Correspondence of Lieut-Col. J. L. Philips. 15 



Natural History Museum, formerly situated in Peter Street, 

 and now located in the new building in Oxford Street, forming 

 part of the Owens College. He was for many years treasurer 

 of the Manchester Infirmary, and became Lieutenant- 

 Colonel of the First Battalion of Manchester and Salford 

 Volunteers. In 1804 ne went out to fight a duel on 

 Kersal Moor with Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Hanson, 

 but was arrested and bound over to keep the peace. He 

 was himself a Justice of the Peace. He appears to have 

 been associated with the foundation of the Portico Library 

 in Mosley Street. The letters give evidence that he 

 was a very liberal friend, and a keen sportsman with 

 both the gun and the rod. They include many grateful 

 acknowledgments. Barrels of oysters seem to have been 

 favourite gifts, and also hares, wood-cocks, and other game. 

 He was likewise apparently a lampoonist, and a critic of 

 men and books. He was an occasional contributor to the 

 Monthly Magazine, and in 1797 published a memoir of his 

 friend Joseph Wright, of Derby, the painter, in that maga- 

 zine, with a catalogue of Wright's works. 



The collection of autograph letters and other manuscripts 

 (in all about 640) is contained in five portfolios, and, having 

 lately come into the market, was purchased by Lieutenant 

 Herbert S. Brooks, and has been presented by him to the 

 Society's library. This valuable memorial of one of the 

 Society's first members is a graceful gift from one of its 

 latest recruits. The letters are very neatly arranged alpha- 

 betically. Colonel Philips left two sons. The eldest of these 

 was Mr. Nathaniel G. Philips, an amateur landscape painter 

 and etcher, old halls and other scenes in Lancashire and 

 Cheshire having been favourite subjects with him. This son 

 died at Childwall, near Liverpool, on August 1, 183 1. A 

 few of the letters in the collection are addressed to him, 

 and others are addressed to Mr. Daniel Daulby, of Liver- 

 pool, a frequent correspondent of Colonel Philips's, to whom 



