Add MS 39927

MISCELLANEOUS letters and papers, from the collections of Sir Edward Tyas Cook, successively Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, Westminster Gazette, etc., viz.

1. Two poems of George Meredith, -viz. : (a) Sonnet on the death of Robert Browning, beg. " Now dumb is he who waked the world to speak," first printed in the Pall Mall Gazette, 14th Dec. 1889, and afterwards in Collected Works, vol. xxxi, 1898, p. 288, and Memorial Edition, vol. xxvi, 1910, p. 268. A facsimile of the MS. was issued in the Pall Mall Budget, 19 Dec. 1889, p. 1623. Holograph. Preceded (f. 1) by a covering letter to [W. T.] Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, 13 Dec. [1889]. f. 2 ;-- (b) " The Labourer," beg " For a Heracles in his fighting ire"; first printed, with an alteration in the last line of verse 1, in the Westminster Gazette, 6 Feb. 1893, p. 10, and afterwards in Last Poems, 1909, p. 15, Collected Works, vol. xxxiii, 1910, p. 210, and Memorial Edition, vol. xxvi, 1910, p. 87. Holograph, with proof. Preceded (f. 3) by a letter to [E. T.] Cook, 3 Feb. 1893, and followed (f. 7) by a letter to the same, 10 Feb. 1893, correcting a misprint and suggesting some further alterations; the misprint (' white ' for ' while,' in the last line of verse 1) was not corrected until the Memorial Edition, and the further alterations have not been made. f. 4.

2. Poems of Sir William Watson, holograph, viz. :- (a) " France, 25 June 1894," on the assassination of President Carnot, beg. " Lighthearted heroine of tragic story " ; printed in the Westminster Gazette, 26 June 1894, p. 1, and in The Poems of William Watson, 1905, vol. ii, p. 46. f. 9 ;-

(b) " Sonnet. On the Expulsion of Ahmed Riza by the French Government," beg. " When, from supreme disaster, France uprose." Printed in The Year of Shame, 1897, p. 61, no. xxi ; Collected Poems, 1899, p. 250. f. 10 ;-

(c) "To our Sovereign Lady," beg. " Queen that from Spring to Autumn of Thy reign," printed in The Year of Shame, p. 65, no. xxiii ; Collected Poems, 1899, p. 252. f. 11 ;-

(d) " Weary," beg. " Oh we are weary of the courtly ways," printed in an altered form in The Year of Shame, p. 70, no. xxv; Poems, 1905, vol. ii, p. 80. f. 12 ;-

(e) " To the Earl of Rosebery, after his Speech at Edinburgh on Armenia " [? 9 Oct. 1896], beg. " My Lord: as one not found among the mute." f. 13;-

(f) " The Three Neighbours," beg. " Jack, and his brother Sandy, long had been"; printed in The Hope of the Wor1d, 1898, p. 77. At the end is a corrected version of the third stanza. f. 14.

3. Two letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne to [E. T.] Cook, dat. 15, 24 Aug. [1908], followed by proofs of pp. xlv-li of the introduction to vol. xxxvi (Letters, i, 1827-1869) of The Works of Ruskin, Library Edition, ed. Cook and Wedderburn. The second letter relates to a passage in the proofs (see f. 27), which was subsequently deleted. ff. 20, 24.

4. Letters replying to questions submitted by the Pall Mall Gazette on the subject of the Hundred Best Books, viz. :-(a) Matthew Arnold, to the acting editor, 13 Jan. 1886. f. 30;-

(b) [John Duke Coleridge, lst Baron] Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice, 22 Jan. 1886. Printed in Pall Mall Gazette, 29 Jan., p. 4. f. 31 ;-

(c) Henry Irving, 13 Jan. 1886. f. 33;-

(d) Henry James, 21, 23 Jan. [1886] ff. 34, 36 ;-

(e) Prof. B[enjamin] Jowett, 14 Jan. 1886. f. 38 ;-

(f) Sir Francis Knollys, afterwards Viscount Knollys, for [Albert Edward,] Prince of Wales, 15 Jan. 1886. f. 39;-

(g) Sir Frederic, afterwards Baron, Leighton, P.R.A., 30 Jan. 1886. f. 41 ;-

(h) Dr. [afterwards Sir] William Smith, lexicographer, 15 Jan. 1886. f. 43;-

(i) Henry Morton Stanley, the explorer, to E. T. Cook, 1 Oct. 1891. f. 45 ;-

(k) A. C. Swinburne, - Jan., 24 Jan., 26 Jan., 1886. Printed in Pall Mall Gazette, 26 Jan., p. 1 ; 27 Jan., p. 4. ff. 47, 51, 53;-

(l) Viscount Wolseley to Charles Morley, 30 Jan. 1886. Printed in Pall Mall Gazette, 2 Feb. 1886, p. 1. f. 55.

5. Letters of (a) Arthur Hugh Clough to [Florence Nightingale, 16 Feb. 1859, according to pencil note]. Printed in E. T. Cook, The Life of Florence Nightingale, 1913, vol. i, p. 494. f. 57;-(b) Florence Nightingale to J. S. Mill, dat. 11 Aug. 1867. Draft. Printed op. cit. ii, pp. 216-217, with partial facsimile. f. 59.

6. Letters, etc., of William Ewart Gladstone, viz. :- (a) Note to the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, with copy (imperf.), for publication, of a letter to a correspondent, dat. 21 Apr. 1887. Printed in the Pall Mall Gazette, 21 Apr., p. 8. f. 63 ;-

(b) Letter to the same, 5 Feb. 1891. f. 66 ;-

(c) Sheet of notes used in the House of Commons when introducing the Home Rule Bill of 1893. Autograph, with note by Sir E. T. Cook. f. 68 ;-

(d) Letter to E. T. Cook, 18 Dec. 1895. f. 69 ;-

(e) Letter to the Editor of the Daily News, with paragraph for publication, 1 Jan. 1896. f. 72 ;-

(f) Letter to E. T. Cook, 2,5 May 1896. f. 75. Paper ; ff. 76. Quarto. Bequeathed by Sir E. T. Cook.