Add MS 50849

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; 14th cent.-1961.

Paper and (article B) vellum; ff. 177. Folio.

A. '4e Duo pour Alto et Violoncelle par François [Franz] Danzi' (ff. 1, 5); circa 1802. Parts. Three other duos for viola and 'cello by Danzi published Zurich, circa 1802. The viola part for that edition (Music Library press-mark g.421.ee.(2.)), acquired with the present MS. in Mar. 1961, formed items 45 to 47 in a bound volume: the manuscript parts of Duo 4 are numbered '48' in the same hand (ff. 1b, 5b). Owned by 'Mr. James Cazenove' (ff. 1, 5). Transferred from the Music Library.

ff. 1-7b.

B. Leaves from canon law and service books; 14th-15th cent. Five fragments removed from book-bindings. Latin. Small decorated initials on ff. 10, 10b. Presented by Glamorgan County Record Office.

Vellum. ff. 9-14.

C. 'Hark! Apollo strikes the Lyre' (f. 15), glee in E flat by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop for double chorus (originally SSS, SSTB, revised to SSA, SATB) with piano duet accompaniment; circa July 1842. Slightly imperfect at the end. Autograph presentation note to '[erased] from his sincere friend Henry R. Bishop. July-1842.' on f. 15. Followed (ff. 32-35b) by two copies of the vocal parts of an arrangement for trio (SSB). Published in the trio arrangement (SSB) in C, 1864. Notes for engravers, passim. Original arrangement, incorporating the present pencil revisions, published 1898. Presented by John Curwen and Sons, Ltd.

ff. 15-35b.

D. Two letters of Vincent Novello to Thomas Henry Severn; 14 Dec. 1841,

6 Sept. 1846. Originally part of an album. The first (f. 36) arranges to supply copies of his 'Madrigalian Work' for Severn's Thursday musical evenings. The second (f. 38) forwards copies for his choir from Novello's collection of 'little Chunes'. Presented by Sir Stanley Unwin through the Friends of the National Libraries.

ff. 36-38.

E. Two letters, etc., to John Harvey of Ickwell Bury from:- (1) Sir David Wilkie; 8 Mar. 1841. Preceded (f. 39) by a page from Wilkie's notebook with signatures testifying to the reading at the Dead Sea, 5 Mar. 1841. Includes barometer-readings taken at Beirut, Jaffa, Jerusalem and at the Dead Sea. ff. 39-41b;- (2) Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, relating to the commercial possibilities of Borneo and to the campaign against its pirates being conducted by Admirals Sir Edward Belcher and Henry Keppel; Sarawak, 12, 19 July 1843. ff. 42-47b. A leather case in which Wilkie's letter was formerly preserved is now kept separately as Add. MS. 50849*. Presented by Lt.-Col. J. L. Harvey, M.B.E., D.L., great-grandson of the recipient.

ff. 39-48.

F. Forgeries, etc.; 1831-1930, n.d. (1) Forged letter of Maj.-Gen. James Wolfe to Maj.-Gen. Jeffrey Amherst, Baron Amherst; Sept. 1759. f. 49;-

(2) Forged letter of Vice-Adm. Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson; 6 Oct. 1805 (watermark 1808). ff. 50-52;- (3) Papers relating mainly to an impersonator of George Cruikshank, artist and caricaturist, comprising:-

(a) a letter to Cruikshank from L. (cf. f. 55b) Campbell; 10 Dec.1831. ff. 53-54b;- (b) forged letter from Cruikshank to Campbell; 1831. ff. 55-56b;-

(c) report of Cruikshank's interview with – Halle [Thomas James Hall?], Magistrate of Bow Street; circa 1831. Accompanying the latter is an envelope (f. 59) bearing an inscription in the hand of the artist's wife, Eliza; n.d. ff. 57-59;- (d) watercolour sketch of a bonneted girl, bearing the forged signature of Cruikshank; n.d. f. 60. ff. 53-60;- (4) Forged letter of Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, to Catherine, wife of William Ewart Gladstone; 25 Oct. 1876. f. 61;- (5) Pen-and-ink drawing of a female figure in the manner of Aubrey Beardsley, described on the verso (f. 62b) by Rainforth Armitage Walker as 'a bad forgery'; n.d. f. 62;- (6) Forged notes by George Bernard Shaw; 1900. f. 63;-(7) Letters and newspaper-cuttings, etc., relating to forgeries; 1925-1930. Partly printed. Included (f. 64) is a letter from Thomas James Wise to Sidney Hodgson relating to a possible forgery of a Shelley manuscript; 22 Feb. 1925. ff. 64-71b. Presented by S. Hodgson, Esq., F.S.A.

ff. 49-71b.

G. Two accounts relating to the printing of octavo editions of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for Messrs Cadell and Davies;

15 July 1820, Apr. 1828. See J. E. Norton, A Bibliography of the Works of Edward Gibbon, 1940, p. 114, nos. 56 and 158. Presented by E. Howe, Esq.

ff. 72, 73.

H. Letter of Gen. Cipriano Castro, provisional President of Venezuela, to Arthur D. Thomas of the Bolivar Railway Co.; 3 May 1901. Spanish. Signed. Presented by J. K. Monk, Esq.

ff. 74-75.

I. Thirteen letters, etc., from an album; 1850-1872, n.d. (1) Three letters to Edward Charlesworth, geologist, from:- (a) James Scott Bowerbank, F.R.S.; 30 Apr. 1850. ff. 76-77b;- (b) William Yarrell, zoologist, written on paper made from straw; 16 Mar. 1854. ff. 80-81;- (c) Searles Valentine Wood, the elder, geologist; 23 Jan. 1872. ff. 83-84;- (2) Letter of Alexander Peter Buchan, M.D., to James Dinwiddie, LL.D., relating to Samuel Weller Singer's proposed publication of Buchan's dissertation on card games;

31 Aug. 1812. See also Singer's Researches into the History of Playing-cards, 1816, pp. 357-60. ff. 86-87;- (3) Letter of Charles Blomfield, Bishop of London, to Francis Freeling, Secretary to the General Post Office;

17 July 1827. f. 89;- (4) Letter of Joseph Gibbons Merle, Editor of The Courier;circa 1830. F. 92 is a biographical notice of Merle. ff. 91, 92;-

(5) Letter from John Docwra Parry to John Bowyer Nichols, printer, relating to the former's Guide to Woburn Abbey, 1831; 9 Jan. 1832. ff. 94-95;- (6) Letter from Gideon Algernon Mantell, F.R.S., to [David Thomas Ansted, F.R.S., Editor of The London Geological Journal?]; 16 Oct. 1848. ff. 97-98;- (7) Appeal by Signora Jessie Meriton Mario née White, for funds to found a newspaper to be entitled 'Thought and Action' in support of Italian emancipation; aft. Feb. 1858. Apparently autograph. Included

(f. 102) is a newspaper-cutting advertising her proposed address on 'Kossuth and Hungary' at Preston, co. Lancs., n.d., and (f. 101) the names of the officers of the Preston Branch Committee for aiding the emancipation of Italy. ff. 100-102;- (8) Letter of Richard Oastler, 'the Factory king', to John Bates, seeking distribution of copies of his letter to [William?] Walker;

5 Dec. 1855. ff. 104-105;- (9) Letter of Maria Theresa Longworth, authoress, signing herself Thérèse Yelverton; 18 Apr. 1865. ff. 107-108b;- (10) Letter of Alfred Wigan, actor, declining a manuscript play offered for performance at the Queen's Theatre; 14 July 1868. ff. 110-111;- (11) Letter of Sir William Jardine, 7th Bart., to Joel Rowsell, bookseller, relating to copies of Jardine's British Salmonidae, 1861; 16 Jan. 1873. ff. 113b-114. Presented by the City Art Gallery, Bristol.

ff. 76-114.

J. Letter of Sir Arthur Bliss, Master of the Queen's Music, to Alexander Hyatt King, of the British Museum Music Room; 20 May 1961. Transferred from the Music Library.

ff. 116-117.

K. Grievances of Sir Walter Aston of Tixall, co. Staffs., and of his tenants in the manor of Mayfield, co. Staffs., against Sir Thomas Cokayne of Ashbourne, co. Derbs., and his tenants in Mayfield; circa 1580-1589. Found in the Department of Manuscripts, and incorporated in accordance with the Trustees' Minute of 19 Apr. 1933.

ff. 118-119b.

L. Letters of:- (1) Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton, relating to the death of the addressee's son; 5 Aug. 1878. ff. 120-121;- (2) Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll') to Miss [Anne Harrison?] Symonds; 7 June 1883. Printed by M. Cohen in The Letters of Lewis Carroll, 1979, i, p. 496.

ff. 122-123. Presented in memory of Miss Joyce Mary Cook.

ff. 120-123.

M. Declaration of allegiance to Charles II by George Fox, the Quaker; aft. 1674. Copy. See A Journal of George Fox, 1694, i, p. 399. Stamped '143473' on the verso. Presented by Nahum N. Sarna, of the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York.

f. 124.

N. Songs and piano-music; circa 1856-aft. 1890, n.d. Copies, unless otherwise noted. (1) Setting by 'M. Coco' (written over an erased name) of 'Row on' by George Payne Rainsford James; circa 1856. Partly autograph. The text of the second to fifth stanzas inclusive of the poem is copied on writing-paper (f. 126) bearing the crest, motto and monogram of Edward Kater, F.R.S., of Mexborough, under whose initials this song was published in 1856. See Music Library H.1757.(21.). ff. 125-127;- (2) Setting by G. Herbert Bond of the ballad by Thomas Hood, the elder, 'It was not in the winter'; circa 1862. Published 1862. ff. 128-129;- (3) Chorus, for four male voices with piano accompaniment, 'Guten Morgen Herr Fischer', described as a 'Gesellschafts Lied'; circa 1864. Annotated on the title-page (f. 130) 'Souvenir de la partie du 1 Juin 1864(?) à la Solitude'. ff. 130-132;- (4) Setting by Charles John Bond, of Brighton, of verses entitled 'Present in absence' beg. 'Ah! when thou art near me'; 1869-1874. Autograph, with revisions in another hand. Notes on f. 134 record an agreement with a printer, 8 June 1874, and titles of other works by the same composer. ff. 134-137;- (5) Setting by 'Frances Allitsen' al. Mary Frances Bumpus of 'The Lute Player' by William Watson, beg. 'She was a lady'; aft. 1890. See F. Pazdírek, Universal-Handbuch der Musikliteratur, 1904-1910, i, p. 184. Ownership inscription 'Robt.

N. Roskell' on f. 138. ff. 138-141;- (6) Setting of verses beg. 'Oh! pourquoi donc sans cesse'; n.d. ff. 142-143;- (7) Two Neapolitan songs by Gennaro Prisco:- (a) 'La Serenata de Polecenella', beg. 'Nennella affacciate Nennella bella Polecenella'; n.d. ff. 144-145;- (b) 'La Sorrentina', beg. 'Io ti viddi a Piedigrotta'; n.d. ff. 146-147. ff. 144-147;- (8) Two Neapolitan songs:-

(a) 'Tarantella de Maccheroni', beg. 'Io son un poveretto'; n.d. ff. 148-149;- (b) 'Tiritomma', beg. 'Iett' abascio alla marina'; n.d. ff. 150-151;- (9) Piano arrangement of a 'Tarantella' annotated 'Sorrento' (f. 152); n.d. Imperfect at the end. ff. 152-152b;- (10) 'L'Aurora - Polka per P.forte da J[ohann] Strauss', the younger; n.d. Pazdírek, xxix, p. 1095, op. 165. Published in Berlin and Naples. ff. 154-155b;- (11) 'Hermesschwingen Walzer', five waltzes for piano by Fabian Rehfeld; n.d. Pazdírek, xxiv, p. 114, op. 8. Published Leipzig. ff. 156-158b. Presented by Miss N. Speed.

ff. 125-159.

O. Two carte de visite photographs of Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph, Prince Imperial of France, at full and half-length; circa 1870, 16 Mar. 1874. The latter is signed. Presented by Mrs A. M. Williams.

ff. 160, 161.

P. Watercolour sketches of artillery implements, etc., apparently by Major-General Henry Joseph Morris, R.A., whose initials appear in some of the sketches; aft. 1818 (watermark). Extracts from a treatise on military engineering. Presented by O. G. Wilkinson, Esq., grandson of Maj.-Gen. Morris.

ff. 162-177b.