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Curzon Street, (London).—Is unable to see him before he goes to Paris or write him an introductory letter to Mrs Graham.

(Dated Friday, 4 Dec. Numbered 34.)

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Curzon St Friday 4 Dec[embe]r

I am sorry not to be able to see you before you go to Paris, & not at present in a state of mind to write you such an introductory letter, as I should wish, to Mrs Graham—But you will find many persons at Paris who will introduce you to her, & when you return, I hope I shall be able to profit by your account of your intercourse with her, & with your view of the present curious state of the public mind at Paris—I am always very sincerely y[ou]rs

M Berry

Curzon Street, [London].—Sends a message to introduce him to Mrs Graham.

(Black-edged paper. Dated Monday, 14 Dec. Numbered 35.)

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Curzon St Mond[a]y 14 Dec[embe]r

I was much obliged to you for your note from Boulogne, & shall be made more obliged to you if you will write to me from Paris—As it is a country I am not a stranger to I shall understand you à demi mot—

If you are not already introduced to Mrs Graham, which I have no doubt is the case—Shew her the lines I have written on the other side of this Sheet {1}, & I think you will need no other introduction—

Pray do not let the agréemens† of Paris detain you too long from your friends in London among whom I hope you will always reckon—

M Berry

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{1} The introduction was presumably written on the other half-sheet, which has been cut off.

† Sic.

Acknowledges the receipt of six payments, amounting to ten guineas, for making additions to his Statute Law Common-plac’d, for a second edition.

(Six receipts on one sheet, dated 8 Dec. 1719, 19 Dec. 1719, 2 Jan. 1720, 18 Jan. 1720, 26 Jan. 1720, and 6 Feb. 1720.)

Engraved by Topham from a drawing by Rhodes.

Robert Kitcheman, one of the ordinary messengers of the Queen’s Chamber, asks for an allowance of 26s. 8d. for riding at the command of the Lord High Treasurer [the Marquess] from the Treasurer’s place at London to ‘Pesnell’ [Peasenhall] in Suffolk to deliver a writ to Sir Owen Hopton, sheriff of Suffolk and Norfolk, and for returning to London ‘with like hast’. Kitcheman asks for an allowance for his charges and pains to be rated by the Treasurer at 2s. 8d. a day and paid by one of the tellers of the Receipt at Westminster. ‘I was out in this Jorney the space of x Dayes.’

(Marked ‘fiat All[ocatum]’, and signed by the Marquess of Winchester.)

Curzon Street, (London).—Thanks him for his verses (see f. 29v). The Misses Berry will be missed by those who loved them.

(Black-edged paper. Dated Thursday evening. Numbered 33. Jane Ferguson nursed Mary Berry during her final illness. See The Times, 25 Oct. 1865, p. 7.)

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Dear Mr. Milnes—

It was most kind of you to send me the Verses—

I had already read & admired them very much. not only from their intrinsic merit but because I so much like their tone of feeling to which my own so entirely responded—

No two people of their age ever made the same blank in Society & those who loved them will miss more & more their warm hearts & Constant affection

Believe me

very sincerely yrs
Jane. G. Ferguson

Curzon St
Thurs[da]y Ev[enin]g

‘Momentum vita est: momento pendet ab illo; | Sive perenne BONUM, sive perenne MALUM.’ Dated at Jena. Addressed to Johann Heuppel.

Dated at Chatelaine, [Ferney]. A pencil note records: ‘Cette pétition est dictée par Voltaire à n’en pas douter; écrite par son secrétaire [Jean-Louis Wagnière] signée par Donat Calas et datée par Voltaire lui même. A.D. (coll. de W. Upcott).’

The chasseurs du roi will arrive at St Vaast on 4 April.

(Marked ‘Affiché ce 29 mars 1796’. Certified by Lévêque as a true copy.)

First line: ‘Dear Floid they say you’r Walpole’s firret’.

‘Gaude meo, gaude tuo, gaude etiam publico nomine, adhuc honor studiis durat.’ (Pliny, Letters, iv. 16.) Dated at Leipzig.

Engraved by Simon François Ravenet.

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[In the margin:] Fulmodeston cum Croxton
Ad curiam Baronis generalem cum Leta ibidem tentam die Sabbati scilicet vndecimo die Ianuarii Anno Regni domini nostri Caroli dei gratia Anglie Scotie Francie et Hibernie Regis fidei defensor etc: Decimo quinto Annoque domini 1639.

Et quod Thomas Vmphery natiuus tenens huius Manerij extra Curiam scilicet decimo Nono die Nouembris Anno domini Millesimo Sexcentensimo tricesimo octauo {1} secundum consuetudinem huius Manerij Sursum reddidit in manus dominorum istius Manerij per manus Thome Alford natiui tenentis dicti Manerij in presencia et testimonio Iacobi Ieruis et Iohannis Howman consimiliter natiuorum tenentium eiusdem Manerij vnam peciam terre continentem vnum† rodam iacentem in Clauso Iohannis Backe et abuttantem super terram dicti Thome Vmphery tam versus orientem quam uersus occidentem et iacet inter terram dicti Iohannis Backe tam versus boream quam versus austrum, Necnon vnam aliam peciam terre iacentem in alio Clauso dicti Iohannis Backe continentem per estimacionem dimidium vnius rode existentem inter parcellam vnius acre que fuit inclusa per dictum Thomam Vmphery et abuttat super terram dicti Iohannis Backe versus austrum Et super viam ducentem a Fulmodeston ad Croxton versus borream Ad opus et vsum Iohannis Backe et heredum suorum Superquo† ad hanc Curiam venit predictus Iohannes Backe et petit se ex gracia dominorum admitti tenens ad predicta premissa Quam quidem rodam inde vt parcella octodecem acrarum et trium rodarum terre natiue quondam Iohannis Bond quamque dimidiam rodam inde vt parcella vnius rode terre natiue interalia† predictus Thomas vmphrey simulcum Margareta vxor eius ceperunt ex sursum redditione Thome Vmphrey et Katherine vxoris eius ad Curiam baronis generalis cum Leta ibidem tentam die Marcurij† duodecimo die Octobris Anno Regni domini nostri Caroli nunc Regis Anglie etc’ septimo Millesimo Sexcentesimo tricesimo primo {2} prout in Rottulis eiusdem Curie patet Et admittitur dictus Iohannes Backe, Cui liberta est inde seisina per virgam Tenendum sibi et heredibus suis ad voluntatem dominorum secundum consuetudinem huius Manerij per redditus servicia et consuetudines inde prius debita et de Iure consueta Saluo Iure etc’ Et dand’ est de fine etc’:/ Et fecit proinde fidelitatem etc’:/

Examinatur per me Car: Turner [paraph] senescallum ibidem

[Endorsed:] Tho: vmphrey to Io Back of 1ac & 2 roods:/ And Io: Back to his wife for life of: 6ac 2r.

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The original capitalisation has been retained. Most abbreviations have been expanded. A few errors (‘Sexcem’mo’ for ‘Sexcenmo’, ‘dnorum’ for ‘d’norum’, and ‘Millimo’ for ‘Mill’imo’) have been silently corrected. Words written in a large hand in the original are in bold type.

{1} 19 Nov. 1638.

{2} 12 Oct. 1631.

† Sic.

Illustration engraved by Abraham Blooteling. Cf. f. 17r.

Removed from a copy of the first volume of Jackson’s New and Complete Newgate Calendar (1795), where this illustration faces p. 228.

Probably copied from a newspaper or journal. Numbered 31.

‘Bonæ mentis usurpatio nullum tristioris fortunæ recipit incursum.’ Dated at Wittenberg.

Upcott’s name has been added at the foot in pencil.

‘Da mihi, Christe Deus, quæ das tibi sanguine junctis, | Coelica, Christe, mihi sanguine parta tuo.’ Dated at Wittenberg.