Add MS 47663

MISCELLANE0US LETTERS AND PAPERS, viz.:-

A. (1) Order by Charles II 'for the better regulateing the Band of Gentlemen Pensioners' (endorsement, f. 2b); 6 Apr. 1677. Copy. A précis, from S. P. Dom., Entry Books 40A, f. 196, is in State Papers Domestic, 1677- 1678, 1911, pp. 78-79. ff. 1-2b;- (2) Three letters addressed to William Waldegrave (knt. 1688), M.D., Physician to the Duke of York; 10 Feb., 10 Sept. 1681, n.d. ff. 3-7b;-(3) Two letters from Henry Etough to John Stevenson, of Newton, near Cambridge, partly relating to the battle of Fontenoy; 20, 25 July 1745. Stevenson is noted in Victoria County History, Cambridgeshire, 1948, ii, p. 86. ff. 8-10b. ff. 1-10b. Presented by Gustav Norris, Esq., M.D. B. Letter from Howard Phillips Lovecraft, American author, to Richard Ely Morse, American librarian; 27 Feb. 1933. f. 11. Presented by Professor T. O. Mabbott. C. Sonnet, 'In the Reading Room of the British Museum', by Louise lmogen Guiney, American author; aft. 1889-1893. Autograph. Printed in her A Roadside Harp, 1893, p. 59. f. 12. Presented by J. E. Alden, Esq. D. Cropped vellum leaf, now measuring 170 mm. x 120 mm., from a Sarum Processional, containing the antiphon 'Anima mea liquefacta est', etc.; circ. 1400. Printed in Processionale ad Usum . . . Sarum, ed. W. G. Henderson, 1882, pp. 131, 132, 154. See also Harley MSS. 2942, ff. 85-87, and 2945, ff. 88-89. Initials, rubrics, etc., in red and blue with penwork. Removed from the binding of a printed book acquired circ. Oct. 1948. f. 13. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. E. Two receipts for payments for drawings, both probably to James R. Wheeler; one, by Frederick Nash, for a drawing of the interior of Westminster Abbey, 24 June 1811, the other by J. W. M. Turner, 4 Aug. 1817. ff. 14, 15. Presented by E. W. Nicholls, Esq. F. Nine letters to William Lovett, the Chartist, mostly from Members of Parliament, including John Bright, Richard Cobden, and Joseph Hume; 12 Oct. 1837-8 July 1843, n.d. Preceded (f. 16) by a single letter from William Thompson, of Cork, economist, to Jasper Veysey, of Exeter, 13 Sept. 1826. ff. 16-29. Presented by Henry Emanuel, Esq. G. Two conjoint vellum leaves, circ. 1200, removed from a binding, the first measuring 205 mm. x 150 mm., the second imperfect, containing parts of two sermons:-(1) Relating to 4 Kings v. f. 30;-(2) 'In purificacione beate uirginis', beg. 'Postquam impleti sunt [Luke ii. 22] ... Ponatur gallice'. f. 30b. Latin, with a few words in French. Title and initial in red with penwork. ff. 30-31b. Presented by Mrs Hosken, through the British Records Association. H. Sermon (with corrections) preached at Lincoln's Inn on Romans xii. 6, by William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester, 18 Nov. 1759, together with (f. 44) a letter of the Bishop, 31 July 1765. Autograph. Came into the possession of the Rev. Francis Kilvert (d. 1863) through Martin Stafford Smith, Warburton's chaplain at Prior Park (see notes on f. 32 by Smith and Kilvert, n.d., and Kilvert's widow, Adelaide, 1 Feb. 1866). For another sermon by Warburton from the same source, see Add. MS. 46184. ff. 32-45. Presented by E. D. Lewis, Esq., through the British Records Association. I. Letter from the Rev. Sydney Smith to William Blake, F.R.S.; 7 May 1841. Not included in The Letters of Sydney Smith, ed. N. C. Smith, 1953. ff. 46-47b. Presented by H. R. Holmes, Esq., through the Friends of the National Libraries. J. Letter from Augustus Wollaston Franks (K.C.B. 1894), Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities, British Museum, to Sir David - ; 12 Feb. 1877. ff. 48-49b. Presented by R. E. Hone, Esq. K. Signed letter from Eduard Beneš, President of the Czechoslovak Republic, 20 Apr. 1944, to Professor L. B. Namier (knt. 1952), giving an account of Polish-Czechoslovak relations from 1933 to 1938, and enclosing duplicated copies of state papers in Czech (with English translations) and French, relating to the surrender of Teschen to Poland by Czechoslovakia, 21 Sept.-1 Nov. 1938. Typewritten. Published by Professor Namier in Europe in Decay, 1950, pp. 281-307. ff. 50-83. Presented by the recipient. L. Vellum leaf, cropped and now measuring 160 mm. x 110 mm., removed from the binding of a book published in Antwerp in 1535, and containing the end of the Life of St Gregory, in French verse, late 13th cent., and (f. 84b) a penitential prayer in English rhyming couplets, beg. 'swete ihesu crist to Þe', late 14th cent. Followed (f. 85) by a letter from F. J. Furnivall, 9 Sept. 1896, to the Rev. J. R. Burton, relating to the publication of the prayer in Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, xcviii, 1897, pp. 129- 130, and two letters of Carleton Brown, 28 June, 2 July 1915 (ff. 86-89b) relating to its inclusion in his Register of Middle English Verse, i, 1916, p. 460, ii, 1920, p. 309. The text of the Life resembles that of Egerton MS. 612, ff. 75-96, published by G. J. Telger, Die altfranzösische Gregoriuslegende nach der Londoner Handschrift, 1933, and corresponds to lines 1941-2034 (less lines 1983-1985, 2018, 2019) of the printed text. See also M. Roques in Romania, lxxvii, 1956, pp. 1-25, lxxviii, 1957, pp. 100-104 (where the present fragment is printed in full). ff. 84-89b. Presented by Prebendary H. J. C. Burton, and Canons H. P. W. Burton and C. J. Rust, executors of Prebendary J. R. Burton (d. 1939). M. Letter of introduction from George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Foreign Secretary, to Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, Ambassador to France, 12 Aug. 1829, enclosing a letter from Henry Ellis (K.H. 1833), Principal Librarian of the British Museum, relating to a visit by Ellis to Baron de Joursanvault, of Château Pommard, near Beaune, which resulted in the purchase from the Baron in January 1831 of Add. Ch. 232- 505. Other material from the same collection is now Add. Ch. 1397-1516 and 2028-4578, and Add. MSS. 11553-11545. See Catalogue Analytique des Archives de M. le Baron de Joursanvault, 2 vols., 1838, and A. Vallet de Viriville in Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, 2nd ser., iii, 1846, pp. 110- 147. The letters are paginated from 457 to 464. ff. 90-93. Presented by Miss W. A. Myers. Paper and (artt. D, G, L) vellum; ff. 93. Folio. XIII cent.-- 1944