Add MS 49977

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; 1619-1946.

Paper; ff. 79. Folio.

A. Receipt of Thomas Ford, composer, to Sir Adam Newton, 1st Bart., Treasurer to Charles, Prince of Wales, for his quarter's pension of £10; 10 Apr. 1619. Signed. Sotheby sale-cat., 9-11 Dec. 1957, lot 570.

f. l.

B. Letter of Robert Walpole, Envoy at Lisbon, to Brigadier Connel of the [Portuguese?] service; Lisbon, 16 May 1797. Copy or draft. Presented by Dr P. F. Wilson through S. H. Ward, Esq.

f. 2.

C. Warrant of Charles I appointing Richard Herbert, 2nd Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Governor of Bridgnorth, co. Salop; Bridgnorth, 14 Oct. 1642. Sign-manual. Seal en placard. Presented by Mrs M. C. Needham through the National Art-Collections Fund.

f. 3.

D. Letter of Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, to General Sir Thomas Kelly-Kenny, G.C.B.; Pretoria, 11 May [1902?].

ff. 4-5b.

E. Four letters of Robert Hillingford, painter, to Edward Allday, relating to their interest in armour; London, 22 Nov. [1888?]-6 Aug. 1893. Supplements Add. MSS. 40678-40684. Presented by Miss S. Allday, daughter of the recipient.

ff. 6-13.

F. Farewell speech of Dame Nellie Melba [Helen Porter Armstrong, née Mitchell]; 4 Sept. 1924. Facsimile, on silk, mounted on card. Presented by L. C. Thompson, Esq.

ff. 14-15.

G. Letters to John Henry Amshewitz, R.B.A., and his wife, Sarah Briana, née Judes, mostly on artistic matters; 20 Apr. 1922-27 Oct. 1946. Presented by Mrs S. B. Amshewitz.

ff. 16-44b.

H. Letters to William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, from John Hatsell, Clerk of the House of Commons, 25 June 1798, 23 [Sept. or Dec.] 1806, and William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, 12 Aug. 1810. Supplements Add. MSS. 34412-34471. Presented by W. B. Hamilton, Esq.

ff. 45-50b.

I. Memorandum of agreement between Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, as Constable of Dover and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Sir Edward Dering, as Lieutenant of the Castle; 26 Mar. 1629. Signed by both parties. Supplements Add. MSS. 24113, 47788, 47789. Presented by Squadron-Leader C. D. Stephenson, A.F.C.

ff. 51-52b.

J. 'Plan of the [East Indian] Railway Comys. Bangalows at Pakour' [Pakaur], in Bihar, with a 'Plan' and 'Elevation of Tower', built by the grandfather of the donor, during the Indian Mutiny (f. 53b); circa 1857-1859. Presented by Mrs E. Hammock.

f. 53.

K. Account of the Great Fire of London by Fransiscus de Rapicani, principal private secretary to Queen Christina of Sweden, 1666. German. Extract from Rapicani's now untraceable autobiography by Dr Hillman, early 20th cent. Published, with a commentary and translation, by P. D. A. Harvey, 'A Foreign Visitor's Account of the Great Fire', Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, xx, 1960, pp. 76-87. Presented by Dr H. T. Güssow, F.R.C.S., F.L.S.

ff. 54-62b.

L. Letter of John Evelyn to the Yorkshire antiquary Ralph Thoresby; Berkeley Street, 21 Dec. 1698 (f. 66). Preceded (f. 63) by a letter to Evelyn from the French engraver Robert Nanteuil, 1650. Tregaski's sale-cat. 886, June 1924, item 147. Also includes the additional title-page (f. 64), engraved by Nanteuil, 1654, from a copy of A. Arnauld, Historia et Concordia Evangelica, Paris, 1653, and an engraved panel (f. 65), apparently by Nanteuil, circa 1654, with the arms of Charles II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, possibly cut from a document. See E. Bouvy, Nanteuil, Paris, 1924, pp. 48, 61, 104-5; C. Petitjean and C. Wickert, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé de Robert Nanteuil, Paris, 1925, Text, pp. 187-90, 378-9, Plates, cf. nos. 227, 229. Presented by E. Seligman, Esq.

ff. 63-67b.

M. Piano piece in B flat minor, marked 'Allegro risoluto', by Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan; signed and dated 8 May 1866. Autograph. Followed

(f. 70), by a photograph of Sullivan, n.d. Presented by Mrs C. I. Blake.

ff. 68b-70b.

N. Two letters of the French poet Paul Claudel to Léon Marchand, al. 'Pierre Chavannes'; Rome, 10 June 1916, Copenhagen, 30 Dec. 1919. Found among the papers of André Barbier, Professor of French Language and Literature at Aberystwyth. Published by E. M. Phillips, 'Paul Claudel: Two Unpublished Letters', French Studies, ix, Oxford, 1955, pp. 246-9. See also W. Leitgeber, 'L'Audience de Paul Claudel en Angleterre', Bulletin de la Societé Paul Claudel, xx, Paris, Oct. 1965, pp. 7-9. Eleven letters from Marchand to Claudel are in the Paul Claudel Archives. Presented by Miss E. M. Phillips, executrix of Professor Barbier.

ff. 71-74b.

O. Letter of Florence Nightingale relating to the welfare of the men of the Land Transport; Scutari, 22 Dec. 1855. From the Huth Collection. Owned, until 18 June 1911, by 'W. L.' (f. 77). Presented by Mrs A. H. Dawson.

ff. 75-77.

P. Leaf containing an autograph fair copy of canto vi, stanzas 9, 10, and canto xi of 'Maud' by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson; 1854-1855. Given by Tennyson to Francis Turner Palgrave, 6 July 1855 (note on f. 78), at the same time as two other leaves containing sections of 'Maud', now Add. MS. 45741, ff. 278-279b, and evidently from the same notebook, since f. 279 is the draft of canto xi from which the present leaf was copied. Published, with three slight variants, in Maud, and other poems, 1855, pp. 29, 39-40. See K. W. Gransden, 'Some Uncatalogued Manuscripts of Tennyson', The Book Collector, iv, 1955, pp. 159-62, and T. J. Brown, 'English Literary Autographs XLV', ibid., xii, 1963, p. 61, with a plate opp. p. 61, reproducing f. 78b; also reproduced by H. Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, i, 1897, opp. p. 392. Presented by G. M. Booth, Esq., through H. K. G. Bearman, Esq.

f. 78.

Q. Leaf, perhaps from an account book, containing notes of receipts and expenditure, etc., relating to Covent Garden Theatre; 1817-1818. Returned from the Guildhall Library, to which it had been transferred circa [1911?] in a collection of duplicate playbills from the Department of Printed Books.

f. 79.