, 1889-08-29

William Godwin's "Cloudesley; n
Novel; 1t is written ON both sides of
the sheets of old parchment paper, but
In u strikingly clear and smooth hand.
Shakospcarean. scholars, / suppose
would be particularly interested in my
Complete Concordance to Shake
speare. 1t contains u selection of fifty
closely written puges of the original
manuscript together with a long and
exceedingly
INTERESTING AUTOGRAPH LETTER,
which gives detailed account of the
progress OF the work from its inception,
through the twelve years occupied in its
compilation, and four more OF press cor.
rcctioms, to its final publication; also
copies OF congratulatory letter from
Douglas Jerrold, the authors application
for the privilege OF dedicating the work
to the queen, and the queens reply be-
sides several portraits, n large number of
newspaper cuttings, etc. In q letter to
February s, 1870, Mrs. Clarke says
'"rhc notice in. your paper was read
through tears of proud emotion at the
way in which your interviewer recog-
niZes the admirable characters of my
parents. 1t was enjoyed in concert by
our family party, then assembled
around our breakfast table here, which
included my brother Alfred, my sister
Sabilla, and our two charming italian
niecos, Portia and Valeria Gigliucci--to
whom | read | aloud, as well as my
streaming eyes would allow me, this
American warmth of tribute TO Vincent
and Mary Novello's moral and intellect
ual excellence.
From the late Anna Maria Hall and
her husband, >. q. Hall, procured q
nnIlaHtinn of Lot tnr i,Nn
scripts and sketches from many cele-
bratcd people of the past hlty years.
Mrs. Hall presented me with the bible
of Tom> Moore, in which the poet
entered the names and birth and death
dates of his children. ! have also an
original score signed By Tom Moore, and
the poets famous Irish harp.
| have perhaps the only complete
manuscript of any of Thackcry's works
IN existence. II is his Lectures on the
-Four Georges" and is entirely in his
own handwriting. The volume Is illus
lrated by numerous original drawings
by Thackeruy, some of which arc col
ored by himself. ! nave also the origi-
nal manuscript of Walter Seotts
sented from his Abbotsiord library to
his publishers, with Il kind and apprccia-
tive note.
Among many other original manu-
scripts in my possession are: "The
Need of Two Loves" by n. =. Willis
James Fenimore Cooper's Life of Cap
tain Richard Somers' Mary Dewitt 8
translation lii1osta ,3 Of trederka Bremen
Rhine and "Godolphin;" Gray's
fluctuations of Our kins;" Harriet
Martneau's Retrospect OF Western
Travel"
THE DICKENS MANUSCRIPTS,
to which | have previously alluded, and
by John Howard Payne, author OF
Home, Sweet Home.' This tragedy
by Payne is in four acts, and was writ
ten for Charlotte Cushman; but IL was
never produced and it has never been
printed, Payne left two manuscript
copies of his play. One was given to his
friend, James Rees a well known liter
airy man of Philadelphia, from whom it
passed directly TO inc. 1t consists of
ninety-six pages entirely in the hand
writing of Payne himself, with only a
few pencil marks and some stage direc.
hons on the alternate blank pages,
The manuscript of "rhe Cow Chase
must not be overlooked. This satiricul
poem, written by Major Andre, was
founded upon an unsuccessful attempt
of party under General Anthony
Wayne to capture hlockhouse upon
the Hudson, II short distance from New
York city, July 2l, 1850. II is said to
have been the last literary effort of the
Inflated young Englishman, and, singu-
larly enough, the last canto was pub
lished in New York, in Rivington' :
Royal Gazette on the same day upon
! which he was arrested. The poem was
aitcrward printed, with full notes, for
private circulation, and this, with the
original manuscript, was the property OF
the Rev, William Is. SpragJle of Albany,
New York, an extensive collector of au-
tographs, who priced it as probably the
most valuable article in his collection.
The manuscript has been admirably il
ltistrated by Ferdinand j. Drcer of Phil.
adelphia, with portraits of the generals
of the revolution, both Continental and
English, well-known and historical
| landscapes, characters and buildings
| The closing stanza of Andres epic
which is complete in three cantos, runs
as follows:
And now I've closed my epic strain,
trcmblc us | show It,
Lest this same warrior.drover Wayne
Should ever catch the poet.
Soon after Andre was caught, and
some unkind hand thus continues the
poem;
And when the epic strain was sung,
The poet by the meek was hung.
Aud 20 his cost he finds too late
The "duug-bori tribe decides his fate.
II would be interesting merely to cat
alogtie my collection, which includes
poems letters, and manuscripts o
Burns. Swiit, l.ongicllow, Bryant
Holmes, Tennyson, Pepy, Pope, Thorn.
son, shelly, Keats, William Penn, Vol
tairc, Goethe, Irving, Lamb, Gibbon
Hume, Lord Clarendon and others.
coLERrpGE rs REPRESENTED
by n long letter In which he states that
he would be glad to 60 to London If he
could be assured of guinea week
Here is noteworthy manuscript OF
/ SChillcr-his dramatic poem entitled
"Dometrus." IL occupies two folio
pages, and was secured for me through
/ the kindness of Longfellow. There is
also the original manuscript draught oi
Tennyson's dedicatory poem to the
queen, which is prchxcd to the last col
lected edition of his poems.
will do no more than enumerate q
letter of Lord Nelson, written four days
before his death; number of presenta'
! tlon-yolumes from the brothers, Cham
curiously illustrated, inlaid, and ar
ranged works, especially Ticknor's "Life
of Prescott, two volumes qiarto, with
several hundred illustrations; life o
Everett" qiarto; Rogers Italy and
/ POEMS" inlaid with 300 engravings, all
lirst impressions: a work on the einpirC
Of brazil, presented by Dom Pedro in
1876, and containing his autograph; u
copy ofChambera' English Literature ~
which has autograph letters, about
seven hundred extra plates, and