Add MS 52311

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; [18th?] cent.-1957, n.d.

Paper; ff. 37. Folio.

A. Letter of Marcel Proust to Princess Marta Lucia Bibesco relating to a presentation copy of Du Côté de chez Swann; early 1914. French. Published in her Au Bal avec Marcel Proust, Paris, 1928, p. 134. See also Add. MS. 52431, ff. 48-54.

ff. 1-5.

B. Two letters from Terence Hanbury White, author of The Sword in the Stone, to Dr Eric George Millar, relating to White's work on editing a printed bestiary; 14 Jan., 7 Feb. 1957. Presented by the recipient.

ff. 6-10.

C. Memorandum by Charles James Fox, as Foreign Secretary, possibly prepared for use by James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, and Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, Earl of Yarmouth, in the peace negotiations with France; 1806. Autograph. Probably part of lot 73 in J. W. Croker's sale, Sotheby's, 6-7 May 1858. Sotheby's, 10-11 Feb. 1964, lot 223.

ff. 11-13.

D. Letter of Antonio Canova, the sculptor, to Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, concerning the monument to Cardinal York in St Peter's, commissioned by the Prince Regent; 19 Apr. 1819. Italian. Followed

(ff. 16-17b) by a copy of Castlereagh's reply, 20 July 1819. French. Sotheby's, 10-11 Feb. 1964, lot 252.

ff. 14-17.

E. Three forged letters of Francesco Petrarca, two in Italian addressed to Giacomo Colonna, purportedly dated 1338, 1341, and one in Latin addressed to an unidentified 'Wilhelmus', purportedly dated 1340; [18?]th cent. Purchased, with other manuscripts, by Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, from Ysidro del Olmo in Madrid, October 1803. The Italian letters were first published as genuine by Ugo Foscolo in Essays on Petrarch, London, 1821, pp. 205-8, with partial facsimiles of all three letters in Appendix V. The Latin letter was published by Princess Liechtenstein in Holland House, 1874, ii, as Appendix F, pp. 225-7, with a facsimile opposite p. 194. See E. H. Wilkins, 'Foscolo and Lord Holland's "Letters of Petrarch"', PMLA, 1959, lxxiv, no. 3, pp. 184-90. Purchased, as forgeries, from Edward Henry Charles James Fox-Strangways, 7th Earl of Ilchester.

ff. 18-28.

F. Two letters of Prince Milosh Obrenovich of Serbia, and two of his wife, Princess Lubitsa, to Taso Terzibash of Belgrade, giving instructions for making clothes; 16 Dec. 1829-4 Jan. 1834. Serbian. Purchased from M. Terzibachitch.

ff. 29-36b.

G. Visiting card of Franz Liszt, with an autograph note giving an appointment to Professor Schanz; n.d. Presented by W. L. Jennings, Esq.

f. 37.