o4 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BlUTISII MUSEUM. 



Correspondence of John Law, of Lauriston, as Governor 

 of the French possessions in India, including letters from 

 Warren Hastings and the Councils of Bombay and Madras ; 

 1774-1786. 



Journal of C. Chambers, surgeon of H.M.S. Prometheus, 

 during the expedition ending in the capture of Copenhagen ; 

 July-December, 1807. 



Memorandum by Lord Wellington on the campaign in 

 the Peninsula in 1811, drawn up for the English Government 

 at the end of the year, and written wholly in his own hand ; 

 32 leaves of foolscap. 



Letter of William, Duke of Clarence (William IV.), 

 insisting on the necessitv of impressment for manning the 

 Navy ; 1826. 



Letter of Sir Isaac Newton to R. Hooke on a problem 

 connected with gravitation ; 1679. 



Articles of agreement between John Dryden and Jacob 

 Tonson, publisher, for the translation by the former of tiie 

 works of Virgil ; 15 June, 1694. Witnessed by William 

 Congreve, the dramatist. 



Letter of Benjamin Franklin to P. Collinson, on the 

 advantages of free trade, &c. ; 1764. 



Miscellaneous literary correspondence, including letters of 

 Samuel Lysons, T. C. Croker, Dawson Turner, Rev. J. 

 Mitford, and others ; 1772-1835. Presented by A. Abrahams, 

 Esq. 



Letters addressed to Richard Gough, the antiquary, and 

 to John Nichols, J. Bowyer Nichols, and J. Gough Nichols, 

 the publishers, on literary and antiquarian subjects, by Sir 

 Henry Ellis, 1796-1842, and Sir Harris Nicolas, 1822-1834. 



A large collection of letters from Dorothy Wordsworth, 

 sister of the poet, to Catherine Clark son, with frequent 

 notices of her brother and of Coleridge, Southey, and De 

 Quincey; 1803-1830. Two letters of W. Wordsworth are 

 included, one of which comments upon criticisms of the 

 " Excursion." 



Letter of Thomas De Quincey respecting a series of 

 articles on the philosophy of Kant; 1832. 



Letters of John Ruskin to Miss Eliz. E. Murray, on her 

 paintings of birds and their plumage ; 1887. Presented by 

 Miss E. E. Murray. 



• Acquittance from Lucas Cranach, the artist, 1523. V/ith 

 a'seal bearing the device which appears on his pictures. 



Correspondence and papers of Thomas and Paul Sandby, 

 the artists, with painting receipts, &c. ; 1755-1840. Bequeathed 

 by W. Arnold Sandby, Esq. 



Note-books of John Pye, the engraver, chiefly relative to 

 engravings from pictures in the National Gallery, and to his 

 evidence before a Parliamentary Committee on the Royal 

 Academy; 1827-1841. 



