Add MS 52236

Notes, by J. Allen, on various publications, etc., together with drafts, evidently of articles intended for publication, and memoranda, etc., circa 1821, on a plan for publishing materials on British history; [watermark 1800]-1843, undated. Arranged as follows:-

1. Manuscript of part of an article by John Allen on public wealth, [watermark 1800]. (ff. 1-6). 2. Notes on Charles Villers, Philosophie de Kant, 1801. (ff. 7-9b). 3. Notes on Lauderdale, Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth, 1804. (ff. 10-18). 4. Review, with notes, by J. Allen of Claude C. Robin, Voyage dans l'Intérieur de la Louisiane, 1807. (ff. 19-56). 5. List of legal terms, etc.; [watermark 1811]. (ff. 57-66b). 6. Notes by John Allen relating to English medieval history; [circa 1812]. (ff. 67-71). 7. Memorandum, signed by Henry Petrie, Keeper of the Records, Tower of London, relating to a plan for publishing materials on British history, 5 March 1821, followed (f. 75) by two copies of a memorandum on a similar scheme and a third memorandum entitled 'Introduction to the Historical Literature of Great Britain from the fall of the Roman Empire to the accession of Henry VIII'. (ff. 72-93). 8. Memorandum by John Allen relating to Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford; [watermark 1820]. (ff. 94-105b). 9. Notes by John Allen from Mountstuart Elphinstone, Caubul; [circa 1822]. (ff. 106-109). 10. Biographical notes by John Allen relating to English history of the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries; [after 1826]. (ff. 110-111). 11. Copy of a letter, 10 June 1831, from Robert Watson, M.D., the adventurer, to the Duke of Sussex, [watermark 1831]. (ff. 112-116b). 12. Notes by John Allen relating to Edmund Burke; [watermark 1831]. (ff. 118-120). 13. Notes by John Allen relating to Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Etudes sur les constitutions de peuples libres, 1836. (ff. 121-125b). 14. Manuscript of an article, imperfect, by John Allen on the relations between the Crown and the aristocracy; [1830-1837]. (ff. 126-129b). 15. Notes by John Allen from Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, ed. by the Executors of John, Earl of Chatham. 4 vols., 1838-1840; [circa 1840]. (ff. 130-135b). 16. Manuscript of an article, imperfect, by John Allen in Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P., ed. Leonard Horner, 1843. (ff. 136-140). 17. Notes by John Allen from Thomas Madox, Firma Burgi; undated. (ff. 141-142b). 18. Miscellaneous lists, of historical, etc., manuscripts and books; partly in the hand of John Allen, undated. (ff. 143-151). 19. Two transcriptions of a charter of King Eadger of A.D. 968; undated. Latin. (ff. 152-154b). 20. Transcriptions, by John Allen, from Harl. MSS. 746, f. 82 and 1704.f.6. Latin. (ff. 155-156b). 21. Brief summaries, by P---- W----, of the contents of 31 volumes of manuscripts collected by John Nalson, the seventeenth-century antiquary, relating to the history of the British Isles from 1640 to 1660; undated. (ff. 157-163b).