Add MS 38510 E

1. Correspondence of Capt. William Mathew, Lieutenant-Governor of the Leeward Islands, with John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu, and others, mainly relating to the intended settlement of the Islands of St. Vincent and St. Lucia, which George I had lately granted to the Duke ; 2 2 Apr. 1722-20 Jan. 172⁷/₈. Copies, with a few originals or duplicates, some in Capt. Mathew's hand. Cf. A Relation of the late Intended Settlement of the Islands of St. Lucia and St. Vincent London, 1725. ff. 21-50.

2. Letter of Urd George Sackville [afterwards Germain] to [Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont ?] giving news of the movements of the allied troops with Prince Ferdinand at Lippstadt, etc., in Westphalia; Münster, 12 Oct. 1758. f. 52.

3. Letter of James Boswell to [Bennet Langton ?], mentioning the death of Oliver Goldsmith, the intention of Dr. Johnson "to give the world some account of his Tour to the Highlands and Hebrides," Lord Monboddo's [James Burnett] "second volume on the Origin and Progress of language," Lord Kames's [Henry Home] "two very dear Volumes of Sketches of the History of Man," Warton's History of Poetry, etc., and concluding with a "Prologue," of his own composition, on the Scottish Stage, which beg. "Scotland for learning and for arms renown'd"; Edinburgh, 10 Apr. 1774. f. 54.

4. Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (a) to John Murray the publisher, discussing (with a view to a new edition) the various; poems of Lord Byron and the circumstances under which they were written. At the end she adds "I have been reading Contarini Fleming. Who is the author ?"; Somerset Street [? April, 1832]. f. 56; (b) to , about a box at the opera or theatre; Putney, 9 Feb. s.a. f. 61.

5. [Jean Joseph] Louis Blanc to [Louis Ulbach ?]. giving his first impressions of Undon, and describing his life there; Londres, 6 Oct. 1869. Fr. f . 62.