Add MS 52540

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; 1699-1965.

Paper and (f. 52) vellum; ff. 66. Folio.

A. Two letters of John Edward Masefield, O.M., to the Keeper of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum, relating to a portrait of J. M. Synge; 2, 9 Jan. 1965. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books.

ff. 1-4b.

B. Letter from Marguerite, widow of Charles John Gardiner, Earl of Blessington, to Mr Byng, relating to her financial difficulties and mentioning a manuscript drama of Lope de Vega which she wished to sell; 27 May 1847. Presented by Mrs Davis.

ff. 5-6b.

C. Nine letters of Andrew G. C. Tucker to Cadell and Davies relating to the publication of his 'Ornithologia Danmoniensis', with a draft (f. 8) and two notes of their replies (ff. 10, 15); 1807-1809. Two parts of the projected series appeared in 1809 and it was then abandoned. See Quaritch cat., no. 855, 1964, item 357.

ff. 7-24b.

D. Letter of Thomas Day, author of 'Sandford and Merton', to Miss Mary Evans, reproving her for neglecting her correspondence with his wife;

29 July 1787. Maggs Bros., Ltd., cat. no. 897, 1964, item 736.

ff. 25-28.

E. 'The Plea', poem in three six-line stanzas, by John Drinkwater, beg. 'If ever at Saint Peter's gate', with a deleted alternative version of the last stanza; Brampton, 17 June 1932. Autograph. Inscribed 'For Jeff for Christmas at Highgate 1932'. Published in Summer Harvest, 1933, p. 6, and The Collected Poems of John Drinkwater, iii, 1937, p. 50. Presented by Miss

J. E. V. Warburg, through the Arts Council.

f. 29.

F. Letter of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., to the Hon. Charles Francis Greville, F.R.S., referring to the proposal to give the Copley medal to the geodesist, Maj.-Gen. William Mudge, F.R.S.; 11 Oct. 1803. Formerly no. 736 of, and printed, with errors, in The Collection of Autograph Letters . . . formed by Alfred Morrison, 2nd ser., The Hamilton and Nelson Papers, ii, 1894, on pp. 220-1. Calendared in W. R. Dawson, The Banks Letters, 1958, p. 371, no. 7. Quaritch cats., no. 854, 1964, item 510, and no. 860, 1965, item 481.

ff. 30-33.

G. Aria, 'Va crescendo il grave affanno', in B flat major with a keyboard reduction of the accompaniment; circa 1800. Inscribed (f. 34) with a note to Miss Barbara Seton from the music publisher, Natale Corri. Presented by E. F. Croft-Murray, Esq., C.B.E.

ff. 34-36b.

H. Letter of Robert Laurence Binyon to Richard Alexander Streatfeild, written on honeymoon in Florence; Apr. 1904. Ifan Kyrle Fletcher cat., no. 215, 1965, item 6.

ff. 37-38.

I. Letter of Rowley Lascelles, historian, to Charles Savill Onley, relating to the proposed suspension of publication of the Record Commission series for Ireland, including the nearly completed vol. ii of his Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae, 1830; 7 Aug. 1830. See the D.N.B., s.v. 'Lascelles', for the subsequent history of this work. Presented by R. P. Wingate, Esq.

ff. 39-41b.

J. Letter of Dr Charles Burney to Thomas Pennant accepting his invitation to examine two Welsh instruments, a crwth and a pîb gorn; 4 Jan. 1774.

W. Forster list, no. 39, 1965, item 213.

ff. 42-44.

K. Two photographs of the Emperor William II; 1861, 1939. Signed. Followed (f. 47) by a signed letter of presentation from the Hofmarschall's Office at Doorn to Mrs Ellen Nears, 24 Jan. 1939. German. Presented by Mrs E. Nears.

ff. 45-47.

L. Two letters of Queen Anne to Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin;

12 Sept. 1707, n.d. An extract from the first letter is printed in B. Curtis Brown, The Letters and Diplomatic Instructions of Queen Anne, 1968, pp. 231-2. Sotheby's sale-cat., 5 Apr. 1869, lots 52, 39. Followed (f. 52) by a cutting from a vellum document bearing the signature of Queen Anne, n.d. Stargardt sale-cat., 13-14 May 1965, lot 808.

ff. 48-52.

M. Two songs, the second to Danish words, with piano accompaniment, by Paul August von Klenau:- (i) 'The first Rose' in D major; 31 Mar. 1920. Autograph. f. 53;- (ii) 'Slesvigs Sönner' in F minor; n.d. Copy. f. 55. Presented by Ernest Warburton, Esq.

ff. 53-56.

N. (1) Letter of Sean O'Casey to Charles Edward Brumwell relating to an instance known to him of the army punishment of tying a man to a gun; aft. 1918. ff. 57-57b;- (2) Poem by Robert Nichols, 'Hymn before Pilgrimage', in rhyming couplets, beg. 'Put by the sun'; Midsummer 1917. Autograph. Presented by Nichols to Charles Edward Brumwell (f. 59). ff. 58-59. Sotheby's sale-cat., 6-7 July 1965, lot 771.

ff. 57-59.

O. Certificate to the Office of Ordnance that James Hodgson had been employed as an extraordinary labourer at Greenwich Observatory, signed by John Flamsteed, Astronomer Royal, 1699, with a direction for payment signed by two officials of the Office of Ordnance, 21 Dec. 1699, and a receipt signed by Hodgson, 5 Jan. 1700. Transferred from the Department of Prints and Drawings.

f. 60.

P. Maps of (i) Denmark and (ii) Egypt, Arabia and Abyssinia, apparently the juvenile work of John Ruskin (b. 1819); 20, 29 Sept. 1830. For Ruskin's early copies of maps, see W. G. Collingwood, Ruskin Relics, 1903, pp. 107-11. Found among the records of Clarendon House Grammar School for Girls, Ramsgate. Presented by the head mistress, Miss Olive Blott, B.A., B.D.

ff. 61, 62.

Q. Letter of Sir Sidney Lee to Frederick Henry Maitland, 13th Earl of Lauderdale, enclosed in a letter of Lord Lauderdale to – Ingleby, both letters relating to Ingleby's application to write the article on the Duke of Lauderdale for the D.N.B.; 22, 23 Nov. 1889. Found in a copy of the D.N.B. purchased by the Badische Landesbibliothek. Presented by the Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe.

ff. 63-66b.