"•O ACCOUNTS, &:c., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Lord Treasurer Godolphin, Sir Joseph Williamson, Sir Paul and John Methuen, in 

 Spam and Portugal, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, the Duke of Ormonde, 

 Dr, Jeremy Taylor, and other persons of note. 



A large collection of correspondence of the family of Carew of Beddington, chiefly 

 of the first half of the 18th century, but with some of earlier date ; among which, 

 are two Letters of Henry the Eighth to Sir Nicholas Carew, Ambassador atVienna^ 

 with instructions on the subject of the Divorce ; and Original Letters of William 

 Camden, Dr. Donne, Lady Raleigh, and others. 



Together with the above Papers were purchased more than 1,500 Original 

 Charters, relating to the property of the same family, and dating from the 12th 

 century. 



Four Original Books of Accounts of the Corporation of Dover, from 1365 to 1547; 

 with several volumes of recent extracts from Court Books, Acts and Decrees of the 

 Mayor and Jurats, and other Records. 



Large collections for the Genealogy of Yorkshire families, by the late P. W. Paver. 



A volume of Transci'ipts of Poems of John Lydgate, by John Stow, the His- 

 torian ; dated in the year 1558. 



The late Rev. John Bannister's Collections connected with the Cornish language ; 

 in four volumes. 



Several volumes of Ledgers and Accounts of the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane? 

 from the year 1772, and Covent Garden, from 1808. 



Original Letters of Jean Jacques Rousseau and David Hume, and other papers 

 connected with Rousseau's residence in England and his quarrel with Hume ; 

 1766-1769. 



Stanzas by Lord Byron, in his autograph ; accompanied by his letter offering 

 them for publication in the " Monthly Literary Recreations," dated 21 July, 1807. 



Collections for the History of English Monasteries and Cathedrals ; Memoirs 

 of English Prelates ; and other works, by the Rev. Mackenzie E. C. Walcott, 

 Precentor of Chichester. Presented by Mr. JValcott. 



Edward A. Bond. 



Oriental Manuscripts. 



I. — Arrangement and Cataloguing. 



The Manuscripts acquired from July 1873 to the end of 1874 have been folio'd and 

 bound. 



The Manuscripts acquired in 1874 have been entered into the Oriental Register and 

 the Oriental Inventory. A Descriptive List of the same Manuscripts has been drawn up. 



The Descriptive List of the Manuscripts acquired in 1873 and 1874 has been tran- 

 scribed for the use of the Reading Room. 



Detailed descriptions have been prepared of 384 Manuscripts for the Persian 

 Catalogue, 55 Manuscripts for the Ethiopic Catalogue, and 3 Manuscripts for the Arabic 

 Catalogue. 



The Descriptions of the Persian Manuscripts which come under the heads of History, 

 Biography, and Geography, have been divided into classes and arranged under each class 

 in chronological order. 



The Arabic Manuscripts acquired subsequently to the printing of the Arabic Cata- 

 logue, have been entered in manuscript into the Indices of the Department Copy of that 

 Catalogue. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



Thirty-six Manuscripts have been added during the year to the Oriental Collection, 

 viz., 30 by purchase, and six by donation, as follows : 



Arabic --------- 12 



Persian ---------10 



Japanese - -- - - - - - 4 



Hindoo drawings -------4 



Syriac ---------2 



Hebrew -_------2 



Sanscrit __--_--- 1 

 Pali - - 1 



Total - - - 36 



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