The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College, Cambridge Part 17

VIII. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF OR RELATING TO SAMUEL BUTLER

Thomas Harris, of Shrewsbury.

Butler when a boy was amused by the advertis.e.m.e.nt put up over his shop by this man, who was a baker. He copied or invented the two pictures showing Harris (1) making bride cakes, (2) making funeral cakes, and composed the music. Miss Butler showed it to me at Shrewsbury in June or July, 1902, and I copied it.

MS. copies of "The New Scriptures," according to Darwin, Tyndall, Huxley and Spencer.

The first twenty-four verses of this appeared in an American paper (the _Index_, if I remember right) many years ago. They were given to me by Herbert Phipson; I showed them to Butler; he copied them and composed verses 25 to 33.

Testimonials by Eyre Crowe, A.R.A.; G. K. Fortescue; R. Garnett, LL.D.; A. C. Gow, A.R.A.; T. Heatherley; the Rev. B. H. Kennedy, D.D.; Henry Stacy Marks, R.A.; and W. T. Marriott, M.P., submitted by Butler in 1886 when a Candidate for the Slade Professors.h.i.+p of Fine Art at Cambridge.

Two numbers of the Parish Magazine of St. Augustine's, Kilburn, Mar. 1887 and April 1887.

Between pp. 80 and 81 of the March number are unsuitable advertis.e.m.e.nts of Pears' Soap involving the Bishop Q of w.a.n.galoo and Lillie Langtry.

Their appearance drew from the Editor, pp. 97 and 112 of the April number, an expression of regret, distress, and surprise, and a statement that precautions had been taken against any occurrence of a similar nature in future. If I remember right Miss Savage sent these to Butler and they are referred to in their correspondence, but perhaps not in any of the letters included in the _Memoir_.

Review of "Luck or Cunning?" written by George Bernard Shaw, which appeared in the _Pall Mall Gazette_, 31st May, 1887.

This was given to me by Dan Rider, who told me that Bernard Shaw's original review, which he wrote off his own bat, was very much more laudatory and much longer, but the Editor of the _Pall Mall Gazette_ cut it down in length and took out some of the praise because he was afraid of offending the Darwins and their friends.

A collection of Butler's Letters to the _Athenaeum_ and the _Academy_ and other contributions to the press. See the _Memoir_.

20 Marzo 1893. Nomination of Butler as Socio Corrispondente of the Accademia di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti de'Zelanti di Aci-Reale.

4 Luglio 1893. Nomination of Butler as Socio Corrispondente of the Accademia Dafnica di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti in Aci-Reale.

An envelope containing papers relating to Dr. Butler and to Butler's _Life_ of him, which appeared in 1896.

Statement as to the position of the violinist Mademoiselle Gabrielle Vaillant, May 1897.

She occurs in the _Memoir_. She broke down, and a few hundred pounds were raised to help her.

A collection of obituary notices of Butler. 1902.

Two collections of notices of Butler's books, one made by Butler, the other by Streatfeild.

Particulars and Conditions of Sale of such of Butler's houses near London as were sold after his death, Oct. 1902.

A parcel of newspapers, mostly _The Press_ and _The Weekly Press_ of New Zealand, referring to Butler and to his contributions to the New Zealand press. Some of his early contributions are reprinted. See _A First Year in Canterbury Settlement_ (1914), Introduction.

A collection of letters and papers relating to the Erewhon Dinners.

An envelope containing _pieces justificatives_ in connection with the "Diary of a Journey," by H. F. Jones. 1903.

_The Cambridge Magazine_ for 1 March 1913, containing "Samuel Butler and the Simeonites," by A. T. Bartholomew. See _A First Year in Canterbury Settlement_ (1914), pp. 266-272.

Catalogue of the Butler Collection at St. John's College, Cambridge. Pts.

1-3. Extracted from _The Eagle_ for March and June 1918 and for June 1919. (No more published in this form.)

Menu of Dinner given to Henry Festing Jones on the completion of the _Memoir_ of Butler, the hosts being Mansfield Duval Forbes and A. T.

Bartholomew, 11th Nov. 1916, in Forbes's rooms, Clare College, Cambridge.

Each course is ill.u.s.trated by an appropriate quotation from the _Memoir_.

Menu of Dinner given to Henry Festing Jones on the publication of his _Memoir_ of Butler by A. T. Bartholomew at the University Arms Hotel, Cambridge, 22 Nov. 1919.

A collection of _pieces justificatives_, permissions to print letters in the _Memoir_ of Butler, and the original MSS. of Reminiscences of Butler therein included by Miss Aldrich, Rev. Cuthbert Creighton, the Hon. Mrs.

Richard Cecil Grosvenor, H. R. Robertson.

A collection of newspaper cuttings, being reviews and notices of the _Memoir_.

A collection of letters received by H. F. Jones on the publication of the _Memoir_.

IX. PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF OR RELATING TO SAMUEL BUTLER

An engraving of "The Fortune Teller," by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

An engraving of "The Woodman," by Gainsborough.

A print of a view of "Clifford's Inn Hall from the Garden." 1800.

A paper about Clifford's Inn, extracted from "Picturesque Views and an Historical Account of the Inns of Court," by Samuel Ireland, published in the year 1800.

An envelope containing prints of the photograph of Butler's Fireplace, 15 Clifford's Inn.

Six boxes of photographic negatives. Portraits and Italian works of art.

Five volumes of prints of snap-shots by Butler.

Photographs ill.u.s.trating Butler's notions about the Portraits of Gentile and Giovanni Bellini as to which he wrote to the _Athenaeum_, 20 Feb.

1886. (_Memoir_, ch. xxv.)

Photographs to ill.u.s.trate his notions about the Holbein drawing, "La Danse," dealt with in the article in the _Universal Review_, "L'Affaire Holbein-Rippel." Together with various papers relating to the same matter. This article was not reproduced in _Essays on Life_, _Art and Science_ (afterwards _The Humour of Homer_) because of the trouble of reproducing the ill.u.s.trations, but it is among the _Universal Review_ articles bound together and included in this catalogue (p. 19).

A print of the great statue of S. Carlo Borromeo, near Arona, called "S.

Carlone."

A collection of photographs of Italian pictures, unmounted.

Three large cards with photographs of the fres...o...b.. Gaudenzio Ferrari which is in S. Maria delle Grazie at Varallo-Sesia. It is in twenty-one compartments.

Two cards, not so large, with photographs of pictures and frescoes by Gaudenzio. One of these reproduces frescoes and pictures in the Crucifixion Chapel at Varallo. In the left-hand bottom corner is the whole of the fresco in S. Maria delle Grazie showing how the twenty-one compartments are placed. The other card contains Gaudenzio's frescoes in the Church of S. Cristoforo at Vercelli.

A card with five photographs, two of the frescoes at Busto Arsizio near Varese--at least, I think that is where they are. One is "St. John Baptist's head in a charger," the other "The baptism in the Jordan."