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Texts in Arabic and Hebrew. ‘Per Scalas ascendat in tecto ambulaturus.’ Dated at Jena.

India Office.—Queries Houghton’s identification of a character in Cyril Thornton with General O’Hara.

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India Office.
Jan. 24. {1} 66

Dear Lord Houghton

I have been studying your “suggestive” article on the Miss Berrys, {2} if yours it is, and am much puzzled with one passage in it. You say the “bachelor” described in Cyril Thornton {3} is General O’Hara: but described as “of the age of sixty seven.” If so, the General must have been 67 at least—say about 70—when he died. But he died in 1802. Could he have been described by Horace Walpole in 1791, at sixty, as “with his face as ruddy and black and his teeth as white as ever!”? and could he have been between sixty and seventy when he made a fool of himself at Toulon against Napoleon? and when he made love to Miss Berry, which would have been making more of a fool of himself still? I cannot help thinking there is some mistake of date, but I have not Cyril Thornton at hand.

Very truly yours
H. Merivale

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{1} The second figure is indistinct.

{2} The reference is to Houghton’s unsigned review of Extracts in the Quarterly Review, Jan. 1866 (vol. cxix, pp. 154–81).

{3} Thomas Hamilton’s novel The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, first published in 1827.

Consideration, £50. Witnesses, Thomas Glenister and Isaac Miller.

The sketch is captioned ‘Sleeping out on Rossett Ghyll & we hope they enjoyed it.’ One man is sitting under an umbrella; the second is in a small tent or bivouac; the third is standing blowing his hands.

The sketch is captioned ‘The Crepuscular Billstickers’. The words visible on the three bills are ‘LOST or STRAYED … answers to the name of WITS … of no use to any person but the owners LEEKE SPRATT & Co & not much to them’, ‘NOTICE | LEEKE SPRATT & CO … Fishmongers & Greengrocers Purveyors of Cats meat will be happy to supply the nobility & gentry with trash & offal of all kinds’, and ‘Truth is stranger than Fiction | ON VIE … ’. At the foot is written ‘See Page 55.’

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.)

The sketch is captioned ‘Unmitigated horror of poor wretches going up hill’. The summit in the distance is labelled ‘This is Causey Pike’. One climber has let go of his pole in dismay; the other is saying ‘Ugh! ar’nt we at the top yet’.

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.

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'.

Various texts in Hebrew and German. Coloured.

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.

(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’.)

The sketch is captioned ‘Going up Grass Moor’. One of the rearmost climbers is saying ‘Halt! Stop there[.] What do you mean by going on when I tell you to stop’.

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