DEPARTMENT OF MSS. 35 



Autograph memoranda by Edward Gibbon, the historian, 

 of events in his life from his birth in 1737 to 1754. Presented 

 by the Earl of Sheffield. 



Autograph journal of Edward Gibbon, Part ii., 4 Aug. 1761- 

 16 Aug. 1762. Part i. was acquired in 1907, and the continuation, 

 extending to Dec. 1764, in 1896. 



Letter of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, 

 to General Garibaldi, deprecating his project for an advance 

 to Eome, etc. ; 17 Sept. 1860. Presented by Bernhard Berenson, 

 Esq. 



Letters, etc., of Sir W. Herschell, John Dalton, Charles 

 Darwin (2), John Ruskin (4), Thomas Carlyle, W. E. Gladstone, 

 and Henry Irving, with four lines of poetry in the hand of 

 W. Wordsworth; 1802-1895. Presented by the widow of 

 Thomas Thornton, Esq. 



Letter in pencil of George Morland, the painter, to John 

 Graham; 1800. 



Letter of Alexander Hamilton, on the stafFof Gen. Washington 

 and afterwards Secretary of the United States Treasury, to 

 Brig. Gen. W. Woodford; 2 July, 1779. Presented by the 

 Hon. Whitelaw Reid, American Ambassador. 



Letter of Nicolas Poussin, the painter, to the Abbate di 

 Cavore, on a picture of the Baptism of Christ now at Belvoir 

 Castle, etc.; 18 Sept. 1642. 



Letters (5) of foreign savants ; 1740-1814. Presented by 

 the Rev. W. F. Rose. 



Letter of Victor Hugo to the editor of "The Sun," on a 

 review of " Les Miserables " ; 22 May, 1864. 



Abstracts of wills and administrations, 1419-1531, collected 

 from various English registers, etc.; 19th cent. Presented by 

 Mr. B. Quaritch. 



Extent of the manors, etc., of Francis Carew, Esq., in co. 

 Sussex; 1575. 



" The hystorye ... of the house and barons of Cobham," 

 by Francis Thynne, dedicated to Henry Brooke, Lord Cobham, 

 1598. Autograph. 



Accompt-book of James Compton, 5th Earl of Northampton ; 

 1744-1754. 



Descent of the family of De Gols from Philip De Gols, 

 burgomaster of Aalst in Flanders in 1571 ; compiled by Gerard 

 De Gols, rector of St. Peter in Sandwich, circ. 1720, with 

 additions to 1736. With arms in colours. Presented by 

 Dr. A. W. Rowe. 



Common-place book of Sir John Gibson, of Welburn, Kirkby 

 Moorside, co. York, a royalist captain of horse and a prisoner 

 in Durham castle, circ. 1653-1660, 



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