Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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128. _Coleridge's Essays on Beauty._--At pp. 300, 301, of this writer's
_Table Talk_ (3rd edition) there is the following paragraph:--
"I exceedingly regret the loss of those essays on beauty, which I
wrote in a Bristol newspaper. I would give much to recover them."
Can any of your readers afford information on this point? The
publication of the essays in question (supposing that they have not yet
been published) would be a most welcome addition to the works of so
eminent and original an author as S. T. Coleridge.
J. H. KERSHAW.
129. _Henryson and Kinaston._--MR. SINGER (Vol. iii., p. 297.) refers to
Sir Francis Kinaston's Latin version of Chaucer's _Troilus and
Cresseid_, and of Henryson's _Testament of Cresseid_. The first two
books of the former are well known as having been printed at Oxford,
1635, 4to.; and the entire version was announced for publication by F.
G. Waldron, in a pamphlet printed as a specimen, in 1796. Query, Who is
now the possessor of Kinaston's manuscript, which MR. SINGER recommends
as worthy of the attention of the Camden Society?
In the original table of contents of a manuscript collection, written
about the year 1515, one article in that portion of the volume now lost
is "Mr. Robert Henderson's dreme, _On fut by Forth_." Can any of your
readers point out where a copy of this, or any other unpublished poems
by Henryson, are preserved?
D. L.
Edinburgh.
130. _Oldys' Account of London Libraries._--In "A Catalogue of the
Libraries of the late _William Oldys_, Esq., Norroy King at Arms (author
of the _Life of Sir Walter Raleigh_), the Reverend _Mr. Emms_, of
_Yarmouth_, and _Mr. William Rush_, which will begin to be sold on
Monday, April 12, by Thomas Davies;" published without date, but
supposed to be in 1764, I find amongst Mr. Oldys's manuscripts, lot
3613.: "Of London Libraries: with Anecdotes of Collectors of Books,
Remarks on Booksellers, and on the first Publishers of Catalogues." Can
any of your readers inform me if the same is still in existence, and in
whose possession it is?
WILLIAM BROWN, Jun.
Old Street.
131. _A Sword-blade Note._--I find in an account-book of a public
company an entry dated Oct. 1720, directing the disposal of "A
Sword-blade Note for One hundred ninety-two pounds ten shillings seven
pence." Can any of your numerous readers, especially those cognisant of
monetary transactions, favour me with an explanation of the nature of
this note, and the origin of its peculiar appellation?
R. J.
Threadneedle Street, Aug. 28. 1851.
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