Add MS 37232 W

1. A. B. [i.e. Eustace Budgell] to [the editor of the Prompter]; 8 Feb. 173 5/6. At the end is a note of S[amuel] R[ichardson, the printer and novelist, forwarding it to the editor. f. 137.

2. Henry Fox [er. Baron Holland 1763] to [Welbore] Ellis [afterwards 1st Baron Mendip] about political appointments, the arrest of Admiral John Byng, etc.; Dec. 1755-15 Oct. 1761. Five letters. f. 140.

3. William Pitt [cr. Earl of Chatham 1766] to [Robert Darey, 4th Earl of Holdernesse], viz. (a) on the news from Prince Ferdinand [of Brunswick], who " seems to my judgement the man of all Europe made by nature and formd by experience and reflexion for a situation at which other heads might turn," and on cabinet disputes with the Duke of Newcastle, who " has according to his Grace's wonted nobleness of proceeding begun to make his court at my expence," etc.; Hayes, 3 Aug. 1758. f. 148 ;-(b) " on the great and glorious event of the 25th " [the battle of Zorndorff, 25 Aug. 1758] and on the command of a proposed expedition against Martinique or Goree: " Has Elliot learnt, in a bad school, to dislike Bucchaneering?" etc.; St. James's Square, Monday night [? 4 Sept. 1758]. f. 151.

4. William Windham, M.P., Secretary at War from 1794, to (a) [John Beresford, First Commissioner of Revenue in Ireland], in favour of a claim by Mr. Lukin, etc.: "We are continuing our armaments with -reat magnanimity, but against what enemy nobody knows"; 12 Aug. 1791. f. 153;-(b) To John Harvey, on the prospect of Spain becoming involved in the war, etc.; [1795-1796 ?]. f. 155.

5. William Wickham, upon his resignation of the chief-secretaryship for Ireland, to John Beresford; 14 Jan. 1804. With draft of reply, 18 Jan. 1804. f. 157.

6. Thomas Hood, the poet, to his sister-in-law Marianne [Reynolds]; [circ. 1824]. f. 159.

7. Charles Dickens to Miss Constance Cross, criticising and declining a story; 4 May, 1870. f. 161.

8. Armand [Jean du Plessis de Richelieu], Bishop of Lucon [afterwards Cardinal], to the Queen Mother [Marie de' Medici] on an occasion by which she " se peult rendre fondatrice d'un cousent [at Poitiers] sans quil luy couste aueune chose"; Coussay, 2 Sept. 1617. Sign,-d. f. 164.

9. Two poems of Jean Racine, viz. (a) Cantique Spirituel no. 1 (Euvres, ed. Mesnard, 1865, iv. p. 148), a fragment containing ll. 56-66, with the cancelled lines for stanza 11 and beginning of stanza 12 on the back (cf. the facsimile from the Paris MS. in the album of Mesnard's edition). The writing closely resembles the autograph, but is of doubtful authenticity. f. 167;-(b) " Hymne tireé (sic) du breviaire Romain, a Laudes" (Mesnard, iv. p. 123), a copy resembling that of the hymns; for vespers and matins in Add. MS. 21514, f. 47, the authenticity of which is doubted (see Mesnard, iv. p. 101). Signed " Racine." f. 168.

10. [Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de] Mirabeau, to -, on literary matters; 4 Dec. 1783. Fr. f. 169.