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sented by Mrs. Kate Perugini in 1899 but reserved until the death of 

 Sir Henry Dickens ; three volumes of letters from Ellen Terry to George 

 Bernard Shaw, presented by the latter ; two volumes of autograph 

 poems of Wilfred Owen, presented by the Friends of the National 

 Libraries and a number of subscribers ; two volumes of letters of John 

 Wesley to Ann Tindall, presented by Mr. C. Tindall, CLE. ; and a 

 letter of ' Old Crome ' to James Stark, 1816, presented by the Friends 

 of the National Libraries. 



Among collections of papers and historical documents, the first place 

 belongs to the series of letters of John Thurloe and General Fleetwood 

 to Henry Cromwell (1655-1659), presented by the Marquess of Lans- 

 downe through the Friends of the National Libraries, who added three 

 letters which origmally formed part of the series ; and Mrs. Rose 

 Throckmorton's narrative of her own and her first husband, Anthony 

 Hickman's, sufferings during the Marian persecution, presented by Sir 

 Hickman B. Bacon, Bart. 



Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts. 



The more important acquisitions were an Arabic MS. of devotional 

 exercises with tales of the miraculous powers of prayer (13th cent.) ; an 

 Arabic commentary on texts from the Kur'an, embodying tales from 

 the life of Joseph (13th. cent.) ; MSS. of two Persian works on Sufism 

 (14th cent.), and a number of Persian MSS. presented anonymously, 

 including the Divan of Salman Savajl (15th cent.) ; selections from 

 poems of Sana'i, a fine sixteenth century copy ; a fine copy (17th cent.) 

 of moral verses by a poet at the age of 70, addressed to his son, and other 

 seventeenth century MSS. ; and a Turkish MS. Romance in verse by 

 Shaikh Oglu (15th cent.). 



Prints and Drawings. 



The most important acquisitions were : a study of trees, by John 

 Crome ; an anonymous German woodcut of the XV century, of St. 

 Bridget, from the Oettingen-Wallenstein Collection, presented by Mr. 

 Henry Van den Bergh, through the National Art- Collections Fund ; a 

 study of a male torso by Rubens, presented by Lady Beit and Sir 

 Alfred Beit, Bart. ; a unique line engraving of the Adoration of the 

 Magi by the ' Master of the Weibermacht,' from the Northwick Collec- 

 tion ; a line engraving, by the Master P.M., of Adam and Eve, from the 

 same collection ; and a study by Vittore Carpaccio for his picture of 

 St. Jerome in his Study in San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, presented by the 

 National Art-Collections Fund. 



Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 



The chief acquisitions were all Egyptian : the upper portion of a 

 segmented, inlaid wooden figure, a limestone head of a man, a limestone 

 mould for making reliefs, and a wax model of a female figure, and 

 (presented by A. Mitchell Innes) a collection of antiquities including a 

 small wooden figure of a kneeling Pharaoh, a glazed composition figure of 

 Isis suckling Horus, and two bronze figures, of a princess and of Imhotep. 



Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



The more interesting acquisitions were gems of the Minoan, Mycen- 

 aean and archaic Greek periods, and a cameo with a portrait of a Roman 

 general ; four fine bronzes of the Geometric period ; a gold finger-ring 



