Add MS 42711

MISCELLANE0US LETTERS AND PAPERS, VIZ.:-

A. Fragments taken from bindings in the Department of Printed Books:-

(1) Parts of two consecutive leaves from a MS. of the Decretum of Gratian, written in Italy. XIV cent. Vellum. ff. 1-2;-(2) Two fragmentary paper leaves from an accompt (?), written in Italy. XV cent. ff. 3-4. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. B. (1) Four letters from Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (Dean of Westminster 1864) to Theodore Walrond, C.B.; 1862-1863. ff. 5-14b;-(2) Five letters from George Grove (knt. 1883) to Charles Kingsley and members of his family; 1863-1880, n.d. ff. 15-23b;-(3) Four letters from Martin Farquhar Tupper to the same; 1873-1875. ff. 24-31. Presented by Mrs G. G. Buckler, C.B.E. C. Forged letter from Charles Dickens to John Forster; II Dec. 1837- f. 32. Presented by G. P. Baynham, Esq. D. (1) Drafts of seven letters of Sir Bevil Grenville, the royalist (1596- 1643), including one (f. 33) to Sir John Eliot, the parliamentarian, [? Oct. 1632] and others to Sir Ralph Sydenham, M.P., and William Coryton, M.P., relative to the elections for the Long Parliament; n.d. Autograph. ff. 33-38;-

(2) Bond between Sir Thomas Monk, of Potheridge, co. Devon, and John Arscott, of Dunsland, co. Devon; II Jan. 1604. ff. 39-40. Presented by the Duke of Rutland. E. (1) Letter of Simon Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat (executed 9 Apr. 1747) to his son, Simon; Tower of London, 22 Mar. 174 6/7. Signed. ff. 41-42;-

(2) Receipt by William Southby and Leonard Sherington to Lord Lovat for their attendance-allowance as warders; 25 Mar. 1747. f. 43. Both documents are printed in The Celtic Monthly, Glasgow, xix, 1911, PP. 7-8. ff. 41-43. F. Letter of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, the painter, to Madame Reiset, relating mainly to the recent death of his wife; 23 Aug. 1849. Fr. ff. 44-45. G. Letter of Humfrey Wanley to Samuel Pepys, soliciting his support for the post of Librarian of the Cottonian Library, with endorsement by the recipient; 15 Sept. 1702. Printed in A Guide to a Select Exhibition of Cottonian Manuscripts, British Museum, 1931, pp. 8-9. Pepys's reply is in Harley MS. 3780, f. 323. ff. 46-47. H. Marriage settlement by Ralph Wytter, of Frodsham, co. Chest., upon his son, John; 1597. ff. 48-49. Presented by J. S. Dines, Esq.

1. Three letters of Hannah More to Nicholas Vansittart, Baron Bexley; 1823-1827. CL Add. MS. 42511 above. ff. 50-55 b. Presented by Dame Mary Monica Wills. K. Transcript, with notes, by Thomas Carlyle of a forged letter of Oliver Cromwell to Samuel Squire; 29 Nov. 1642. First printed by Carlyle in Fraser's Magazine, xxxvi, 1847, p. 640. For the full story of these forgeries, which were the work of William Squire, of Great Yarmouth, and were accepted as genuine by Carlyle, see C. H. Firth in Carlyle's Letters and Speeches of Cromwell, ed. S. C. Lomas, i, 1904, pp. xlii-xlv. ff. 56-57. Presented by Mrs E. 0. Humfrys.

L. Extract from court-roll of the manor of Ombersley, co. Worc.; 23 Mar. 1637. Vellum. f. 58. Presented by Mrs F. G. Freeman. M. Miscellaneous documents acquired with Add. MS. 42504, viz.:-

(1) Letter of Giacomo and Andrea Piccolomini to the Goverment of Siena, giving an account of their mission, as envoys of the city, to Pope Pius II (their uncle, Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini); 18 Dec. 1460. Italian. Vellum, with papered seat f. 59.

(2) Letter of Servais Van Steeland to Count Carl Mansfeld, Spanish 92 Commander in the Netherlands; 28 Jan. 153. French. Signed. For Steeland, who was Receiver-General of Eastern Flanders, see F. V. P. 481. ff. 60-61.

(3) Letter of Richard Wellis, weaver, to the Mayor of Shrewsbury; xvi cent. f. 62.

(4) Attorneys by Richard Dooe, of Wellingham, and Edward Scott, of West Rudham, co. Norf.; 1607, 1608. ff. 63, 64.

(5) Deposition by Edward Mainwaringe, of Northwich, before the Mayor of Chester; 2 Sept. 1612. Signed. f. 65.

(6) Draft of a letter from the inhabitants of co. Montgomery to a royalist leader, repudiating allegations of backwardness in contributing to the royalist cause; n.d. The latest date referred to is November [1643], and the document may date from circ. Jan. 1644 (cf. Prince Rupert's proclamation, 9 Apr. 1644, printed in Montgomeryshire Collections, xiv, 1881, P. 299). f. 66.

(7) Letter of Timothy Felton to the Duchess of Buckingham; 23 Apr. 1673. ff. 67-67 b.

(8) Bond by John Foster, of Crakemarsh, and Robert Grubb, of Prestwood, with John Scott, of Creighton, co. Staff.; 1673- f. 68.

(9) Notes on pleas [at Chester?] in lawsuits T. ap Hugh v. Mitchell

and J. Smith v. Davenport, by J. Jeffreys; n.d. VXII cent. Signed. ff. 7 71.

(10) Verses by Matthew Prior 'To the Rt. Honble the Countess Dowager of Devonshire on a piece of Wissing's in which are all her Grandsons'. XVIII cent. Copy. First printed in A New Miscellany of Original Poems..., 1720, pp. 12-16. There are a number of variants from the printed text. ff. 72-72b. N. Letter of W. E. Gladstone to Francis Broemel, foreign editor of the 'Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung'; 21 Oct. 1881. Signed. ff. 73-74. Presented by P. R. Broemel, Esq., son of the recipient. 0. Warrant of the Parliamentary Committee at Bury St Edmunds to pay £5 to Nathaniel Keble; 19 June 1644. f. 75. Presented by James Bonar, Esq., LL.D. P. Eighteen letters of Sir Austen Henry Layard, G.C.B., to Miner K. Kellogg, the American art critic; 7 Oct. 1845-14 Aug. 1857. These letters complement seven from Kellogg to Layard in Add. MSS. 38976-38985. ff. 76-121. Presented by Mrs Virginia Kellog Snyder. Q. Two letters, with transcripts, of John Wesley to Hester Anne Roe; 16 Sept. 1776, 17 jan. 1782. Autograph. First fully printed in The Letters Of John Wesley, ed. J. Telford, 1931, vols. vi, pp. 231-232,vii,p. 100. ff. 122-125. Presented, through the Friends of the National Libraries, by Professor A. F. Pollard, F.B.A., to whom they had descended from his grandfather, William Pollard, Wesleyan minister (1792-1839). R. Draft, by himself (?), of a proposed safe-conduct to be given by the Dutch Government to Archibald Hamilton, Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, for an intended journey to Sweden after five years' residence at The Hague; circ. 1646-1647. Latin. Signed (?) 'Arch. Casseliens.' f. 126. Presented by Roger Ingpen, Esq. S. Five letters of William Orpen, R.A. (K.B.E. 1918) to Alfred William Rich, artist; Nov. 1917, 19 June 1918, n.d. ff. 127-134. Presented by Mrs C. P. Holliday (formerly Mrs A. W. Rich), with two other letters now in the Department of Prints and Drawings. T. (i) Autograph copy of a letter from Miss Mary Fenner to Count Leo Tolstoy, with Tolstoy's autograph reply; 18 Jan., 28 Jan. 1909. French. ff. 135-137;-(2) Printed currency note for 10 piastres issued by Maj.-Gen. C. G. Gordon at Khartoum; 1884. Signed 'C. G. Gordon'. For other notes (differing from the present one) issued at Khartoum see Add. MSS. 33230, ff. 26, 27, and 34483, ff. 15, 16. f. 138. Presented by Miss Mary Fenner. U. Correspondence addressed to Dr James Mouat, V.C., of the Army Medical Department (K.C.B. 1894), viz.:-(1) Circular letter from the Commissioners upon the State of the Hospitals of the British Army in the Crimea and Scutari, 1854-1855; II Dec. 1854. Signed. Cf. Accounts and Papers, Session 1854-1855, vol. xxxiii, p. 65. f. 139;-(2) Three letters from Florence Nightingale, one with a draft (f. 141) of Mouat's reply; 19 July 1855-23 June 1856. ff. 140-144;-(3) Letter from Joseph Mazanowski, Russian army doctor; 10 June 1859. ff. 145-146. Presented by Miss K. Kay-Mouat, niece of Sir James Mouat. V. Two letters of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon and one of his father, John Spurgeon, to A. J. Millwood; 24 Aug. 1887, 6 Jan. 1888, 21 Feb. 1889. ff. 147-151 - Presented by Philip Millwood, Esq. W. Two fragments of a leaf, written in France, containing parts of the Alexandreis of Gautier de Chitillon, Bk. i, 11. 300-350. Latin. XIII cent. Vellum. From the binding of IB- 52516 (Valescus de Taranta, Philonium, Barcelona, 1484). f. 152. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. X. Two sonnets by Gerard Manley Hopkins, with prosodical markings, viz.:-(1) 'Tom's Garland: on the Unemployed (sonnet, with two codas: the rhythm is not sprung)';-(2) 'Harry Ploughman (sonnet, with interpolated burden-lines: sprung rhythm).' Both dated 'Dromore Sept. 1887'. Autograph. Printed in Poems, 3rd ed., Oxford, 1956, pp. 107-108 (cf. pp. 246- 249). Both poems show a number of variants from the printed text. ff. 153- 154. Presented by the Hopkins family through Gerard Walter Sturgis Hopkins, Esq.

Y. Miscellaneous printed broadsheets, presumably from the Percy papers (cf.Add.MSS.42515-42518 above, and references there given). As follows:-

(1) 'A Sketch for 1769': verses apparently by Sir Edward Walpole. Also printed in Gentleman's Magazine, Apr. 1769. The suggestion that this broadsheet was printed at Strawberry Hill is rejected by A. T. Hazen, A Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, 1942, p. 272. The present copy bears the following note in the autograph of Bishop Percy: 'Given me by the Countess of Waldegrave, now Duchess of Gloucester. T.P.' f. 155;-(2) Verses, signed 'N.', 'For the Birthday of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, December the 19th, 1778'. f. 156;-(3) Proposals for the publication, by subscription, of the Rev. S. Ayscough's Catalogue of the Sloane, Birch and early Additional MSS. in the British Museum; 10 Apr. 1780. Two copies. The publication eventually appeared in 1782. ff. 157-158. Presented by Dry. de M. Johnson. Z. Appointment of Charles Rice, messenger in the British Museum, as a special constable at the time of the Chartist demonstrations; 7 Apr. 1848. Printed form, with MS. insertions and signatures. f. 159. Presented, with Add. Rolls 68065-68069, by Arthur Hawley, Esq. AA. Panegyric on Queen Anne, intended to be delivered on her birthday, 6 Feb. [1707?] in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. Latin. Draft. Formerly part of Phillipps MS. 10686 (papers of David Wilkins). The hand resembles that of Wilkins in, e.g., Add. MS. 11628. Sotheby's sale-cat., 6-11 June 1898, lot 503 (first item). ff. 160-167b. Presented by Arthur Hawley, Esq. BB. (1) Sixteen letters of William Warde Fowler, Roman historian, to Charles Christopher Bell and his son, Harold Idris Bell, of the British Museum (knt. 1946); 1901-1918. Signed. ff. 168-197;-(2) Nine letters of distinguished literary personages addressed (except f. 203) to Charles Christopher Bell; 1869-1902. The names of the writers are given in the Index to this Catalogue. A letter of W. B. Yeats, reserved during the writer's lifetime, has since been incorporated as Add. MS. 45498 C. ff. 198-216. Presented by Sir Harold Bell, C.B., O.B.E. CC. List of armament and naval stores remaining in the warship 'Rainbow' (built 1586; so named 1588) on her return to port; n.d. The list has not been completed, the numbers against each class of item not having been inserted. Accompanied by a cutting from the Army and Navy Gazette, 17 Apr. 1886, on the armament of the Elizabethan navy. ff. 217-219. Presented, with Add. MSS. 42575-42583, by C. Davies Sherborn, Esq., D.Sc. Paper and (artt. A, L, M (I), W) vellum; ff. 219. Folio. XIII cent.-1918.