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Royal Commission on Hist ManuscriptsBiblio.com

The manuscripts of the Earl of Buckinghamshire: the Earl of Lindsey the Earl of Onslow Lord Emly Theodore J. Hare

Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) of Middle Hill, eccentric collector of books and manuscripts; Sir Charles Hastings (1794-1866)Biblio.com

Sir Thomas Phillipps of Middle Hill eccentric book and manuscript collector complains of having been 'plundered' by a Worcester lawyer. Autograph Letter Signed 'Thos Phillipps' to the wife of Sir Charles Hastings in reply to an invitation.

21433'M H i.e. Middle Hill 12 Aug. no year but after Sir Charles Hastings' 1850 knighthood'. 3pp 16mo. On bifolium. In fair condition lightly aged. Phillipps's letter or draft letter is a reply to a dinner invitation from the wife of the eminent Worcester physician Sir Charles Hastings. It occupies the reverse of the first leaf and both sides of the second leaf of the bifolium. The recto of the first leaf carries the invitation in manuscript with the text in square brackets printed in copperplate: 'Sir Charles & Lady Hastings Request the pleasure of Sir Thos & Lady Phillipps' Company at Dinner on Thursday the 28th. Inst. Six oclock An answer will oblige. Worcester Augt. 12th.' Phillipps begins his reply: 'Dr Lady Hastings Lady P is in such distress respecting the serious illness of her Brother in law that I take up her Pen to return her & my best thanks for the kind invitation wch yr self & Sir Chas. have done us the honor to send for the 28th inst.' As the Phillippses do not 'know how his illness might terminate' even 'in the best case' they will not be able to 'come to the Worcester Music Meeting; for a Worcester Lawyer has plundered me of all my spare Cash & what is worse has done nothing for it.' He hopes she 'will be able to fill our vacant seats with some more wealthy persons who will be beneficial to the Meeting.' The letter is signed 'Very faithfully Yours Thos Phillipps'. Hastings founded the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association – now the British Medical Association – in 1832. Phillipps was notoriously eccentric and irascible. See his entry in the Oxford DNB and Munby 'Phillipps Studies' 5 vols 1951-1960. From the distinguished autograph collection of Richard Hunter son of Ida Macalpine whose collection of 7000 books relating to psychiatry is in Cambridge University Library. Macalpine and Hunter had a particular interest in the illness of King George III and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' 1969 suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'. 'M H [i.e. Middle Hill] 12 Aug. [no year, but after Sir Charles Hastings' 1850 knighthood]' unknown

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Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) of Middle Hill, Welsh collector of manuscripts; Robert Harding Evans (1778-1857), auctioneer, oBiblio.com

Sir Thomas Phillipps collector of manuscripts. The manuscripts section of the printed auction catalogue of Craven Ord's library priced and named in one hand and annotated by Phillipps with a running total of his substantial purchases.

18834Robert Harding Evans 93 Pall Mall London. 'London: Printed by W. Nicol Cleveland-row St. James's.' 25 to 27 June 1829. The last eight leaves only of a printed catalogue no. 260 in M. V. de Chantilly's 'Robert Harding Evans of Pall Mall auction catalogues 1812-1846 a provisional list' 2002. Stitched and unbound. On aged and worn paper with slight damp staining to margins. Paginated 23-37 1 with the final page i.e. the verso of the last leaf carrying the advertisement: 'Preparing for Sale by MR. EVANS. THE VALUABLE LIBRARY of an EMINENT COLLECTOR.' in manuscript: 'Mr Rennie'. Slug at foot of p.37: 'London: Printed by W. Nicol Cleveland-row St. James's.' First page headed in Phillipps's hand: 'Ord MSS. Catalogue' with 'Sir T Phillipps sale' in another hand in pencil at the foot of the page. P.23 begins with lot 469 and the final lot of the sale on p.37 is 618. After lot 510 on p.24 is the heading 'MANUSCRIPTS VARIOUS SIZES'. All the lots are priced in manuscript and the manuscripts in the sale lots 511-618 are also named in another hand than Phillipps's. Phillipps has written 'P' beside each of the lots which he acquired and he reveals himself to be purchaser of 86 of the 109 including 108 manuscript lots in the sale at an enormous total cost of £1983 16s 0d. These purchases were all made indirectly: most of the lots are recorded in the second hand as having been bought by four London booksellers: Cochran Thorpe Payne of Payne and Foss and Rodd. The British Museum 'The Museum' is given as purchaser of lots 535 and 561 'Registrum de Bury Tempore Edwarde III. on vellum' £126 0s 0d. The purchaser of lot 524 is 'Duke of Norfolk' and lot 655 is said to have been bought 'By the Family who now possess the estate'. Beside this last note Phillipps has written 'bought March Phillipps'. Phillipps has written 'query' beside lot 526. [Robert Harding Evans, 93 Pall Mall, London.] 'London: Printed by W. Nicol, Cleveland-row, St. James's.' 25 to 27 June 1829. hardcover

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