Add MS 53709

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS:

Paper and vellum; ff. 47+31*. British Library arrangement.

A. Letter from Robert Spencer Dyer Lyons, physician, M.P. for Dublin, to Lord Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice, Under-Secretary of State for foreign affairs, Baron Fitzmaurice 1906; 7 Feb. 1884. With printed enclosures concerning forestry. Formerly the property of J. E. E. Franklyn, Esq. Incorporated according to the terms of a minute of the Trustees of the British Museum of 19 April 1933.

Paper; ff. 1-8. Largest size 384 x 347mm.

B. Fragments of a commentary on a philosophical work by, or attributed to Aristotle; 13th cent. Latin. It appears to refer to the syllogism including 'War' and 'the Athenians', see Boethius, Anal. Post. 2, xi (Migne, PL 64, 752). Initials in red, green, blue and gold. Incorporated from the former binding of Arundel MS. 538.

Vellum; ff. 9-10. 340 x 224mm. 2 columns of 67 lines. Written area 280 x 195mm. Italian. Stained.

C. Overture for organ by Dr [Edward?] Hodges; 2 May 1824. Possibly autograph. Presented by Dr Alan Tyson, 12 Feb. 1966.

Paper; ff. 11-15. 330 x 240mm.

D. Letter from 'H. E. Flecker', i.e. James Elroy Flecker, to – Cooper; Beirut, British Consulate-General, 23 Nov. 1911. Copy. Presented by Gerald Dynevor, Esq., 12 Feb. 1966.

Paper; f. 16. 330 x 202mm.

E. Letters extracted from printed books. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books, 15 April 1966.

Paper; ff. 17-25. Largest size 269 x 208mm.

1. ff. 17-19. Letters from Jean Armentaire Dumas, 'Adolphe Dumas'. French. Both extracted from Adolphe Dumas, Mademoiselle de la Vallière (1843) (BL C.153.i1). (a) to Antoine Marie Philippe Louis d'Orléans, Duc de Montpensier; aft. 20 May 1847. f. 17;- (b) to – Méry; 13 March 1861. ff. 18-19.

2. ff. 20-21, 22-24. Letters from Everard Meynell to W. C. Hall; 22 July [1909], 23 Dec. 1909. Extracted from Francis Thompson, Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day (1897) (BL Cup.401.c.23).

3. f. 25. Letter from Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bart., to – Logan; 12 Feb. 1945. Extracted from Osbert Sitwell, At the House of Mrs Kinfoot (1921) (BL Cup.401.c.23).

F. Letter from William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham 1766, to [Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke ?]; 18 Dec. 1756. Owned, 1915, by Marianne, widow of the Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Kekewich, who presented the MS. to Christie's for sale on behalf of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, Christie's sale-cat. 26 April 1915, lot 1542. Subsequently owned by Miss Doris Hollowell. Purchased from P. C. Hollowell, Esq., 16 April 1966.

Paper; ff. 26-27. 240 x 185mm. Followed (ff. 28-30) by notes in a 20th cent. hand and an envelope (f. 31) bearing memoranda relating to provenance.

G. Letter from Francis Place to Edwin Wilkins Field; 29 March 1842. Presented by Theodore Hofmann, Esq., 11 June 1966.

Paper; ff. 31-31*. 200 x 128mm.

H. 'After Morning Parade: Quicunque Vult'. A parody of the Athanasian Creed relating to the complexities of the British military command in the Middle East; 1916. Typewritten. Apparently composed in the early months of 1916 by an army officer. For another copy, see Add. 48364, f. 135. Printed in Compton Mackenzie, First Athenian Memories (1931), pp. 346-349. Presented to the Department of Printed Books by Sir Frederic George Kenyon, Director of the British Museum, in June 1916, and transferred to the Department of Manuscripts on 21 June 1966.

Paper; ff. 32-35. 330 x 205mm.

I. Letter from Sir Arnold Trevor Bax to Philip Heseltine ('Peter Warlock'); Windermere, [spring-summer 1915?]. See C. Scott-Sutherland, Arnold Bax (1973), pp. 196-197. Purchased from Richard Macnutt, Cat. 98, item 7, 10 Dec. 1966.

Paper; ff. 36-37. 250 x 200mm.

J. Letter from Queen Anne to Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl Godolphin 1706; [1703-1704?]. For date see endorsement. Purchased from Documents and Autographs, Cat. 8, item 5, 10 Dec. 1966.

Paper; ff. 38-39v. 224 x 175mm. Seal (f. 39v).

K. Letter from George Grote, historian, Trustee of the British Museum, to Miss [Susan D.?] Durant; 2 Dec. 1865. See Add. 38989, ff. 220-221, the diary of Sir F. Madden for 2 Dec. 1865 (BL Facs. *1012/40) and H. Grote, The Personal Life of George Grote (1873), p. 273. Purchased from Documents and Autographs, Cat. 8, item 55, 10 Dec. 1966.

Paper; ff. 41-42v. 175 x 115mm. Mounted in paper folder (ff. 40, 43).

L. Letter from Georges Legrain, French Egyptologist, to Hermann Nathaniel Bowden Smith, of the Egyptian Civil Service; Karnak, 12 March 1915. French. Presented by D. G. Moore, Esq., 10 Dec. 1966.

Paper; ff. 44-47v. 177 x 105mm.