Add MS 38560

PEARSALL COLLECTION. Vol. XXI (ff. ii + 143). Miscellaneous writings of Pearsall, viz. : 1. Catalogue of his library [at Wartensee Castle ?]. f. 1.

2. Drafts (some of them imperfect) of the following poems: "St. Mary's Church" [1837 ?], beg,. (? 3rd verse) "Then let not all-destroying time." f. 12; "Hence thoughts of bygone joy," 1837. f. 12 b; "From honesty and truth, my son." f. 13 ; "Grave-digger's song," beg. "Take, O spade, my greeting." f. 14; "When my nose in wine reflected." f. 14 b; "Plague take your new opinions" (translated from a 4 - part song by Lasso), and "Hence all unfeeling hearts." f. 15; "Bob Snailum." f. 16; "Far away, far away, o'er the mountains." f. 17 ; "Crux fidelis," beg. "Holy sign of our salvation." f. 18; "Christ is risen from the dead," and "Pange, lingua," beg. "Kneel before Him in His glory." f. 18 b; "O speak, ye judges of the earth." f. 19; "Ha[n]c fenestra[m] vitriavit" (for an inscription on a window designed, etc., by Philippa Pearsall, after 1849), and "The night was still." f. 20.

3. Letter dictated by Pearsall to his wife, and intended for the editor of The Parish Choir, 30 Nov. 1855, enclosing a comic canon on the words B.E.E.F and CA.B.B.A.G.E, by Cornelius Bryan, organist of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol. ff. 22, 24.

4. Paper on the opinion entertained of the Duke of Wellington in Flanders and elsewhere on the Continent; in Mrs. Pearsall's band. f. 25.

5. "Remarks on the origin of coronets [and titles]" ; in the same hand. f. 30.

6. Extracts from Coke's Institutes on various estates or degrees; watermark 1836. ff. 41 b, 43 b.

7. Papers on the origin and history of knighthood, partly in French and in the hand of Mrs. Pearsall. ff. 45, 48, 60, 64, 65, 67.

8. "Quelques remarques sur la date des voûtes souterraines dans le château inférieur de Bâde [Baden-Baden]," dedicated to the Grand Duke (see f. 71). The letter (dated 1835) on f. 70 appears to be from the Captain de Krieg named on ff. 84 b, 87. The article contains allusions to the instrument of torture known as the "Virgin," on which Pearsall read a paper before the Society of Antiquaries in 1837, and is followed (ff. 101- l09 b) by notes used in compiling that paper, and (f. 110) by another article on instruments of torture in general. ff. 69- 115 b.

9. Letter of F. von Geisler, Prussian Regierungsrath, to Pearsall, 1841, inclosing certain queries relating to the English gentry, with rough draft of Pearsall's replies, and of the latter's article (f. 124) in correction of one by Geisler in the Berliner Politisches Wochenblatt. ff. 116-131 b.

10. Note signed by F. von Lassberg relating to the ovens used in the town [of Constance?]. f. 132.

11. Dialogue (Cupido and Der Geist der Insel), beg. "He! He! Du dieser Insel Geist"; with English version, "What ho! What ho! Thou Genius of this Isle." f. 133.

12. Rough drafts of a biographical notice of Pearsall in the hand of Johann Oehler, episcopal chancellor of St. Gall; by whom it was afterwards embodied in the introduction to the Katholisches Gesangbuch published at St. Gall in 1863. ff. 138- 143 b. Paper. XIX cent. Folio.

includes:

• f.1 Wartensee Cantle, St. Gall, Switzerland: Catalogue of R. L. Pearsall's musical library: 19th cent.
• ff. 12-20 Poetry: R. L. Pearsall. miscellaneous poems: 1837: Draft.
• f. 24 Cornelius? Bryan, organist of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol: Comic canon: 19th cent.
• f. 25 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington: Paper on continental opinion of: n.d.
• f. 30 Coronets: Paper on: 19th cent.
• ff. 45-68 Knights: Papers on the origin and history of knighthood: 19th cent.: Fr. and Engl.
• ff. 69-115 b Baden-Baden, Germany: Remarks on the vaults below the Castle, etc.: aft. 1837 (?).
• ff. 69-115 b passim Torture, Instruments of: Papers rel. to: 1835-1837.: Fr., Germ., and Engl.
• f. 70 Captain von Krieg: Letter to R. L. Pearsall: 1835.: Fr.
• f. 116 F- von Geisler, Prussian Regier-ungsrat: Letter to R. L. Pearsall: 1841.: Germ.
• f. 132 F- von Lassberg: Note in his hand: 19th cent.
• f. 133 b Drama: Dialogue from Dryden's King Arthur: 19th cent.: Germ. transl.
• f. 138 Johann Oehler, Episcopal Chancellor of St Gall: Notes in his hand: bef. 1864.