Sir Robert Peel (2nd Bart.): thirty-six letters to Sidney Smirke, R.A.., concerning building work at Drayton Manor, PeeFs country seat, and in the village of Drayton. Add. MS. 59847.
Supplementary Stopes Papers: papers relating to the marriage of Marie Carmichael Stopes and Reginald Ruggles Gates (^. 1882,^. 1962).
Presented by Mrs. Laura Ruggles Gates. Add.
MS. 59848.
Joseph Samuel Prendergast, M.D. (surgeon to
Lord Raglan at Army Headquarters, Crimea): fifty-three letters to his family (31 December i854-3July 1855)-Add. MS: 59849-
Notes on the Prendergast Family (1879) by the 4th Viscount Gort, with addenda by
A. H. D. Prendergast [c. 1912.'']; typewritten
c. 1912, with later MS. additions chiefly by
Jeffrey Prendergast; c. i939-[after 1957].
Add. MS. 59850.
Palmerston Papers: Miscellaneous material relating to the Palmerston family; [after Nov.
1789-mid i9rh cent.]. Add. MSS. 59851-
59854-
The Gower Missal: Missal, in Latin, Sarum use, written and illuminated c. 1400, and probably the 'one large new missaP bequeathed to the Augustinian priory of St.
Mary Overy (now Southwark Cathedral) by
John Gower in 1408. Add. MS. 59855.
Missal, in Latin, Sarum use, executed in the
196 first half of the fifteenth century, possibly for the church of St. Mary, Horsham, Sussex.
Add. MS. 59856.
Psalter, in Latin, executed perhaps at London after 1457. Cambridge binding ofthe first half ofthe sixteenth century. Add. MS. 59857.
Bernard Naylor: 'Stabat Mater' for women's voices and orchestra; 1962. Full score. Pre-
sented by the composer. Add. MS. 59858.
Dame Myra Hess: Press cuttings relating to her career, in three volumes as follows:
Vol. I: 1901-1936; Vol. I I : 1937-1949;
Vol. I l l : 1949-1965. Presented by Dr. Howard
Ferguson. Add. MSS. 59859-59861.
Breviary, in Latin, Sarum use, executed for the diocese of Norwich; c. 1450. London blindtooled binding by R. Pynson, c. 1500. Add.
MS. 59862.
St. Leo the Great: Sermons, in Latin, written by a scribe Angelus, and illuminated, probably at Florence in the third quarter ofthe fifteenth century. Italian fifteenth-century binding.
Add. MS. 59863.
Georgios Akropolites: Chronicle (full version) in Greek; c. 1330-50. Phillipps MS. 15753.
Add. MS. 59864.
Robert Stywarde of Ely (d. 1570): Attestation by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of
Arms 1557-67, of his genealogy and right to arms; 1558. Latin. Add. MS. 59865.

George Eliot's Blotter: a folding writing-case, containing six columns of writing in George
Eliot's hand, the text comprising mainly an anthology of passages, in Greek, Latin, Italian,
French, German and English, but also a list of projected themes for poems; c. 1868. Add.
MS. 59866.
Anonymous Journal of a tour to the Lake
District by way of Oxford and the Midlands;
I JuIy-30 Sept. 1809. Add. MS. 59867.
William Cowper (d. 1800): copy of his autobiographical memoir; 17 Sept. 1815. Add.
MS. 59868.
Collection of Pieces for solo lyra viol, in tablature, by Charles Coleman, Drew, John
Esto, Sir Edward Golding, J. Crome, Simon
Ives, John Jenkins, William Lawes, John
Lilly, Thomas Mace, Steiffkins, Robert Wadham, and William Young, with many anonymous pieces, atid, in staff notation, two sets of divisions (one by Henry Butler), and the bass part of a piece by John Banister; mid 17th cent.-f. 1680. Bound with a copy of the first edition ot Christopher Simpson: The Division-
Violist; 1659. ^^^- MS. 59869.
Sir Edward Elgar: 'Arthur. A Tragedy.'
Autograph full score of the incidental music to Laurence Binyon's play, 'King Arthur', first performed at the Old Vic, 12 Mar. 1923.
Add. MS. 59870.
Edmund Yates, author and founder of The
World newspaper; diary for Jan.-May 1885, covering his appeal against conviction for criminal libel, his imprisonment in Holloway, and the subsequent release and celebratory dinner; acquired together with a few letters mainly relating to The World, including two letters of G. K. Chesterton and one addressed to Charles Dicketis from his friend Henry
Porter Smith; 1867-1904, n.d. The letters are now Add. MS. 59846E. Add. MS. 59871.
Jean de Belleville: three poems on the death of
Gaston de Foix, Due de Nemours, killed at the battle of Ravenna in 1512; i6th cent.
French. PhillippsMS. 3645. Add. MS. 59872.
Organbook containing a collection of English hymn tunes, chants, etc., including a few attributed to composers such as William
Shrubsole, Samuel Wesley, John L. Hatton, arrangements by Vincent Novello, R. Crompton, J. C. Tapp, etc., and excerpts from works by Mozart, Handel and Haydn, and
Flotow's opera 'Martha'; mid 19th cent.
Presented by Mtss Rosa Merrifield. Add. MS.
59873-
Jane Austen: 'Volume the Second', comprising later autograph copies of early compositions dating from c. 1790-93. These include two brief epistolary novels, 'Love and Freindship' and 'Lesley Castle', and a parodic 'History ofEngland', the latter illustrated with coloured vignettes by her sister Cassandra. Add. MS.
59874-
The Charter: An Epic Poem in three Books, beginning 'The scene of noble strife whence
England draws'; 1771. Imperfect. Presented
by Miss Rosa Merrifield. Add. MS. 59875.
Sergeant John Ramsbottom of the i st Bombay
European Regiment Fusiliers: Letters, chiefly from Multan Fort and relating to the Indian
Mutiny; 1854-58. Add. MS. 59876.
Arnold Bennett: seventeen letters to Michael
Morton concerning the latter's dramatisation of Riceyman Steps; 1925-28. Add. MS.
59877-
Thomas Hardy: autograph draft of 'A Reconsideration on my eighty-sixth birthday', published posthumously in Winter Words as
'He never expected much'. Add. MS. 59878.
Anthony Milner: Compositions; 1945-69.
Autograph. Presented by the composer. Add.
MSS. 59879-59881.
Gustave Hoist: Orchestral parts for 'Choral
Hymns from the Rig Veda, Second Group', op. 26 (H98). Copies with autograph annotations and corrections. Presented by Stainer
& Bell Ltd. Add. MSS. 59882, 59883.
Parish Registers: Transcripts from the parish registers of Upper Slaughter, co. GIos.,
Cotham, co. Notts., and Redbourne, co.
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Herts., and the parish chest of Dovercourt,
CO. Essex, by J. E. K. Cutts; 1929. Presented through John A. Moldenhauer of Guelf, Canada.
Add. MS. 59884.
Browne Willis {1682-1760), antiquary: topographical and church notes for cos. Bucks..,
Beds, and Herts.; c. 1728. Reversing the volume are brief notes on Bk. I of W. Blaeu,
De usu globorum (Oxford, 1665). Presented by
Frank MacDonaid, Esq. Add, MS. 59885.
Paris: notebook, containing extracts from the diary of J. E. Davies, a British resident in
Paris during the 1848 Revolution, for the period 22 Feb.-8 Sept. 1848. Add. MS.
59886.
Disraeli Papers: Letters and papers of and relating to Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield ; together with a letter of Isaac D'Israeli, his father; [before 8 Feb. i8o2]-i88o; n.d.
Add. MS. 59887.
Thomas Haines (/>. If. 1799, (/. 1843): collection of six plays in one vol. Add. MS. 59888.
'Fratricide Punished or Prince Hamlet of Denmark'; version in English^ used by William
Poel [b. 1852, d. 1934) for his production at the Oxford Playhouse, 4 Aug., 1924, of the anonymous play based on the Hamlet story known as'Der bestrafteBrudermord'. Carbon
copy of the typescript, with a few MS. annotations, alterations and musical directions.
Presented by Alan Edmtston, Esq. Add. MS
59889.
William Travers: 'Diavoletti or A Gipsy's
Vengeance', an alternative and longer version of a play by Travers entitled 'The Trouhadour or the Gypsy's Vengeance' which was first performed at the City of London Theatre,
14 Aug. 1858; before 1861. Add. MS.
59890 A.
A printed copy of an English version of 'II
Trovatore' by William E. Suter from Lacy's
Acting Edition, vol. 56; c. i860. The titlepage is missing. Add. MS. 59890 B.
W. H. Auden: autograph fair-copy, sent to the parents of the dedicatee, Jonathan Warner, of his poem 'Roar Gloucestershire, do yourself proud'; c. Easter 1931. Add. MS. 59891.
Phihp Jackson: Journal from Bombay to
England over land; 11 Nov. 1796-1 May
1797. Egerton MS. 3799.
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