RECENT ACQUISITIONS

Department of Manuscripts

Acquisitions, January 1973 to December 1974

The following list includes manuscripts incorporated into the collections betweenJanuary 1973 and December 1974. The inclusion of a manuscript in this list does not

necessarily imply that it is available for study.

Gen. Charles Gordon; letters and sketch map;1863-84. Add. MSS. 57772 C-E, BB; 57844.

Hermannus Groshermannius: De controversiisdisputandi legibus; [1639?]. Add. MS. S1113-Transferred from the Department of PrintedBooks.

Cecil Gray (1895-1951), music critic; composi-tions, correspondence, etc., with relatedmaterial; 1913-65. Add. MSS. 57774-57803.

Grenville papers; correspondence and paperschiefly of George Grenville (1712-70), andhis brother, Richard Temple Grenville, EarlTemple (1711-79), supplementing Add.MSS. 42083-42088; 1716-1833, n.d. Add.MSS. 57804-57837; Add. Ch. 75794-75808.

Rutland Boughton (1878-1960), composer:letters and papers; 1908-60. Add. MSS.57838-57840.

Francis Place (1771-1854): annotated copy ofThe Whole of the Proceedings and Evidenceagainst Queen Caroline to deprive her of theTitle and Prerogatives of Queen Consort . . .(1820). Add. MS. 57841 A, B.

Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1926); autographpiano solo; 1909. Add. MS. 57842.

John Hall of Sheffield: copy of oratorio, 'TheResurrection'; c. 1794. Add. MS. 57843.

Ralph Vaughan Williams, O.M. (1872-1958):autograph musical compositions, etc.; 1920-49. Add. MSS. 57845 (photographs), pre-sented by YousufKarsh^ Esq.; 57914, presentedby Mrs. Ralph Vaughan Williams; 57981,presented by Leonard Blake, Esq.; 58072,presented by Mrs. Mary Mullinar.

Charles Lamb: autograph essay in the form ofa letter from a lady describing her travels inFrance. Add. MS. 57846.

LeonardoBruni(1370-1444): illuminated MS.of De Primo Bello Punico, written by ZanobiBartolini; 1469. Add. MS. 57847.

Gregory the Great: Italian MS. of Dialo-gorum libri IV; mid-i5th century. Add.MS. 57848.

Aeneas Sylvius (Pope Pius II, 1458-64): DeDuobus Amantibus and other texts; c. 1460-5.Add. MS. 57849.

Sir Henry Ellis (1777-1869), of the BritishMuseum: letters to John Bowyer Nichols andJohn Gough Nichols; c. 1810-36. Add. MS.57850.

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Ivy Compton-Burnett: autograph draft of TheLast and the /^ir?/(published 1971). Add. MS.57851 A-L.

Lady Juliet Duff (1881-1965): letters to herfrom Maurice Baring, J. M. Barrie, and otherliterary and historic figures. Add. MSS.57852, 57853. Presented by Sir Michael Duff,Bart.

Sir William Congreve; 'Exercise and man-oeuvres for Lord Townshend's Light Infantry3 pounders'. Add. MS. 57854. Transferredfrom the Science Reference Library.

Dr. William Holder (1616-98): 'A Treatise ofthe Natural Grounds and Principles of Har-mony', 1694, copied by Joseph Stevens;1711-12. Add. MS. 57855. Transferred fromthe Science Reference Library.

Jean Rbys (b. 1894): drafts of works publishedor revised for publication; 1931-69. Add.MSS. 57856-57859-

Joanna Southcott (1750-1814): letters con-cerning; 1792-1831. Add. MS. 57860. Pre-sented by Miss T. Mary Bache.

Thomas, ist Earl Coningsby (1656-1721):correspondence and papers. Add. MSS.57861-57862.

Gustav Theodore Hoist: musical compositions(mostly autograph), etc., supplementing Add.MSS. 47804-47838; c. 1890-1934. Add.MSS. 57863-57910; 57953. Presented hy MissImogen Hoist, daughter of the composer^ andthe publishers associated with Hoist's music.Additional items presented by Mrs. GeorgePawlo, Mtss Helen Bidder^ Harold Brooke^Esq., and Miss Vally Lasker.

Suetonius: De Vita Duodecim Caesarum; 15thcentur>'. Italian. Add. MS. 57911.

Sir Edward Elgar: unpublished autographmusic for violin and piano entitled ^Reminis-cences'; 1877. Add. MS. 57912.

Addison and Lang: Survey of lands in co.York belonging to the Revd. William Roun-dell; 1771. Add. MS. 57913.

Stoglav; [19th century?]. Add. MS. 57915.Transferred from the Department of Printed

Books., from a collection of Slavonic bookspresented by V. Truscott, Esq.

Antonio Francisco Suazo: Poesias Sagradas;i8th century. Spanish. Fair copy. Add. MS.57916.

Collection of miscellaneous French poetryentitled 'Mor9eaux Choisis En Vers'; i8thcentury. Add. MS. 57917.

Samuel Wesley (1766-1837): autograph fullscores of two anthems. Add. MSS. 57918,57919-

Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904): 'The Mauso-leum Book' and other autobiographicalpapers; 1895-1903. Add. MSS. 57920-57922.

John Maynard Keynes: correspondence, etc.,with O. T. Falk (Add. MS. 57923) andDuncan Grant; 1908-42. Add. MSS. 57923,57930,57931,58120.

Mother Marian Hughes: drafts for the Rule ofthe Community of the Holy and UndividedTrinity; c. 1840-50. Add. MS. 57924. Trans-ferred from the Department of Printed Books.

Algernon Charles Swinburne: translation oftwo stanzas of verse by Villon; c. 1870. Add.MS. 57925.

Military notebook containing administrativeorders concerning the Minden campaign;1759. Add. MS. 57926.

Letters addressed to Edward Weston (1703-70), Under-Secretary of State for the Nor-thern Department, supplementing Add.MSS. 57305-57308; 1761-70. Add. MSS.57927, 57928, 58213. Presented by L. E. Stiles^Esq.

'A full relation of the Skirmische at New-burne... ', 1640. Add. MS. 57929. Transferredfrom the Historical Manuscripts Commission.

Lytton Strachey: correspondence with Dun-can Grant; 1902-31. Add. MSS. 57932,

57933-Montague John Guest (1839-1909), M.P.:correspondence and papers; 1867-1905, n.d.Add. MSS. 57934-57941. Transferred fromthe Department of Prints and Drawings.

Stichera, and other hymns; 15th century.Greek. Add. MS. 57942.

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Pierre Jurieu (1637-1713): letters, as secret Reminiscences of Samuel Mackenzie, R.S.A.agent of the British Government, to William (1785-1847). Add. MS. 57972. Presented at

the request of the late Miss M. Leigh Pirie.Leaves (19) of the Norwich Priory Estate

Blathwayt; 1692-8. Add. MS. 57943.Cookery and medical receipts; 1688. Add. MS.

57944. Presented by Lady Cantlie.John Stow (1525-1605): autograph notebook

Survey, the remainder of which is StoweMS. 936; 14th century. Add. MS. 57973-

listing English and Welsh religious houses. Presented by the Dean and Chapter of NorwichAdd. MS. 57945. Cathedral.

Forgeries ofGoethe,W.H. Hudson, Lanfranc, Catalogues of the Music Library of KingLuther, Melanchthon, Nelson, Pope, and George V of Hanover (1819-78), grandson ofReynolds, mostly from the forgery collectionof James Tregaskis and Son. Add. MS. 57946.

Letters of Virginia Woolf relating to hersuicide; 18 Mar. 1941. Add. MS. 57947. Pre-sented by Mrs. Ian Parsons.

Roberto Gerhard: autograph score of hisConcerto for Orchestra, and notes relating toits performance; 1964-5. Add. MSS. 57948,

George III; 19th century. Add. MSS. 57974,57975-

Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846): corre-spondence and papers, 1824-58, n.d. Add.MS. 57976.

Keith Douglas (1920-44): letters to MargaretStanley-Wrench, ;:. 1938-43. Add. MS.57977-

57949- Presented by the Arts Council of Great John Wain (b. 1925): autograph notebook, etc.,Britain. relating to works published 1965, 1966. Add.

The Old Hall MS.: polyphonic mass settings MSS. 57978, 57979.and motets, compiled and written probably 'Reglement Vor Die Kbnigl. Preussische In-for the Chapel Royal; c. 1420. Add. MS. fanterie', 1743. Add. MS. 57980. Transferred57950. Purchased with the aid of contribu- from the Department of Printed Books,tions from the Shaw Fund and the Friends of 'A Catalogue of Prints, &c, selected from Bag-the National Libraries. ford's volumes among the Harleian MSS.

Johan Gottfried Gurlitt, Director of the Dec"̂ 1814.'Add.MS. 57982. Transferred fromDepartmental Records.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton: two albums ofdrawings, verse, etc., chiefly autograph;c. 1915-17. Add. MS. 57983 A, B. Presentedby Mrs. T. H. Bayley.

Sir Edward William Elgar, Bart., O.M.:autograph musical compositions supplement-ing Add. MSS. 47900-47908, etc. Add. MSS.

Klosterbergen School, Magdeburg: 'Ueberdie Mosaik', 1798, translated into English.Add. MS. 57951. Transferred from the ScienceReference Library.

A description of Rolling Carts and Wagons asbuilt by James Sharp, ironmonger; 1858. Add.MS. 57952. Transferred as above.

Howard Ferguson (b. 1908): autograph musicalcompositions; 1937-55. Add. MSS. 57954-57957- Presented by the composer.

Philip Arnold Heseltine (the composer Teter

57984-58068. Bequeathed in igyo by Mrs.Carice Irene Blake, daughter of the composer,and now incorporated. Add. MSS. 58051,

Warlock'): correspondence and papers; 1899- 58052 presented (igyi) by Miss H.S.Russell.1939. Add. MSS. 57958-57970 presented by Correspondence and papers of Francis LeNigel Heseltine, Esq., son of the composer; Poer Power (d. 1884), correspondent for The

Times, and of his family; 1811-1933, n.d.Add. MSS. 58069, 58070; Add. Ch. 75809-75811.

Robert Davenport: autograph verse dialogue;

58127 presented by A. H. Brewin, Esq.;58079 S.

St. Anselm: De Concordia Praescientiae etPraedestinationis; 12th century. Add. MS.57971- 1642. Add. MS. 58071.

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Dr. Cecil Bernard Oldnian (d. U)6Q), PrincipalKeeper of Printed Books, British Museum:correspondence, papers, and two MSS. fromhis collection. Add. MSS. 5S073-58077. Pre-sented by his widow, Mrs. Sigrid Oldman.

The Wyndham Payne Crucifixion: miniatureof the Crucifixion by Herman Scheerre;

England, c. 1420. Add. MS. 58078. Purchasedwith the aid of the National Art CollectionsFund and the Pilgrim Trust.

Sir Frederic Madden (d. 1873), Keeper ofManuscripts at the British Museum; notesfor his edition of the Historia Anglorum ofMatthew Paris. Add. MS. 58080.

Norman Nicholson (b. 1914): autograph draftsof poems published in 1972. Add. MS. 58081.

Reproductions of ten miniatures from theBamberg Apocalypse and two from the SeeonGospel-Book painted by Annette von Eckardt;1931. Add. MS. 58082. Presented by the artist'sdaughter. Professor Dr. Helene Homeyer.

Anthony Bertolacci (1776-1833), ControllerGeneral of Customs in Ceylon: commonplacebook and travel diary; c. 1815-33. Add. MSS.58083, 58084. Presented by his great-grandson,E. R. A. Bertolacci.

Charles de Sousy Ricketts, R.A. (1866-1931),and Charles Haslewood Shannon, R.A. (1863-1937), artists and connoisseurs: correspon-dence and papers; 1887-1930. Add. MSS.58085-58118. Presented in J955 in accordancewith the wishes of Ricketts and Shannon, byMrs. Marie Sturge-Moore and members of herfamily, and hitherto reserved.

John Dillon: play entitled 'Lorenzo; a Tale ofFlorence^ 1842. Add. MS. 58119.

Princess Dorothea Christoforovna Lieven(1785-1857): correspondence, mostly withher nephew. Count Constantine Bencken-dorfF; 1847-57. Supplementing Add. MSS.47236-47435. Add. MSS. 58121-58123.

Catalogue of the nobility, with painted coatsof arms; 17th century. Add. MS. 58124.

Thomas Adams (1785-1858), organist: musi-cal compositions; [1820?], n.d. Add. MS.58125.

Matyas Seiber: autograph vocal scores of twounpublished operettas; 1943-4. Add.MS.58126.

Hodgson & Co., book auctioneers of ChanceryLane: accompts, etc., supplementing Add.MSS. 54580-54723, and completing therecords of the firm until its acquisition bySotheby & Co.; 1920-67. Add. MSS. 58128-58148. Presented by Wilfrid B. Hodgson, Esq.

Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-94), archae-ologist, traveller, and diplomatist: corre-spondence and papers including familypapers; 1828-1947, n.d. SupplementingAdd. MSS. 38931-39164, etc. Add. MSS.58149-58202. Presented by Gordon Waterfield,Esq.

Charles Blacker Vignoles (1793-1875), railwayengineer: diaries; 1824-51. Add. MSS.58203-58206. Presented by his great-grandson,K.H. Vignoles, Esq., T.D., M.A.

John Conrath (d. 1837), attendant in the BritishMuseum: autograph notebook containing listsof Towneley and Elgin antiquities, diaryentries concerning the British Museum, etc.;1816-35. Add. MS. 58207. Presented by Dr.L.D.R. Patten.

Vellum roll pedigree, etc., of the Laurencefamily of Sevenhampton and Shurdington,CO. Glos., covering the period 1191-1668;I7th-i9th centuries. Add. MS. 58208 A-C.

Correspondence and papers of the Napierfamily, supplementing Add. MSS. 49086-49172, 54510-54564; 1790-1865. Add. MS.58209; Add. Ch. 75767, 75769-75790- Pre-sented by the executors of Mrs. Violet BunburyNapier.

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: corre-spondence, memoranda, etc.; 1867-73,n.d. Add. MSS. 58079V presented by F.N.Beaufort-Palmer, Esq.; 58210.

Sir E. A.T. Wallis Budge (1857-1934): albumof letters to Mrs. Robert Crawshay, presscuttings, etc.; 1934. Add. MS. 58211.

Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867-1962):letters to Eric George Millar, Keeper ofManuscripts, British Museum; 1920-62. Add.

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MS. 58212. Presented by the Friends of the papers; 1901-24, n.d. Add. MSS. 58227-National Libraries. 58234. Presented by Sir John Fisher Wentworth

Pedigrees, etc., with a few autograph additions Dilke, 5th Bart.and annotations by William Camden (1551- Paul Vychan Emrys Evans, M.P., Under-1623), extracted from heraldic visitations of Secretary of State for Dominion AffairsKent, Bedfordshire, and Huntingdonshire, 1942-5: correspondence and papers; 1914-1574-86; i6th-i7th centuries. Add. MS. 67. Add. MSS. 58235-58273. Presented by his58214. daughter Mrs. Carline Henderson.

Miscellaneous poems, chiefly by Henry King, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816): mis-copied by Thomas Manne, Chaplain of Christ cellaneous correspondence and papers, partlyChurch, Oxford, and others;!:. 1625-44. Add. autograph; 1772-1826, n.d. Add.MSS.MS. 58215. 58274-58277.

William Hayward of Tandridge Hall, co. Book of Hours, of Sarum use, in miniatureSurrey (knt. 1643): historical, genealogical, format and signed by the scribe, Rogerand heraldic collection; 17th century. Sub-sequently part of the Harleian Library. Add.MS. 58216.

Sir Robert Ker Porter (1777-1842): diarytravel log; of a journey through Persia fromBaghdad; 1818-19. Add. MS. 58217.

Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), Chief Justice:copy with autograph revisions and additions,of one of his five treatises against the jurisdic-tion of the Court of High Commission, withthe Preface to the treatises; 1610. Add.MS.58218.

Sir Robert Southwell (1635-1702), diplo-matist: diary and commonplace book; 1659.Add. MS. 58219.

Pynchebek; 1474. Add.MS. 58280. Presentedby Miss Marjorie Ball.

William Graily Hewitt (d. 1952): quill penfrom his workshop. Add. MS. 58281. Pre-sented by David Mure Wacher, Esq.

Vernon Scannell (b. 1922): notebook ofpoems, mostly pubhshed 1965-9. Add.MS.58282.

Sir Andrew Mitchell, K.B. (1708-71),diplomatist: correspondence and papers sup-plementing Add. MSS. 6804-6872, 11260-11262; 1729-99, n.d. Add. MSS. 58283-58367; Add. Ch. 75834-75836.

Kondaki in praise of Saint Barbara, etc; 1841.Rumanian in Cyrillic script. Add.MS. 58368.

Edward Southwell (1671-1730), Secretary of Henry Christy (1810-65): letters written to hisState for Ireland: journal of his visit toHolland, July-Aug. 1696, and letters to himfrom William Blathwayt, Secretary at War,1703-4. Add. MSS. 58220, 58221.

Appian, History of Rome, in Greek;c. 1450-60.Add. MS. 58224.

Frederick William Faber (1814-63), Superior

parents during his travels in Mexico, etc.;1856. Add. MS. 58369. Presented by LadyLabouchere.

Bible synopses; late 14th century. Add. MSS.58370, 58371. Presented by Miss Marjorie Ball.

John, Lord Hervey (1696-1743): fair copy of'Agrippina', an unpublished tragedy; c. 1736.

of the London Oratory, and others: poems Egerton MS. 3787.and letters; 1837-51, n.d. Add. MS. 58225. List of Commissioners of the Peace in EnglandPresented by F. Beaufort-Palmer, Esq.

Henry Devenish Harben, barrister and Fabian,and others: correspondence relating to themovement for women's suffrage in the BritishIsles; 1912-14. Add. MS. 58226.

and Wales; 1590. Eg. MS. 3788.Miscellaneous MSS., chiefly genealogical andheraldic, from the collections of the Grey andLucas families of Wrest Park, co. Bedford;i6th-i8th centuries. Eg. MSS. 3789-3795.

SirCharles Wentworth Dilke, 3rd Bart. (1874- Charter of Robert de Gresley recording an1918): correspondence, accompts, and legal agreement with his brother over lands in

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Derbyshire and Staffordshire; c.iibt. Add. -j^-jg^. Presented by Sir Peter Norton-Griffiths,Ch. 75766. Bart.

Warrant for payment of an annuity to Sir Army commissions, etc., to Prince ChristoferRobert Walpole; 1721-2. Copy. Add.Ch. Lieven; 1792-1821. Add.Ch.75812-75818.75768. Transferred from the Department of Army commissions, etc., to Gen. Sir JamesOriental Antiquities. Willoughby Gordon, ist Bart.; 1789-1835.

Confirmation by Richard de Clare of an agree- Add. Ch. 75819-75831.ment relating to Roydon, in Nettlestead, co. Accompt-roli of John de Sandale as PaymasterKent, with equestrian seal; c. 1175-1200. of the Gascon War, etc.; 1307. Add.Ch.Add.Ch. 75791. 75832.

List of properties in the fAfl5rf//a«(W of Alen9on Stewards' accompts of the manors of Naseby,and Essoy; 1435-9. Add. Ch. 75792. co. Northants., Clopton, co. Suffolk, etc..

Confirmation by John II, King of Portugal, of probably of Isabel de Fortibus; 1277-8.an agreement between Gon<;:alo Vaz and Add. Ch. 75833.Alvaro Teivas; 1482. Portuguese. Add.Ch.

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