Add MS 45224

MISCELLANE0US LETTERS AND PAPERS, viz.:-

A. Circular letter from Denis O'Bryen, dramatist and political pamphleteer, to convene a meeting of five chief members of the Benevolent Society of St Patrick, viz. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (President), Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (President-Elect), George Canning (Past President), John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley and Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, whose autograph acknowledgements of it are appended; London, 21 Mar. 1821. ff. 1-2b. Presented by E. G. Millar, Esq., D.Litt., F.S.A. B. Four letters of Sir Edward German, composer, to Robert Furber; 1901, n.d. ff. 3-11b. Presented by Miss J. R. Furber. C. Part of a descriptive account by the author of a 'history' opening with the sermons of John Calvin on the prophecy of Daniel and continuing with an account of the affairs of Philip II of Spain, 1580-1588; late 16th cent. French. Found at the back of a 16th-cent. engraved portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, acquired from the Trustees of the French Protestant Church, Soho Square, for which see A. M. Hind, Engraving in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, i, 1952, p. 264, no. 6a and pl. 139. f. 12. Transferred from the Department of Prints and Drawings. D. Letters to George Nesbitt Thompson, private secretary to Warren Hastings, from Christopher Anstey, the poet, his wife, and four of their sons; 1783-1811. The names of individual writers will be found in the Index to the present Catalogue. For biographical details of the poet's family and their friendship with Thompson, see W. C. Powell, Christopher Anstey: Bath Laureate, 1944, pp. 122-125, 210 seqq. ff. 13-35b. Presented, through Lt.-Col. John Shakespeare, by Mrs Powney. E. Bond by Mrs Anna Maria Druce to pay £50 to the bearer within one year of her son, Sidney George, coming into the title and estates of the Duke of Portland; London, 6 Nov. 1899. A printed form headed 'Druce-Portland Bond', with serial no. 264, filled in, dated, and signed in MS. For Mrs Druce's claim that her deceased father-in-law, Thomas Charles Druce, of the Baker Street Bazaar, London, was in fact the fifth Duke of Portland and for notes of methods used by her to raise funds to pursue this claim, see T. Besterman, The Druce-Portland Case, 1935. f. 36. Presented by E. H. Bentley, Esq. F. Miscellaneous papers and documents; 1597-circ. 1800. Included are:-

(1) Letter from Anne, widow of Sir Walter Hungerford (d. 1596), to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, as Lord Treasurer, concerning her disinheritance by her husband; Louvain, 22 June 1597. For a similar letter to Sir Robert Cecil, written on the same day, see Hist. MSS. Comm., Hatfield MSS., vii, p. 262. f. 37;-(2) A contemporary account of the execution of Mervyn Touchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven, on 14 May 1631, including versions of his speech and confession of faith at Tower Hill. For other MS. versions of the latter see Harley MSS. 738, ff. 327b-328; 791, ff. 51-52; 2067, f. 18b (confession of faith only); 2194, ff. 88b-90; 6865, ff. 236b-237b and Add. MS. 22591, ff. 88-89. For a printed version of the speech see also T. B. Howell, State Trials, iii, 1816, p. 418. ff. 38-40b;-(3) Letters of Administration, etc., for the estate of John Lampen of Liskeard, co. Cornwall, with a copy of his will, dated 31 May 1725; 2 June 1740. ff. 44-47b;-(4) Notes rel. to John Rooper's tenancy of Berkhampstead Castle, co. Hertf.; circ. 1800. ff. 48-49b. Presented by H. M. Bowden, Esq. G. Letter from Nathaniel Bowditch, the American astronomer and mathematician, to - Clap, at Boston, recapitulating certain calculations in terrestrial geometry; 26 Oct. 1814. ff. 50-51b. Found loose in a copy of the Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch, by N. I. Bowditch, 2nd ed., 1840. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books (press-mark 10881. g. 18). H. Letter from the Abbé H. E. P. Breuil, French palaeontologist, to J. Reid Moir, concerning certain Stone Age remains found by the latter in East Anglia; 30 Nov. 1920. ff. 52-53b. Presented by J. Reid Moir, Esq., F.R.S. I. Decree of the London Fire Court, created by Statute, 18 and 19 Chas. II, c. 7, concerning the rebuilding of a messuage named the Falcon, near Holborn Bridge, in the parish of St Sepulchre; 26 Feb. 1668. Contemporary copy, written in the same hand as the original enrolment, which is now Add. MS. 5068, ff. 208-220b. Dobell's Catalogue No. 37, March 1938, item 72. ff. 54-67b. Presented anonymously. K. Letter of Emma, widow of Sir William Hamilton, to Alexander Davison, government contractor and former confidential friend of Lord Nelson; 20 Dec. 1810. For other correspondence between Lady Hamilton and Davison see Add. MSS. 34989, ff. 53-54; 40739; Egerton MS. 2240, f. 152. ff. 68-69b. Presented by Miss Margery Fry. L. Letter from Charlotte Mary Yonge to -, concerning the scene of her novel 'The Heir of Redclyffe'; Elderfield, 22 July, n.d. f. 70. Presented by F. E. B. Norman, Esq. M. Letter from Henry Irving, knt. 1895, actor, to Mrs Eleanor Mary James; 26 Nov. 1872. ff. 71-73b. Presented by G. L. Lawrence, Esq. N. Letter from Mary Martha Sherwood, author of 'The History of the Fairchild Family', to -, who was apparently connected with the book trade in New York; 21 Mar. 1848. ff. 74-75b. Presented by Professor T. O. Mabbott. 0. Note by Wilberforce Eames (d. 1937), American bibliographer, to G. D. McDonald of the New York Public Library, concerning the printer of the first edition of John Milton's 'Epitaphium Damonis'; circ. 1930 (?). See also H. F. Fletcher, John Milton's Complete Works reproduced in photographic facsimile, Urbana, 1943, pp. 353-362. f. 76. Presented by Professor T. 0. Mabbott. P. Letter from Col., afterw. Major-Gen., Charles George Gordon to George Taylor Shaw, of Leeds; Cairo, 19 July 1877. ff. 77-78. Presented by Mrs Stella Rose Raper. Q. Two pieces, including the signature, of a letter from Jenny al. Johanna Maria Lind-Goldschmidt ('Jenny Lind' the singer) to -; aft. 1851. For other letters by her in the Department's collections see Add. MSS. 33965, f. 410; 35225, f. 64; 39954, f. 384; 41771, ff. 130, 146; 43377, f. 1. ff. 79-80. Transferred from the Department of Prints and Drawings. R. Part of a leaf from a MS. of Gulielmus Durandus, 'Speculum Iudiciale', Lib. IV, part iii, rubric 32 'De Feudis' (first printed edition, Strasbourg, 1473, Lib. IV, ff. xciiii-xciiii b; Basle edition, 1563, ii, pp. 306-307); 14th cent. Latin. Vellum leaf, 170 mm. x 118 mm., trimmed at the foot for use as a pastedown. f. 81. Presented by L. R. A. Grove, Esq. S. 'Sketch of the Disposition of the Allies under the Command of Lt.- Genl. Hill to surprise the Enemy in Arroyo Molinos on the morning of the 28th Oct^r. 1811'; dated 'Quarter Master Generals Office Horse Guards Dec^r 3d 1811.' Pen-and-ink-wash plan, with pictorial representation of relief, to a scale of 1 5/8in. to 1 mile. For an account of the engagement at Arroyo dos Molinos see C. Oman, History of the Peninsular War, iv, 1911, pp. 601-607. f. 82. Presented by the Librarian of the University of Western Ontario. T. Three letters supplementing the Hardwicke Papers (Add. MSS. 35349-36278; 45030-45047), viz.:-(1) Letter from Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke 1754, to Sir Joseph Jekyll, Master of the Rolls, conc. the office of Usher of the Court of Chancery; 27 Aug. 1725. ff. 83-84b;-(2) Letter from the same to Henry Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, conc. the livings of Heveningham and Wenhaston, co. Suff.; 15 Aug. 1754. ff. 85-86b;-(3) Two letters from Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke 1764, to Dr Benjamin Hoadly, physician and dramatist; 15 May 1741 and 8 March 1746. ff. 87-90b. Presented by E. H. W. Meyerstein, Esq. U. Correspondence relating to Miss Maria Denman's offer to the government of a collection of original plaster models made by her brother-in-law John Flaxman, R.A., the sculptor (d. 1826); 1835-1836. The names of the writers of letters will be found in the Index to the present Catalogue. Included (ff. 93-99) is an inventory by Miss Denman of eighty-eight models in her possession in May 1835. For other correspondence on the subject see Add. MSS. 39780-39792, 39840 (Flaxman Papers), passim. ff. 91-107. Transferred from the National Gallery. V. Parts of a notarial instrument recording the assignment by Master Johannes Veyssellery, shoemaker, to Sebastianus Bilheti of certain rights in the parish of St Agricola, Avignon; 24 July 1502. Latin. ff. 108-109. Taken from the binding of a copy of Chiromantia, Geneva, circ. 1495. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books (former press-mark IA. 38490). W. Memoranda of accompts, mainly relating to cloth; circ. 1577-1586. German. Parts of leaves from a paper book, taken from the binding of a copy of Felix Hemmerlin, Opuscula et Tractatus, Strasbourg, 1498 (?). Transferred from the Department of Printed Books (former press-mark IB. 1783). ff. 110-118. X. Four letters of John Hawkesworth, the writer, to Miss G. Elliott; 12 June-8 Dec. 1767. ff. 119-126b. Presented by Mrs F. Parker. Y. Letter from the Hon. Clare Stuart-Wortley to Eric George Millar, of the British Museum, concerning the date of Ashley MS. A 3922 (b); 9 Nov. 1938. f. 127. Presented by E. G. Millar, Esq., D. Litt., F.S.A. Paper and (artt. R, V) vellum; ff. 127. Folio. XIV-XX centt.