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181. BRAIN (Ernest, Times Correspondent in Holland and
Berlin)
ALS to Dr Ferdinand L. Leipnik, 1869-c.1924, the
Hungarian Journalist andConnoisseur, who acted as an
intermediary between the Austrian and German
governments with Great Britain during WWI, saying
“tomorrow ... morning ... would be the best time for a chat”,
as in the afternoon, “for the first time ... the National
Assembly meets in the Reichstag building”, 1 side 4to., The
Times, In Den Zelten 20, Berlin, N.W.40., 29th September
1919 [SD19045]£35
In February 1917 Wickham Steed wrote to Leipnik, then in
neutral Holland, introducing “our Amsterdam correspondent ...
remember that he is your and my senior; that he embodies all the
most sacred and dignified traditions of The Times; and that, under
asomewhat reserved exterior, he is one of the best fellows on
earth”.
182. BROUNCKER (William, 1620-1684, 2nd Viscount),
Sir Thomas ALLIN ,(1612-1685, Admiral), Sir Richard
HADDOCK , (1629-1715, Admiral), and Thomas
HAYTER
DS as members of the Navy Board “to the Clerke of the
Checque of his Mats. yard at Woolwich”, following the
King’s warrant of 1st March appointing John Greene as
“Boatsn. of his shipp the Windsor Castle”, with the usual
“allowance of Wages & Victuals for himself and servant”,
Greene having received “a Coppy of the Instructions ...
attested by the Clerk of the Acts of his Mats. Navy”, they
now direct the Clerk of the Cheque “to enter him ...
Boatswn. of the sd ship”, 1 side folio, Navy Office, 17th
March 1678 old style, new style 1679, retains neat portion
of conjugate leaf bearing title [SD50122]£225
Below is a note of receipt dated 19th March for the present
document, adding “Tho: Peede is his servants name. The
Boatswn. hath a Coppy of this”.
Brouncker, the well-known mathematician and first President of
the Royal Society, signs as Controller of Treasurer’s Accounts;
Allin Controller of the Navy Board; Haddock an Extra
Commissioner, and Hayter Clerk of the Acts.
183. BROVAL (M. de, Secretary to the Duke of Orléans,
later Louis Philippe I))
ALS to J. Foster, in English, enclosing the answer [not
present] of “Madame la Comtesse de Genlis ... Mr Foster
will see ... that she will receive most willingly Miss Croker
and [Mr Croker] any day, Sundays excepted, from 8 to 9
o’clock in the evening”, adding that it appears “Mr. Horace
Vernet ... is not in Paris at present”, 1 side 4to., Palais
Royal, 19th October n.y. but 1819 [SD50196]£75
The writer Madame de Genlis (1746-1830) had been governess
to members of the Orléans family, including Louis Philippe, who
declared late in life that she had been “the only woman he had
truly loved”.
John Wilson Croker , (1780-1857, Secretary to the Admiralty),
and historian of the French Revolution, wrote on 6th November
1819 that he was “once more in England, after an absence of 20
days, 14 of which in Paris. I passed my time between book shops
and the play-houses” (Croker Papers, 1884, vol. 1 p. 150). Only
twice in20years did he take so much as three weeks’ leave from
the Admiralty - the other was in July 1815 to see Paris and
Waterloo.
Horace Vernet painted historical scenes, costumes and uniforms,
and illustrated a Life of Napoleon.
184. BRUNEL (Sir Marc Isambard, 1769-1849, Engineer,
Builder of the Thames Tunnel)
ALS to Mr Miller of the Greenwich Railway, giving a
reference for “The Bearer Thomas Houlian ... employed at
the Thame’s [sic] Tunnel work from their commencement
in 1825 to very lately when a reduction took place ... The
Bearer is a very industrious orderly and sober man who can
be depended upon ...”, 1 side 8vo., n.p., 22nd June 1841,
trimmed on top edge without loss of text [SD26493]£325
Brunel, a Frenchman, escaped from Paris to the States in 1793 and
worked as Chief Engineer to New York City. He settled in
England in 1799 and was knighted in 1841.
THE BUCCLEUCH ESTATES
185. BUCCLEUCH (Charles William Henry Montagu
Scott, 1772-1819, from 1812 4th Duke)
Document Signed on each page, appointing James Elliot as
Overseer of Works on his estates in Selkirk, Peebles and
Roxburgh Shires, to report on their management “to me or
my Chamberlain” using “Sketches taken from the Surveys
and plans already made”, he may be asked to collect “small
rents” (up to £4 p.a.), can prosecute for taking wood
without written permission, represent the Duke at Heritors’
meetings, and is to prepare the twice yearly estate accounts,
for £150 p.a. to include expenses when in his area, plus the
House of Goldielands near Hawick and 22 acres “lately
occupied by Miss Scott and Captain Walter Scott”, 3 sides
folio, Langholm Lodge, Dumfriesshire, 16th March 1812
[SD50240]£125
The Duke wasthefriend of Sir Walter Scott, who dedicated to
him ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’.
RAISING VOLUNTEERS, 1803
186. BULKELEY (Thomas James Warren, 1752-1822,
General, from 1781 Lord Lieutenant of Carnarvonshire, 7th
and 1st Baron)
ALS ‘Warren-Bulkeley’ to Capt. William Coxe, (A.Q.M.G.
in Liverpool for the North West District), explaining that
“none of The Corps of Volunteers which I have accepted
have got into anything like military form or order but the
Carnarvon”, whose adjutant “assured me he had sent the
returns ... very regularly since the 27th of Augt. when I
accepted them”, the writer “shall trouble you to acquaint
His R. Hss. Prince William”, 1776-1834, from 1805 2nd
Duke of Gloucester, “that Government have allotted a 1000
Volunteers” for his county, he is distributing arms “as fast
as I can” but regrets that the Lleyn “the most exposed part
... is in a very ill protected & defenceless state, as Mr
Wardle’s offer was refused by London, and Lord
Newboroughs is all I have to look for in that quarter”, with
on side 3 the writer’s list of the numbers for Carnarvon
(300 in 5 companies), Bangor, Snowdon, Merionydd (80
each) and Conway (150 in 3 companies), with the numbers
of officers in each, ending “Loyal Newborough 300 not
quite settled as yet”, 3 sides 8vo., Baronhill, Anglesey, 21st
September 1803 [SD20049]£95
Lord Newborough (1736-1807) raised a corps of Volunteers of
militia no less than four times, most recently 6 companies, the
‘Loyal Newboroughs’, in 1799.