Add MS 49380

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; 14th cent.-1948.

Paper and (articles A and M) vellum; ff. 79. Folio.

A. Two vellum leaves from service-books, each irregularly cropped and now measuring 135 x 110mm. and 160 x 115mm. respectively, the first, pro-bably English, containing Psalm 118 [119], vv. 92-106, and the second, possibly English or North French, part of the office of Prime from the Hours of the B. V. M.; late 14th cent. Latin. Both have decorated initials with penwork ornamentation, with a slightly more elaborate initial 'Q' on the recto of the first leaf. Presented by G. I. Bonner, Esq.

ff. 1, 2.

B. Letter from Sir George Russell Clerk, P.C., G.C.M.G., Ambassador at Con-stantinople, to Sir Charles Leonard Wooley, relating to Clerk's unsuccessful attempt to persuade the Turkish military authorities to allow Wooley to dig at Jerablus; Constantinople, 27 Apr. 1932. Typewritten. Signed. Presented by R. D. Barnett, Esq.

ff. 3-5.

C. Poem, in rhyming couplets, by Charles Lamb, beg. 'Keeper of these rich Tomes where Graphic Art', and addressed 'To J[ohn] T[homas] Smith, Esqr., Keeper of the Prints at the British Museum'; 9 Aug. 1830. Presented by L. J. Rosenwald, Esq.

f. 6.

D. Narrative by Ernest Philip Higgs, M.I.E.E., A.C.G.I., of the Shanghai Power Co., concerning his experiences under Japanese occupation; 8 Dec. 1941-

18 Sept. 1945, with additions to 1948. Typewritten. Presented by A. B. Catling, Esq., A.M.I.C.E., A.M.I.E.E., executor of E. P. Higgs.

ff. 7-31.

E. Four Letters of Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, F.R.S., F.S.A., Librarian to Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, to Sir William Betham, Ulster King-of-Arms, mostly relating to the Duke's Armenian MSS.; 3 July 1826-5 May 1827. Three of the letters bear old page numbers. See T. J. Pettigrew, Bibliotheca Sussexiana, i, 1827, p. cclxv. Preceded (f. 32) by a single letter from Pettigrew, as Sec. of the Royal Humane Society, to Josiah Boydell, the artist, 18 Apr. 1814, and followed (f. 41) by a letter from the donor to T. C. Skeat of the British Museum relating to the gift, 5 June 1956. Presented by W. R. Dawson, Esq., F.R.S.E., F.S.A.

ff. 32-41.

F. Letter from George Gregory, Prebendary of St Paul's, to John Baker-Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield; West Ham, 11 Dec. 1807. Printed in The Times Literary Supplement, no. 2834, 22 June 1956, p. 377. Presented by Miss J. E. Norton.

ff. 42-43.

G. Letter of John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, to H. A. George, relating to the Bank Holidays Bill; London, 18 Apr. 1891. Presented by the recipient's son, W. A. George, Esq.

ff. 44-45.

H. Letter of Dinizulu, son of Cetywayo, King of Zululand, while in exile on St Helena, to –; Maldivia, 2 May 1894. Zulu. Presented by T. G. Redfern, Esq.

ff. 46-47.

I. Letter from Horatio Forbes Brown, historian of Venice, to Henry Jackson, O.M., Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University, relating to MSS. used by Aldus Manutius in printing his editions; Venice, 9 Nov. 1888. Presented by Gen. Sir H. C. Jackson, K.C.B., son of the recipient.

ff. 48-51b.

J. Letter from Joseph Karfoot, Master of the Blue Coat School, Bicester, founded 1721, to Henry Newman, of Barnard's Inn, relating to the employment in spinning worsted of the twenty-four boys at the school; Bicester, 22 Feb. 1728/9. See also V.C.H., Oxon., vi, 1959, p. 52. Presented by the Rev. C. H. Winter, Hon. C.F.

ff. 52-53b.

K. Papers of and relating to Sir Richard Francis Burton, K.C.M.G.; 1860-1891. Autograph, printed, and typewritten:- (1) Ten grey paper leaves, cut from a notebook and now measuring 173 x 110mm., comprising a number of fragments, mostly consecutively numbered, relating to his crossing the Atlantic and arrival at Halifax, 1860. Apparently intended for publication (see f. 54). A later episode in this journey is described in his The City of the Saints, 1861, Burton's own copy of which, now at Kensington Public Library, contains a few pages of its original MS. from a notebook. See N. M. Penzer, An Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1923, pp. 68-9. ff. 54-63b;- (2) Shehrzad and Shehriyar (Conclusion), comprising corrected proofs of pp. 183-96 of a supplement to Burton's translations of The Thousand Nights and a Night, 1885, and the Supplemental Nights, 1886-8. Not noted in Penzer, op. cit. ff. 64-70b;- (3) Prospectus of the Erotika Biblion Society of Athens, bef. 1 Dec. 1888, with a note by Burton. See Penzer, op. cit., pp. 152-3. f. 71;- (4) Letter from his widow, Isabel, to Mrs Kate –; London, 2 Apr. 1891. Dictated. Typewritten. Presented by Miss E. L. Letchford.

ff. 54-72.

L. Letter from John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, to Count Lorenzo Magalotti, Counsellor to the Grand Duke of Tuscany at Florence and littérateur, 16 June 1710, mentioning Sir Godfrey Kneller and others, and referring to a letter from Magalotti to Somers, [11 Mar. 1710], printed in Delle lettere del Conte L. Magalotti, ii, Florence, 1769, pp. 185-7). Acquired by the donor in Italy during the Second World War. Presented by W. Donnelly, Esq.

ff. 73-74b.

M. Fragments, on vellum, of three scientific works, in Latin, 14th cent., removed from the former bindings of Add. MSS. 29366-29368, as follows:- (1) Three fragments relating to Mirabilia, in two columns, of which the leaves originally measured at least 177mm. wide. ff. 75-77b;- (2) One fragment of a work on colours, originally measuring approximately 245mm. wide, in two columns, now containing nine or ten lines in each column.

f. 78;- (3) One edge of a leaf, approximately 195mm. high, containing part of 40 lines on each side of the table of contents of an [alchemical ?] treatise.

f. 79.

ff. 75-79.