Add MS 46912

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS, viz.:-

A. Letter from the Rev. Benjamin Jowett, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, to - relating to the Codex Sinaiticus; 1 Aug. [watermark 1859]. ff. 1-2. Presented by the Rev. Harold Oldfield Parnell. B. Receipt by John Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at Aberdeen, to John Ward, Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, for eighty copies in sheets of Stewart's Sir Isaac Newton's Two Treatises of the Quadrature of Curves ... translated into English, with a larg Commentary, 1745; 19 Mar. 1747/8. For other correspondence between Stewart and Ward concerning this publication see Add. MSS. 6212, ff. 62-66b, 69; 6226, ff. 73, 73b, 80. f. 3. Presented by Thomas Loveday, Esq., LL.D. C. Letter from Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland to N[athanael?] Taylor, [?Naval Storekeeper at Malta], on political matters, etc.; 13 Jan. 1805. ff. 5-6b. Presented by Thomas Herbert Russell, Esq. D. Two letters to Thomas Winter Wood, poet and author, from:-

(1) Eliza Cook, poet, accepting his dedication to her of [ The Bedouin and other poems, 1852]; 8 Jan. 1852. ff. 7-8b;-(2) Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot, thanking Wood for sending a book which he has not received; 3 May 1870. Signed. French. The book was probably Mabeldean, 1869, written by Wood under the pseudonym 'Owen Gower' with an apothegm of Garibaldi on the title-page. f. 9. Presented by Mrs Lilian E. Strong. E. Memorandum of the plan of encampment at Coxheath, near Maidstone, co. Kent, with a note from Captain Neil Campbell, Assistant-Quarter- Master-General of the Southern District; 26 July 1804. Copy. For a view, 1804, of the camp, which figured in defence plans against possible French invasion, cf. Add. MS. 32367, f. 43. ff. 10-10b. Presented by Stanley H. Ward, Esq. F. Grant by John IV, King of Portugal, of 'foro de fidalgo' to Hieronimo Nunes da Costa, his agent in Amsterdam; 16 Oct. 1646. Signed 'El Rey'. Portuguese. Seal en placard. ff. 11 - 11 b. Presented by Francis N. da Costa, Esq. G. Letter from Colin Whitton McCallum, al. 'Charles Coburn', comedian, to Captain Percy D'Evelyn Marks, C.M.G., C.B.E., concerning Coburn's billing in a forthcoming show; 22 Nov. 1919. f. 12. Presented by Percy L. Marks, Esq. H. Two letters to Thomas Grenville, statesman and bibliophile, from:-(1) Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, concerning a paper sent to him by Lord Grenville; 17 Jan. 1811. ff. 13-14b;-(2) William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, his brother, concerning the King's health, and the Irish proclamation; 6 Aug. 1811. ff. 15-18b. For further related correspondence of Thomas Grenville cf. Add. MSS. 41851-41859, particularly 41853, 41858. See also Add. MSS. 58880-58890 and Hist. MSS. Comm., Report on the Manuscripts of J. B. Fortescue, Esq., preserved at Dropmore, x, 1927, pp. 107-111, 160-161. Presented by Sir Tresham Joseph Philip Lever, 2nd Bart. I. Leaf from an unidentified treatise on astrology, with a coloured diagram 'Generalis celi figura' (f. 19b) dated 1513. Latin. Text on recto beg. 'Vt omnes celi domos artificialiter ac magistraliter'; on verso beg. 'Quamuis haut pauci huius Astrologiae professionis experti'. Paper. 305 mm.× 207 mm. Written in a single column with 38 lines to the page. The hand and watermark (cf. Briquet, Les Filigranes, 1968, 'Couronne', no. 4924) suggest a German provenance. Decorated initials. ff. 19-19b. Presented by Sir Charles Sherrington, O.M. J. Fragment of a leaf from a Lectionary containing parts of the Epistle of James ii. 8-iv. 11; written in England, mid 15th cent. Latin. Text on recto beg. 'bene facitis' (ii. 8); on verso beg. '[domi]ta sunt a natura' (iii. 7). Vellum. 220 mm. × 267 mm. Written in two columns. Decorated initial. ff. 20-20b. Presented by Messrs. Finch, Turner and Taylor, solicitors, through the British Records Association. K. Letter from William Holman Hunt, artist, to Thomas Woolner, sculptor and poet, mentioning Ruskin, Turner's drawings, Edward Lear and some of the Pre-Raphaelites; 10 Sept. 1852. ff. 21-23. Presented by Miss Phyllis Woolner. L. Two letters from Sir Roger David Casement, C.M.G., to officers of the Anti-Slavery Society, viz:-(1) Henry Richard Fox Bourne, about German atrocities in the Cameroons; 7 Feb. 1894. ff. 24-29;-(2) John H. Harris, Organising Secretary, written from Brixton Prison while Casement was awaiting trial for treason; 11 June 1916. ff. 30-31. M. Letter from Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, to F. Dolmer giving his opinion of Beethoven's ninth symphony and Wagner's 'Meistersinger'; 26 Jan. 1901. f. 32. Presented by Herbert E. Friend, Esq. N. Letter from Samuel Alexander, O.M., philosopher, to Laurie Asher Lawrence, F.R.S.A. (Ireland), Editor of The British Numismatic Journal, acknowledging his congratulations (? on the award of the O.M.); 12 June 1930. ff. 33-34. Presented by the recipient. O. Letter from Charles Gore and Paggen Hale, M.P.s for co. Hertf., to Richard Tristram, attorney, of Hitchin, relating to proposed amendments to the Act restricting the use of carriages with narrow wheels, [26 George II, c.

30]; 28 Jan. 1755. Signed. ff. 35-36b. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. P. Letter from Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., commander of the Mediterranean Fleet, to -, giving instructions for the transport of a sphinx belonging to the British Museum from Alexandria to Malta; 3 May 1839. Signed. With a letter (f. 38), from Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, 15 Nov. 1949, relating to the possible identification of the sphinx probably still in Egypt. ff. 37-38. Presented by Messrs. Myers and Co. (Booksellers) Ltd. Q. (1) Two letters from Thomas Jonathan Wooler, Editor of The Black Dwarf, to Thomas Clarke, President of the Incorporated Law Society 1849-1850, about Wooler's prospects in law; 23 Oct. 1824, 8 May 1825. On 24 January 1825 Wooler was refused admission as a student to Lincoln's Inn. ff. 39-42b;-(2) Writ to summon the jury, 19 May 1817, and list of jurors endorsed with the verdict 'Guilty', in the first of Wooler's two trials for libel on 5 June 1817. Wooler questioned the unanimity of the verdict and a fresh trial was granted. See A Verbatim Report of the Two Trials of Mr. T. J. Wooler, 1817. ff. 43-44b. Found in a copy of 'The Black Dwarf' and transferred from the Department of Printed Books. R. Commission of Sir Edward Seymour, 2nd Bart., to Robert Saverie of Slade, appointing him captain of a foot company in his regiment; 1 June 1634. Signed. Seal. Paper. Pen-work initial. f. 45. Presented by Gerald Hume Saverie Pinsent, Esq., C.B., C.M.G. S. Specimens of different scripts, with explanatory notes, taken from inscriptions at or near Persepolis. Headed 'An exact draught, or copey of the severall Characters engraven in marble att the Mountaines of Nockturestand [Naksh-i- Rustam], and Chahelmanar [Persepolis] in Pertia, as itt was taken in November. 1667. per S.F.'[i.e. Stephen Flower, agent of the East India Company at Gombroon]. Autograph. The specimens are taken from the following:- (1) The bilingual (Pahlavi and Greek) inscriptions on the relief of Ardashir I, founder of the Sassanian dynasty (A.D. 224-241) at Naksh-i- Rustam. For the texts see E. Herzfeld, Paikuli, Berlin, 1924, p. 85;-(2) The Cufic inscription of 'Adud al-Daulah, the Buwaihid Amir, at Persepolis, A.H.

443 = A.D. 955. Published by Herzfeld, op. cit., p. 125;-(3) Cuneiform signs. According to a letter (f. 48) from Cyril John Gadd, Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, 7 June 1950, some individual signs are identifiable as Old Persian, but the whole does not make any connected sense. Complete texts of (1) and (2) above were published, from Flower's papers, in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, xvii, 1693, pp. 775-777 and plate (cf. Sir E. A. W. Budge, The Rise and Progress of Assyriology, 1925, p. 19) but the wording of the explanatory notes is somewhat different from that of the present manuscript. This publication also includes a selection of cuneiform signs quite different from those given here. f. 46. Preserved with and formerly attached to Flower's manuscript is a copy (f. 47), in a different hand, of the Ardashir inscriptions, in both languages, but there is nothing to show by whom or at what time the two documents were so connected. ff. 46-48. Transferred from the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. Paper and (artt. J, Q) vellum; ff. 48. Folio.