Add MS 46172

MISCELLANE0US LETTERS AND PAPERS, viz.:-

A. Letter from Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Italian statesman, to Nassau William Senior, economist, forwarding a publication of the Sardinian government on charitable institutions; 4 Jan. 1842. French. For another letter from Cavour to Senior, 1836, see A. J. Whyte, Early Life and Letters of Cavour, 1810-1848, 1925, p. 159. ff. 1-2. Presented, through the British Records Assoc iation, by the executors of Henry Robert Morgan, Esq. B. Survey by William Wright of lands of Sarah Wright (cf. Add. Ch. 71485) and Wallitt in Clayworth cum Wiseton, and Walkeringham, co. Nott., and in Hemingby, Sutton in the Marsh, Trusthorpe, and Coningsby, co. Linc.; 2, 4 Dec. 1713, n.d. ff. 3-12. Presented with Add. Ch. 71437-71490 and C below by Lt.-Commander G. C. L. Payne, R.N., to whom they were bequeathed by Harry Astley Roberts, Esq. (cf. Add. MSS 45963-45981, Add. Ch. 71434- 71436, described pp. 289-292, 422). C. Inventory of the household goods of Robert Dixon, of Gainsborough, co. Linc., lately deceased; 26 June 1751. ff. 13-29. Presented as B above. D. Bifolium (non-consecutive leaves) from a MS. of the Dialogi of St. Gregory the Great, containing Bk. iv, ch. xlviii-li (autem cogitationeapparuit ac si), lv-lvii (atque a peccato-ex alia nobis re quae). Cf. Migne, Patr. Lat. lxxvii, cols. 409-413. Vellum. 34O x 230 mm. 12th cent. Ruled with a stylus and written in Italy, double columns of 31 lines, with plain red initials, etc. Used as a binding for a copy of Boethius, De Consolatione, Lyons, circ. 1488 (press-mark IB.42307) that formerly belonged to the Franciscans of Stroncone, in Umbria. ff. 30-31. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. E. Letter from Philip Alexius Laszlo de Lombos (Philip de Laszlo), painter, to Campbell Dodgson, C.B.E., Keeper of Prints and Drawings, in the British Museum; 3 July 1928. ff. 32-33. Presented by the recipient. F. Three letters from Edmund William Gosse, poet and author (knt. 1925), to Sir [?Robert Arundell] Hudson; 1923-1924, n.d. ff. 34-36. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. G. Letters of Ellen Terry to G. B. Shaw; 1896-1904, n.d. Shaw's note of presentation

is at f. 37, and he has annotated ff. 44 and 44v. The first of Terry's letters is written

by an amanuensis and addressed 'Dear Julia', probably an allusion to the Julia mentioned

in Shaw's letter to Terry of 8 Sept. 1897, now at 71068, f. 109. See the editorial notes of C. St. John in the published Correspondence (1931), pp. 205, 251. Supplementing Terry's letters in 43800-43802 and in the published Correspondence. See also 71068 and Facs. 496.

Presented by Shaw in February 1945.

H. Transcript of Franz Joseph Haydn's Divertimento in E flat for horn, violin, and violoncello (1767) made from the autograph MS. when this was in the possession of Edward Speyer (d. 1934) by Eusebius Mandyczewski. Cf. A. van Hoboken, J. Haydn, Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis, i, 1957, pp. 465-466 (IV. 5). ff. 50-51b. Presented by Walter F. H. Blandford, Esq. I. Summons to the constables of the parish of St James, Westminster, to appear at Westminster Quarter Sessions; 19 Dec. 1837. Printed form, with MS. entries. f. 53. Presented by Philip U. Brassington, Esq. K. Letter from Captain George Anson Byron, 7th Baron Byron 1824, to Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, promising 'to take your young friend'; 1 May 1824. Presented to - 'by Col. H. de Watteville, a relation of Midshipman Knowles who sailed with Capt. Byron' in 1832 (f. 56). ff. 54-56. Transferred from the Department of Oriental Antiquities and Ethnography. L. Fragments of miscellaneous accompts relating to the farming of aids, etc., within the diocèse-élection of Paris; 1417-1442, n.d. Included are accompts of disbursements to 'canoniers' during the siege of the city 1417- 1418 (f. 64), and for the carriage of wood for the fortifications by boat (f. 67). Taken from the binding of Epistole Francisci Philelfi etc., [Paris, 1505?] (press-mark 1082.e.13(1)). ff. 57-72. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. M. Miscellaneous personal papers, certificates, etc., of:-(a) Nicholas Loney, British Vice-Consul at Iloilo, Philippine Islands; 1853-1865. ff. 73-

85;-(b) Henry Nicholas Loney, merchant, of Batavia, Consul for Siam at Surabaya, Java, from 1906; 1898-1906. Dutch and Siamese (with Engl. transl.). ff. 86-92. Presented by Mrs A. M. Huff. N. Four further leaves from the notebook of Lucy Hutchinson, daughter of Sir A. Apsley and widow, of Col. John Hutchinson (d. 1664), M.P., Governor of Nottingham, of which the main part is now Add. MS. 25901, and other detached leaves are Add. MS. 39779, ff. 42-47, and in Nottingham Castle Museum (see Thoroton Soc. Trans., xviii, 1914, pp. 35-66). Autograph. The present leaves, corresponding to pp. 100-105 of her printed Memoirs, ed. Rev. J. Hutchinson, 1806 (ed. C. H. Firth, 1906, pp. 96-100), were given by Mrs Anne D. B. Montagu to Miss Dinah Maria Mulock, afterw. Mrs Craik, the novelist, in 1854 (see the covering letter in National Library of Scotland MS. 3218 (xiv), f 75-77). They passed subsequently into the collection of Alan Park Paton (d. 1905), as part of which they became National Library of Scotland MS. 3218 (xiv), ff. 78-81. ff. 93-96. Presented by the National Library of Scotland. 0. Two letters from Coventry Patmore, poet, to James John Garth Wilkinson, Swedenborgian; 1891, 1892. Printed by C. J. Wilkinson, James John Garth Wilkinson: a Memoir, 1911, pp. 207-208. ff. 98-101. Presented by the recipient's grand-daughter, Mrs Florence Pertz. P. Letter to the Board of Ordnance from the Committee of the Royal Society appointed to visit the Royal Observatory, Greenswich, reporting on the latter's requirements; 13 May 1714. Signed by the Committee's seven members who included Francis Robartes, Vice-President, and Sir Hans Sloane. Printed by F. Baily, Account of the Rev. John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, 1835, pp. 307-308. Belonged to Sir Thomas Barlow 1st Bart. f. 102. Presented by Miss Helen A. D. Barlow. Q. Letter from Henri Frédéric Amiel, Professor of Moral Philosophy at Geneva, to Dr - concerning books on painting in water-colour; 23 Oct. 1867. French f. 103. Presented by V. Fodone, Esq. R. Miscellaneous papers, letters, accompts, etc., from the neighbourhood of Cambrai and Douai, dépt. Nord, in France, in part relating to the Cistercian abbey of Flines; early 16th cent. Mainly fragments. Taken from the binding of Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, Louvain, 1484 (press-mark IB.49172), ff. 105- 120. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. S. (1) Letter from Joseph Chamberlain, statesman, as Secretary of State for the Colonies, to John Edward Ellis, M.P., concerning his attitude to Cecil Rhodes; 14 Oct. 1897. Printed in the donor's Life of J. E. Ellis, 1914, pp. 157-158. ff. 121-122;-(2) Letter from James Bryce, Viscount Bryce 1914, to the donor, consenting to contribute a preface to this book; 14 Nov. 1913. ff. 123-124. Presented by Arthur Tylney Bassett, Esq., O.B.E. T. Abstract of title to the manors of East Winch, Carrow in East Winch, etc., co. Norf., reciting deeds, etc., 1619-1737; 18th cent. ff. 125-136. Presented, with Add. MSS. 46146-46150 (pp. 322-323 above), 46172 U-W below, Add. Ch. 71497-71756 (pp. 423-425 below), by Harry Norman, Esq. U. Accompt of rents received by Thomas Farington from the estate of Sir Edward Betenson, 2nd Bart. (d. 1733), in Greenwich marshes; 1744. f. 138. Presented as T above. V. Trade-card of John Gibson, nightman, at the Horse & Cart, Leicester St., London, endorsed with notes of accompts for work done by him 1753- 1756; n.d. Engraved (250 mm. x 195 mm.). f. 139. Presented, as T above. W. Estimate for upholsterer's work at Buckingham Palace, mainly on the throne; n.d. (watermark 1845). ff. 140-144. Presented, as T above. X. Letters from Millicent Garrett Fawcett, D.B.E. 1925 (ff. 145-146), Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (ff. 147-148, signed), and Henry Waltord Davies, K.C.V.0. 1937 (ff. 149-150) addressed to Alfred Robert Dryhurst, I.S.O., of the British Museum, or his wife Mrs Hannah Florence Dryhurst; 1906-1936. For other letters so addressed see Add. MSS. 45498 0, 45680 R (pp. 183, 218 above). ff. 145-150. Presented by A. R. Dryhurst, Esq. Y. (1) Letter from George Cruickshank, caricaturist, to Joseph Gibbs, consenting to stand godfather to his son; 1849. ff. 151-153;-(2) Letter from Mrs Mary Elizabeth Maxwell ('Miss Braddon'), novelist, d. 1915, to Miss-Gibbs, inviting her to visit Richmond; 19 Aug., n.d. ff. 154-155. Presented by Mrs Morshead Baker. Paper and (art. D) vellum; ff. 155. Folio.