Add MS 47863

MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XXIV (ff. 18). Miscellaneous literary autographs; 1600-1861. As follows:-

(1) 'Charges sustained at Woollwich in the moneth of August 1600'. Signed by Fulke Greville, etc. f. 1.

(2) Letter from Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, to Alexander Pope, relating to Samuel Butler's tomb in Westminster Abbey; [27 May 1721]. With an annotation in Pope's hand. Printed in The Correspondence of Alexander Pope, ed. G. Sherburn, 1956, ii, p. 76. See also Add. MS. 47881, f. 59. Offset of a contemporary letter in an unidentified hand on f. 3b. ff. 2- 3b.

(3) Two letters from John Baker to Thomas Chatterton; 5 Jan., 19 Feb. 1769. Printed in The Times Literary Supplement, 26 Apr. 1947; see also the Wedmore Memorial Lecture, 30 Apr. 1947, printed in Essays by Divers Hands being the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, new series, xxv, 1950, pp. 28-50. Sotheby's sale-cat., 11 Nov. 1946, lot 28 (Phillipps MS. 33389). ff. 5-9b.

(4) Letter from John Woolman, the American Quaker, to John Townsend; 31 July 1772. ff. 10-10b.

(5) Letter from Horace Walpole to Thomas Percy, submitting the manuscript of A Letter to the Editor of the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton, 1779, for Percy's criticism; 11, 24 Jan. 1779. Printed by E. H. W. Meyerstein, A Life of Thomas Chatterton, 1930, pp. 276-277. ff. 11-12.

(6) Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to John Gibson Lockhart including a copy of Coleridge's epitaph on himself; 5 Nov. [18331. See The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. E. H. Coleridge, 1912, pp. 491-492, 1044-1045; Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. E. L. Griggs, 1971, vi, pp. 971-973. ff. 13-15.

(7) Autograph draft of Walter Savage Landor's 'Leofric and Godiva'; n.d. (before 1829). Printed, with additions, in Landor's Imaginary Conversations, v, 1829, pp. 511-521. ff. 16-16b.

(8) Competition in minute handwriting by William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Keene and John Leech, evidently at the 'Punch' table; 9 Oct. 1861. Belonged to Sir Bernard Partridge. Myers & Co. cat., no. 351 (Spring 1948), item 23. ff. 17-18.

includes:

• f. 1 Sir Henry Palmer, comptroller of the navy: Signature: 1600.
• f. 1 Sir Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke: Signature: 1600.
• f. 1 Accounts: Royal naval expenses at Woolwich: 1600.
• f. 1 Hugh Lydyard: Signature: 1600.
• f. 1 Thomas Trevor: Signature: 1600.
• f. 2 Alexander Pope, poet: Annotation by: 1721.
• f. 2 Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester: Letter to A. Pope: 1721.
• ff. 5-9b John Baker, of Bristol and (1769) Charleston, S Carolina: Letters to T. Chatterton: 1769.
• ff. 10-10b John Woolman, Quaker essayist: Letter to J. Townsend: 1772.
• f. 11 Horatio al. Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford: Letter to T. Percy: 1779.
• f. 13 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet and philosopher: Letter to J. G. Lockhart: 1826.
• f. 14b Epitaphs: By S. T. Coleridge, on himself: 1826.
• f. 14b Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet and philosopher: Epitaph on himself: 1826.: Autogr.
• f. 15 Bernard Quaritch Ltd; booksellers: Letter to E. H. W. Meyerstein: 1949.
• ff. 16-16b Walter Savage Landor, d.1864; author: Draft of 'Leofric and Godiva': bef. 1829.: Autogr.
• f. 17 William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist: Specimen of minute handwriting: 1861.
• f. 17 Charles Samuel Keene, artist: Specimen of minute handwriting: 1861.
• f. 17 John Leech, illustrator: Specimen of handwriting: 1861.