Add MS 36524 A-F

MISCELLANEOUS original letters, etc.:-

A. "' 0! ye roses so blooming and fair,' a six-part madrigal composed by R[obert] L[ueas] de Pearsall" (d. 1856). f. 1. Presented by William Barclay Squire, Esq. B. Two letters to [Thomas Pelham, 2nd] Earl of Chichester, from: (1) Col. Sir C[harles] W[illiam] Pasley, enclosing a book printed by him, " but not intended to be published "; Chatham, 25 Oct. 1825. f. 7; - (2) [William Thomas] Fitzgerald, begging his acceptance of a copy of his Napoleonics; London, 6 June, 1814. f. 8. Presented by the Earl of Chichester. C. Baron Ferdinand von Mueller to John Reid, on botanical subjects; 6 Dec. 1888,4 Apr. .1890. 9,11. Presented by John Reid, Esq. D. Letters, etc., relating to the Bentham family, viz. : (1) Joseph Bentham, D.D., rector of Stevenage, to his son Anthony, giving particulars of the family, etc.; 3 May, 1714. Contemp. copy (cf. Add. 33553, f. 10). f. 13;-(2) Jeremy Bentham, sen., to his grand-mother, Rebecca Bentham; Baghurst, 3 Jan. 1752[3]. f. 17 ;-(3) Rebecca Bentham to Grove; [Barking], 21 May [1760]. f. 19;-(4) The same to her son; 12 Aug [1760]. f. 21 ;-(5) J[oseph] Priestly, LL.D., to Jeremy Bentham, jun., on the generation of air, etc. ; Calne, 16 Dec. 1774. f. 23 ;-(6) Jeremy Bentham, jun., to John Far Abbot; Zadobras, near Cricholff, 12 Sept. 1787. f. 25;-(7) The same to his brother, Sir Samuel Bentham; Barrow Green, near Oxted, 29 Sept. 1809. f. 27;-(8) Account of Thomas Bentham, Bishop of Liehfield and Coventry (d. 1579), from Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses, 1691. f. 29. Presented by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, K.C.S.I. E. Pope Plus IX. to Napoleon III., in answer to the latter's proposal that the Pope should cede Romagna to Piedmont; 10 Jan. 1860. Ital. Holograph draft. (See Pontificate of Pius the Ninth, by J. F. Maguire, M.P., 1870, pp. 378, 379). f. 31. F. 1. Charles Townley (d. 1805) to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, on matters connected with the British Museum; 3 May [1800}-19 June, 1803. Three letters. fF. 33, 34, 35.

2. John Townley (d. 1813) to his nephew [? Edward Townley- Standish], on the proposed purchase of the Townley Marbles for the British Museum; Devonshire Place, 23 May, 1805. f. 36. Paper; ff. 37. Folio.