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It was doubtless from this collection that Mr. Keon was supplied with those
papers, which he published in _Dolman's Magazine_ in 1846, concerning "The
Preservation of the Society of Jesus in the Empire of Russia."
M.A. TIERNEY.
Arundel.
_Pope Ganganelli_ (Vol. ii., p. 464.).--The Rev. Charles Cordell, a priest
of the Roman Catholic Church, who was stationed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne
about the date mentioned by your correspondent CEPHAS (he was there in
1787), was the translator of the letters of Pope Clement XIV. (Ganganelli);
but as I have not the book, I do not know whether it contained also a life
of that pontiff. Mr. Cordell was editor of other works.
W.S.G.
_Nicholas Ferrar's Digest_ (Vol. ii., p.446.).--One of the copies of the
Gidding _Digest of the History of our Saviour's Life_, inquired after by
J.H.M. (a most beautiful book), is in the library of the Marquis of
Salisbury. I believe it to be the copy presented to Charles I.
W.H.C.
_Ferrar, Nicholas._--The following extract from a very interesting paper on
"Illustrated Books" in the _Quarterly Review_, vol. lxxiv. p. 173, will aid
J.H.M. in his researches after the curious volumes arranged by the members
of the Ferrar family:
"King Charles's statues, pictures, jewels, and curiosities, were sold
and dispersed by the regicide powers; from this fate, happily, the
royal collection of manuscripts and books was preserved; neither was
it, like the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth, doled out piecemeal to
Hugh Peters and his brother fanatics. This good service was mainly
owing to Bolstrode Whitelocke. When the British Museum was founded,
King George II. presented to it the whole of the royal library; and
Ferrar's _Concordance_, with another similarly illustrated compilation
by him, is there preserved in safety. The Rev. Thomas Bowdler of
Sydenham, the representative of the last baronet of the Cotton family,
the founders of the Cottonian Library, possesses another of the Ferrar
volumes. Of those which were presented by Ferrar to George Herbert and
Dr. Jackson, no record remains."
JOHN I. DREDGE.
{13}
_Cardinal Erskine_ (Vol. ii., p. 406.) flourished later than your
correspondent G.W. supposes. He was in communication with Mr. Pitt about
1799-1800. Query, was he then in England?
W.H.C.
_The Author of Peter Wilkins_ (Vol. ii., p. 480.).--An advertisement
prefixed to the edition of this remarkable work in Smith's _Standard
Library_, 1839, gives the following information respecting the author:--
"In the year 1835, Mr. Nicol the printer sold by auction a number of
books and manuscripts in his possession, which had formerly belonged to
the well-known publisher Dodsley; and in arranging them for sale, the
original agreement for the sale of the manuscript of 'Peter Wilkins,'
by the author, 'Robert Pultock of Clement's Inn' to Dodsley, was
discovered. From this document it appears that Mr. Pultock received
twenty pounds, twelve copies of the work, and 'the cuts of the first
impression,' that is, a set of proof impressions of the fanciful
engravings that professed to illustrate the first edition, as the price
of the entire copyright. This curious document was sold to John Wilks,
Esq., M.P. on the 17th December, 1835."
Mr. Leigh Hunt, in his _Book for a Corner_, remarks upon this,--
"The reader will observe that the words 'by the author,' in this
extract, are not accompanied by marks of quotation. The fact, however,
is stated as if he knew it for such, by the quoter of the document."
The difference mentioned by DR. RIMBAULT between the initials in the
title-page and those appended to the dedication, occurs also in Mr. Smith's
edition. But the dedication to which the initials R.P. are affixed, speaks
of the book as the work of the writer in the most unmistakeable terms. Was
the S. in the place of the P. a typographical error, perpetuated by
carelessness and oversight; or a mystification of the author, adopted when
the success of the book was uncertain, and continued after the dedication
had contradicted it, by that want of attention to minuti� which was more
frequently manifest in former times than at present?
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