Add MS 45524

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS, viz.:-

A. Declaration by Ferdinand, Cardinal Infante of Spain, as Governor of the Netherlands, of friendship and neutrality to French sympathisers; 5 July 1636. French. Copy. ff. 1-2. B. Letter from John, 2nd Duke of Montagu, to-(? in co. Northt.) concerning arrangements for raising troops against the Young Pretender; London, 21 Sept. 1745. ff. 3-4b. C. Rhymed 'Billet-doux' from Sir George Baker, F.R.S., physician (d.1809) to Miss Kitty Daston, offering his professional services; n.d. ff. 5-6b. D. (1) Memorandum by Richard Frank, F.R.S., F.S.A., concerning his purchase in 1755 of the manuscripts of Dr Nathaniel Johnston of Pontefract, the antiquary; 8 Jan. 1756. f. 7;-(2) Letter from the Rev. Mackenzie E. C. Walcott to E. A. Bond of the British Museum, concerning the same; 28 June 1875. f. 8. For Johnston's MSS. see further J. Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, v, 1832, pp. 328-329; Hist. MSS. Commission, 6th Report, App., 1877, pp. 448-465; E. W. Crossley, 'The MSS. of Nathaniel Johnston, M.D., of Pontefract', Journal of the Yorkshire Arch. Soc., xxxii, 1936, pp. 429-441; Sotheby's sale-cat. 11 Aug. 1942. ff. 7-8. E. Description of the arms of Maximilian Friederich von Königseck- Rothenfels, Elector and Archbishop of Cologne 1761-1784, by the Canon of Würtz and Burg there; 1761. German. ff. 9-14b. F. Letter from Flora Macdonald, Jacobite heroine, to her son-in-law, Major Alan Macleod; 10 Dec. 1781. Copy. ff. 15-16. G. Letter from William Townsend Aiton, botanist, to Col. Green, concerning the latter's gift of seeds to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; 18 Apr. (but with postmark 17 Apr.) 1801. ff. 17-18. H. 'Account of General Orders, etc., issued to the Fleet under the command of Admiral the Earl of St Vincent, K.C.B.', apparently relating to the period of his command of the Channel Fleet, 1801-1802. The names of ships and their captains are listed, with notes of general orders distributed to each. ff. 19-20. I. Lists and papers relating to volunteers for military service, in the event of a French invasion, in the parish of Seal and Tongham, co. Surr.; 1803. ff. 21-30. J. Letter from Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, to Henry, 3rd Earl Bathurst, relating to a cipher key; Tamames, 24 May 1813. Signed. Printed in Despatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, vi, 1845, p. 499. ff. 31-32. K. Nineteenth-century German poetry, viz.:-(1) Extract from Karl Joseph Simrock's version of the Amelungenlied, part vii (the last four stanzas of the sixteenth adventure and the first four of the seventeenth: Das Heldenbuch, vi, 1849, pp. 143-144) with a signed attestation (f. 33b) by the poet, 1850. ff. 33-33b;-(2) Verses by Baron Josef Christian von Zedlitz, attested (f. 37b) by K. J. Simrock, 1850, as autograph MSS. submitted for publication in Rheinisches Jahrbuch. As follows:-(a) The last 13 stanzas of 'Liebeswunde', cf. von Zedlitz's Gedichte, 1847, pp. 87-90. ff. 34-35;-

(b) 'Die Kirchweih zu Unkel', ibid, pp. 79-82 (cf. Rheinisches Jahrbuch, 1841, edd. F. Freiligrath, G. Matzerath, K. Simrock, pp. 343-346). ff. 35-37;-

(c) 'Der Ungenügsame': printed, with slight alterations, as 'Die Ueberraschte', ibid, pp. 95-96. f. 37b. ff. 33-37b. L. Draft letter from John Kesson, formerly of the Department of Printed Books in the British Museum, to the chairman of the Royal Commission on the British Museum, Lord Ellesmere, replying to criticism of the new system for the supply of books contained in John Edward Gray's Letter to the Earl of Ellesmere on the management of the Library of Printed Books in the British Museum, 1849; 20 Mar. 1849. For an account of the Commission's activities see A. Esdaile, Library of the British Museum, 1946, pp. 112-115. ff. 38-73. Paper; ff. 73. Folio. XVII-XIX cent.