RECENT ACQUISITIONS

Manuscript Collections

Acquisitions January-December 1983

By Scot McKendrick

Charles Kingsley: Letters to his wife and othermembers of his family; 1840 74, n.d. See TheBritish Library Journal, x (1984), pp. 147-57.Add. MSS. 62552 62557.

Caesar Family: Journal of Mary Caesar, neeFreman, wife of Charles Caesar, MP, ofBenington, Herts., together with papers rela-tive to her and her family; 1705-41. Add.MSS. 62558, 62559.

Kew Palace: Housekeeper's account-book forKew Palace (The Dutch House); 1824-63.Add. MS. 62560.

Nicola Francesco Haym: Six anthems, for oneto three voices, with various instruments;1716. Autograph full score. Dated 'Cannon the29th of September 1716' on title-page anddedicated to James Brydges, Earl of Car-narvon, later ist Duke of Chandos. Listed inthe 1720 inventory of music at Canons (Hunt-ington Library, MS. ST.66). Add. MS. 62561.

Harry Dexter: Symphony in G major; 1944.Full score. Autograph. Presented by E. R.Bayford, Esq. Add. MS, 62562.

JohnDrinkwater(i882-i937): Correspondencewith his second wife, Daisy Kennedy, togetherwith a few letters to and from his first wife,Kathleen Walpole, and a friend, Lillian Faith-full; 1921-37. Presented by MrsJ. Drinkwater.Add. MSS. 62564-62567.

J. Willme: Geodesta graphtca. A new Treatise ofSurvey in Theory and Practice . . ,; f.1730.Prepared for publication but apparently un-published. Willme describes himself as 'ofMoss-croft' and as 'lately' surveyor to GeorgeBooth, 2nd Earl of Warrington, to whom thevolume is dedicated. Add. MS. 62568.

Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough: Letters toRobert Jennens of Acton, Suffolk, formerlygroom ofthe bedchamber to William HI, andhis wife Ann, nee Guidott, a relation ofthe Duchess's lawyers, Anthony and WilliamGuidott of Lincoln's Inn, including severaldrafts and copies of their replies and somerelated documents; [1707.̂ ] 1726. Partlyprinted in Letters of Sarah, Duchess of Marl-borough . . . at Madresfield Court (London,1875). Add. MSS. 62569, 62570.

William Hancock: Problems in spherical geo- Percy Sherwood: 'Konzertstuck', for piano andmetry and trigonometry, astronomy, ortho- orchestra; Dresden, 18 Oct. 1888. Autograph.graphic and stereographic projection, and ^u\\ score. Presented by John Nowell, Esq, Add.navigation; 1700. Add. MS. 62563. MS. 62571.

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Cotton Library: Materials of Sir FredericMadden, Keeper of Manuscripts 1837-66,relative to his restoration of the CottonLibrary. Incorporated from the Departmentallibrary and archives. Add. MSS. 62572-62578.

Thomas Gainsford: Courts ̂ Camp Politiques,a treatise on statecraft and military discipline;

-24. Add. MS. 62579.

Water-colour Portrait of Sir Sydney CarlyleCockerell (1867-1962), Director of the Fitz-william Museum, Cambridge, 1908-37,painted in 1957 by Dorothy W. Hawksley andinscribed by Cockerell in i960 to EleanorSpencer Mn memory of other days'. (See

illustration in The British Library Journal, xiii(1987), p. 187.) Presented by Professor EleanorPatterson Spencer. Add. MS. 62580.

Philip IV of Spain: Confirmation of the sale,3 Mar. 1641, to Don Manuel Alvarez Pintoy Rivera of the lordship of Chilueches[Chiloeches, near Guadalajara] and an accom-panying grant of arms; 15 Sept. 1642. Calli-graphically written, with two fully illuminatedpages. Contemporary Spanish binding ofgold-tooled brown goatskin. Add. MS. 62581.

Burney Papers: Notes on classical grammariansprobably made by or for Charles Burney, DD(d. 1817). Transferred from the Department ofPrinted Books. Add. MSS. 62582-62584.

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Add. MS. 62664

Bulstrode Papers: Metnoirs and papers of SirRichard Bulstrode, Resident and later Envoyin Brussels utider Charles H and James H;1674-after 1690. Includes an autograph draftofthe second part of his Memoirs published in1721. Partly French and Spanish. Add. MSS.62585, 62586.

Edmund Rubbra, CBE: Autograph musicmanuscripts; 1921-82, n.d. Add. MSS. 62587-62662.

Travel diary of an anonymous Englishman,possibly E. Kenyon, in Germany and Austria;Oct.-Nov. 1814, and Feb. July 1815. Relatesprincipally to Vienna during the CongressAdd. MS. 62663.

Travel journal, possibly of Sir Thomas Gage,7th Bart., of Hengrave, in Florence, Pisa,Rome, and Naples, with related antiquariannotes and drawings; [1817?]. Add. MS.62664.

George, Earl Macartney: Diplomatic instruc-tions, papers, and letters sent to him by theForeign Secretary, Lord Grenville, andothers, mostly relating to the former's secretmission to Louis XVIII in exile in Verona;1795 6. Partly French, partly in cipher.Phillipps MS. 19002. Add. MS. 62665.

Henry Purcell: Dramatic music, odes, etc., infull score; i8th cent. The name 'Jos. Fish,Darwen, Lancashire' occurs as copyist in Add.MS. 62672, with the partially erased datei77i(?). His hand appears in all other volumesexcept Add. MS. 62667. Listed in F. B.Zimmerman, Henry Purcell, i6s9-i6gs; AnAnalytical Catalogue of his Music (London1963), app. iii, nos. 380 6. Presented by theBritish Council. Add. MSS. 62666 62672.

Walter Leigh: Autograph music manuscripts,comprising parts for his String Quartet, 1929,and an imperfect pencil full score of hisConcertino for harpsichord or piano and stringorchestra, 1934. Presented by the British Coun-cil. Add. MS. 62673.

Kyre Park, co. Worcester: Account-book of SirEdward Pytts of Kyre Park, chiefly relating tothe building of the house; 1584-1618. Alsoincluded are accounts and memoranda of latermembers ofthe family, 1618 20, 1653, 1693-1702. Partly printed in Mrs Baldwin-Childe,'The Building of the Manor-House of KyrePark, Worcestershire (1588-1618)', TheAntiquary, xxi (1890), pp. 202-5, 261-4; 'fx"(1890), pp. 24-6, 50-3. Add. MS. 62674.

Edwin Ashdown Ltd.: Autograph music manu-scripts of Ernest Bullock, Alec Rowley, andArthur Milner, acquired with a collection ofprinted music from the publishers EdwinAshdown Ltd.; 1919, I96i-2,n.d. Transferredfrom the Music Library ofthe Department ofPrinted Books. Add. MS. 62675.

Sir Edward Elgar: T.nina Valse' for piano,dated Malvcrn Wells, 21 Dec. 1886. Auto-graph. In a fragment ofa music exercise-book

containing other pieces, one with the nameCaroHne Lowthian. Add. MS. 62676.

Album of songs and other short musical pieces;1798-1802, n.d. Two songs by Jonas Blewittare endorsed with his receipts dated 1800 forpayment of copyright from the publisherEdward Riley and many of the pieces haveengraver's markings. Other named composersof songs include James King Day and J.Ambrose. Also included are music from'Joanna of Surinam' {imperfect) by JamesSanderson; a sonata for piano with flute orviolin by Thomas Brabazon Gray; and a set ofwaltzes for piano duet by Christoph AugustGabler. Add. MS. 62677.

Hyatt King Papers: Letters on musical subjectsaddressed to Alec Hyatt King, formerly MusicLibrarian, British Library, with related papersand some/)rm/fi/material; 1913,1949-82. Thecorrespondents include Eric Blom, FrankHowes, and Sir Sacheverell Sitwell. Presentedby Dr Hyatt King. Add. MS. 62678.

Supplementary Avebury Papers: Diaries andcorrespondence, etc., of and relating to SirJohn Lubbock (1834-1913), ist Baron Ave-bury 1900, and also of his first wife Frances,nee Hordern (d. 1879), and his second wife(1884) Alice, nee Fox-Pitt-Rivers; 1850-1913,n.d. Presented hy the 4th Baron Avebury. Add.MSS. 62679 62693.

Knight and Forbes-Robertson Papers: Papersofjoseph Knight (1829-1907), Editor of No/«and Queries, and of the Forbes-Robertsonfamily (Knight's daughter Gertrude being thewife of Ian Forbes-Robertson); 1690-1952,n.d. Add. MSS. 62694-62707.

The Sheares Bible: The Bible paraphrased intoEnglish verse and copiously illustrated withpen-and-ink drawings, some of them coloured,by Abraham Sheares; 1710-31. Sheares wasprobably a member of the Sheer family ofExeter. Add. MS. 62708.

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Fairfax Family: Letters and papers of theFairfax family of Yorkshire and Leeds Castle,CO. Kent; 1680-1833, n.d. Partly copies andprinted. Most of the letters, which are of apersonal or business nature, are addressed toBrian Fairfax the younger. Commissioner ofCustoms; 1713-45, n.d. Add. MS. 62709.

Maison Dieu, Dover: Accounts of John Heb-byng, collector ofthe rents ofthe Maison Dieuof Dover in River, Whitfield, Coldred, andPising in East Langdon, all co. Kent; 1498-1501. Add. MS. 62710.

Miscellaneous Papers; c.1680-1879. Includedare letters of W. C. Macready, 1823, BenjaminDisraeli, 1840, 1846, Charles Dickens, 1850,Alexis Soyer, 1855; a plan of WaterbeachRectory, co. Cambs., i'.i68o; and a quill, 1833.Add. 62711.

O'Connell Papers: Political and family corres-pondence of Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847),MP, together with some later family lettersand papers; 1808-1947, n.d. Partly French andItalian. Partly printed, frequently in an alteredor abridged form, in J. O'Connell, The Lifeand Speeches of Daniel O'Connell (Dublin,1846) and Recollections and Experiences (Lon-don, 1849); W. J. Fitzpatrick, Correspondenceof Daniel O'Connell (London, 1888); M. R.O'Connell, The Correspondence of DanielO'Connell (Shannon, 1972-80). Add. MSS.62712-62715.

Benedetto Marcello: Motet 'Laudatc PucriDominum' for three voices and instruments,in score; i8th cent. Copy, probably made inVenice. Presented anonymously. Add. MS.62716.

Philip Christian Darnton (1905-81): Autographmusic manuscripts, correspondence, andpapers; 1924-81. For an account ofthe com-poser, with a list of works, see The Composer,lxxiv (1980), pp. 13-19. Presented by Mrs V. B.Darnton. Add. MSS. 62717 62774.

Harleian Manuscripts: Preface to 'A Catalogueof the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts',1759. MS. copy apparently taken from theproofs and subscribed '24th December 1762

. . Thos. Astle/To Mr Palmer in QueensCollege', in a hand, not Astle's, which has alsoinserted most of the footnotes and marginalsubject titles. On the printing of the 1759catalogue, see The Diary of Humfrey Wanley,eds. C. E. and R. C. Wright (London, 1966),vol. i, pp. lxxxi-Ixxxiii. Add. MS. 62775.

Siege of Trier, 1645: 'Attacque du pont Salbriq[i.e. Konzerbruck] avec son paisage JusquaTreve' (presumably 14-18 Nov. 1645) drawnby an unnamed French draughtsman; f.1645.Two plans, mainly pictorial and with ex-planatory table. Add. MS.

Matthew Paris: Lives of the Abbots of StAlbans, and other 12th-13th cent, historicalworks; early 14th cent. Noticed in R. Vaughan,Matthew Pans (Cambridge, 1958), p. 193, n. 3,Written at St Albans. Contemporary inscrip-tion 'De studio domini Abbatis' on fol. i^.Add. 62777.

Imperial Federation League Archive; 1884-94.Presented by C. Hoare ($ Co., Bankers,through the British Records Association. Add.MSS. 62778-62783.

Matyas Seiber: Music manuscripts and papers;1922-60. Mostly autograph. Presented by MrsLilla Seiber. Add. MSS. 62784 62887.

Dora Carrington: Correspondence with LyttonStrachey; 1916-31. Many of Carrington'sletters are illustrated with pen and pencilsketches. Add. MSS. 62888-62897.

Vassall Family: Genealogical and autobio-graphical memoranda of Florentius Vassall(d. 1776), Jamaica and London, grandfather ofElizabeth, Lady Holland. Presented by Blythe,Dutton £5' Holloway, Solicitors. Add. MS62898.

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Add. MS. 62888

Willoughby Papers: Papers and correspondenceof Miss Harriet Willoughby, natural daughterof Hon. Charles James Fox; before 1804 50,n.d. Presented by Blythe, Dutton (^ Hollotray,Solicitors. Add. MSS. 62899 62903.

Bauza Collection: Papers relative to FelipeBauza's collection of tracts, maps, and planson the topography and history of LatinAmerica, the Philippine Islands, etc., part ofwhich is now Add. MSS. 1755^- 17M; '845-f.1854. See The British Library Journal, xii(1986), pp. 28 57. Incorporated from the

Departmental library and archives. Add. MSS.62904, 62905.

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Songs for voice andpiano; 1901 2, 1904. Autograph. The songs are'Linden Lea', 'Blackmore by the Stour', TheVagabond' and 'Bright is the ring of words'(from 'Songs of Travel'). Presented by Mrs R.Vaughan Williams. Add. MS. 62906.

Diary, principally of travel in Italy, of ananonymous Englishman w ho was a pharmacistat Florence, working at the Farmacia Roberts

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(now 'Farmacia Inglese', Via Tornabuoni);June 1847-N0V. 1848. Presented by Miss M.Ball. Add. MS. 62907A-E.

Mrs Katherine Peterkin Grindrod (1862-1940):Diary, principally in Siam; 1892-4. With atyped transcript, addenda, and a preface byDr R. D. Hill. Presented by Dr R. D. Hill, atthe request of Miss Muriel Gnndrod. Add. MS.62908A-C.

Queen Victoria: Letter to King John IV ofEthiopia; August 1887. Signed by QueenVictoria and Lord Salisbury. The text ispublished in Parliamentary Papers, Accountsand Papers, 1888, cix {Correspondence respect-ing Mr PortaTs Mission to Abyssinia). Presentedby Dr Hertha Zlabmger. Add. MS. 62909.

George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron: Accounts forthe Newstead Abbey and Rochdale Manorestates prepared for the Court of Chancery byJohn Hanson, solicitor; 1802-6. Add. MS.62910.

Spencer of Althorp, Seymour and HerveyPapers: Travel journals, diaries, common-place-books, and letters, etc., ofthe Spencersof Althorp, and related families; 1800-89.Add. MSS. 62911-62923.

George Francis Sydenham Powell (1820 85):Travel journal in France and Belgium; 13Nov.-18 Dec. 1843. Powell, later Rector ofSutton Veney, co. Wilts, was second son ofAlexander Powell of Hurdcott, co. Wilts. Add.MS. 62924.

The Rutland Psalter: Psalter, in Latin, writtenand illuminated in England; mid-i3th cent.,with late 14th- or early i5th-cent. additions.The extensive illumination includes marginalillustrations, a Beatus page, and six full-pageminiatures. Late i5th-cent. erased inscriptionof gift to Reading abbey by prior John Clifton.See The British Library Journal, xiii (1987),pp. 159-85, and facsimile edition by E. G.Millar, The Rutland Psalter (Roxburghe Club,Oxford, 1937). Add. MS. 62925.

Pelham Papers: Ledger listing the daily bills offare and farm expenses of Henrietta, DowagerDuchess of Newcastle (d. 17 July 1776); i Jan.^llS-^1 ]^h ^11^'y ̂ "^ ^^ Thomas LordPelham, later ist Earl of Chichester; 18 July-14 Aug. 1776. The volume was used as ascrapbook in the 19th cent., with most itemsapparently dating from 1835 to 1840. Add.MS. 62926.

Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State:Memoranda-book; 1663. The notes are enteredin an interleaved copy of a printed almanac,Lilly's Merlini Anglici Ephemeris., 1663. Thisvolume precedes Add. MS. 41202B in theseries of Nicholas memoranda-books, nowAdd. MSS. 41202A-AA. Add. MS. 62927.

Samuel Wesley: Notebook, 1870, of Eliza,daughter of Samuel Wesley, containing copiesof his letters of 1808-16 to Benjamin Jacobrelating to the music of J. S. Bach (publishedas Letters of Samuel Wesley to Mr Jacobs, ed.E. Wesley (London, 1875)), and copies fromAdd. MSS. 11731, fois. 17-19, and 11729,fois. 1-20, of his letters of 1830, i 8 i i - i 2 t oVincent Novello. Add. MS. 62928.

Mohun Chronicle: Prologue and openingchapters of a French chronicle composed byWalter de la Hove, Abbot of Newenham, anddedicated to Lady Joan de Mohun of Dunster;1341 -8. The first gathering ofa volume whichwas still extant in 1610, when it was known asthe Red Book ofthe Abbot of Newenham. SeeDevon Notes and Queries, iv (1906-7), pp.17-22, 249-52, and Sir H. C. M. Lyte, Historyof Dunster (London, 1909), p. 49. Add. MS.62929.

Swarthmore Manuscripts: Three Quakertreatises originating from the circle of GeorgeFox and his wife Margaret Fell at SwarthmoreHall, Ulverston; f.1652 68. Add. MS. 62930-62932.

Rokeby Letters: Letters of Edward Montagu,5th Baron Rokeby of Armagh, to his brothers

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Henry (6th Baron Rokeby, 1847), Spencer andto his sister Caroline; 1834-47. ^^^- MSS.62933-62934.

*Beacons in Kent; Aug. 1585, W : L [i.e. Wil-liam Lambarde]'. Manuscript map. For themap's creation, see W. Lambarde, Perambula-tion of Kent (London, 2nd edn., 1596), pp.68-9, Add. MS. 62935.

Naval Signal Book; r. 1746-7. A naval officer'sprivately made pocket signal book, derivedfrom the printed Sailing and Eightmg Instruc-tions but arranged for ready reference with athumb-index of sixty flags in colour. Illus-trated further with twenty-eight water-colourdrawings of ships and eighteen flags. Similarin format to the printed signal book by JohnMiilan, Signals for the Royal Navy (1746-8).Add. MS. 62936.

Gilbert White of Selbourne: Autograph sermonon 'For Godly sorrow worketh repentence toSalvation' (2 Cor. 7: 10); r.1757. Included arelists in White's hand of places, indicatingwhere and when he delivered this sermon.Later annotations were probably the work ofWhite's great-nephew, Revd. Glyd White,MA (d. 1869), Curate of Ewelme, co. Oxon.Add. MS. 62937.

M. W. Balfe: Music album containing pianopieces and sketches for unidentified works;1861, n.d. Imperfect. The piano works include'Nocturne' and an arrangement of an air fromBalfe's opera 'The Maid of Honour'. Some ofthe sketches have words or indications oforchestration. Add. MS. 62938.

Sir Robert Peel: Letters to Peel, mostly fromvarious ministers of the Crown, includingGeorge Canning, Lord John Russell, andLords Liverpool and Castlereagh, togetherwith a copy of a letter from Peel to Sir WalterScott and a draft reply from Peel to Liverpool;i8i3-[i847.=']. Add. MS. 62939.

Ionian Islands: Letters, semi-official andprivate, from Sir John Young, Bart., GCMG,Lord High Commissioner of the IonianIslands, to Henry Labouchere, Secretary ofState for the Colonies; i Dec. 1855-15 Feb.1858. Add. MS. 62940.

Siegfried Sassoon: Letters and poems; beforef .̂1906-30. Add. MSS. 62941, 62942.

Ourteville, Luxembourg: 'Plan de l'Ordre etdes mouvemens de la Bataille d'Ourteville surrOurte Remportee par le Comte d'Arcourt le25 Aoust 1692 sur le Comte d'Hostel qui y futfait prisonnier', signed 'N. J. le Bez invenit &Fecit'; f.1692. Egerton MS. 3804.

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