Add MS 45850

MISCELLANE0US LETTERS AND PAPERS, viz.:-

A. Letter, written at about the age of six, by Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, K.G., O.M., to his mother, Lady Randolph Churchill; circ. 1880. f. 1. Presented by Sir Shane Leslie, Bart. B. Musical compositions by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (d. 1924); 1913, n.d. Autograph. Viz.:-(1) 'Ulster': setting of a poem by William Wallace; 14 Nov. 1913. The MS. sent to Stainer & Bell Ltd. for publication in the same year. ff. 2-2b;-(2) Arrangement for orchestra, in condensed score, of 'An Ulster march-tune'. Although described (f. 3) as 'from Petrie's MSS.', the tune was not included by Stanford in his Complete Collection of Irish Music as noted by George Petrie, 1902-1905. ff. 3-3b;-(3) March for orchestra in condensed score. ff. 3b-4. ff. 2-4. Presented by Cecil Forsyth, Esq. C. (1) Warrants signed by Sir Robert Howard, Secretary to the Treasury and Auditor of the Receipt, for payments to:-(a) an unnamed person; 11 Feb. 1674/5. f. 5;-(b) William Hewer, Treasurer for the garrison at Tangier; 22 July 1680. Cf. Cal. Treasury Books, vi, 1679-1680, p. 640. ff. 6-7b;-

(2) Accompts of the personal expenditure of Lord George Henry Lennox in Paris; Sept. 1752-Oct. 1753. ff. 8-11b. ff. 5-11b. Presented by F. Williamson, Esq. D. Rough mathematical calculation by Napoleon I of the quantity of water necessary to fill a ditch of given dimensions, made at St Helena between 1815 and 1818. Autograph. Given by his surgeon there, Barry Edward O'Meara, to Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, in 1822, who in turn gave it to William Doggett, librarian at Holland House. By the latter's son, Edgar, it was given to the donor in 1896 (see notes on f. 13b). Presented by F. W. MacKinney, Esq., C.B.E. ff. 12-13b. E. Vellum fragments of Latin MSS. taken from the binding of Harley MS. 1861, including:-(1) Two leaves from a treatise on Civil Law; 13th cent. ff. 14-15;-(2) Fragments of two bifolia from a breviary, including part of the Office for the Purification of the B.V.M.; 14th cent. ff. 17-19. ff. 14-19. Transferred from the Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts. F. Letter from Roger Boyle, Baron of Broghill, 1st Earl of Orrery 1660, to Sir Richard Onslow, relating to his work in Ireland for the restoration of Charles II; Dublin, 30 Mar. 1660. ff. 20-21b. Presented by E. S. de Beer, Esq., F.B.A., F.S.A. G. Five miscellaneous autograph letters, viz.:-(1) Letter from Simon Fraser, 11th Baron Lovat, to - McGill of Edinburgh, explaining the circumstances in which he had broken off his engagement to a daughter of Sir Hew Dalrymple, 1st Bart.; 26 May 1732. ff. 22-23b;-(2) Letter from Thomas Smith, of the English army, at Lascines Camp in Flanders, to his wife Jane, at Ghent; 25 May 1745. ff. 24-25b;-(3) Two letters from William Burns al. Burnes, cottar, father of Robert Burns, the poet, to William Ferguson of Doonholm, concerning his supervision of the latter's estate; 6 May 1758, 7 May 1763. ff. 26-27b;-(4) Letter from William Harrison Ainsworth, the novelist, to W. E. Utterson-Kelso, Indian Army, concerning a contribution written by the latter for the New Monthly Magazine; 25 Sept. 1869. f. 28. ff. 22-28. Presented, with Add. Ch. 71287, by Lt.-Col. A. T. Le M. Utterson, D.S.O. H. Translations into various languages of poems, etc., by Rudyard Kipling, with some related correspondence; bef. 1926-1934. As follows:-(1) Translations into Greek elegiacs by Cyril Mowbray Wells, of Eton College, of Kipling's epitaphs 'On a Subaltern' and 'On a Poacher shot in No-man's land'; n.d. (bef. 1926). Copies by A. B. Ramsay, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1925. f. 31;-(2) Two translations into French and one into Spanish verse, by various hands, of 'If'; 1928, n.d. ff. 33b-38;-(3) Translation into Latin by Hubert Francis Honnywill of 'The Story of Uriah'; 1934. ff. 39-41. ff. 31-41. Bequeathed in 1940 with Add. MSS. 45540-45542, by Mrs Rudyard Kipling, and transferred from the Department of Printed Books. I. Letter from William Till, numismatist, to John Lee, LL.D., offering for sale a small collection of 'unpublished poetry and fabrications' by William Henry Ireland, the Shakespearean forger, procured from his widow, with a short priced list; 1836. For Shakespearean forgeries by Ireland formerly owned by Till see Add. MS. 37831. ff. 42-44. Presented by the British Records Association. K. Letter from Charles de Sousy Ricketts, R.A., to Robert Steele, Litt.D., concerning the health of Charles Shannon, R.A.; circ. 1929-1931. f. 45. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. L. Miscellaneous legal and other papers, 17th-18th centt. As follows:-

(1) Part of a rental of Hoxne and Chickering, co. Suff.; circ. 1600. f. 46;-

(2) Deed of Sale by Richard Bunting, gent., of goods and chattels of Philip Backing, deceased, forfeited to the Crown by reason of the latter's outlawry; 1601. f. 47;-(3) Papers of Anthony Carpenter, of Denshanger, co. Northt., rel. to the winding up of the estate of his father, William Carpenter; 1625- 1662. ff. 48-63b;-(4) Notes by William Byrche al. Birch, LL.D., Canon of Worcester 1727-1742, Of visitations of the diocese recorded in the episcopal registers 1282-1484; n.d. ff. 64-67b. ff. 46-67b. Transferred from the Director's Office, with Add. Ch. 71298, 71299, Detached Seal CLXXXVIII. M. Cypher message, in the form of a song, alleged to have been sent by a loyalist lady (? Jane Lane, afterw. Lady Clement Fisher) to Charles II at Boscobel. When the paper is folded longitudinally, the stems and tails of the notes form the words 'Conceal yourself, your foes look for you'. Copy, early 19th cent., by Ellen Lane. f. 68. Presented by Gerald Lawrence, Esq. Paper and (ff. 14-19) vellum; ff. 68. XIII-XX centt. Folio.