Add MS 50143

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; 12th cent.-1958.

Paper and (article O) vellum; ff. 95. Folio.

A. Documents and letters; 1658-1795:- (1) Blank form of receipt from

Charles II for a loan of £200; Antwerp, 17 Feb. 1658. Signed. For a similar form of receipt, see Eg. MS. 2549, f. 136. f. 1;- (2) Letter of Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland to – Fisher; Harwich, 18 Oct. 1782. ff. 2-2b;- (3) Letter of William Frederic, Prince of Orange, King of the Netherlands 1815, addressed to 'Mr. Fischer by Mylord St. Helens'; Hampton Court, 8 Mar. 1795. French. Presented by Mrs N. Swinscow.

ff. 3-4b.

B. Statement by Sir James Gray, Bart., Envoy at Naples, recognizing his son and daughter; 9 Apr. 1763. Italian. Certified copy, with

(ff. 6-8) English abstract. Presented by B. E. Crawfurd, Esq.

ff. 5-8.

C. Letter of Ellen Terry to – Morley, enclosing information in letter form concerning her plan to finance a hospital bed for children from money gained through signing autographs; London, 8 May 1893. The enclosure is marked up for the printer, but no printed version has been traced. Presented anonymously.

ff. 9-21.

D. Letter of Inspector John Kearney, Royal Irish Constabulary, to James Beckett, C.I.E., relating to Sir Roger Casement; Letchworth, 5 May 1936. Presented by the recipient.

ff. 22-23b.

E. Letter of Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, K.B.E., former secretary to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, to John Cuming Walters, author and editor of the Manchester City News, concerning Rossetti's reasons for burying and exhuming his poems to his wife; Isle of Man, 1 Oct. 1928. An extract (ff. 29, 30) from the present letter was published in Time and Tide,

14 Mar. 1959. Presented by H. R. Williamson, Esq.

ff. 24-30.

F. Music found in the bindings of Add. MSS. 33633-33730 passim during rebinding:- (1) Aria for soprano in F major and in common time, with orchestral accompaniment in full score; 18th cent. Italian. Fragments.

ff. 31-32b;- (2) Music, possibly a sketch, in D major, probably for cello; late 18th cent. Fragment. f. 33.

ff. 31-33.

G. Letter of John Carne (d. 1844) to William Henry Bartlett (d. 1854), concerning Bartlett's difficulties over illustrations for the forthcoming third volume of Carne's Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, etc., London, 1838; Penzance, 12 Apr. 1837.

ff. 34-35b.

H. Certificate of provision of a substitute for militia service for John Winter Jones, Principal Librarian of the British Museum; 23 May 1831. Printed, with MS. additions. Presented by Maj. M. C. Nicholson.

ff. 36-36b.

I. Memorandum of an agreement made on behalf of the Naval Commissioners for Victualling, with Edward Gayner, merchant, of Rosas, Spain, for the supply of water to the Mediterranean Fleet; 2 Sept. 1804. Signed by Vice-Adm. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, as Commander-in-Chief.

ff. 37-38b.

J. Letter of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (d. 1846), religious writer; 19 Sept. 1845. Presented by Anthony Newham, Esq.

ff. 39-40b.

K. Verses by Sir Edmund William Gosse; 1873. Autograph. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books, having been presented in 1942 by Philip Gosse, Esq., M.D., son of the writer.

ff. 41-41b.

L. 'Beati pacifici', five elegiac couplets by Charles Ruggle of Trinity College, Cambridge 1624-1629, admitted to Gray's Inn [1632?]; temp. James I. Latin. Beg. 'Qui sibi charus erit'. The title alludes to the motto associated with James I. See D. H. Willson, King James VI and I, 1963, pp. 271-2. Found among printed works from the Holkham Hall Library. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books.

f. 42.

M. Letter of George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, to Sir Charles Lewis Tupper, K.C.I.E. (d. 1910), enclosing printed texts of the telegrams which passed between Lord Curzon and the India Office prior to Curzon's resignation as Viceroy of India; Simla, 20 Aug. 1905. A draft reply of Sir Lewis Tupper is at ff. 54-55b. Presented, on behalf of Mrs Margaret Ruth Gillian French, daughter of the recipient, by her son.

ff. 43-55b.

N. Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Fownes Somerville with Hector MacQuarrie, author (d. 1973); 30 Apr. 1941-27 Jan. 1944. Presented by the recipient.

ff. 57-81.

O. Vellum leaf containing a narrative of a martyrdom; [12?]th cent. Greek. Imperfect, now measuring 157 x 237mm. Presented by R. Ridgill Trout, Esq.

ff. 82-83b.

P. Letters of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., to:- (1) Dr Georg Heinrich Pertz (d. 1876), relating to his Monumenta Germaniae Historica; Middle Hill, 29 Dec. 1849. Autograph copy. Written on the back and first page of a letter to Phillipps from the English distributors of M. G. H., Williams and Norgate, booksellers; London, 26 Dec. 1849. ff. 84-85b;- (2) Williams and Norgate, in reply to the above; Middle Hill, 28 Dec. 1849. Autograph draft. ff. 86-89. Presented anonymously.

ff. 84-89.

Q. Letter of Charles John Cutliffe Wright Hyne (d. 1944), novelist and traveller, to [C. A. Pearson, Ltd.?], publishers; Bradford, 23 Aug. 1902. Presented by Florida State University.

ff. 90-90b.

R. (1) Letter of Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, dictated to his wife a week before his death on 25 Oct. 1957, to Professor Fulmer Mood of the University of Texas; 17 Oct. 1957. Signed. ff. 91-93;- (2) Letters of Beatrice (d. 1970), widow of the above, to Professor Mood;

8 Feb., 28 May 1958. ff. 94-95b. Presented by the recipient.

ff. 91-95b.