm.

M. Dame Myra Hess: autograph score of her arrangement for piano solo of the chorale 'Jesu, joy of man's desiring' by J. S. Bach; n.d. Published in 1926 by the Oxford University Press. Supplementing Add. 57730 A, B and 57731 A, B. Presented by Dr Howard Ferguson, 28 Oct. 1972.

ff. 48-50. 360 x 264mm.

N. Letter of Arthur Ewart Popham, Keeper of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, giving bibliographical advice relating to Flemish painting; 19 Feb. 1940. Presented by Dr D. P. Waley, 28 Oct. 1972.

f. 51. 190 x 120mm.

O. Copies of incomplete letters concerning Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough, relating to her estrangement from her husband, Robert Knight of Barrells, co. Warw.; circa 1736. Incorporated Dec. 1972, having been extracted from Add. 34245 and formerly reserved from public use.

ff. 52-59. Largest size 330 x 184mm.

P. Stray letter from the collection of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (stamp f. 60), unsigned and addressed to `Monsieur le baron de besenvald cpt dans le rgt des gardes suisse' [Baron Pierre Victor de Bésenval?]; 18th cent. French. The Earl of Bridgewater's collection was bequeathed to the department in 1829; see Eg. 1-67. Purchased from Charavay, Paris, and incorporated 1972.

ff. 60-62. 229 x 183mm.

Q. Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to 'Mr Clarke' concerning the recording of his Housman songs; 10 Jan. 1954. Typewritten. Signed. Purchased from John Wilson Autographs, Dec. 1972.

ff. 63-64. 227 x 177mm.