RECENT ACQUISITIONS

Department of Manuscripts

Acquisitions, January-December 1975

Darwin and Cornford Papers: correspondenceand papers of and relating to the Darwin andCornford families, ^.1870-1960. Add. MSS.58373-58430.

Igor Stravinsky: 'Capriccio' for piano andorchestra; 1929. Full score. Autograph. Add.MS. 58431. Presented by Dr. Kate HenrietteRoth m the name and memory of her husband.Dr. Ernst Roth, a close friend of Stravinsky andhis publisher.

George Frederick Myddelton Cornwallis-West(1874-1951): papers relating to; 1914-41.Add. MSS. 58432-58433. Presented by MissEileen R.Quelch {formerly his secretary), ofCanterbury.

Heneage Finch, ist Earl of Nottingham,Solicitor-General and Lord Chancellor, 1673-82: reports of cases heard by (formerly ownedby John Scott, ist Earl of Eldon, LordChancellor); late 17th century. Add. MS.58434. Presented by Miss Marjorte Ball, ofRadlett, Herts.

Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester (d. 1626):autograph notebook containing thirty-fivesonnets, interspersed with twenty-four lyricpoems, the texts revised in many places bythe author; f. 1594. Add. MS. 58435. Pur-chased with the aid of contributions from thePtlgrtm Trust and the Radcliffe Trust.

George Eliot: correspondence of and relatingto; 1856-80. Add. MS. 58436.

Thomas Attwood (1765-1838): exercises inmusical theory and composition, with auto-graph corrections by W. A. Mozart (K. 506a);

1785-7-Add. MS. 58437-Capt. Philip Melvill (1760-1811), Lt.-Gover-nor of Pendennis Castle: letters to his wifeElizabeth; 1804-5. Add.MS. 58438. Pre-sented by F. N. Beaufort-Palmer, Esq., ofHove, Sussex.

Marie Hall (1884-1947), violinist: letters toMrs. Reta Jacomb-Hood and members of herfamily; 1903-10. Add.MS. 58439. Presentedas 58438-

Robert Briffault (1874-1948), writer on socialanthropology and novelist: letters and papers,together with earlier papers of the Briffaultand related families; 1799-1952. Add.MSS.58440-58443. Presented by Mrs. Joan BriffaultHackelberg., daughter of Robert Briffault.

'A briefe relation of the life and Memoires ofJohn Lord Belasyse [1615-89]. Written andcollected by his Secretary Joshua Moore.'Add. MS. 58444.

Marco Battagli, of Rimini: 'Marcha', 15thcentury, with an imperial chronicle (1376-1451), partly in Italian, by Pietro dei Guari-enti of Verona. Add.MS. 58445.

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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): letter toBaroness Orczy; 21 Feb. 1933. Add.MS.58446.

Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, Ph.D.,D.Sc. (1880-1958), co-founder with her hus-band, Humphrey Verdon Roe, of the Mothers'Clinic for Constructive Birth Control, Lon-don, and president of the Society for Con-structive Birth Control and Racial Progress:correspondence and papers; 1880-1959.Add. MSS. 58447-58770. Bequeathed by Dr.M. C. C. Stopes.

Book of Hours of the use of Le Puy, with fourminiatures; early 15th century. Add. MS.

58771-Miscellaneous letters and verses, mostly pre-

viously belonging to the Mildmay family;1798-1852, n.d. Add. MS. 58772.

JesseCollings,P.C.,M.P.( 1831-1920): journalof a tour in India; September 1901-January1902, with photographs. Add. MS. 58773.

Mallalieu Papers: correspondence, diaries,and account-books, principally of WilliamMallalieu (1798-1871), Treasurer of Missionsof the Moravian Church, 1835-57; ^738-r857. Add. MSS. 58835-58848.

Don Amaro (El Loco): sermons, etc., calli-graphically copied by Francisco Xavier deSantiago Palomares, author of Arte Nuevade Escribio {ill^)-, and member of the RoyalBasque Society; 1747. Add. MS. 58849. Pre-sented by Mrs. A. Charles, of Uckfield,Sussex.

Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, ViscountNorthcliffe: letters to Sophia Mary, wife ofLt.-Col.Sir John Richard Hall, 9th Bt.;1915-22. Add. MS. 58850. Presented by LadyHall.

Robert Graves (b. 1895): drafts and final faircopies sent to Siegfried Sassoon of sixteenpoems published mainly in Poems (1927);. 1920-7. Add. MS. 58851.

Escott Papers: correspondence and papers of Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918): four letters toThomas Hay Sweet Escott (1844-1924), Ruth Lowy, later Lady Gollancz, with type-classical scholar and journalist; 1853-95, "-dAdd. MSS. 58774-58801.

Augusta Byron, afterwards Leigh, half-sister

scripts of two poems and two prose passages;c. 1912-18. Add. MS. 58852. Presented by MissLivia Collancz on behalf of the executors of

of George Gordon Noel-Byron, 6th Lord Lady Collancz.Byron, the poet (1784-1851): autograph com- Italian Cantatas by V. Alberici, Signor Antimo,monplace book containing poems by various G. Carissimi, F. Margherini, and C. Rainaldi;authors, including Lord Byron; 1805-45.Add. MS. 58802. Presented by R.C.Powell,Esq., in memory of Frank and Hilda Gordon,through the Friends of the National Libraries.

Richard Jefferies Collection: literary MSS.,etc., mostly autograph, of Richard Jefferies(1848-87). Add. MSS. 58803-58832.

Abstract of the revenues and disbursements ofJames I, 1603-17, with copies of 'The KingsLetters patents unto the two Lo: CheifeJustices . . . by vertue whereof they holdetheire places': 1617-19. Add. MS. 58833.

George Macartney, ist Earl Macartney (1737- Add. MSS. 58855-59494.1806): letter-book with copies often docu- John Gower: the'Trentham MS.'of his poems,ments regarding the commercial treaty signed etc.; c. 1400-1818. Add. MSS. 59495-59498-between Great Britain and Russia; 20 June Latin-Middle High German Vocabulary,1766 Add. MS. 58834. known as the 'Vocabularius ex quo', written

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mid-i7th century. Add. MS. 58853.Jules Massenet: full score of the opera 'Le roi

de Lahore', 1877. Four folders. Add.MS.58854 A-D. Transferred from the MusicLibrary, Department of Printed Books.

Dropmore Papers: correspondence and papersof William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Gren-ville; 1790, Foreign Secretary I79i-i8oi,andPrime Minister 1806-7 (b. I759, d.1834);together with papers of the Pitt family andsome miscellaneous material and family corre-spondence of a later date; 1625-1864, n.d.

by Heinricus Zacharias; 1448. Add.MS.59499. Transferred from the Department ofPrints and Drawings, British Museum.

Vernon Bartlett, C.B.E., M.P. (b. 1894): lettersto, from various correspondents; 1916-74,n.d. Add. MSS. 59500, 59501.

Dominic Ellis Colnaghi (1834-1908), knt.i888: letters to his parents, Dominic andKatharine Colnaghi, etc.; 1852-81. Add.MSS. 59502-59505.

Sir Harold Idris Bell, F.B.A. (1879-1967),Keeper of Manuscripts in the British Museum1929-44, President of the British Academy1946-50: correspondence and papers; 1885-1964. Add. MSS. 59506-59534. Presented bythe recipient.

Ralph Vaughan Williams: folk-song collec-tions and arrangements; early 20th century.Add. MSS. 59535, 59536. Presented by Mrs.Ursula Vaughan Williams.

Ralph Vaughan Williams: music for the film'Scott of the Antarctic'; 1948. Full score.Autograph. Add. MS. 59537. Presented byJ. D. Mathieson., Esq., of Charlbury, co. Oxon.

Sir Lennox Berkeley: autograph full scores,as follows: Four poems of St.Theresa ofAvila; 1947; Guitar Concerto; 1974. Add.MSS. 59538, 59539.

Gustav Hoist: choral ballet 'The Morning ofthe Year', op. 45, no. 2; 1926-7. Full score.Autograph. Add. MS. 59540. Presented by theEnglish Folk Dance and Song Society bycourtesy of Imogen Hoist.

Wrench Papers: correspondence and diariesof Sir John Evelyn Leslie Wrench, K.C.M.G.(1882-1966), founder of the Over-Seas Club(afterwards League), 1910, and of the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth, 1918,editor of 'The Spectator', 1925-32; 1887-1950. Add. MSS. 59541-59597. Presented bySir Evelyn Wrench.

Edward James Peters, chorister of St. Magnusthe Martyr, London Bridge: arrangements ofplainsong to English words; 1948-57, n.d.Add. MS. 59598. Presented by Cranville HughThorne, Esq.

Michael Ayrton (1921-75), writer and artist:drafts, etc., of The Testament of Dedalus(1962) and The Maze Maker (1967); c.1960-7. Add. MSS. 59599-59604.

Keith Wright (1937-73): drafts of andcorrespondence relating to, his long poemWestern Time (O.U.P., 1964); f. 1962-4.Add. MSS. S9()O$-S9(>o'j. Presented by Samueland Mary Margaret Wright of Colchester,Essex.

Frances Crofts Cornford (1886-1960): lettersto Mrs. Ursula Roberts ('Susan Miles');1957-60, n.d. Add. MS. 59608. Presented byC.H.Roberts, Esq., F.B.A.

Frederic Prokosch (b. 1908): illuminated calli-graphic copies of poems by W. B. Yeats,T.S.Eliot, W. H.Auden, Stephen Spender,and Robinson Jeffers; 1934-5. Add.MS.59609 A-H. Presented by the artist.

(Herman) James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915):'The Book of Kara James': forty-one typedverse-translations from Latin and German,followed by twenty-two autograph poems,largely uncollected or unpublished; c. 1900-13. Add. MS. 59610.

Edward Robert Lytton, 2nd Baron Lytton ofKnebworth 1873 and ist Earl of Lytton 1880:letters to his wife Edith, together with Lyttonfamily correspondence and some miscel-laneous material; [i868-7i]-i928, n.d. Add.MSS. 59611-59613.

Collection of ecclesiastical law and churchservices; i8th century. Greek. Add. MS.59614.

Miscellany, probably copied in Florence in thethird quarter of the fifteenth century, com-prising a chronicle of Charles I of Anjou,King of Sicily, an imperial chronicle {c. 900to 1346), a geographical account of variouscountries and their boundaries and an accountof popes Innocent III, Nicholas III, andMartin IV (all these being based on thechronicle of Giovanni Villani); Boccaccio'sLife of Dante; Bruni's Lives of Dante andPetrarch. Formerly Phillipps MS. 8451. Add.MS. 59615.

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Customary of the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket,by John Vyel and Edmund Kyngyston,guardians of the shrine, 1428; Beneit of St.Albans, Life of Becket, and Guernes dePont-Saint-Maxence, Life of Becket, late13th century. Add. MS. 59616. Purchasedwith the aid of the Friends of the NationalLibraries,

Leonard Charles Wyon (1826-91), chiefengraver at the Royal Mint: diary; 17 Aug.1853-25 Dec. 1867. Add. MS. 59617.

Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-75): ten lettersand two poems, etc., sent to W. L. McElwee,M.C., T.D.; c. 1927-9. Add. MS. 59618.

Logbook of H.M.S. Britannia, commandedby Captain James Bradby, while on servicewith the Channel Fleet under Vice-Admiral

George Darby and while participating in thelatter's relief of Gibraltar (Apr. 1781), Add.MS. 59619.

Wilfred Partington (1888-1955), journalist andauthor: papers connected with his bio-graphy of Thomas James Wise, T.J. Wisein the Original Cloth, 1947 (first published inthe United States under the title ForgingAhead, 1939); c. 1920-50. Add. MSS. 59620,59621.

Bentley Papers. Papers of the publishing houseknown successively as Henry Colburn andRichard Bentley, Richard Bentley, andRichard Bentley and Son, and of membersof the Bentley family; 1811-1962, n.d. Add.MSS. 59622-59651.

Department of Printed Books

Acquisitions, Slavonic Division

By H. Swiderska

Naynowsze wzory kaligrafii w i^zyku polskim,francuskim i laciriskim. w Wroclawiu: nak-ladem Wilhelma Bogumila Korna, 1808. 86 mmX23 cm. pp.8, twenty-two leaves not num-bered, with examples for calligraphy printedrecto. Engraved by I. A.Eckhardt.

The publishing house of the Korn family in1732 moved from Berlin to Wroclaw, whereit soon came to specialize in books for EasternEurope, especially Poland: editions of Polishclassics, the Bible, prayer books, variousmanuals, and school books. Naynowsze wzorybelong in the last group.

This book is very rare and there are no copiesin the National Library in Warsaw, theSilesian Library in Katowice, or the Osso-lineum in Wroclaw. The latter two specializein Silesiaca but the Naynowsze wzory is

entirely unknown to them. It is not mentionedin W. Chojnacki's bibliography of Polish pro-testant publications in the northern andwestern provinces {Bibliografia polskich drukowewangelickich Ziem Zachodnich i Poinocnych^530-1939 (Warszawa, 1966)). Mme JaninaW^dolkowska, who in 1956 started publishingher bibliography of the Polish output of theKorns (in Kwartalnik opolski, 1956, nos. 2, 3)has no record of this manual and the same istrue of Mme Aleksandra Mendykowa who ispreparing for publication a bibliography ofW. B. Korn.

This little book is entered under 'Wzory'in the original version of K. Estreicher'sBibliografia polska XIX stolecia, but no descrip-tion is given. This suggests that the authorknew about it from one of W. B. Korn'scatalogues but had not seen a copy himself.

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