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DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS. [GROUND 
Scots, with corrections and additions in her hand; dated 1577. The 
Basilikon Doron, or Book of the Institution of a Prince, written by 
James I., for the instruction of his son, Prince Henry ; wholly in the 
King's autograph. The original manuscript of the tragedy of " Toris- 
mondo," by Torquato Tasso. Ben Jonson's " Masque of Queenes," 
represented at Whitehall in 1609. An inscription written in an 
album, in 1651, by John Milton. An original diary, kept by John 
Locke, in 1679. A memorandum-book, found on the person of the 
Duke of Monmouth after the battle of Sedgmoor, 1685. A volume 
of the original draft of the translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, 
by Alexander Pope. The corrected draft of the " Sentimental Jour, 
ney," by Laurence Sterne. The original draft of Dr. Johnson's 
tragedy of " Irene." A volume of the writings of Frederic the 
Great, King of Prussia. A Dialogue, written by Jean Jacques 
Rousseau. Autobiography of Robert Burns, in the form of a letter , 
1 787. The autograph manuscript of the novel of " Kenilworth," by 
Sir Walter Scott. A leaf of the rough autograph draft of the con- 
cluding chapter of Lord Macaulay's History of England. 
On the same side of the Room are placed other separate 
frames, in which are : — 
1. A deed whereby u William Shakespeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, 
Gentleman," and others mortgage a house within the precincts of the 
Blackfriars, London; dated 11 March, 1613, and having Shak- 
speare's signature affixed. 
2. A document in the handwriting of the poet Edmund Spenser. 
3. The original Articles of Agreement for the sale of the copyright 
of the "Paradise Lost," in 1667; with the signature and seal of 
John Milton, 
4. A sketch-plan of the Battle of Aboukir ; drawn by Lord Nelson 
in 1803. 
5. Enumeration of the British cavalry at Waterloo, in the hand- 
writing of the Duke of Wellington. 
Returning to the entrance, the visitor has on his left hand 
a series of autograph letters, which are displayed in glazed 
cases, arranged in the following order : — 
Four frames containing forty-nine letters of English and Foreign 
Eminent Men, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, among 
whom are : Luther, Calvin, Melancthon, Erasmus ; Wolsey, Cranmer, 
Sir T. More, John Knox ; Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Philip Sidney, 
Lord Burghley, Sir Francis Bacon ; John Hampden, Prince Rupert, 
Montrose, Clarendon ; William Penn, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Chris- 
topher Wren ; Michael Angelo, Albert Diirer, Rubens, Rembrandt, 
Van Dyck ; Ariosto, Galileo ; Corneille, Moliere, Racine, Voltaire ; 
