A guide to the collector of historical documents, literary manuscripts, and autograph letters, etc : With an index of valuable books of reference, where several thousand facsimiles of handwriting may be found for the verification of mss. and autograph letters; also a new edition of Wright's Court-hand restored; with an introductory chapter for the use of students and facsimiles of watermarks / by Rev. Dr. Scott and Samuel Davey, F.R.S.L.

  • Scott, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
Date:
1891
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Credit: A guide to the collector of historical documents, literary manuscripts, and autograph letters, etc : With an index of valuable books of reference, where several thousand facsimiles of handwriting may be found for the verification of mss. and autograph letters; also a new edition of Wright's Court-hand restored; with an introductory chapter for the use of students and facsimiles of watermarks / by Rev. Dr. Scott and Samuel Davey, F.R.S.L. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    other papers of great historical interest. There is a report of manuscripts at Buckie, on the coast of the Moray Firth, formerly in the custody of the late Dr. Kyle, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Northern District of Scotland. Among the papers are 72 original letters of Mary of Scotland, addressed for the most part to James Beaton, Archbishop of Glasgow. Two of these are entirely in the Queen’s hand, but the rest are in cipher; Bishop Kyle, however, constructed keys by which he deciphered these letters. In the collection of Mr. W. R. Baker, of Bayfordbury, are a number of letters, mostly addressed to Jacob Tonson. They are preserved in a large folio volume. Loose, at the end of the volume, is a fair copy, corrected for the press, of the first book of Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” by some conjectured to be in Milton’s hand- writing. The volume also contains a number of letters from Dryden, Addison, Aphra Behn, Congreve, Davenant, Dennis, Sir Godfrey Kneller, Otway, Pope, Prior, Steele ; twelve amusing letters from Sir John Vanbrugh, con- taining anecdotes, gossip, town news, and a little on politics. It would be impossible for us to notice one quarter of the private collections, scattered over the country in our halls, mansions, and gentlemen’s seats, &c., of the United Kingdom, which have been laid before the Commissioners’ inspectors. We will, however, conclude with a brief notice of the Bel voir and Hatfield manuscripts, which take foremost rank among the collections calendared. The first volume of the Rutland Papers opens with an abstract of a document written in the beginning of the reign of Henry VI., containing complaints against Sir