Add MS 45680

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS, viz.:-

A. Letter from Maxim Litvinoff, Plenipotentiary for Great Britain of the Russian People's Commissary for Foreign Affairs, to the Director of the British Museum, accompanying the gift of a replica of the Commissary's seal (Detached Seal CLXIV. 31) and other material; 24 July 1918. Typewritten. Signed. f. 1. B. Notes of children's rhymes, local superstitions, etc., collected mainly in Sheffield and elsewhere in co. York by Sidney Oldall Addy, antiquary (d. 1933); n.d. ff. 2-14. Presented by the compiler's widow, Mrs M. G. Addy. C. Letter from Cardinal Cesare Borgia to Cardinal Ipolito d'Este, telling of his escape from prison and arrival in Spain; Pampeluna, 7 Dec. 1506. Ital. Signed. The text of the letter is in the hand of Borgia's secretary, Federigo. From the Alfred Morrison collection (wrapper, f. 17; Cat. Morrison Collection, i, 1883, p. 100; Sotheby's sale, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 112); Brit. Mus. Quart., xiv, 1939-1940, p. 56 f. 15. Presented by W. H. Woodward, Esq. D. Letter from William Byrne, F.S.A., landscape engraver, to Sir William Lee, 4th Bart., of Hartwell, relating to engravings sent by him to the latter for purchase; 26 July 1790. ff. 18-19. Presented by the Records Preservation Section of the British Records Association. E. Two letters from John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir 1935, to Sir Henry Allan Holden Stewart, about a detail in the former's Cromwell; 28 March, 17 July 1935. Typewritten. Signed. Accompanied (ff. 22-23) by some notes by the donor. ff. 20, 21. Presented by the recipient. F. Translation into Latin verse by 'Dr Alabaster' (i.e. William Arblaster, D.D., d. 1640) of verses by Peter Heylyn, D.D. (d. 1662), beg. 'In points of faith some undermined Jars'. Copies. XVII cent. A bifolium from a collection of exercises (?), afterwards used as binding leaves. ff. 24-25. Presented with Add. MSS. 45511, 45512, by the Rev. H. P. Kennedy Skipton, F.S.A. G. Letter from Sir Henry John Newbolt to Julius Parnell Gilson, Keeper of Manuscripts, the British Museum, concerning the portrait of Chaucer in Harley MS. 4866; 30 Apr. 1913. Accompanied (f. 27) by a letter from Sir Charles John Holmes, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, to Newbolt, on Chaucer portraits; 22 Apr. 1913. ff. 26, 27. H. Letter from Thomas James Wise, bibliographer, to Julius Parnell Gilson, Keeper of Manuscripts, the British Museum, concerning the bequest of Add. MSS. 39216, 39217 by Miss Isabel Swinburne; 18 Nov. 1915. ff. 28-29. I. Contemporary draft in French of George I's first speech to Parliament, delivered by the Lord Chancellor in English, in the King's presence, on 21 March 1715. Cf. Journal of the House of Lords, xx, pp. 23-24. The draft is apparently in the hand of John Robethon, the King's private secretary. For another draft, see Stowe MS. 228, ff. 23-24b. ff. 30-31. Presented by H. R. Madol, Esq. J. Notes by Henry Graham Pollard on Arundel MS. 435; 20th cent. Typewritten. ff. 32-36. Presented by the compiler. K. Forged (?) letter from Elizabeth Ann Linley to her subsequent husband, Richard Brinsley Sheridan; 14 June 1772. From the Alfred Morrison collection (wrapper, f. 39); Sotheby's sale-cat. 13 Dec. 1918, lot 2584. ff. 37-38. Presented by Henry Graham Pollard, Esq. L. Letter from Rear-Adm. (afterw. Vice-Adm.) Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood 1805, to Lt-Col. Theophilus Lewis, Royal Marines, on personal and family matters; 24 Jan. 1803. ff. 40-41. Presented by C. J. Crowfoot, Esq. M. Letter from Field-Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, to Surgeon-Capt. Reginald John Edward Hanson, O.B.E., F.R.C.S., agreeing to set up a Roberts trophy for rifle-shooting, open to schoolboys of the British Empire; 1 Oct. 1907. ff. 42-43. Bequeathed by the recipient. N. Miscellaneous leaves from medieval MSS., viz.:-(1) Portions of two conjoint leaves from a missal containing parts of the services for Good Friday and Holy Saturday, including parts of the Litany and order of Baptism for the latter. Latin. Written in England, xiv cent. ff. 45-46;-(2) Leaf from a breviary containing part of the office for St Thomas of Canterbury (29 Dec.) etc. Latin. Written in an Italianate hand, perhaps in S. France or Spain, xiv cent. f. 17;-(3) Two conjoint leaves containing John de Trevisa's English translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, lib. xii, capp. vi-x (al. vii-xi), lib. xiii, capp. vi-xi. Ed. Berthelet, 1535, ff. clxvii bclxviiib, clxxviii-clxxix. Catchword, f. 59b '& holde in bondes'. Written in England, late xv cent. ff. 48-49. ff. 45-49. Presented by G. Gotto, Esq. 0. Letter from Bernard Pyne Grenfell, papyrologist, to Percy Stafford Allen, President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1924-1933, concerning work at Oxyrhynchus, etc.; Beni Mazar, 2 Mar. 1906. Imperf. ff. 50-52. Presented by John de Monins Johnson, Esq. P. Letters (46) from distinguished men addressed to members of the staff of the Department of Coins and Medals, the British Museum; 1867-1894, n.d. Arranged in alphabetical order of the surnames of writers, which will be found in the Index to the present Catalogue. ff. 53-113. Transferred from the Department of Coins and Medals. Q. Letters (9) from Robert Louis Stevenson to George Saintsbury; 1866- 1892. ff. 114-129. Presented by Christopher Saintsbury, Esq. R. Letters (8) from persons of note addressed to Alfred Robert Dryhurst, I.S.O., of the British Museum, and his wife Mrs Hannah Florence Dryhurst; 1892-1928. The names of the writers will be found in the Index to the present Catalogue. Some further letters addressed to them are now Add. MSS. 45498 O, 46172 X. ff. 130-141. Presented by A. R. Dryhurst, Esq. S. Letter from Benito Mussolini, to the Editor of the 'Daily Mail', on taking up his duties as Italian Home Secretary; 11 Nov. 1926. Autograph. Published, with a photograph of Mussolini taken when it was handed over (f. 144), in the 'Daily Mail' of 15 Nov. 1926. ff. 142-143. Presented by 0. I. Pulvermacher, Esq. T. Verses, 'The Sea', by Samuel Prout, water-colour painter (b. 1783, d. 1852); n.d. Autograph fair copy. Signed. Accompanied (ff. 146-150) by transcripts of congratulatory letters, etc., to Prout from Ruskin, B. W. Procter, Chantrey, and B. R. Haydon, 1829-1846, n.d., which are described as having been taken from 'Mr S. G. Prout's copies', i.e. those of his son Samuel Gillespie Prout. ff. 145-150. Presented by Lt.-Col. A. T. LeM. Utterson, D.S.O. U. Two letters from George Coombs, no. 631, 1st Royal Dragoons, serving in the Crimean War, to his sister; Devna, 1 Aug. 1854; Sebastopol, 26 April 1855. ff. 151-153. Presented by the recipient's granddaughter, Miss Gertrude B. Coombs. V. 'The Burden of Jerusalem': typewritten copy of a poem by Rudyard Kipling (d. 1936), unpublished in his lifetime and not included in the definitive edition of his verse, 1940, although marked by him to follow 'The Peace of Dives'. Beg. 'In ancient days and deserts wild'. The copy was made by the donor from an original MS., shown to him by Mrs. Kipling (see his covering letter, f. 154). For another similar work see Add. MS. 45982 A, p. 292 below, and for other Kipling MSS. in the Department, see the description of Add. MSS. 44840, 44841, p. 2 above. ff. 155-156. Presented by Sir Alfred Webb- Johnson. W. Pedigree, etc., of the family of Blechynden, co. Kent, transcribed by the donor from an original in her possession, in connection with the bequest by Richard Blechynden of Add. MSS. 45578-45633 (described pp. 209-213 above); 1940. ff. 157-161. Presented by Mrs C. L. Copp. Paper and (art. N) vellum; ff. 161. Folio. XIV-XX cent.