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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 284. 



Dugald Stewart, together with all his Correspon- 

 dence. Among others, with Madame de Stael, La 

 Fayette, Jefferson, and many other literary and 

 well-known characters, French and English. With 

 Anecdotes from his Journals kept during his re- 

 sidence at Paris before and at the commencement 

 of the Revolution, and during his visits to that 

 City with Lord Lauderdale during the Fox Ad- 

 ministration. All of which I have burnt. 



3rd. A volume of Philosophical Essays, equal 

 to about 300 pages of letter-press, 



4th. A volume of Religious Philosophical Es- 

 says of about the same size. 



5th. The Ancient Geography of Upper Asia, 

 somewhat more complete than Rennel as regards 

 Herodotus, and with the adjustment of the Stade 

 to the distance of subsequent writers ; with the 

 Bactrian and Parthian Geography. 



6 th. Corrections of the Geography of the Peri- 

 plus of the Erythrean Sea or Indian Ocean, 

 ascribed to Arrian. 



7th. Corrections of the Geography of the Voyage 

 of Nearchus. I call these corrections, because Dr. 

 Vincent is no doubt right in a great proportion of 

 his stations ; but they in fact contain the whole 

 geography ; because, having fixed the points by 

 an entirely different stream of inference from that 

 followed by Dr. Vincent, while the coincidences 

 confirm his conclusions, it offered a presumption 

 that when I differed from him I was right, or 

 more near the truth than he was. 



8th. Part of the Ancient Geography of the 

 Peninsula of India. Incomplete and unfinished. 



9th. The Marches of Alexander from Arbela to 

 the Mouths of the Indus ; with the Rationale, 

 Military and Political, of his Movements and 

 Operations during that period (?). 



10th. A work on which I have been labouring 

 for the last four years ; and of which I had com- 

 pleted as much as would have printed 2000 quarto 

 pages. It was very nearly finished ; and was, in 

 my humble appreciation, of more real literary 

 value than all the rest I have destroyed. I long 

 since (in consequence of finding my locks picked, 

 and my papers read), destroyed all that I had put 

 on paper on government, legislation, and political 

 economy, which were for many years almost my 

 exclusive study. 



The other works I have destroyed may be fairly 

 estimated to have cost me the labour of thirteen 

 years, at an average of ten hours a day. If, in 

 after times, such literary avocations should ever 

 be thought as much deserving the public en- 

 couragement and protection as the writing of 

 novels, the sacrifice which I have made of this 

 property may perhaps tend to save some other 

 friendless and laborious man from treatment as 

 iniquitous as that which I have experienced. 

 I am your obed. humble serv. 



M. Stbwaet. 



To your list of burnt books, you may add that 

 Dr. Lort, writing to the Rev. William Cole of 

 Milton, dated London, March 9, 1776, says : " If 

 you have the best folio edition of Bishop Nicolson's 

 Historical Library, do not part with it ; for though 

 a new quarto edition of this book was lately 

 printed, and thereby the price of the former 

 reduced from four to one guinea, yet the impres- 

 sion was almost totally destroyed in the Savoy 

 last Saturday." H. E. 



- £vj.oo. 



:^tn0r fitiXti. 



Byron's Tomb, Harrow. — Cannot the authorities 

 protect this tomb from farther depredations ? The 

 beginning of the inscription has already been re- 

 moved, and a modern one placed in its stead ; and 

 from appearances the chippers will eventually 

 reach each line. The money received for looking 

 over this church would soon pay for some iron 

 rails, or the Harrow masters and scholars might 

 subscribe, from respect to Byron's memory. 



A. C. 



Sir Walter Raleigh. — A document connected 

 with a matter of some historic interest has just 

 come into my hands, which, as it may not have 

 been published, I copy for preservation in your 

 pages : 



" Decimo Septimo die Februarii Ano 1616. 



" Received, the day and yeare above written," 

 in part paymet of a greater som, for a certeyne 

 tenemet w"' the appurtenance lyinge in Micham, 

 in the countye of Surrey, from Thomas Plum- 

 mer, Esquire, the som of six hundred pounds of 

 lawfull English monye - - - - 

 " Witnea our hands, 



« W. Ralegh. 

 E. Ralegh. 

 W. Ralegh." 



The sale of this property of Lady Raleigh was 

 made to enable Sir Walter to fit out his ship, the 

 " Destiny," then preparing for the expedition to 

 Oronoco. The gentleman to whom I am indebted 

 for this interesting scrap remarks : 



" The case no doubt is this : Ralegh exhausted his own 

 personal means in fitting out his fleet, and then resorted 

 to his wife's property. The Mitcham property was sold, 

 and Lady Ralegh joined in the sale. The eldest son 

 Walter, who felt, no doubt, as much interest as his father in 

 the adventure, joined in the sale. The money was wanted, 

 and an arrangement made for the sale to the Plummer 

 family, and this money was obtained upon a simple receipt, 

 leaving it to the lawyers employed to prepare at their 

 leisure the deed, and the fine and recovery necessary to 

 vest the property legally in the purchaser." 



The general similarity between the signatures of 

 the father and son, both Walters, is striking; 

 whilst Lady Raleigh (Elizabeth Throgmorton) 

 seems to have imitated the handwriting of her 

 mistress, Queen Elizabeth. W. Denton. 



