Add MS 44919

MISCELLANE0US Letters and Papers, viz.:-

A. Letter from Alexander Pope, the poet, to Dr William Cowper, the antiquary, thanking him for his letter and verses, and recommending classical models; Twickenham, 5 Feb. 173½. Copy. Printed in The Correspondence of Alexander Pope, ed. G. Sherburn, 1956, iii, pp. 268-269. f. 1. Presented by William H. Robinson Ltd. B. Letter from Robert Burns, the eldest son of the poet, to - Dickson of The Morning Post, London, with local and personal gossip; Dumfries, 26 Mar. 1851. ff. 3-4. Presented by T. Wheele, Esq. C. Poems and letters, viz.:-(1)'Mr Whitbread's Speech', a satirical poem beg. 'I am like Archimedes', composed by George Canning on the occasion of the impeachment of Lord Melville by Samuel Whitbread in 1806. Copy. Printed in variant texts. See Josceline Bagot, George Canning and his Friends, 1909, i, pp. 221-222. f. 5;-(2) Letter, in French, from Princess C. de Menchikoff (Catherine Nikolaevna, mother of Adm. Alexander S. Menshikov) to an unnamed woman at Moscow, introducing a Mr Thomson and his fellow traveller; Vienna, 25 Apr. 1821. f. 6;-(3) Letter from the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin, D.D., the bibliographer, to Jonathan Thompson, rel. to his copy of Reminiscences of a Literary Life; 22 Mar. 1837. f. 7;-(4) Undated letter from Harriet Lee, the novelist (d. 1851), to C. Claxton, asking him to recommend appropriate charades. f. 8;-(5) Account in doggerel verse of a journey by stage and rail to view the Menai Suspension Bridge, which was opened to the public in 1826, beg. 'At Oxford dined, at Hockley kept'. Said in a pencil note dated 9 Jan. 1888 to be the only piece of poetry by 'S.G.O.' and written when he was at Oxford. If this is Lord Sidney Godolfin Osborne,

the philanthropist, he became B.A. in 1830. f. 9. Presented by A.C. Townsend, Esq., from the collection of Basil H. Soulsby. D. Three letters (two autograph) from Rudyard Kipling, the author, to Robert Farquharson Sharp, Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum, relating to pirated editions of his works; 3 Feb.-5 May 1928. ff. 11-13. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. E. Two consecutive vellum leaves from a Biblical Concordance in Latin, taken from the binding of a copy of Pratejus, Lexicon Juris Civilis et Canonici, Lyons, 1567. Beg. 'caligo et non splendor' and ends 'caput ad pennulas' (cf. Royal MS. 4 E. v, ff. 25b-31b). Present measurements 360 mm. x 260 mm. Triple columns; 72 lines to the page. Initials in red and blue. XIV cent. ff. 14, 15. Presented by the Royal Society. F. Gretna Green marriage certificate of John Harding and Margaret Heath, issued by John Brown, 22 Sept. 1763, together with (f. 17) a copy of the certificate of their regular marriage, 26 Dec. 1763, extracted from the register of St Philip's, Birmingham, 4 May 1842, and (f. 18) a table of their descendants. f. 16. Presented by J. S. Harding, Esq. and his sisters. G. (1) Two letters from William Heveningham, one of the Regicide Judges, to his servant Matthew Goodrick, relating to his estates and business affairs; Tynemouth, Sept. 1672, and Heveningham, 2 Aug. 1677. ff. 19, 21 (2) Two business letters from John Hallam to Matthew Goodrick at Hetteringham; London, 14 Sept., 5 Oct. 1672. ff. 23, 25. Presented by the Baker Library, Harvard University. H. Two letters from Andrew Lang, the author, to Miss Mary C. Payne and one to Miss Mary Crawford, relating to his book The Maid of France; 18, 24 Mar., 25 Apr. 1909. Preceded (f. 27) by a letter to Miss Payne from Longmans, Green & Co., publishers, 9 Mar. 1909. ff. 27-37. Presented by Miss M. C. Payne. I. Documents relating to Drury Lane Theatre, London, viz.:-(1) Table of expenditure for the season 1774-1775. f. 38;-(2) Legal opinion and accompts connected with the purchase from Garrick of his share in the Drury Lane patent by Sheridan, Linley and partners, 1776, with the lawyer's receipt (f. 42) dated 15 Feb. 1793. ff. 39-46. Transferred from the Burney Collection in the Department of Printed Books. K. Letter from the Rev. Henry Wellesley, D.D., Principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford, to Robert Howlett, of Cundall and Howlett, photographic artists, of 168 New Bond St., London, forwarding a drawing by Rembrandt for photography; Oxford, 23 Mar. 1857. The drawing is now in the Department of Prints and Drawings, registered 1935.6.8.8. f. 48. Transferred from the Department of Prints and Drawings. L. Eight letters from Richard Doddridge Blackmore, the novelist, to Nelson Fedden, chess champion of the West of England, mainly about chess; 14 Aug. 1873-30 July 1874. Three letters of the same series previously

presented, are Add. MS. 43688, ff. 168-173. ff. 51-64b. Presented by Miss Marguerite Fedden.

M. Legal documents, viz.:-(1) Bond of Frederick, Duke of York, to Lionel Lukin, John Allan and William Wright of Long Acre, coach-builders, for £1865. 7s. 10d.; 13 Feb. 1792. Signed and sealed. f. 65;-(2) Cognovit by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, John Grubb and Joseph Richardson in the action of William Siddons to the amount of £660. 11s. 8d.; 17 Feb. 1797. Signed. f. 67;-(3) Power of attorney from Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, to the London bankers Drummond in his claims against the bankrupt estate of John Martindale, wine-merchant; 9 Apr. 1798. Signed. f. 69. Presented by E. W. F. Johnson, Esq. N. Two letters (one autograph, the other signed) from George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, to Sir Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland, in favour of Sir Francis Annesley, afterw. Baron Mountnorris and (1642) 1st Viscount Valentia; Whitehall, 24 May 1627, and Portsmouth, 21 June 1627- Printed in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, 2nd Ser., iii, 1867, pp. 411-412, when they belonged to J.A. Beaumont, Esq. ff. 72, 73. Bequeathed by Lady Augusta Sarah Lane (née Beaumont), together with Add. Ch. 70980, 70981. 0. Forgery (watermark C. Wilmott, 1807) in a counterfeit Keats hand, with signature, probably by George Gordon de Luna Byron (see T.G. Ehrsam, Major Byron. The incredible career of a literary forger, 1951, pp. 1O1-105), of a sonnet by S. Laman Blanchard, beg. 'Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem'. A copy of the sonnet in Blanchard's own hand, diverging slightly from the version in his Lyric Offerings, 1828, p. 49, with a counterfeit Keats signature added, is reproduced as a Keats original in The Autographic Mirror, iii, 1865, p. 60. The sonnet was included, with a caveat, by Lord Houghton in the Aldine edition of Keats, 1876, p. 493. f. 75. Presented by Mrs. A. F. L. Wilkinson. P. Seven leaves containing fragments of documents, in French, rel. to lawsuits at Bourges, including a notarial subscription dated 23 Aug. 1502. Taken from the binding of Le grat stille et prothocolle de la chancellerie de France, [1520?]. ff. 77-83b. Transferred from the Dept. of Printed Books. Q. Two letters from William Hammond, B.A., to the London Congregation of the Moravian Brethren, applying for membership; 11 Dec. 1745. For other Hammond papers, see Add. MSS. 44850-44855, 44892, 44978, 44979 and 45102, ff. 57-64. ff. 84, 85. Presented by the Moravian Church, Fetter Lane, through the Rev.J.N. Libbey. R. Vellum leaf, in English, from a lectionary of Lives of Female Saints, containing the end of the life of St Lucy and the beginning of that of St Martina with the rubric: 'Of the blessed Virgine Sainte Martine. Capitulo .vi^o.' 240 mm. x 174 mm. XV cent. Cf. J.E. Wells, A Manual of Writings in Middle English, 2nd Supplement, 1923, p. 1058. f. 88. Presented by Dr T.0. Mabbott. S. 'Remembrance': a musical composition by John Cheshire, scored for the harp; New York, 1900. Autograph. Printed, circ. 1930, by Oliver Ditson Co., New York. ff. 89-92. Presented by Miss Zoë Cheshire, daughter of the composer.

T. Letter (unsigned) from an English visitor to France, addressed to 'My dear Aunt', describing the September massacres in Paris; London, 14 Oct. 1792. ff. 93-98b. Presented by Messrs Howard, Ellison and Morton, solicitors, of Headgate Court, Colchester. U. Original draft, in the hand of Sir Horace Edmund Avory, judge of the King's Bench Division of the High Court, of the new form of death sentence on a spy; 1914. Reproduced as the frontispiece to F.W. Ashley, My Sixty Years in the Law, 1936. f. 99. Presented by F. W. Ashley, Esq. V. Certificates of admission to the Freedom of the City of London, issued to Bury Hutchinson, father and son, solicitors and members of the Leathersellers' Company; 16 Apr. 1795, 20 Nov. 1821. ff. 100, 101. Presented by T. W. Gomm, Esq. W. 'Proposals for printing by Subscription A Catalogue of y^e Manuscripts of His Majesties Library by David Casley, Deputy Librarian'; n.d. Autograph. The original of Casley's Catalogue, published in 1734, is Harley MS. 7632. These Proposals are accompanied (f. 103) by a letter dated 1Oct. 1936 from John Johnson, Printer to the University of Oxford, to Robin Flower, Deputy Keeper of Manuscripts in the British Museum, saying that he had never seen a printed proposal for the Catalogue. f. 102. Presented by Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. X. Two appreciations of David Garrick, apparently written on his retirement from the stage in 1776, viz.:-(1) 'A Character of Mr Garrick', beg. 'The flowers of Panegyric'. ff. 106-108;-(2) 'The History of Mr Garrick's theatrical life' by 'Leonato', beg. 'In the amplest enjoyment'. ff. 109-112. The two articles were found in a box of press-cuttings and MS. notes on theatrical matters in the Dept. of Printed Books, which was formerly erroneously catalogued under Sarah Sophia Banks, but which is now assigned to the Rev. Charles Burney, D.D., the classical scholar. These appreciations are said to be in his hand; but while they may represent an early form of his writing, they do not resemble the examples preserved in Add. MS. 39302; they do, however, closely resemble a hand associated with Burney's in that MS., ff. 46, 180. The appreciation, 'A Character of Mr Garrick', contains passages apparently taken from Thomas Wilkes, A General View of the Stage, 1769 (e.g. f. 6b: 'The best writers of the Drama... deserves the situation' is taken from Wilkes, op. cit., pp. 230-231; f. 7: 'Perhaps it may be said... Lord Chalkstone' is Wilkes, op. cit., pp. 231-232). ff. 106-112. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. Y. Lists of Irish broadsides and pamphlets, covering part of the collections in the Department of Printed Books under the press-marks 839. M. 23 and 1890.e.5. 18th-19th centt. ff. 113-120b. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. Z. Letter, in French, from Julian Prévost, Comte de Limonade, Secretary of State and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Haiti, to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., originally accompanying an account of the coronation of King Henri Christophe; Palais de Sans Soucy, 7 Feb. 1816. Autograph. The duplicate,

dated 5 Feb., in Add. MS. 393O1, f. 85, is in another hand except for the subscription and the postscript. f. 121. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. AA. Squib, in the form of a playbill, on the opening ceremony of the Public Buildings at Penzance; 1867. ff. 123b-130. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. BB. Papers of Thomas Southwood Smith, M.D., sanitary reformer, viz.:-

(1) Memorial to Lord Normanby, the Home Secretary, pleading for mitigation of sentence on John Frost, the leader of the Newport rising of 1839, and other Chartists; Jan. 1840. Draft. f. 131;-(2) Notes for speeches, circ. 1850. ff. 133-156b;-(3) Letter to Matthew Davenport Hill, relating to a pamphlet on Sanitary Reform; Whitehall, 19 Jan. 1854. f. 157. Presented by E.C. Ouvry, Esq. CC. Letter from William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury, to William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, on his privileges as a Royal Trustee (the first so appointed) of the British Museum; Lambeth, 30 July 1833- f. 161. Presented by Messrs Ellis, booksellers, of 29 New Bond Street. DD. Two letters from Alfred Edward Housman, the classical scholar and poet, to George Francis Hill, then of the Dept. of Coins and Medals at the British Museum and subsequently (1931) Director, relating to a coin of Pythodoris, Queen of Pontus; University College, London, 22, 25 Mar. 1903. ff. 163, 165. Transferred from the Department of Coins and Medals. EE. Letter, in French, from Napoleon Bonaparte to Gen. Jean-Baptiste Victor Chanez at Malta; Cairo, 11 fructidor, an 6 [28 Aug. 1798]. Signed. At the foot Lord Nelson (so created 6 Nov. 1798) has added: 'mark the End.' Printed (without the Nelson postscript) in Correspondence de Napoléon Ier, iv, 1860, p. 424. Printed and reproduced in The Times, 12 Nov. 1936, p. 17. See also Brit. Mus. Quart., xi, 1936-1937, p. 68. Another intercepted letter of the same date and endorsed by the same hand is Add. MS. 37076, f. 49. f. 167- Presented by Lord Rothschild.

FF. Fragment, in Latin, of a leaf of a Gradual of French origin, with parts of masses for Tuesday to Thursday after the second Sunday in Lent, 13th cent. Taken from the binding of Erasmus, De recta Latini Graecique sermonis pronuntiatione Dialogus, 1528. f. 169. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books.

GG. Quatrain, in German, beg. 'Wem Gott etwas beschert' and subscribed 'Andree Rader, Teutscher Kapellmeister an Meran, 1608', the whole in a hand imitating print, and written on a woodcut of Jost Amman showing two putti returning from a hunt. f. 170. Presented by G.H. Fowler, Esq.

HH. List of the manuscript compositions of James Hamilton Siree Clarke (b. 1840, d. 1912), conductor and composer. Typewritten. Clarke's First String Quartet in A Major, Op. 246, the second item listed, is now Add. MS. 44880, and the present list was acquired with it. ff. 171-174. Presented by R.R. Trout, Esq. Paper and (artt. E, R, V, FF) vellum; ff. 174. Folio. XIII-XX centt.