Richmond.—Invites him to dinner.
(Dated Sunday evening, 30 May. Numbered 39.)
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Will Res publica allow you to come & dine with us on thursday next 3 June at ½ past six O clock?
M Berry
R.S.V.P.
Richmond
Sun[da]y Eve[nin]g
30th May
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Numbered ‘39’ in the top left-hand corner in pencil.
Headed ‘Air: Quand Biron voulut danser.’ First line: ‘Voici le Pas-de-Calais’.
Signed by James Silk Buckingham (member) and James Alexander Silk Buckingham (secretary).
(Undated. The catalogue referred to in the notice was issued in 1862.)
Curzon Street, (London).—Is unable to see him before he goes to Paris or write him an introductory letter to Mrs Graham.
(Dated Friday, 4 Dec. Numbered 34.)
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Curzon St Friday 4 Dec[embe]r
I am sorry not to be able to see you before you go to Paris, & not at present in a state of mind to write you such an introductory letter, as I should wish, to Mrs Graham—But you will find many persons at Paris who will introduce you to her, & when you return, I hope I shall be able to profit by your account of your intercourse with her, & with your view of the present curious state of the public mind at Paris—I am always very sincerely y[ou]rs
M Berry
Curzon Street, (London).—Sends a message to introduce him to Mrs Graham.
(Black-edged paper. Dated Monday, 14 Dec. Numbered 35.)
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Curzon St Mond[a]y 14 Dec[embe]r
I was much obliged to you for your note from Boulogne, & shall be made more obliged to you if you will write to me from Paris—As it is a country I am not a stranger to I shall understand you à demi mot—
If you are not already introduced to Mrs Graham, which I have no doubt is the case—Shew her the lines I have written on the other side of this Sheet, {1} & I think you will need no other introduction—
Pray do not let the agréemens† of Paris detain you too long from your friends in London among whom I hope you will always reckon—
M Berry
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{1} i.e. the other half of the folded sheet, which was presumably torn off and given to Mrs Graham.
† Sic.
Robert Kitcheman, one of the ordinary messengers of the Queen’s Chamber, asks for an allowance of 26s. 8d. for riding at the command of the Lord High Treasurer (the Marquess of Winchester) from the Treasurer’s place at London to ‘Pesnell’ (Peasenhall) in Suffolk to deliver a writ to Sir Owen Hopton, sheriff of Suffolk and Norfolk, and for returning to London ‘with like hast’. Kitcheman 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 out in this Jorney the space of x Dayes.’
(Marked ‘fiat All[ocatum]’, and signed by the Marquess of Winchester.)
(Engraved by Topham from a drawing by Rhodes.)
(The date of the ascent is mistakenly given as 1828.)
Acknowledges the receipt of six payments, amounting to ten guineas, for making additions to his Statute Law Common-plac’d, for a second edition.
(Six receipts on one sheet, dated 8 Dec. 1719, 19 Dec. 1719, 2 Jan. 1720, 18 Jan. 1720, 26 Jan. 1720, and 6 Feb. 1720.)
‘Momentum vita est: momento pendet ab illo; | Sive perenne BONUM, sive perenne MALUM.’ Dated at Jena. Addressed to Johann Heuppel.
Curzon Street, (London).—Thanks him for his verses (see f. 29v). The Misses Berry will be missed by those who loved them.
(Black-edged paper. Dated Thursday evening. Numbered 33. Jane Ferguson nursed Mary Berry during her final illness. See The Times, 25 Oct. 1865, p. 7.)
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Dear Mr. Milnes—
It was most kind of you to send me the Verses—
I had already read & admired them very much. not only from their intrinsic merit but because I so much like their tone of feeling to which my own so entirely responded—
No two people of their age ever made the same blank in Society & those who loved them will miss more & more their warm hearts & Constant affection
Believe me
very sincerely y[ou]rs
Jane. G. Ferguson
Curzon St
Thurs[da]y Ev[enin]g
Dated at Chatelaine, [Ferney]. A pencil note records: ‘Cette pétition est dictée par Voltaire à n’en pas douter; écrite par son secrétaire [Jean-Louis Wagnière] signée par Donat Calas et datée par Voltaire lui même. A.D. (coll. de W. Upcott).’
The chasseurs du roi will arrive at St Vaast on 4 April.
(Transcript in an unidentified hand. Certified by Lévêque as a true copy.)
(The draft letter is undated, but was probably written not long after Celia Doddridge’s letter.)
Probably a commercially-produced print. Captioned below by hand, ‘North Side I. | Disciples of Christ.’
Of a similar date to the photograph on f. 2r.