Add MS 36456-36472

BROUGHTON PAPERS. General correspondence, political and private, of John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton;

1774-1867. The names of all the writers appear in the Index. Seventeen volumes. Paper. Folio.

The political correspondence follows closely the circumstances of Lord Broughton's public life, his election for Westminster and imprisonment, 1819-1820 (Vols. II., III.), the Queen's case, 1820-1821 (Vols. III., IV.), the French invasion of Spain, 1823 (Vol. V.), the Greek Committee, 1823-1829 (Vols. V.-X.), and his terms of office, chiefly at the Board of Control, 1832-1852 (Vols. XI.-XVII.). These latter volumes supplement the official correspondence in 36473- 36480 below. Among his principal correspondents are Francis Place, the Westminster agent, Sir Francis Burdett, and Lord Cochrane. In Vol. III. f. 254, is a letter from Comte de las Cases in 1820 after leaving St. Helena; in VoI. X. f. 92, an account of the Duke of Wellington's duel with Lord Winchilsea in 1829; in Vol. XIII. ff. 401-407, a memorandum by John Stuart Mill in 1838; in Vol. XIV. ff. 279-332, papers by Lord Palmerston on the attitude of Russia in Persia and Afghanistan in 1838; in Vol. XV. ff. 87-90, a memorandum by Thomas Love Peacock on Central Asia in 1838; and in Vol. XVI. ff. 211-218, a letter of Lord Palmerston on the attitude of France in Syria in 1839-1840. The private and literary correspondence contains frequent allusions to Lord Byron (v. Index under his name). Amoung them are:-

Vol. l., a playbill on H.M.S. " Salsette " in 1810, f. 18; a letter of J. W. Polidori in 1816, f. 337 ; a sketch by Hobhouse of an introduction to the Historical Illustrations, f. 425b;-Vol. II., Hobhouse to the Chev. de Brême, who maligned him to Byron on the score of the " Essay on Italian Literature" in 1818, f. 144; MSS. of "oevre rraioes rwv 'EXX@v(.)v" and a dramatic piece in Greek, the one wholly, the other in part, translated by Byron, ff. 152, 154; J. Murray, concerning alterations in Don Juan, f. 438;-

Vol. IV., J. Murray, concerning Hobhouse's translation of Silvio Pellico's Francesca da Rimini in 1821 (perhaps the one attributed to Byron), ff. 184, 186; a letter of Contessa Guiccioli in 1822, f. 307;-Vol. V., J. Hunt, concerning the publication of the last cantos of Don Juan in 1823, f. 169; J. Murray, concerning Conte Pietro Gamba's memoranda of Byron, f. 235;-Vol. VI., blackmailing letters concerning Lady Caroline Lamb in 1826, ff. 438, 499;-Vol. IX., correspondence between Thomas Moore and Hon. D. J. W. Kinnaird concerning the Life of Byron in 1828, ff. 259, 260;-

Vol. X., letters concerning the influence of C. S. Matthews on Byron, ff. 86, 88;-Vol. XI., J. Hanson, concerning the sale of Byron's copyrights in 1830, f. 18; letter concerning a box and papers of Byron left by Hou. D. Kinnaird at his death in 1830, f. 263;-Vol. XIV., If. 109-113, letters concerning the proposed burial of Byron in Westminster Abbey. In Vol. II. ff. 15, 58, 141, 338, Vol. III. f. 21, Vol. IV. ff. 198, 329, Vol. V. If. 207, 277, are letters of Ugo Foscolo. ]His papers did not, as was supposed, come into Hobhouse's hands [see Vol. X. f. 106; Vol. XI. ff. 81, 123 ; Vol. XVII. ff. 100, 100 b]. In Vol. VI. ff. 175, 237, are letters concerning the beleaguering of E. J. Trelawny by the Greeks in a cave on Mt. Parnassus in 1825.