Thirty-two blank pages of a total of 110 p. Boards with clasp First thirty-two pages, June 12, 1835-Dec. 27, 1837, are accounts of several trips to the United Kingdom in which he describes his social life, journeys, dinners, theaters, opera, othersocial engagements, and visits with his sisters, one of whom took care of his two sons. The first journey was made on the ocean going ship "Johnstone" which left Demerara on June 12, 1835, for Liverpool arriving in Ireland on July 27 and by means of a fishing boat landed him at Galley Head. On Aug. 30, 1835, he left for Madeira where he had friends and business acquaintances in connection with the emigration of labor to his and his friends' plantations in Demerara (now Georgetown) British Guiana. He departed for London on November 11, 1835, in the brig "Dart" and arrived at his destination nineteen days later. On Dec. 21, 1835, he rented Brookfield House at Teignmouth, Devon. A party of nineteen, which included his sistersr and his sons, embarked on Apr. 9, 1836 on board the barque "Usk" at Torquay for Quebec. On Aug. 1, 1836, he purchased Mr. Stewart's undivided half of the plantation Arcadia and he notes in some detail the financial arrangements. He departed for Demerara on Apr. 5, 1837, in the barque "Nautilius" and arrived there on May 3. Jan. 27, 1841, he left Demerara on a political mission at the request of members of the court in the "Eliza Miller" steamer for Trinidad--returned Feb. 6 "having satisfactorily arranged in it Sir Hy MacLeod the Governor of Trinidad." Between 1834 and 1841 numberous memorandums were made on a variety of subject which included finances, a scale of food allowances for one hundred men on a voyage from Madeira for about twenty-five days. Since slavery was terminated in British possessions on Aug. 1, 1834, Butts noted large sums due him in compensation and described the method of arriving at it--"Mode and manner of the Appraisement of Negroes of British Guiana August 1834." Applying these principles, he then gives a detailed appraisement of plantation Thomas.
Title from blue and gold cover Pages have embossed floral borders from Auray Contents: Complements Directs (e.g., Le Soldat defend sa patrie); Complements Indirects (e.g., Le jour succede a la nuit); Memoire, Rennes France le 1er Juin 1871 (e.g., 3 douz de crayons a 0 fr 10 c 1e crayon equals 3 f 60 c); Arithmetical calculations for Memoire on previous page
Two comments in ink by Boxer after the signature of Cape. On verso of this letter is Boxer's reply to Cape, July 2, 1956. Autograph letter signed Removed from Elaine Sanceau, Capitaes do Brazil, translated by Antonio Alvaro Doria. Porto Livraria Civilizaças, 1956 (F2524 .S195).
Bound in contemporary vellum In Italian In ink The title page, table of contents, and the first five and one-third pages of the text are written in one hand; the remainder of the manuscript is in another hand and an index at the end of the text of nine and one-half pages, corrected with pasted strips over page numbers (contemporary). It is arranged geographically. Urbano Cerri was named secretary of the congregation of Propaganda Fide in 1675 and is so identified on the title. Sir Richard Steele, in An account of the State of the Roman Catholic religion... London, Printed for rJ. Roberts, 1715 (Lilly BX1361 .C4), includes the dedication to Clement XI presumed to be by Bishop Benjamin Hoadly. Steele's edition was made from a copy in the library at St. Gallen and sent to England. In 1716 a French edition was published in Amsterdam. Christian Gottlieb Jocher, Allegemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon... Hildesheim, 1960, supplement II, col. 220 (Lilly Z1010 .J63 v.6). The translation was done by Michael de la Roche, and the dedication to the pope done by another who was better versed in ecclesiastical history than Sir Richard Steele. Biographia Brittanica. London, 1778-1793, VI, part 1, p. 3830 (Lilly DA28 .B7 v.8). According to Robert Streit there are only three manuscripts of this text: one in Italian at Munich, one in Italian at Rome, and one in Italian and Spanish at Madrid. The provenance of the Lilly Library manuscript is also mostly English. It carries the inscription "Payne" (18th cent.) in the upper right-hand corner on the inside of the front cover; has the armorial engraved bookplate of the bibliophile and Hellenic scholar Frederick North, 5th earl of Guilford (1766-1827), founder of the Ionian University at Corfu; and is more recently from the famous collections of Sir Thomas Phillips (Phillips ms. 7826). It was sold by Sotheby in 1913 and purchased by the Lilly Library from Lathrop C. Harper, 8 W. 40th Street, New York, New York. It also bears on the title page the stamp (19th century?): "Ex Bibl. Ios. Ren. Card. Imperialis," whose identity it was not possible to trace.
Signed: Carolus In Swedish Address leaf bears broken red wax seal Accompanied by dealer's description of book from which the document was removed. Typescript document signed, 1 p., 27.5cm., 1935, Nov. 22, signed in ink by Whitman Bennett, 1883-1968, author, movie producer, rare book dealer. Removed from The History of Charles XII, King of Sweden, by Voltaire, translated by John Joseph Stockdale. London, 1807 (Lilly DL732 .V913 1807). Note in front cover reads: "Military doc. Charles XII of Sweden. Height of his success, while fighting Russians in Lithuania." Includes dealer's description of document as well as description of volume from which it came