‘Si cui vis tuto fidere, fide DEO.’ Dated at Leipzig, 25 April. The year appears to have been cut away.
Two inscriptions on one slip, (i) on the recto, (ii) on the verso. (i) ‘Non si male nunc, et olim sic erit.’ (Horace, Odes, II. x. 17–18.) The writer was probably a relation of Adam Rechenberg. Cf. ff. 114r, 115r, and 116r. (ii) Texts in Hebrew (Prov. xiii. 20 and Isaiah, xlv. 24). Dated at Strasbourg.
‘Mihi autem adhærere DEO bonum est.’ (Psalms, lxxiii. 28.) Dated at Wittenberg.
Undated. From a copy of the third volume of The Tyburn Chronicle (1768), where this illustration faces p. 281. From a drawing by Samuel Wale.
‘Δεῖ ὑμᾶς γεννηθῆναι ἄνθεον.’ (John, iii. 7.) Dated at Frankfurt am Main.
Asks for the 1000 livres he and Citizen Paya lent for the expedition against England to be refunded, in accordance with the law of 17 Dec.
(Undated. There is a marginal note, dated 6 Jan. (1799).)
A, as one of the representatives of Anne Moseley, daughter of Humphrey Moseley, late citizen and stationer of London, has an interest in the copyrights of ‘Priamus and Thisbe’, ‘Spencers Shepherds Calendar’, and other works, as recorded in the register of the Stationers’ Company and a transcript thereof; and also (formerly) claimed an interest in the copyright of ‘Cowleys Poems, Donns Poems, Davenants Works, Crashaws Poems, Carews Poems Ben Johnsons Works, 3d Vol, Pastor Fido, Sucklings Poems Denhams Poems Wallers Poems & Miltons Poems in Latin & English, with many others’, which all belong to B and C or one of them. For the consideration of £10 A assigns to C his interest in the copyrights of the books in the first group, and releases to B and C his claim to the copyrights of the books in the second group. Witnessed by Robert Knaplock, John Baker, and Marmaduke Horsley. (The witnesses to the receipt are the same.) Signed by ‘Dorman Newman Junior’.
First line: ‘As Florimel supinely lay along’. At the head is written ‘J Henley’. The subject of the poem was presumably John Hawtrey, who took a BA from St John’s in 1709, the year in which Henley was admitted there; but the date of his death is unknown.
Engraved by Charles Mosley. Published 1 Apr. 1739. Subscribed with the text of Isaiah, xlii. 9, and inscribed to ‘the Greatest Politician in Europe’ by ‘An Englishman’.
Caen.—Sends an account of the capture of Commodore Sidney Smith (f. 12).
(Dated 1 Floréal, an 4. Letter-head of the Commissaire du Directoire Exécutif, près l’Administration Départementale du Calvados. Marked in two different hands ‘Raport à communiquer’ and ‘Communiqué au Chef de l’état Major le 2 Floreal.’)
2 North Parade, Bath. - Thanks King for the examination paper. The ball on Easter Monday was 'a crowded affair, 884, the supper good but the music bad'. Went to Keynsham yesterday to see the ruins of the old Abbey; description of site and meeting with owner of the land.
A commercially-produced print, captioned on the image, ‘Avenue Gateway, Trinity College, Cambridge. 5633. G.W.W.’
Of a similar date to the print on f. 2r.
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Farringford, Freshwater, Isle of Wight
April 4th 1873
Sir,
I beg to enclose a cheque for 10£ if I may be allowed to offer this small contribution to the Sedgwick Memorial.
I have the honour to be
Your very obedient servant
A Tennyson
First line: ‘What fury, oh, thou wicked Bee’. A translation of Scott’s poem ‘In Apem quæ in E— B— aculeum fixerat’. See f. 16r below.
(A printed form, filled up by hand.)
‘Μνημονευε Ιησουν Χριστον.’ (2 Timothy ii. 8.) Dated at Halle.
(Engraved by John Pass from a drawing by John Godefroy. Undated.)
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Trinity Lodge
June 17. 1874
Dear Professor Humphry
I enclose a copy which I have somewhat hastily drawn up of the speech I made in Trinity last evening. I have had very little time to look on it, & very possibly you may find grammatical & other errors in it.
Yrs very faithfully
Devonshire
Professor Humphry.
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Black-edged paper.
(A printed form, filled up by hand.)
A commercially-produced print, captioned on the image, ‘Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, looking East. 3449. G.W.W.’
Of a similar date to the print on f. 2r.
Dated at Bognor. Numbered 8.