British Library, Manuscript Collections: 1997 Accessions

British Library, Manuscript Collections

• George Glanville Barker (1913-91), poet and writer: poems and plays (Add MSS 73495-6)
• Elizabeth Fry (1740-1845), prison reformer: letters and annotated Bible (Add MSS 73528-33)
• Henry St John (1678-1751), 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, statesman: letters to Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford 1713
• George Hamilton-Gordon (1784-1860), 4th Earl of Aberdeen, statesman: corresp with JW Croker (Add MS 73166)
• Susannah Harley, Dowager Countess of Oxford: executorship accounts rel to 4th Earl of Oxford 1799 (Add MS 73489)
• George Herbert: Musae Responsoriae c1620 (Add MS 73541)
• John Lowe, physician to Edward VIII: corresp
• Falconer Madan (1851-1935), librarian, palaeographer and bibliographer: papers
• Andrew Marvell (1621-78), poet and satirist: satires and poems (Add MS 73540)
• Lt Henry F Maxse and Lt Frederick Maxse: corresp during Crimean War (Add MSS 73526-7)
• John Moyle (1592?-1661) MP: translations into English of Vindiciae contra tyrannos and De iure magistratum c1645 (Add MS 73486)
• Margaret Ramsey (d1991), play agent: business and personal corresp
• J Skinner, clergyman: journal of excursion to the Isle of Wight 1811 (Add MS 73492)
• Henry Wickham Steed (1871-1956), journalist and editor of The Times: corresp and papers
• Timberlake Wertenbaker, playwright: plays, corresp and papers
• Book of Hours c1483 (Add MS 73518)