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After much discussion Mr (Thomas?) Trye has agreed for £130 for their four twelfth shares of Glasse’s Cookery, to be paid on their signing the assignment, which is to be made at Tonson’s expense, and they are to deliver to Tonson the two manuscript assignments in their possession relating to the copyright.

‘Quæ sinistra nobis videntur coelum intuentibus, illic dextra sunt.’ Dated at Gotha.

(Engraved by Henry Richard Cook from a drawing by Satchwell.)

Whenever B’s Grecian History is reprinted or whenever Abraham Stanyan’s Account of Switzerland is reprinted, A promises to pay B ten guineas for the first and five guineas for the second. He also promises to give him 35s. a volume for as many volumes of Rymer’s Fœdera* as shall be published.

Various texts in Hebrew and German. Coloured.

Buckingham Palace. - The Queen will be 'very grateful' if Lord Surrey continues 'to procure flowers for her Rooms and Bouquets, as [he has] so kindly done, till now'.

(The heading continues ‘Chant de guerre—composé pour la descente projetée en Angleterre en l’an 6 (1798) et devenu par suite le Chante de Guerre de l’armée d’Egypte—Par Rouget de Lisle.’ First line: ‘Aux armes! qu’aux chants de la Paix’.)

Dated at Geneva. Calvét subscribes himself ‘Caissier des Postes suisses allemagne & djtalie’. Printed in L’Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Oeuvres Historiques, part ii (1835), p. 3747.

‘Summum in ignorantia est opinio scientiæ.’ Dated at Frankfurt an der Oder. Numbered 131.

(The subscription is, ‘Embellished, under the direction of C. Cooke. Novr. 15th. 1794. Designed by C. Cooke, Drawn by R. Corbould, and Engraved by C. Warren.’)

Richmond.—Looks forward to seeing him for dinner on Sunday.

(Dated Friday, 6 June. Numbered 42.)

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Richmond frid[a]y 6 June

You are a good Lord to think of the amusement of the two old Women at Richmond—They gratefully receive you proferred visit on Sunday—They dine at seven Oclock—And I sincerely hope my poor Agnes will be better able to profit by your tales of the Ball than she has been lately

Yrs sincerely
M Berry

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Docketed ‘Miss Berry’. Numbered ‘42’ in the top left-hand corner in pencil.

Richmond.—Invites him to dinner.

(Dated Thursday, 20 May. Numbered 44.)

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I am like the Ministry, I will not resign the pleasure of your company & beg you will come & dine with us on Monday next at ½ past 6—Mr Craufurd will give you this & settle with you about coming together—

M Berry

Richmond
thursy 20 May

[Superscription:] R: M: Milne† Esqr MP. | Pallmall

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Numbered ‘44’ in the top left-hand corner in pencil.

† Sic.

Curzon Street, (London).—Invites him to call this evening.

(Dated Saturday, 22 Mar. Numbered 45.)

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If you have any Moments to spare do come & see y[ou]r old sick friends this Evening, & tell us what place you are going to fill in any of the new Governments that you may think fit to give us

Y[ou]rs very sincerely
A Berry

Curzon St
Saturday 22 March

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Numbered ‘45’ in the top left-hand corner in pencil.

(Text only, engraved by John Girtin. Undated.)

(Dated ‘aprul [th]e 31 1778’.)

Curzon Street, (London).—Invites him to dinner.

(Dated Tuesday, 23 Apr. Numbered 43.)

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Every Evening I have been hoping to see you & every day to thank you for your magnificence in the character of Vertumnus—But in vain. As I am about to depart from this life—of London, I begin to be anxious to make a good use of my time, let me hope therefore, that you can give us the pleasure of your Company at dinner on Saturday next the 29th—that, & Sunday, are now the only Evengs I can call my own

M Berry

Curzon St
tuesy 23 | April

[Superscription:] R. M: Milnes Esqr M.P. | Pallmall 26

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Numbered ‘43’ in the top left-hand corner in pencil.

Richard Mynsterley, one of the messengers of the Queen’s Chamber, asks for an allowance of £5 16d. for riding at the command of the Lord High Treasurer (the Marquess of Winchester) from the Treasurer’s place at London to Bedford and Buckingham to deliver ten letters to the lords and collectors there, and from thence to Warwickshire to deliver seven letters to the lords and collectors there, and from thence to Nottingham and Derby to deliver four letters to the lords and collectors there, and from thence to Staffordshire to deliver four letters to the lords and collectors there and a packet to the sheriff of that place, and from thence to Shropshire to deliver three letters to the collector there. Mynsterley asks for an allowance for his charges and pains to be rated by the Treasurer at 2s. 8d. a day and paid by one of the tellers of the Receipt at Westminster. ‘I was xxxviij dayes out in thys Jorney.’

(Marked ‘fiat All[ocatum]’, and signed by the Marquess of Winchester.)

Copy by Henry Thurstan Holland, signed and dated.

(Undated. Headed: ‘Air du Chant du Départ.’ First line: ‘Les traités sont rompus: l’insulaire perfide’. Subscribed: ‘Crouzet, Proviseur du Prytanée français.’)