Add MS 50483

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; 9th-20th cent.

Paper and (article K) vellum; ff. 147. Folio.

A. Two letters of Charles Augustin de Sainte-Beuve to his cousin, Mme Aglaë Demont (b. 1812, d. 1890); 6 Mar. 1867, 16 Sept. 1868. French. Printed, with one omission and some changes of accents, in the Correspondance Générale, Paris, xvi, 1970, pp. 122-3, and xvii, 1976, p. 147, where their provenance is noted as the collection of Georges Grappe. Later owned by

C. F. I. Ramsden. Found in C.113.h.11, one of the books bequeathed by Ramsden to the British Museum. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books.

ff. 1-6.

B. Letter of Edward Jenner containing instructions in the use of his vaccine to T. Cobb of Banbury, co. Oxon., a patient of the donor's father; 10 Apr. [1800?]. Another letter from Jenner to Cobb is in the Jacobs Collection of the Johns Hopkins University. Presented by Miss C. H. Pemberton.

ff. 7-8b.

C. Papers of Henry Havelock Ellis; 1873-1877, n.d. (1) Letter to his sister, Edith; n.d. ff. 9-10b;- (2) Two sermons in Ellis's hand, possibly by the Rev. John Caillard Erck, Rector of Merton; 10, 17 Jan. 1873. ff. 11-16b;-

(3) Notes on his reading; 1874. Published, in part, by H. Peterson, Havelock Ellis Philosopher of Love, Boston and New York, 1928, pp. 32-3. ff. 17-30b;- (4) Letter of his sister, Louie, to Ellis; 6 Aug. 1877. ff. 31-32b. See also Add. MSS. 70524-70589. Bequeathed by Miss M. I. Ross.

ff. 9-32b.

D. Sketches for the second set of waltzes by Edward Moore Sheehan (d. 1936). Autograph. Presented by the composer's son, H. Sheehan, Esq.

ff. 33-43.

E. Letter of Charles François Gounod to Mrs Helen Wesché; 25 Apr. 1878. Presented by E. Croft-Murray, Esq., Keeper of Prints and Drawings, British Museum.

ff. 44-46.

F. Letter of John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, to Mrs Constance MacMurray relating to the Battle of Jutland; 15 Dec. 1932. See also Add. MSS. 48989-49057, 71553-71560. Presented by the recipient.

ff. 47-47b.

G. Letter of Arthur Davies to George Bernard Shaw asking if he believed in ghosts, with Shaw's answer written on the same sheet; 5, 21 Jan. 1949. Presented by the recipient.

ff. 48-49.

H. Nine letters of the Rev. Henry Thomas Forbes Duckworth, Professor of Ancient History at Trinity College, Toronto (b. 1868, d. 1927), mostly concerning politics, Ireland, Russia, to Carton Moore Park, painter (b. 1877, d. 1956); 17 Sept. 1918-4 Nov. 1921. Presented by H. Moorepark, Esq., son of the recipient.

ff. 50-77.

I. 'A Word Concerning the 1915 Reprint', printer's copy of the preface by George Bernard Shaw to a projected reprint of his Common Sense About the War, 1915, of which the British Library holds a proof copy (Cup.400.b.31); Nov. 1915. Typewritten, with autograph corrections. Followed (ff. 89-91) by two letters of Shaw to Clifford Sharp (b. 1883, d. 1935), Editor of the 'New Statesman', relating to the project, 1, 4 Dec. 1915, the second annotated (f. 91) by Rennie Byles (d. 1920), a publisher and business manager of the 'New Statesman', who bequeathed the documents to their former owner, Mrs P. M. C. Pearce. See also Add. MSS. 50669 A, B; 50770.

ff. 78-91.

J. Letter of Lieut. Henry Bowden Smith, 37th Regiment, to Richard Bowden Smith of the Temple, relating to India and Burma; 26 Feb. 1826. Presented by Mrs H. C. Harding.

ff. 92-93b.

K. Aldhelm, 'De Virginitate'; 9th cent. Latin. Fragment, comprising a single leaf corresponding to R. Ehwald, Aldhelmi Opera, M.G.H. Scriptores Antiquissimi, xv, 1919, p. 265, ll. 6-17; p. 266, ll. 1-12. Copies and fragments of this treatise are Eg. MS. 2889, f. 32; Royal MSS. 5 E. XI,

5 F. III, 6 A. VI, 6 B. VII, 7 D. XXIV; Sloane MS. 2764, f. 133b. For other fragments of the same manuscript, see Ehwald, op. cit.; E. A. Lowe, 'Disjuncta Membra', Revue Bénédictine, xxix, 1927, pp. 191-2; N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon, 1957, no. 12; Martin Breslauer, Catalogue 90 (1958), item 3, and H. P. Kraus, Catalogue 88 (1958), item 5. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books.

Vellum. ff. 94-94b. 188 x 130mm. Written area 146 x 109mm. Anglo-Saxon minuscule. Twenty-two lines. Single column. Dry point ruling on the flesh side (recto) with twenty-two double horizontal lines extending beyond two sets of two vertical framing lines. See J. Leroy, Les Types de Réglure des Manuscrits Grecs, Paris, 1976, type 20A1, p. 5. One line of pricking in the outer margin, and one complete and one half line (from the top) in the inner margin. Formerly used as the cover of John Jones, Our Saviour's Journey to the Gadarenes, 1615 (British Library, C.123.a.29).

L. Order by the Navy Commissioners for laying up H.M. yacht 'Mary' at Deptford; 25 Mar. 1685. Signed.

f. 95.

M. Documents relating to James Simpson, Russian and United States Consul at Gibraltar; 1788-1814. Found among the papers of Sir William Cecil Leys. (1) Instructions to him as Russian Consul; 31 Mar. 1788. Russian and translation. ff. 96-102b;- (2) Approbation by George III of his appointment as Russian Consul; 17 Dec. 1789. Signed by George III and William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville. Seal en placard. ff. 103-105b;-

(3) Letter of Manuel de Godoy, Principe de la Paz, to the Conde del Campo de Alange; 12 Nov. 1792. Spanish. Signed. ff. 106-107b;- (4) Letter of Simpson to Abu l-Qasim ibn Ahmad az-Zayyani; 20 Safar A.H. 1217

[22 June 1802]. Arabic. ff. 108-109b;- (5) Declaration made before [Simpson?] by Benjamin Rose, mariner, of the ship 'Charles' of New York, of his shipwreck and enslavement in Africa; 19 June 1814. ff. 110-114b. Fair copy. Presented by T. H. Leys, Esq., son of Sir W. C. Leys.

ff. 96-114b.

N. Letter of Jules Massenet to Giulio Cottrau (b. 1831, d. 1916) mentioning performances of his operas; 31 Jan. 1888. French. Supplements Add. MSS. 50262-50274. Presented by F. W. Hall, Esq., brother-in-law of G. Cottrau.

ff. 115-116.

O. (1) Letter and bill of Antoine Augustin Renouard (b. 1765, d. 1853) to Robert Triphook, bookseller; 17 June 1814. French. Signed. ff. 117-117b;- (2) Letter of the Rev. George Cecil Renouard (b. 1797, d. 1867) to John William Burgon (b. 1813, d. 1888) relating to the orange trees formerly at Beddington, co. Surr.; 15 Mar. 1838. Transferred from the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum.

ff. 117-119b.

P. Ten letters to Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington (b. 1737, d. 1807), and to his wife, Frances (d. 1830); [1790?]-1805, n.d. Included (f. 127) is a letter describing Nelson's death, from his chaplain, the Rev. Alexander John Scott, dated 'day after the Battle [22 Oct. 1805]'. Presented by Lord Ormathwaite.

ff. 120-131b.

Q. Letter of John Masefield, O.M., to the Music Room, British Museum, enquiring about musical settings of a ballad concerning whaling; 20 Oct. 1960. Transferred from the Music Room, Department of Printed books.

ff. 132-133.

R. Two leaves containing two suites, in tablature, for mandora; 17th-18th cent. ff. 134-135b. Formerly bound in British Library, Hirsch III. 326, a copy of Wolf Heckel, Lautten Buch von mancherley schönen vnd lieblichen stucken, Strasburg, 1562. Transferred from the Music Room, Department of Printed Books.

ff. 134-135b.

S. Letter of Mrs Maria Anne Fitzherbert (b. 1756, d. 1837) to – [Jackson?]; 16 May 1811. Imperfect. Formerly item 64 in an unidentified sale-catalogue (cutting, f. 137). Followed (f. 138) by a portrait of George IV, engraved by E. Scriven after Sir Thomas Lawrence. Presented by J. D. Gray, Esq.

ff. 136-138.

T. Letter of Samuel Birch (b. 1813, d. 1885), Keeper of Oriental Antiquities in the British Museum, to Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (b. 1821, d. 1885), then Inspector of the Monuments of Danish Antiquities asking for information on the antiquities department in the National Museum at Copenhagen; 1 May 1847. Typewritten copy of the original in the National Museum. Presented by Sir David Wilson, Director of the British Museum.

ff. 139-140.

U. Letter of Petr Ilich Tchaikovsky to Anna Yakovlevna Alexandrovna Levenson declining an invitation to compose nine marches for Mme Brenko; 15 Apr. 1881. Russian. Followed by an envelope (f. 144) inscribed by Mme Levenson to Harry Ore, 10 Nov. 1915, and an approximate translation by Harry Ore of the inscription and the letter (ff. 143, 145-147). Presented by Harry Ore, Esq.

ff. 141-147.