ELLEN TERRY’S LETTERS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 85, 4 January 1935, Page 4

ELLEN TERRY’S LETTERS

Gifts to British Museum Mr. Bernard Shaw has presented the letters he received from Miss Ellen Terry to the British Museum. They were formally “received” at a recent meeting of the museum, trustees, but are not yet available for public inspection, says the London “Sunday Times.” The letters, many of which have not yet been published, are to be bound, and they are so numerous that there will be several volumes. Some of them, which refer to people still alive, may not be published for some time. Mr. Shaw and Miss Terry were friends for many years, and when some of the letters were published recently they excited much interest.' To the museum’s papers relating to the Shelle ycircle there are now added, by the gift of Mr. J. Wheeler Williams, some manuscripts ohf Thomas Jefferson Hogg, including autograph notes by Shelley on a play of Hogg’s, a letter from Mrs. Shelley to Mrs. Hogg, and a painting of the yacht Don Juan, in which Shelley and Williams were drowned; and by the gift of this donor’s sister, Mrs. A. Saxon Snell, a carpenter’s account for repairs to the Don Juan, and the greater part of Hogg’s autograph manuscript of bis "Life of Shelley,” vols I and 11. Another gift is a group of antiquities found in excavations in Telegraph Street', Moorgate, presented as to most of the objects by Dr. C. Davies Sherborn, and, as to a sheet of lead inscribed with a curse, by Mr. G. F. Lawrence.

Lord Esher has presented, through the Friends of the National Libraries a-group of 11 of the nineteenth century poetical and literary pamphlets hitherto passing for first editions, which have lately been shown to be forgeries.