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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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Compiled for the most part by Basil Montagu in preparation for his edition of Bacon's works, with some additional material.

Scope and Contents (Fo. i) Contents; (fo. 1) notes; (fo. 1v) copy of the conclusion of a letter from F. Wrangham to 'Mrs Montagu', 29 November [ ]; (fo. 2) original of the same; (fo. 3) note on the annihilation of matter, with extracts from Bacon's works; (fos 12 and 35) sketch of St Michael's Church, St Albans: engraving of a monument to Bacon within; (fos 39-151) letters, copy letters, extracts, notices and notes involving: James Walter, F. Wrangham, B. Montagu, A. Tozer Russell, W.J. Bryant, William Penn, a...

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Extracts from the Journal of the House of Peers, 19 March - 3 May 1621. On the binding are the royal arms of King George I, in gilt in the centre on either side. Fos 1v-4 and 74-90 are blank.

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An index to the correspondence in foreign languages of Francis Bacon. Fos 6-16, which appear to have contained further lists, have been cut out.

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(Fo. i) B. Montagu: title-page; (fo. 1) F. Wrangham: text. Attached to fo. 34 is a draft of the same, presumably in F. Wrangham's hand.

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A chronological list of letters and documents of or concerning Francis Bacon in the collections in the British Museum and Cambridge University Library. There is a list of contents on fo. 1.

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The list is in chronological order. It is incomplete and closes at the year 1730.

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The works are arranged in chronological order. A general list (fos 2-39) is followed by individual lists of separate works (fos 43-96). Fos 97-205 are blank.

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(Fo. 7) General chronological list of works by or concerning Bacon; (fo. 47) chronological list of editions of Bacon's essays; (fo. 57) chronological list of editions of the whole of Bacon's works; (fo. 60) chronological list of different miscellanies of Bacon; (fo. 73v) notes in Montagu's hand. On a flyleaf is a list of contents in Montagu's hand.

Scope and Contents (Fo. 22) Copy of a letter from B. Montagu to the editor of the Gentleman's magazine, 9 July 1827; (fo. 33) copy of a letter from 'F.G.N.' to the same, 20 June 1828; (fo. 61) copy of a letter from W. Bryant to B. Montagu, 13 December 1827; (fo. 63) copy of a letter from the Bryant to Montagu, 4 January 1828; (fo. 117v) letter from Thomas Amyot to [B. Montagu], 26 February 1829; (fo. 123) letter from F. Wrangham to Montagu, 8 June 1829; (fo. 126) letter from Wrangham to Montagu, 21 February...

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Copies of epitaphs, notices, extracts and memoranda of Francis Bacon, dating from 1626 - c. 1700. Montagu's hand appears in various annotations throughout the book. The extracts and other notes, some of which are printed, are mostly pasted onto the recto. The verso is generally blank. An imperfect list of contents is inside the covers and on a flyleaf.

Scope and Contents (Fo. 1) Earl of Essex: 'A precious Letter to the Earl of Southampton', a transcript of an edition printed in London, 1643; (fos 11, 15 and 20) Francis Bacon: speeches at the trial of the Earls of Essex and Southampton, 19 February 1601, made from British Library, Harley MSS 5202 and 6854; (fos 25, 96, 111, 114 and 124) extracts of letters from Rowland Whyte to Sir Robert Sydney, 1599-1600; (fo. 71) extract on Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; (fo. 76) extract from William Camden's History of...

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(Fo. 5) English: note of contents in Montagu's hand; (fo. 6) Latin: 'Consideratio Novi Organi Verulamiani instituta olim a Davide Mylio Philosopho Keckermaniano', from British Library, MS Sloane 432; (fo. 38) 'Consideratio Considerationis Mylianae', from the same; (fo. 53) English, B. Montagu: memoranda; (fo. 54) French: transcript of Maria Meisennes, La vente des sciences (1625), chapter 16.

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(Fos 1-28) 'An Advertisement touching an holy warr...The rest was not perfected'; (fos 29-36) 'To the king, of a digest to be made of the lawes of England'. Bacon first put forward these proposals for law reform in the 1590s, but this version is addressed to James I, and was first printed in 1629. On fo. 1 is 'W. Hone. XVII.30.15', possibly referring to the author and bookseller who lived 1780-1842.