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Department of Manuscripts

Add. MS. acquisitions, January-December 1979; Egerton MS. and Add. Ch.acquisitions, January 1978-December 1979

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Music for the film'The England of Elizabeth' (original title'The Elizabethan Age'); composed in 1955.Autograph. Short score and full score. Pre-sented by Mrs. Ursula Vaughan Williams bycourtesy of Mrs. Muir Mathieson. Add. MS.60392.

Maps and charts: Including several bydraughtsmen employed by or connected withthe Board of Ordnance between 1776 and1781; i8th and early 19th centuries. Add.MS. 60393.

Bentley's Standard Novels: Copy for the printerof the translation of Alessandro Manzoni's1 Promessi Sposi, published in London, 1834,by Richard Bentley as The Betrothed (Bent-ley's Standard Novels, no. 43), made up ofprinted text, in two volumes, of the transla-tion by A. N. [Andrews Norton], publishedas Lucia or The Betrothed (New York: GeorgeDearborn, 1834), interleaved and withmanuscript revisions and additions (in anunidentified hand). Additional annotations,with directions for the printer concerningproofs, etc., in the hand of Richard Bentley.Add. MSS. 60394, 60395.

Thomas Hardy's Visiting Book: Record ofvisitors received by Thomas Hardy, C M . ,novelist, at Max Gate, Dorchester, between2 June 1920 and 10 December 1927, withfour entries made in 1928 and 1929 after hisdeath. Add. MS. 60396.

Jago Orlando Smith: Travel diary, describingvisits to Holland (1881), Cambridge (1883,1884), and North Devon (n.d.). Illustratedwith n o carefully executed pen drawingsand watercolours. Add. MS. 60397.

A. C. Swinburne: Short story: 'A Nine Days'Wonder 1745'; [? 1862]. Autograph draft.The manuscript is accompanied by a con-temporary copy. Both were at one time in thepossession of John Camden Hotten, Swin-burne's publisher. Add. MS. 60398.

Beauvale Papers: Correspondence and papersof the Hon. Sir Frederick James Lamb,G.C.B. (1782-1853), Baron Beauvale 1839,3rd Viscount Melbourne 1848, diplomatist;1812-53, n-d- Presented by Her Majesty theQueen. Add. MSS. 60399-60483.

Miscellaneous literary and historical auto-graphs, including some verses; c. 17th-19thcenturies. Included among the writers areBernard Barton, Garibaldi, Edward BulwerLytton, William Cobbett, Richard Cumber-land, R. L. Edgeworth, George IV, LetitiaLandon, James Montgomery, Lord Nelson,James and Horatio Smith, Isaac Taylor, andSir Charles Yorke. Add. MS. 60484.

Savoy: Copies of edicts and letters patent ofEmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, 1553-80,with related material. French. Add. MS.60485.

Revd. William Parr Greswell: Account-book;1813-17. Add. MS. 60486.

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Thomas Grenville, politician and bibliophile:Letters, mainly addressed to; 1782-1842,n.d. Add. MS. 60487.

Matthew Arnold: Letters to, from politicians,churchmen, men of letters, etc.; 1856-88,n.d., with one letter probably to one of hisbrothers; 1883. Add. MS. 60488.

Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky: Letters toMiss Mervyn Lagden and Miss Diana Wil-braham; 1936-44, n.d. Presented by MissDiana Wilbraham. Add. MS. 60489.

Julius Harrison Manuscripts: Autograph musicmanuscripts of Julius Allen Greenway Harri-son; 1904-60, n.d. Presented by Mrs. DorothieHarrison, widow ofthe composer. Add. MSS.60490-60494.

Stanford's 'Irish Symphony': Autograph fullscore ofthe 'Irish Symphony', op. 28, by SirCharles Villiers Stanford; 1886-7. Add. MS.60495.

Wooden Tablet with arithmetical problemsand division tables in Greek: Published byD. S. Crawford, Papyri Michaelidae, 1955,no. 62, pp. 131-5; 6th (}) century. Add.MS. 60496.

Greek Service-Book: Written by Marinos,priest of Boua; 19th century. Add. MS.60497.

Boult Papers: Correspondence and papers ofSir Adrian Boult, C.H. Presented by SirAdrian Boult, C.H. Add. MSS. 60498-60503.

Sir Charles Hobhouse, 4th Bart., P.C. (1862-1941): Journals; 1890-1915. Autographcopies. Add. MSS. 60504-60507.

Sketches of ecclesiastical furniture and fittingsby Joseph A. Pippet; late igth century. Add.MSS. 60508-60510.

Thomas Grindlay (1869-1947): Workingmanuscripts, testimonials and related papersof the geographer Thomas Grindlay; 20thcentury. Add. MS. 60511.

British Museum Music Room: Official corre-spondence of Alexander Hyatt King asSuperintendent of the Music Room of theBritish Museum, principally relating to the

Union Catalogue of Music and to the 1959Cambridge conference of the InternationalAssociation of Music Libraries; 1945-63.The correspondents include Otto ErichDeutsch. Add. MS. 60512.

William Cole (1714-82), Cambridge anti-quary: 'Index to the Coats of Arms, Crests,etc., in Cole's Manuscripts (BritishMuseum)'; i9th-20th centuries. Presented byH. M. Colvin, Esq. Add. MS. 60513.

Grant of arms and crest by Thomas Hawley,Clarenceux King of Arms 1536-57, toEdmond Woode of Norwich; 10 DecemberI Edw. VI [1547]. English. Decorated with afoliated border, the arms in colour, and anilluminated initial enclosing a portrait of theherald. Signed by Clarenceux, whose per-sonal and official armorial seals in skippetsare appended. Add. MS. 60514.

Beanlands Family: Commonplace book kept byAnne Beanlands, nee Garnett (d. 1872), witha few entries by her son Benjamin; containingpoems and translations (some by her relativeRichard Garnett, 1789-1850, philologist),extracts from magazines, maxims, etc.; 1829-36. Presented by Mrs. Killick on behalf of MissBeanlands. Add. MS. 60515.

Jeremiah Milles: 'An Account of what I sawRemarkable between Venice and London';13 June-17 July 1734. A continuation ofAdd. MS. 15763. Autograph. Add. MS.60516.

George Frederic Sharpe: Autograph vocalmusic with accompaniments for strings orfull orchestra (60520), in full score, byGeorge Frederic Sharpe (1863-1947), to-gether with his autobiography; before 1899-1908, n.d. Presented by Miss Rita Sharpe,F.R.A.M., daughter of G. F. Sharpe. Add.MSS. 60517-60521.

Travel diary of an unidentified Englishman; c.1721. It describes his journey to and fromLorraine, by way of Southern England,Northern France, and the Austrian Nether-lands 18/29 April 1720-11/22 January 1721,with notes of expenses incurred (see Add.

MS. 34753 for a similar diary kept by EdwardSouthwell Jr. in 1723). Add. MS. 60522.

The Gates Collection, Part II: Autograph musicmanuscripts of Douglas Young; 1958-74.Part I of the Gates Collection, containingmanuscripts of Anthony Milner and DouglasYoung, comprises Add. MSS. 59815-31.Presented by William Gates, Esq. Add. MSS.60523-60534.

Ireland Letters: Letters of the composer JohnIreland to the Revd. Kenneth CharlesThompson; 1936-50 and 1951-62. Presentedby the Revd. K. C. Thompson. Add. MSS.60535, 60536.

Supplementary Strange Papers: Correspon-dence and papers of John Strange, F.R.S.,F.S.A. (1732-99), British Resident in Venicefrom 1773 to 1783. Add. MS. 60537.

Chapman Letters: Contemporary transcripts ofletters from Colonel Frederick EdwardChapman, C.B., R.E., to 'A', presumably hiswife or a near relation, relating to his servicein the Crimea. Add. MS. 60538.

Bright Letters: Letters from John Bright, M.P.,to his cousin, Charles Wilson, mainly con-cerning American slavery and familymatters; 1853-69; together with miscel-laneous material, 1861-1931. Add. MS.60539-

Diaries of Geoffrey H. Wells ('Geoffrey West',1900-43); 1917-43. Presented by Mrs. MoiraWells, at the wish of her late husband,Geoffrey H. Wells. Add. MSS. 60540-60570.

Geoffrey H. Wells ('Geoffrey West'): Corre-spondence concerning his book, H. G. Wells(1930). Included are autograph letters fromH. G. Wells (14 letters, 22 postcards, etc.),Mrs. Catherine Wells (16 letters, etc.), FrankWells (6 letters), and replies from GeoffreyH. Wells (some annotated by H. G. Wells).Add. MS. 60571.

Geoffrey West (Geoffrey H. Wells): 'H. G.Wells. A Sketch for a Portrait.' Typescriptdraft of the book published in 1930, withmany autograph annotations by H. G. Wells.

The pages containing these annotations arelisted in a note on the title-page. Presentedby Mrs. Moira Wells, at the wish of her latehusband, Geoffrey H. Wells. Add. MS. 60572.

H. G. Wells: 'A Vision of Judgement' (collectedin The Country ofthe Blind, 1911). Auto-graph; c. 1899, heavily revised and corrected.Add. MS. 60573.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: eight letters to herfrom her father and mother; 6 September1809-21 May 1830. Also included are a letterfrom Elizabeth to her father, n.d., and onefrom her father to 'Dear Betsy' addressed toMrs. Moulton, 6 December 1795. Add. MS.

60574-Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Correspondence

between herself and her mother; 1812-28.Also included are two letters from Mrs.Barrett to her daughter, Henrietta, and aletter from Elizabeth to Mrs. Peyton. Add.MS. 60575.

A. C. Swinburne: 'La Fille du Policeman';1860-1. Autograph fair copy, with revisions,of one chapter and one leaf of another fromSwinburne's burlesque French novel; seealso Ashley MS. 5255. Add. MS. 60576.

Anthology of Middle English verse and prose;c. 2nd half of tbe 15th century to 3rd quarterofthe i6th century; partly French and Latin.The anthology incorporates texts of fifteenapparently otherwise unrecorded poems; aprose dialogue between a lover and his lady,entitled 'The Demaundes of love' and dated1487; and a section of Latin and Englishsentences intended for translation by school-boys. Included among the later additions issome keyboard music. The anthology hasstrong Winchester connections, in both con-tent and provenance: the 15th-century bind-ing is by the 'Virgin and Child' binder. Add.MS. 60577.

Thomas Wilkinson, the Quaker (d. 1836), ofYanwath: Papers; c. 1782-1827, n.d. Extractswere published by Mary Carr, Thomas Wil-kinson: a friend of Wordsworth (1905). AddMSS. 60578-60580.

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Supplementary Southwell Papers: Corre-spondence of the Southwell family, 1674-1767, relating mainly to family, legal, finan-cial, estate, and business matters with a fewletters on Irish political affairs including anumber by Joshua Dawson. Formerly Phil-lipps MSS. 8586 (Add. MSS. 60582-3) and10059 (Add. MS. 60581). Add. MSS. 60581-60583.

Privy Wardrobe Account: The final account ofJohn Fleet, first Keeper of the Privy Ward-robe, to the Auditors of the Chamber forreceipts and issues of the Privy Wardrobe;16 July 1324-1 July 1341. Belonged toCraven Ord (lot 545 in his sale, 25 June1829) and Sir Thomas Philhpps; PhillippsMS. 3785. Add. MS. 60584.

Keith Douglas Papers: Poems, letters, andpapers. Supplementary to Add. MSS.53773-6; 56355-60; 57977; and 59833-5-Add. MSS. 60585-60589.

'Aritmetica Mercantile' or 'Abaco': Treatise inItalian, probably written at Venice, c. 1500,containing the text of problems in a calli-graphic hand, with solutions written in bya pupil. Add. MS. 60590.

'Benvenuto Cellini on casting bronzes', andother notes on methods of casting bronze,etc.; c. 1822: The volume has the book-plateof Sir John Hayford Thorold, ioth Bt., andmany ofthe notes appear to be in his hand.Presented by Mrs. J. Hull Grundy. Add. MS.60591.

Travel diaries of William Phelps, F.S.A.,author of The History and Antiquities ofSomersetshire (see Add. MSS. 33S20-36);1816 (Paris); 1826 (Scotland and the LakeDistrict). Presented by Mtss Monica Morris,great-great-niece of W. Phelps. Add. MS.60592.

Britten MSS.: Compositions by BenjaminBritten, C M . (Lord Britten) (1925-75)-These manuscripts are on loan to theBrinen-Pears Library, Aldeburgh. A micro-film copy (M. 881/1-5) is available for refer-ence in the Department of Manuscripts.

Britten's War Requiem (Add. MS. 60610)is at present on exhibition in the Departmentof Manuscripts. Add. MSS. 60593-60626.

Heimann Letters: Letters, concerned mainlywith mutual studies of medieval manuscripts,addressed to Dr. Adelheid Heimann by theAbbe Victor Leroquais; 1927-40; and SirSydney Cockerell; 1928-53. Presented by therecipient. Add. MS. 60627.

Roll Chronicle of Peter of Poitiers; 'Compen-dium historiae in genealogia Christi'; writtenand illustrated in England about 1250.Amongst the additions to the basic text is acommentary on the Lord's Prayer at the endof the roll. Ten coloured drawings and fivediagrams in red, blue, green, and yellow.Formerly in the library ofthe Bristol BaptistCollege. Add. MS. 60628.

Psalter, in Latin, written and illuminated forthe use of a Benedictine nunnery, probablyin the diocese of Bamberg; late 13th century.According to an inscription at fol. 170^, themanuscript later belonged to Dorothea,daughter of the Margrave Albert Achilles ofBrandenburg, who was abbess of tbe PoorClares at Bamberg from 1498 until her deathin 1520. Book-plate of Rothschild of Ascott,Wing, CO. Bucks. Add. MS. 60629.

The Ascott Album: A collection of cuttingsfrom eight illuminated manuscripts, alltraceable to the collection of William YoungOttley (Sotheby's, 11-12 May 1838). Book-plate of Rothschild, Ascott, Wing, co. Bucks.Add. MS. 60630.

Strachey Papers (Nineteenth Century Series):Correspondence and papers of the Stracheyfamily; mosdy 19th century. Add. MSS.60631-60654.

Strachey Papers (Twentieth Century Series):Letters to (Giles) Lytton Strachey, theauthor, James Strachey, the psychiatrist, andother members of the Strachey family, in-cluding their correspondence with eachother; mostly 20th century. Add. MSS.60655-60734.

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Bertha Crapper (27 March 1892-26 January1979)* great-niece of Thomas Crapper, theVictorian sanitary engineer: Miss Crapperstudied her craft under Graily Hewitt.Bequeathed by the artist. Add. MSS. 60735-60739.

Robert Robey Redmayne (1828-1907): 'ARetrospect'. Autograph copy. An account ofthe author*s home and school life in London,Hertfordshire, and Cumberland, with briefaccounts of Coleridge, Wordsworth, andThomas Arnold of Rugby; c. 1833-44. Begunc. 1875 or after 1880, possibly revised 1895;apparently unpublished. Add. MS. 60740.

'Catechism of Instrumentation', by John Hiles(d. 1882), organist and composer; 19th cen-tury. The manuscript of an unpublishedbook, with musical examples. Add. MS.60741.

'The Tale of the Waterdalers': An unfinishedversion in English by Robert George CollierProctor, bibliographer (d. 1903), ofthe firstthirty-three chapters ofthe Icelandic Vatns-dcela Saga; apparently unpublished. Trans-ferred from the Department of Printed Books.Add. MS. 60742.

Yugoslav Legation and Embassy in Washing-ton: Correspondence and papers, largelytypewritten copies, of Captain GordonGordon-Smith of the Yugoslav Legation inWashington, together with correspondenceand papers of Embassy Officials relating totransactions with the United Nations Reliefand Rehabilitation Administration; 1930-3;1935-6; 1945. English, French, and Serbo-Croat. Add. MSS. 60743, 60744.

Album of letters (about 300) from architects,artists, and public figures, mostly to SydneySmirke (1798-1877), architect ofthe BritishMuseum Reading Room; 19th century. (Seealso Add. MS. 59847.) Add. MS. 60745.

Abergavenny Estates: Fifteen plans of theestates of George Neville, n t h Baron Aber-gavenny (1659-1721), in Monmouthshire,Herefordshire, and Worcestershire, surveyed(in June-August 1718) and drawn by

Benjamin Fallowes of Maldon, Essex (fl.1714-26). The plans, which are coloured andon parchment, are bound in one volume. Thevolume is incomplete, at least eight planshaving been cut out (c. 1800, following thesale of those estates.^). The volume wasowned by the Marquess of Abergavenny in1935. Add. MS. 60746.

Phrenology: Stackpool E. and Florence H.O'Dell, 'A Phrenological Delineation of Mr.E. Rose'; July 1892; bound with A Phreno-logical and Physiological Chart, 12th edn., bythe same authors (an abridgement of S. E.O'Dell, Phrenology, ist edn. 1882), withmany of its tables completed with themeasurements of E. Rose. Transferred fromthe British Library Lending Division. Add.MS. 60747.

Philip Heseltine ('Peter Warlock'), BernardVan Dieren and others: Letters to E. ArnoldDowbiggin, with copies of six letters fromDowbiggin to Heseltine; 1927-35. Add. MS.60748.

Philip Heseltine: 'Mourn no Moe': Song forvoice and string quartet; 'Composed for voiceand piano. Spring 1919. Re-written, for voiceand strings. Autumn 1927'. Autograph score,and copies of transposed string parts. Lettersfrom Bernard Van Dieren in Add. 60748refer to the loss of the original string parts.Add. MS. 60749.

Elizabeth Jane, Lady Waterpark (d. 1894):Diary as Lady in Waiting to Queen Victoria,1865-91; with records of occasional attend-ances on the Queen, May 1892-July 1893,copied from her original diary by LadyWaterpark and her daughter Susan Caven-dish: with annotations by a descendant, JoanTanner. The diary also includes copies ofcorrespondence, apparently unpublished,between Lady Waterpark and her daughterand the Queen, her officials, and others;1863-94. The diary also contains a list ofowners (1894-1971) on the title-page. Add.MS. 60750.

Lady Waterpark: Photograph album containing

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photographs of members of the RoyalFamily; [before December i86i]-i867, n.d.:Included are photographs of the Queen andPrince Albert, of the Princesses Alice,Helena, Louise, and Beatrice, the PrincesArthur, Duke of Connaught and Christian ofSchleswig-Holstein, and of John Brown.Add. MS. 60751.

Fernando de Arteaga y Pereira: Poems read tothe South Wales Branch of the Anglo-Spanish and Spanish-American Institute ofLondon on 23 April 1931. Autograph faircopies. The collection consists of eighteenshort poems and an introduction in verse.Transferred from the British Library LendingDivision. Add. MS. 60752.

Contemporary transcript of documents relatingto the marriage of Mary Tudor to Louis XIIof France, 1514, with penwork initials andcoloured armorial bearings of Mary as Queenof France. Max and Maurice RosenheimLibrary book-plate; Phillipps MS. 10824;Egerton MS. 3800.

Notebook containing exercises and diagramson navigation, geometry, and arithmetic,sailing directions, astronomical tables, andvarious miscellaneous entries including 'Apresent Metson for the Agewe' attributed to'Sr Water Raylishe 1616'. Written in varioushands, c. 1600 to 1616, and apparently con-nected with the English East India Com-pany. Formerly in the collection of BoiesPenrose. Transferred from the Map Lihrary.Egerton MS. 3801.

Army commissions to members of the Stacefamily; 1823-55. Presented, with Add. MS.5g8g2L by Miss Mary Stella Edwards. Add.Ch. 75857-75860.

Roll inventory of goods and chattels in a housein St. Olave's parish, Southwark (the owner'sname obliterated); 1665. Presented by J.Tilley, Esq. Add. Ch. 75861.

Inspeximus and recital of deeds from Ex-chequer records relating to Thomas Little-ton's title to Atley manor, co. Wore;6 February 1466. Exchequer seal. Add. Ch.75862.

Charters relating to the Ayrton family; 1785-1808. Acquired with Add. MSS. 60358-81.Add. Ch. 75863-75865.

Receipt from Richard [BiUington], Abbot ofHulton, CO. Staff., to Sir Richard Wihtng-ton, (probably Sir Richard Wynynton, ofWinnington, near Northwich, co. Cheshire);21 July 1407. With seal. Presented by Mrs. R.Delaney. Add. Ch. 75866.

Miscellaneous charters relating to cos. Staflf.,York, etc.; c. 1272-1586. Presented as 75866.Add. Ch. 75867-75872.

Letters Patent of Edward I to Guy, Count ofFlanders, relative to the discharge of theCount's liabilities under the Treaty ofMontreuil-sur-Mer (1274); 15 February1286: Great Seal (Imperfect). Cal. of PatentRolls, 1289-92, p. 223. Add. Ch. 75873.

Miscellaneous documents from the CarnarvonPapers, Add. MSS. 60757-61100; [1864?]-1900. Add. Ch. 75874-75878.

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