The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College, Cambridge Part 13

V. BOOKS FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF SAMUEL BUTLER

BUTLER wrote to Robert Bridges, 6 Feb. 1900, "I have, I verily believe, the smallest library of any man in London who is by way of being literary." (_Memoir_, II., 320.)

Cf. no. 9 in Section I. Pictures, "Interior of Butler's sitting-room,"

where part of his library is shown. The rest of his books were in a cupboard between his sitting-room and his painting-room. They all pa.s.sed under the residuary bequest in his will to his nephew, Henry Thomas Butler, who gave them to me. Some were taken by Streatfeild, his literary executor, and some few were lost in transitu; the remainder are here.

AGAR, T. L. Emendationes Homericae. [189-]

With notes by Butler.

ALLEN, GRANT. Charles Darwin. By Grant Allen. (English Worthies.) London, 1885.

Butler was asked to review this, but declined on the ground that there was too strong a personal hostility between both Darwin and Grant Allen and himself to make it possible for him to review the book without a bias against it. (_Memoir_, II. 28.)

ANDERSON, W. C. F. See Engelman, R.

BETTANY, G. T. The Life of Charles Darwin. (Great Writers.) London, 1887.

BIBLE, THE HOLY. Oxford, 1836.

Inscribed "Samuel Butler, from his affectionate G.o.dmother and Aunt Anna Worsley, September 13th, 1836." So that he was not christened till he was more than nine months old, and he used to say that this delay was a risky business, because during all those months the devil had the run of him. He imitated the inscription in this Bible for the inscription in the christening Bible which Ernest spurns from him when he is about to undertake the conversion of Miss Maitland in chapter lx. of _The Way of All Flesh_. But he imitated it too closely for he wrote, "It was the Bible given him at his christening by his affectionate G.o.dmother and Aunt, Elizabeth Allaby." Whereas Ernest only had one G.o.dmother, and she was Alethea, the sister of Theobald. Anna Worsley was a sister of Butler's mother, and Elizabeth Allaby was a sister of Ernest's mother.

BIBLE. New Testament in Greek. Oxford, 1851.

Two copies, with very numerous MS. notes by Butler. Given to St. John's College some years ago.

BORDIGA, GAUDENZIO. Notizie intorno alle opere di Gaudenzio Ferrari.

Milano, 1821.

Used by Butler in writing _Ex Voto_.

BOSWELL, JAMES. Croker's Boswell's Johnson. New edition. London, 1860.

Pencil marks by Butler.

BRIDGES, ROBERT. Poetical Works of Robert Bridges. 2 vols. London, 1898.

Butler and Bridges corresponded about the Sonnets of Shakespeare and the Odyssey and exchanged examples of their published works. (See the _Memoir_.)

BUCKLEY, THEODORE ALOIS. The Iliad of Homer and the Odyssey of Homer.

Translated by Theodore Alois Buckley. (Bonn's Cla.s.sical Library.) 2 vols. 1872-3.

BURKE, EDMUND. Reflections on the Revolution in France. By Edmund Burke. London, Daly [18--].

CANDLER, C. The Prevention of Consumption. By C. Candler. London, 1887.

Inscribed "Samuel Butler, Esq., with the Author's compliments."

CARLYLE, THOMAS. Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches. By Thomas Carlyle. 3 vols. London, 1857.

COLBORNE-VEEL, MARY. The Fairest of the Angels and Other Verse. By Mary Colborne-Veel. London, 1894.

Given to Butler by the Auth.o.r.ess, who is the daughter of J.

Colborne-Veel, formerly editor of _The Press_, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Miss Colborne-Veel found Butler's "Philosophic Dialogue" in _The Press_ of 20 Dec. 1862. (See the _Memoir_, I. 100.)

CREIGHTON, CHARLES. Ill.u.s.trations of Unconscious Memory in Disease. By Charles Creighton. London, 1886.

Inscribed "To Samuel Butler from the author, February, 1888."

CRUVEILHIER, J. C. Atlas of the Descriptive Anatomy of the Human Body.

By J. C. Cruveilhier. London, 1844.

DALLAS, W. S. See Darwin, Charles.

DALY, CH. See Shakespeare.

DANIEL, P. A. Notes and Conjectural Emendations of certain Doubtful Pa.s.sages in Shakespeare's Plays. By P. A. Daniel. London, 1870.

Inscribed "S. Butler from his friend the Author."

DARWIN, CHARLES. The Origin of Species. By Charles Darwin. First Edition. London, 1859.

"From the Author." With MS. notes and marks by Samuel Butler.

DARWIN, CHARLES. The Origin of Species. By Charles Darwin Sixth Edition (18th thousand), with additions and corrections to 1872. London, 1876.

With MS. notes and marks by Samuel Butler. Butler bought this in order to compare it with the original edition.

DARWIN, CHARLES. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. By Charles Darwin. London, 1872.

Inscribed "From the Author." Butler procured for Mr. Darwin the two ill.u.s.trations by Mr. A. May, pp. 54-5. (See the _Memoir_.)

DARWIN, CHARLES. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. By Charles Darwin. Second edition. 2 vols. London, 1875.

DARWIN, CHARLES. Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin.

First edition. London, 1879.

This book is referred to in chapter iv. of _Unconscious Memory_; also in my pamphlet, "Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: a Step towards Reconciliation"; also in the _Memoir_.

DARWIN, CHARLES. The Life of Erasmus Darwin. By Charles Darwin. Being an introduction to an Essay on his Scientific Works by Ernst Krause, translated from the German by W. S. Dallas. Second edition. London, 1887.

Pencil note by Butler, p. 4. "Second Edition" means second edition of the preceding book which is called "Erasmus Darwin," that is, the t.i.tle was altered. In the first book precedence is given to Krause's Life of Erasmus Darwin, in the second precedence is given to Charles Darwin's introduction.

DAVIES, JOHN LLEWELYN. See Plato.

DICTYS CRETENSIS. (Teubner Cla.s.sics.) Leipzig.