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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 Jago Orlando Smith: Travel diary, describing 'The England of Elizabeth' (original title visits to Holland (1881), Cambridge (1883, 'The Elizabethan Age'); composed in 1955. 1884), and North Devon (n.d.). Illustrated Autograph. Short score and full score. Pre- with no carefully executed pen drawings sented by Mrs. Ursula Vaughan Williams by and watercolours. Add. MS. 60397. courtesy of Mrs. Muir Mathieson. Add. MS. A. C. Swinburne: Short story: 'A Nine Days' 60392. Wonder 1745'; [? 1862]. Autograph draft. Maps and charts: Including several by The manuscript is accompanied by a con- draughtsmen employed by or connected with temporary copy. Both were at one time in the the Board of Ordnance between 1776 and possession of John Camden Hotten, Swin- 1781; i8th and early 19th centuries. Add. burne's publisher. Add. MS. 60398. MS. 60393. Beauvale Papers: Correspondence and papers Bentley's Standard Novels: Copy for the printer of the Hon. Sir Frederick James Lamb, of the translation of Alessandro Manzoni's G.C.B. (1782-1853), Baron Beauvale 1839, 1 Promessi Sposi, published in London, 1834, 3rd Viscount Melbourne 1848, diplomatist; by Richard Bentley as The Betrothed (Bent- 1812-53, n-d- Presented by Her Majesty the ley's Standard Novels, no. 43), made up of Queen. Add. MSS. 60399-60483. printed text, in two volumes, of the transla- Miscellaneous literary and historical auto- tion by A. N. [Andrews Norton], published graphs, including some verses; c. 17th-19th as Lucia or The Betrothed (New York: George centuries. Included among the writers are Dearborn, 1834), interleaved and with Bernard Barton, Garibaldi, Edward Bulwer manuscript revisions and additions (in an Lytton, William Cobbett, Richard Cumber- unidentified hand). Additional annotations, land, R. L. Edgeworth, George IV, Letitia with directions for the printer concerning Landon, James Montgomery, Lord Nelson, proofs, etc., in the hand of Richard Bentley. James and Horatio Smith, Isaac Taylor, and Add. MSS. 60394, 60395. Sir Charles Yorke. Add. MS. 60484. Thomas Hardy's Visiting Book: Record of Savoy: Copies of edicts and letters patent of visitors received by Thomas Hardy, CM., Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, 1553-80, novelist, at Max Gate, Dorchester, between with related material. French. Add. MS. 2 June 1920 and 10 December 1927, with 60485. four entries made in 1928 and 1929 after his Revd. William Parr Greswell: Account-book; death. Add. MS. 60396. 1813-17. Add. MS. 60486.

187 Thomas Grenville, politician and bibliophile: Union Catalogue of Music and to the 1959 Letters, mainly addressed to; 1782-1842, Cambridge conference of the International n.d. Add. MS. 60487. Association of Music Libraries; 1945-63. Matthew Arnold: Letters to, from politicians, The correspondents include Otto Erich churchmen, men of letters, etc.; 1856-88, Deutsch. Add. MS. 60512. n.d., with one letter probably to one of his William Cole (1714-82), Cambridge anti- brothers; 1883. Add. MS. 60488. quary: 'Index to the Coats of Arms, Crests, Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky: Letters to etc., in Cole's Manuscripts (British Miss Mervyn Lagden and Miss Diana Wil- Museum)'; i9th-20th centuries. Presented by braham; 1936-44, n.d. Presented by Miss H. M. Colvin, Esq. Add. MS. 60513. Diana Wilbraham. Add. MS. 60489. Grant of arms and crest by Thomas Hawley, Julius Harrison Manuscripts: Autograph music Clarenceux King of Arms 1536-57, to manuscripts of Julius Allen Greenway Harri- Edmond Woode of Norwich; 10 December son; 1904-60, n.d. Presented by Mrs. Dorothie I Edw. VI [1547]. English. Decorated with a Harrison, widow ofthe composer. Add. MSS. foliated border, the arms in colour, and an 60490-60494. illuminated initial enclosing a portrait of the Stanford's 'Irish Symphony': Autograph full herald. Signed by Clarenceux, whose per- score ofthe 'Irish Symphony', op. 28, by Sir sonal and official armorial seals in skippets Charles Villiers Stanford; 1886-7. Add. MS. are appended. Add. MS. 60514. 60495. Beanlands Family: Commonplace book kept by Wooden Tablet with arithmetical problems Anne Beanlands, nee Garnett (d. 1872), with and division tables in Greek: Published by a few entries by her son Benjamin; containing D. S. Crawford, Papyri Michaelidae, 1955, poems and translations (some by her relative no. 62, pp. 131-5; 6th (}) century. Add. Richard Garnett, 1789-1850, philologist), MS. 60496. extracts from magazines, maxims, etc.; 1829- Greek Service-Book: Written by Marinos, 36. Presented by Mrs. Killick on behalf of Miss priest of Boua; 19th century. Add. MS. Beanlands. Add. MS. 60515. 60497. Jeremiah Milles: 'An Account of what I saw Boult Papers: Correspondence and papers of Remarkable between Venice and London'; Sir Adrian Boult, C.H. Presented by Sir 13 June-17 July 1734. A continuation of Adrian Boult, C.H. Add. MSS. 60498- Add. MS. 15763. Autograph. Add. MS. 60503. 60516. Sir Charles Hobhouse, 4th Bart., P.C. (1862- George Frederic Sharpe: Autograph vocal 1941): Journals; 1890-1915. Autograph music with accompaniments for strings or copies. Add. MSS. 60504-60507. full orchestra (60520), in full score, by Sketches of ecclesiastical furniture and fittings George Frederic Sharpe (1863-1947), to- by Joseph A. Pippet; late igth century. Add. gether with his autobiography; before 1899- MSS. 60508-60510. 1908, n.d. Presented by Miss Rita Sharpe, Thomas Grindlay (1869-1947): Working F.R.A.M., daughter of G. F. Sharpe. Add. manuscripts, testimonials and related papers MSS. 60517-60521. of the geographer Thomas Grindlay; 20th Travel diary of an unidentified Englishman; c. century. Add. MS. 60511. 1721. It describes his journey to and from British Museum Music Room: Official corre- Lorraine, by way of Southern England, spondence of Alexander Hyatt King as Northern France, and the Austrian Nether- Superintendent of the Music Room of the lands 18/29 April 1720-11/22 January 1721, British Museum, principally relating to the with notes of expenses incurred (see Add. MS. 34753 for a similar diary kept by Edward The pages containing these annotations are Southwell Jr. in 1723). Add. MS. 60522. listed in a note on the title-page. Presented The Gates Collection, Part II: Autograph music by Mrs. Moira Wells, at the wish of her late manuscripts of Douglas Young; 1958-74. husband, Geoffrey H. Wells. Add. MS. 60572. Part I of the Gates Collection, containing H. G. Wells: 'A Vision of Judgement' (collected manuscripts of Anthony Milner and Douglas in The Country ofthe Blind, 1911). Auto- Young, comprises Add. MSS. 59815-31. graph; c. 1899, heavily revised and corrected. Presented by William Gates, Esq. Add. MSS. Add. MS. 60573. 60523-60534. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: eight letters to her Ireland Letters: Letters of the composer John from her father and mother; 6 September Ireland to the Revd. Kenneth Charles 1809-21 May 1830. Also included are a letter Thompson; 1936-50 and 1951-62. Presented from Elizabeth to her father, n.d., and one by the Revd. K. C. Thompson. Add. MSS. from her father to 'Dear Betsy' addressed to 60535, 60536. Mrs. Moulton, 6 December 1795. Add. MS. Supplementary Strange Papers: Correspon- 60574- dence and papers of John Strange, F.R.S., Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Correspondence F.S.A. (1732-99), British Resident in Venice between herself and her mother; 1812-28. from 1773 to 1783. Add. MS. 60537. Also included are two letters from Mrs. Chapman Letters: Contemporary transcripts of Barrett to her daughter, Henrietta, and a letters from Colonel Frederick Edward letter from Elizabeth to Mrs. Peyton. Add. Chapman, C.B., R.E., to 'A', presumably his MS. 60575. wife or a near relation, relating to his service A. C. Swinburne: 'La Fille du Policeman'; in the Crimea. Add. MS. 60538. 1860-1. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, Bright Letters: Letters from John Bright, M.P., of one chapter and one leaf of another from to his cousin, Charles Wilson, mainly con- Swinburne's burlesque French novel; see cerning American slavery and family also Ashley MS. 5255. Add. MS. 60576. matters; 1853-69; together with miscel- Anthology of Middle English verse and prose; laneous material, 1861-1931. Add. MS. c. 2nd half of tbe 15th century to 3rd quarter 60539- ofthe i6th century; partly French and Latin. Diaries of Geoffrey H. Wells ('Geoffrey West', The anthology incorporates texts of fifteen 1900-43); 1917-43. Presented by Mrs. Moira apparently otherwise unrecorded poems; a Wells, at the wish of her late husband, prose dialogue between a lover and his lady, Geoffrey H. Wells. Add. MSS. 60540- entitled 'The Demaundes of love' and dated 60570. 1487; and a section of Latin and English Geoffrey H. Wells ('Geoffrey West'): Corre- sentences intended for translation by school- spondence concerning his book, H. G. Wells boys. Included among the later additions is (1930). Included are autograph letters from some keyboard music. The anthology has H. G. Wells (14 letters, 22 postcards, etc.), strong Winchester connections, in both con- Mrs. Catherine Wells (16 letters, etc.), Frank tent and provenance: the 15th-century bind- Wells (6 letters), and replies from Geoffrey ing is by the 'Virgin and Child' binder. Add. H. Wells (some annotated by H. G. Wells). MS. 60577. Add. MS. 60571. Thomas Wilkinson, the Quaker (d. 1836), of Geoffrey West (Geoffrey H. Wells): 'H. G. Yanwath: Papers; c. 1782-1827, n.d. Extracts Wells. A Sketch for a Portrait.' Typescript were published by Mary Carr, Thomas Wil- draft of the book published in 1930, with kinson: a friend of Wordsworth (1905). Add many autograph annotations by H. G. Wells. MSS. 60578-60580. 189 Supplementary Southwell Papers: Corre- Britten's War Requiem (Add. MS. 60610) spondence of the Southwell family, 1674- is at present on exhibition in the Department 1767, relating mainly to family, legal, finan- of Manuscripts. Add. MSS. 60593-60626. cial, estate, and business matters with a few Heimann Letters: Letters, concerned mainly letters on Irish political affairs including a with mutual studies of medieval manuscripts, number by Joshua Dawson. Formerly Phil- addressed to Dr. Adelheid Heimann by the lipps MSS. 8586 (Add. MSS. 60582-3) and Abbe Victor Leroquais; 1927-40; and Sir 10059 (Add. MS. 60581). Add. MSS. 60581- Sydney Cockerell; 1928-53. Presented by the 60583. recipient. Add. MS. 60627. Privy Wardrobe Account: The final account of Roll Chronicle of Peter of Poitiers; 'Compen- John Fleet, first Keeper of the Privy Ward- dium historiae in genealogia Christi'; written robe, to the Auditors of the Chamber for and illustrated in England about 1250. receipts and issues of the Privy Wardrobe; Amongst the additions to the basic text is a 16 July 1324-1 July 1341. Belonged to commentary on the Lord's Prayer at the end Craven Ord (lot 545 in his sale, 25 June of the roll. Ten coloured drawings and five 1829) and Sir Thomas Philhpps; Phillipps diagrams in red, blue, green, and yellow. MS. 3785. Add. MS. 60584. Formerly in the library ofthe Bristol Baptist Keith Douglas Papers: Poems, letters, and College. Add. MS. 60628. papers. Supplementary to Add. MSS. Psalter, in Latin, written and illuminated for 53773-6; 56355-60; 57977; and 59833-5- the use of a Benedictine nunnery, probably Add. MSS. 60585-60589. in the diocese of Bamberg; late 13th century. 'Aritmetica Mercantile' or 'Abaco': Treatise in According to an inscription at fol. 170^, the Italian, probably written at Venice, c. 1500, manuscript later belonged to Dorothea, containing the text of problems in a calli- daughter of the Margrave Albert Achilles of graphic hand, with solutions written in by Brandenburg, who was abbess of tbe Poor a pupil. Add. MS. 60590. Clares at Bamberg from 1498 until her death 'Benvenuto Cellini on casting bronzes', and in 1520. Book-plate of Rothschild of Ascott, other notes on methods of casting bronze, Wing, CO. Bucks. Add. MS. 60629. etc.; c. 1822: The volume has the book-plate The Ascott Album: A collection of cuttings of Sir John Hayford Thorold, ioth Bt., and from eight illuminated manuscripts, all many ofthe notes appear to be in his hand. traceable to the collection of William Young Presented by Mrs. J. Hull Grundy. Add. MS. Ottley (Sotheby's, 11-12 May 1838). Book- 60591. plate of Rothschild, Ascott, Wing, co. Bucks. Travel diaries of William Phelps, F.S.A., Add. MS. 60630. author of The History and Antiquities of Strachey Papers (Nineteenth Century Series): Somersetshire (see Add. MSS. 33S20-36); Correspondence and papers of the Strachey 1816 (Paris); 1826 (Scotland and the Lake family; mosdy 19th century. Add. MSS. District). Presented by Mtss Monica Morris, 60631-60654. great-great-niece of W. Phelps. Add. MS. Strachey Papers (Twentieth Century Series): 60592. Letters to (Giles) Lytton Strachey, the Britten MSS.: Compositions by Benjamin author, James Strachey, the psychiatrist, and Britten, CM. (Lord Britten) (1925-75)- other members of the Strachey family, in- These manuscripts are on loan to the cluding their correspondence with each Brinen-Pears Library, Aldeburgh. A micro- other; mostly 20th century. Add. MSS. 60655-60734. film copy (M. 881/1-5) is available for refer- Modern Calligraphy and Illumination by Edith ence in the Department of Manuscripts. 190 Bertha Crapper (27 March 1892-26 January Benjamin Fallowes of Maldon, Essex (fl. 1979)* great-niece of Thomas Crapper, the 1714-26). The plans, which are coloured and Victorian sanitary engineer: Miss Crapper on parchment, are bound in one volume. The studied her craft under Graily Hewitt. volume is incomplete, at least eight plans Bequeathed by the artist. Add. MSS. 60735- having been cut out (c. 1800, following the 60739. sale of those estates.^). The volume was Robert Robey Redmayne (1828-1907): 'A owned by the Marquess of Abergavenny in Retrospect'. Autograph copy. An account of 1935. Add. MS. 60746. the author*s home and school life in London, Phrenology: Stackpool E. and Florence H. Hertfordshire, and Cumberland, with brief O'Dell, 'A Phrenological Delineation of Mr. accounts of Coleridge, Wordsworth, and E. Rose'; July 1892; bound with A Phreno- Thomas Arnold of Rugby; c. 1833-44. Begun logical and Physiological Chart, 12th edn., by c. 1875 or after 1880, possibly revised 1895; the same authors (an abridgement of S. E. apparently unpublished. Add. MS. 60740. O'Dell, Phrenology, ist edn. 1882), with 'Catechism of Instrumentation', by John Hiles many of its tables completed with the (d. 1882), organist and composer; 19th cen- measurements of E. Rose. Transferred from tury. The manuscript of an unpublished the British Library Lending Division. Add. book, with musical examples. Add. MS. MS. 60747. 60741. Philip Heseltine ('Peter Warlock'), Bernard 'The Tale of the Waterdalers': An unfinished Van Dieren and others: Letters to E. Arnold version in English by Robert George Collier Dowbiggin, with copies of six letters from Proctor, bibliographer (d. 1903), ofthe first Dowbiggin to Heseltine; 1927-35. Add. MS. thirty-three chapters ofthe Icelandic Vatns- 60748. dcela Saga; apparently unpublished. Trans- Philip Heseltine: 'Mourn no Moe': Song for ferred from the Department of Printed Books. voice and string quartet; 'Composed for voice Add. MS. 60742. and piano. Spring 1919. Re-written, for voice Yugoslav Legation and Embassy in Washing- and strings. Autumn 1927'. Autograph score, ton: Correspondence and papers, largely and copies of transposed string parts. Letters typewritten copies, of Captain Gordon from Bernard Van Dieren in Add. 60748 Gordon-Smith of the Yugoslav Legation in refer to the loss of the original string parts. Washington, together with correspondence Add. MS. 60749. and papers of Embassy Officials relating to Elizabeth Jane, Lady Waterpark (d. 1894): transactions with the United Nations Relief Diary as Lady in Waiting to Queen Victoria, and Rehabilitation Administration; 1930-3; 1865-91; with records of occasional attend- 1935-6; 1945. English, French, and Serbo- ances on the Queen, May 1892-July 1893, Croat. Add. MSS. 60743, 60744. copied from her original diary by Lady Album of letters (about 300) from architects, Waterpark and her daughter Susan Caven- artists, and public figures, mostly to Sydney dish: with annotations by a descendant, Joan Smirke (1798-1877), architect ofthe British Tanner. The diary also includes copies of Museum Reading Room; 19th century. (See correspondence, apparently unpublished, also Add. MS. 59847.) Add. MS. 60745. between Lady Waterpark and her daughter Abergavenny Estates: Fifteen plans of the and the Queen, her officials, and others; estates of George Neville, nth Baron Aber- 1863-94. The diary also contains a list of gavenny (1659-1721), in Monmouthshire, owners (1894-1971) on the title-page. Add. Herefordshire, and Worcestershire, surveyed MS. 60750. (in June-August 1718) and drawn by Lady Waterpark: Photograph album containing 191 photographs of members of the Royal Army commissions to members of the Stace Family; [before December i86i]-i867, n.d.: family; 1823-55. Presented, with Add. MS. Included are photographs of the Queen and 5g8g2L by Miss Mary Stella Edwards. Add. Prince Albert, of the Princesses Alice, Ch. 75857-75860. Helena, Louise, and Beatrice, the Princes Roll inventory of goods and chattels in a house Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Christian of in St. Olave's parish, Southwark (the owner's Schleswig-Holstein, and of John Brown. name obliterated); 1665. Presented by J. Add. MS. 60751. Tilley, Esq. Add. Ch. 75861. Fernando de Arteaga y Pereira: Poems read to Inspeximus and recital of deeds from Ex- the South Wales Branch of the Anglo- chequer records relating to Thomas Little- Spanish and Spanish-American Institute of ton's title to Atley manor, co. Wore; London on 23 April 1931. Autograph fair 6 February 1466. Exchequer seal. Add. Ch. copies. The collection consists of eighteen 75862. short poems and an introduction in verse. Charters relating to the Ayrton family; 1785- Transferred from the British Library Lending 1808. Acquired with Add. MSS. 60358-81. Division. Add. MS. 60752. Add. Ch. 75863-75865. Contemporary transcript of documents relating Receipt from Richard [BiUington], Abbot of to the marriage of Mary Tudor to Louis XII Hulton, CO. Staff., to Sir Richard Wihtng- of France, 1514, with penwork initials and ton, (probably Sir Richard Wynynton, of coloured armorial bearings of Mary as Queen Winnington, near Northwich, co. Cheshire); of France. Max and Maurice Rosenheim 21 July 1407. With seal. Presented by Mrs. R. Library book-plate; Phillipps MS. 10824; Delaney. Add. Ch. 75866. Egerton MS. 3800. Miscellaneous charters relating to cos. Staflf., Notebook containing exercises and diagrams York, etc.; c. 1272-1586. Presented as 75866. on navigation, geometry, and arithmetic, Add. Ch. 75867-75872. sailing directions, astronomical tables, and Letters Patent of Edward I to Guy, Count of various miscellaneous entries including 'A Flanders, relative to the discharge of the present Metson for the Agewe' attributed to Count's liabilities under the Treaty of 'Sr Water Raylishe 1616'. Written in various Montreuil-sur-Mer (1274); 15 February hands, c. 1600 to 1616, and apparently con- 1286: Great Seal (Imperfect). Cal. of Patent nected with the English East India Com- Rolls, 1289-92, p. 223. Add. Ch. 75873. pany. Formerly in the collection of Boies Miscellaneous documents from the Carnarvon Penrose. Transferred from the Map Lihrary. Papers, Add. MSS. 60757-61100; [1864?]- Egerton MS. 3801. 1900. Add. Ch. 75874-75878.

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