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8 p. 18 cm.

6 p., with address.
23 x 19 cm.
About Wotton parochial matters.

4 p.
23 x 18 cm.
With postscript by Mrs. Hill, 1 p.
About Hill's injured leg.

Two ALS signed to different
recipients, the first a short letter
regarding the poet John Milton's
(1608-1674) will, with mention of
Thomas Tyrwhitt (1730-1786)
as well; the second a brief social
letter to a Rev. Price.
ACC: 91.12.24 (43.371)

The first ALS mentions Dawson Turner
in connection with a payment of
money. The second letter, to Dawson
Turner, is in regard to Wright's
inability to meet him at the Atheneum
the last two days and sets up an
appointment for breakfast.
Accompanied by: two pages of printer's
copy-text for the revised 1835 edition
of James Boswell's 'Tour of the
Hebrides,' prepared from J. W. Croker's
edition of 1831.
With annotations by Wright and
John Wilson Croker (1780-1857).
ACC: 91.8.2 (43.169)

5 p.
18 x 11 cm.
Comments on D H Lawrence and Arnold
Bennett.

1) ALS to "Sir," 1791 Jun 30, dated
from "Stanislaus Hulk, Woolwich,"
petitioning for an early release
from his sentence and offering to
"instantly leave this country" if
freed.
Signed: "J. G. Semple."
Docketed: "Major Semple."
2) ALS to "Sir," 1799 Oct 2, dated
from "Governors House, Tothill
Fields, Westminster," sending a copy
of his autobiography (not present)
and stating that he has been "six
months the inmate of a prison without
the smallest allowance."
Signed: "J.G.S. Lisle."
Acc.: 04.1.17

2 p. 24 x 19 cm.
Instructions for the distribution
of several of his works, including
"The Frogs of Aristophanes" and
"Cider a poem by John Milton", as
well as a request for blank signed
receipts.

Various subjects, including Gothic
Architecture, Rome and Antiquity,
Church History and Greek Tragedy. He
offers his opinion on various works
by Fontenelle, Van Dale, Huygens,
Peronese, Moshemius, Euripides,
Apollonius and Virgil. Also, one
autograph note signed, a bill of
payment.
ACC: 91.12.24 (43.365)

5 p.
11 x 9 cm.
Concerns the distribution of
prospecti for a literary society
Buckingham had organized.

2 p.
18 x 11 cm.

3 p. 21 x 13 cm.
Seeking information on an Historical
MS.

6 p.
20 cm.

6 p.
20 x 13 cm.

11 p.
31 x 20 cm.

4 p.
19 x 15 cm.
On the rejection of "ye bill for ye
preservation of His Majesty's person
and Government", and preferment for
Mr. Coningsby, a vacant bishopric,
etc.

3 p. 18x11 cm.;
Returns a paper on the Earl of
Strafford and sends thanks for
information on Boscobel and Royal
Oak Day.

2 p.
18 cm.

3 p. Various sizes.

5 p.
18 x 11 cm. and 10 x 16 cm.

2 p. Various sizes.
Dinner invitations.

2 p. Various sizes.

4 p. 18 x 11 cm.

4 p. Various sizes.

2 p. Various sizes.
The first letter concerns the
details of a meeting and the
second concerns Army business.

4 p.
18 x 11 cm.

Each 1 p. 9 x 14 and 12 x 8 cm.

4 p.
23 x 18 cm.
Asks recipient to help his nephew
receive a promotion to the army.

5 p. 23 x 19 cm.
On an increase in salary for
Scottish judges.

3 p.
18 x 11 cm.

2p., with address. 20 x 16 cm.

The first discusses the death of his
sister-in-law and the refusal of
"the Panthecnicon" to deliver
Coesvelt's "goods" to Beckford,
as well as directions for his will.
The second gives more specific
instructions about the disposition
of specific works of art, and
prices for unsold paintings by
Italian masters.
ACC: 97.12.2 (44.414)

2 p. 21 x 15 and 22 x 18 cm.
General [?George] Ramsay asks
for a few days' leave to attend
to pressing affairs in England.
Maccartney asks about means of
transporting to Flanders two
battalions of Scottish Guards
which he is recruiting, and
if his Majesty will allow
draughts for the embarkation
of both battalions.

3 p.
18 x 11 cm.
Information requested, and return
of material.

8 p. 18 x 11 cm.
Concerns collections of national
music and references to songs.

2 p.
18 x 11 cm.
Letters discuss Wright's edition of
Walter de Henley for the Camden
Society.

Concerning Bennett's poems; the
letter to an unidentified
correspondent discusses the education
of English children in Germany.
ACC: 99.1.2 (44.589)

Two letters from Drake to the
booksellers Cadell and Davies, both
relating to Drake's Literary Hours,
in particular to the third edition
published in 1804.
Publishers and publishing.
ACC: 95.7.7 (44.234)

Expresses thanks for being awarded
the medal of the Royal Humane Society
and discusses his writings.
ACC: 92.4.6 (43.452)

News of ill health; writes of
acquaintances.

Social and family news and poem by
Flaxman honoring Hayley. Description
of Royal Exhibition and of statue
for Petworth.
ACC: 90.5.4 (43.14)

8 p. 23 x 18 and 24 x 18 cm.

12 p.
Various sizes.

8 p.
23 x 18.5 cm. and 22.7 x 18.6 cm.

8 p.
32.1 x 20.2 cm.
Part of last page of Jul 9 1789 letter
is ALS to Thomas Alphonso Hayley.

5 p., with addresses. 24 x 20 and
23 x 19 cm.
Plans to stop painting and open a
bank at Dartmouth. Hodges is
concerned about his place in a
coalition proposed, including
Cowper and Romney; Hodges's silence
threatens their friendship.

8 p., with addresses. 23 x 19 cm.

6 p., with addresses. 24 x 19 cm.
Accompanied by another ALS, undated,
and another incomplete.

2 p.
23 x 17 cm.

2 p., with address.
Various sizes.
Concerns the Literary Gazette.

5 p., with address.
23 x 19 cm.

Family news; small pox inoculation;
the "dreadful catastrophy" of a
fight outside a public house in
Aylesbury.
ACC: 90.6.42 (43.51)

4 p. 18 x 11 cm.

4 p. 18 x 11 cm.
Documents and books.

2 p.
18 x 11 cm.
On access to Dublin manuscripts.

3 p., with address.
14 x 16 cm.
About Brown's Dogs and Green's
transatlantic balloon.

4 p. and 1 p., with address.
22 x 18 cm.
Address is in the autograph of
William Kerr, Secretary General of
the Post Office, Edinburgh, with his
signature as frank.
Endorsed: Lord Buchans Letter; and
numbered in a different hand.

Both concerning "The Mock Election."
The first concerns proper finishing
for the canvas; the second mentions
the death of Edward Smith, who had
posed for the painting.
Acc.: 03.8.3

1 p. 18 x 12 cm.
1 p. 23 x 19 cm.
Second letter endorsed by Smith.

4 p. 18 x 12 cm.
2 p. 18 x 12 cm.
First letter annotated by Smith.

8 p.
24 x 19 cm.

3 p. 18 x 15 cm.
Letters discuss antiquarian and
personal matters.

3 p.
23 x 18 cm.
Stukeley's antiquarian research.

2 p., with address.
20 x 16 cm.
On Stukeley's settling in at
Grantham.

6 p., with address.
33 x 21 cm.

2 p., with address.
30 x 19 cm.

Good's dissatistfaction with his
compensation from Wilks for
editing "The Gallery of Nature and
Art"; solicits Tooke's opinion
of the work.
ACC: 98.3.6 (44.487)

2 p.
18 x 11 cm.
Asks for a priced catalogue of Joseph
Ames's books.

3 p., with address. 23 x 19 cm.
The first letter requests a pass for
Blanco White.
The second letter declines a lecturing
engagement.

2 p., with address. 23 x 19 cm.
Discusses Upcott's autograph
collection and the exchange of
catalogues and duplicates.
Symmons has given two Frenchmen
letters of introduction.

4 p.
17 x 11 cm.

8 p.
23 x 19 cm.

Section was removed and replaced
with contemporary facsimile; address
not replaced. Letter on behalf
of William Strahan (1715-1785);
church politics, advancement and
procuring books.
ACC: 91.8.11 (43.178)

4 p. 22 x 19 cm.
Subscribers and their payments.

2 p. 20 x 19 cm. and 23 x 19 cm.

1 p., with address, and 1 p.
30 x 19 cm. and 18 x 15 cm.
Figures on property for sale,
and thanks for prompt attent.

30 p.
23 x 19 cm.
Discusses Burges's Richard I (2 v., 1801) in great detail.

2 p., with address.
19 x 13 cm. and 23 x 19 cm.

6 p. 18 x 11 cm.;
Extract from Junius transcribed by
Spencer Perceval.

2 p.
22 x 17 cm.
Accompanied by 2 ALS by Jeffrey
Wybergh and 1 ALS by Israel Feilding,
probably also addressed to Lonsdale.
All letters report on negotiations for
the Treaty of Ryswick, including one
with transcription of a clause by which
Louis XIV promised not to assist James
II.

Sending letters to be delivered
relative to her intended journey
to Ireland. One seeks intercession
to "protect her from the insult and
imposition...both from the Managers
of the English as well as the Irish
theatres." The second letter seeks
the protection of Sydney and William
Pitt (1759-1806) and concerns an
application to the king to that
effect. Women writers.
ACC: 92.6.30, 92.6.31 (44.2)

AMS of "1827," his sonnet on the Greek question, and AMS, corrected, of an untitled sonnet on great poets, beginning "Homer and Dryden, not unfrequently." Untitled sonnet docketed in another hand: "Lord Hollands sonnet on Milton." Acc.: 03.1.6

"Epitaphs: On Joseph Hill Esq- May
1811/On Maria Howe...."

Written on single sheet: "On my
Describing Mr. Cowper, A Poem
Ornamented by Mrs. Montagu with
a suit of hangings made entirely
of the most beautiful feathers" and
"Annus Mirabilis 1789 in commemoration
of his Majesty's Happy Recovery."
Annotated in pencil: "This is the
handwriting of Lady Hesketh, cousin
of Cowper".
ACC: 97.10.4 (44.396)

9 x 21 cm. and 10 x 21 cm.
Accepted by Cadell, with his
signature.

2 p.
33 x 21 cm. and 31 x 19 cm.

1) Receipt for a pension payment
to Nicholas Tamson, manuscript on
paper, signed by Pole and Tamson,
1599 Jan 26;
2) Fair copy of the testimony of
Simon Ousley before William Pole,
signed by Pole, 1616 Dec 1.
Accompanied by engraved portrait
of Pole.
Acc.: 04.12.49

2 p. 19 x 35 cm.
The leasing of Wortley Manor by
Thomas and Robert Beverley to
Francis Taylor and his sons.

2 p.
30 x 20 cm., 29 x 19 cm.
Receipts for payment, the first for
his annuity from Tangier, the second
for household services to James,
Duke of York.

2 p.
30 x 19 cm., 20 x 15 cm.
Orders for artillery supplies.

One declaration by Joseph Watson to
conform to the Liturgy of the Church
of England, signed by Tomline
admitting him to the Vicarage of
Godmanchester in the County of
Huntington; one requisition for Bibles,
Testaments, and Common Prayer Books
to Rev. Dr. [George] Gaskin, 1751-1829,
Secretary of the Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge (SPCK).
ACC: 80.1.2 (42.52)

"Vpon the Peticion of Mr John
Weston against Mr. Ffoot Onslow
for ye Borough of Guildford in the
Country of Surry" and "Mr Onslow's
Case upon Guilford Election."
Include lists of eligible and
challenged voters.
ACC: 98.8.14 (44.558)

10 x 24 cm.

3 p. 32 x 20 cm.
Inquires as to his request to
retire from the service, "such
being the urgency of my private
concerns."

3 p. 23 x 14 cm.
Concerning the death of William
Hamper and asking Sharp to
contribute an obituary notice to
the Gentleman's Magazine.
Accompanied by 3 ALS of Sharp to
Nichols, May-June 1831, about the
obituary, 3 papers of notes for
the obituary, corrected proof
of John Britton's account of Hamper
for the Literary Gazette, and a
cutting of the Gentleman's
Magazine obituary.

2 p.
18 x 14 cm. and 20 x 18 cm.
In both letters, looking forward to
meeting.

1 p. each.
23 x 19 cm.

1 p. each
24 x 18 cm.

4 p. 32 x 20 cm.
About the appointment of a Customs
Officer at Southampton.