VIII. Miscellaneous Papers Formerly the Property of or Relating to Samuel Butler

Thomas Harris, of Shrewsbury.

Butler when a boy was amused by the advertisement put up over his shop by this man, who was a baker. He copied or invented the two pictures showing Harris (1) making bride cakes, (2) making funeral cakes, and composed the music. Miss Butler showed it to me at Shrewsbury in June or July, 1902, and I copied it.

MS. copies of “The New Scriptures,” according to Darwin, Tyndall, Huxley and Spencer.

The first twenty-four verses of this appeared in an American paper (the Index, if I remember right) many years ago. They were given to me by Herbert Phipson; I showed them to Butler; he copied them and composed verses 25 to 33.

Testimonials by Eyre Crowe, A.R.A.; G. K. Fortescue; R. Garnett, LL.D.; A. C. Gow, A.R.A.; T. Heatherley; the Rev. B. H. Kennedy, D.D.; Henry Stacy Marks, R.A.; and W. T. Marriott, M.P., submitted by Butler in 1886 when a Candidate for the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Cambridge.

Two numbers of the Parish Magazine of St. Augustine’s, Kilburn, Mar. 1887 and April 1887.

Between pp. 80 and 81 of the March number are unsuitable advertisements of Pears’ Soap involving the Bishop Q of Wangaloo and Lillie Langtry. Their appearance drew from the Editor, pp. 97 and 112 of the April number, an expression of regret, distress, and surprise, and a statement that precautions had been taken against any occurrence of a similar nature in future. If I remember right Miss Savage sent these to Butler and they are referred to in their correspondence, but perhaps not in any of the letters included in the Memoir.

Review of “Luck or Cunning?” written by George Bernard Shaw, which appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette, 31st May, 1887.

This was given to me by Dan Rider, who told me that Bernard Shaw’s original review, which he wrote off his own bat, was very much more laudatory and much longer, but the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette cut it down in length and took out some of the praise because he was afraid of offending the Darwins and their friends.

A collection of Butler’s Letters to the Athenæum and the Academy and other contributions to the press. See the Memoir.

20 Marzo 1893. Nomination of Butler as Socio Corrispondente of the Accademia di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti de’Zelanti di Aci-Reale.

4 Luglio 1893. Nomination of Butler as Socio Corrispondente of the Accademia Dafnica di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti in Aci-Reale.

An envelope containing papers relating to Dr. Butler and to Butler’s Life of him, which appeared in 1896.

Statement as to the position of the violinist Mademoiselle Gabrielle Vaillant, May 1897.

She occurs in the Memoir. She broke down, and a few hundred pounds were raised to help her.

A collection of obituary notices of Butler. 1902.

Two collections of notices of Butler’s books, one made by Butler, the other by Streatfeild.

Particulars and Conditions of Sale of such of Butler’s houses near London as were sold after his death, Oct. 1902.

A parcel of newspapers, mostly The Press and The Weekly Press of New Zealand, referring to Butler and to his contributions to the New Zealand press. Some of his early contributions are reprinted. See A First Year in Canterbury Settlement (1914), Introduction.

A collection of letters and papers relating to the Erewhon Dinners.

An envelope containing pièces justificatives in connection with the “Diary of a Journey,” by H. F. Jones. 1903.

The Cambridge Magazine for 1 March 1913, containing “Samuel Butler and the Simeonites,” by A. T. Bartholomew. See A First Year in Canterbury Settlement (1914), pp. 266-272.

Catalogue of the Butler Collection at St. John’s College, Cambridge. Pts. 1-3. Extracted from The Eagle for March and June 1918 and for June 1919. (No more published in this form.)

Menu of Dinner given to Henry Festing Jones on the completion of the Memoir of Butler, the hosts being Mansfield Duval Forbes and A. T. Bartholomew, 11th Nov. 1916, in Forbes’s rooms, Clare College, Cambridge. Each course is illustrated by an appropriate quotation from the Memoir.

Menu of Dinner given to Henry Festing Jones on the publication of his Memoir of Butler by A. T. Bartholomew at the University Arms Hotel, Cambridge, 22 Nov. 1919.

A collection of pièces justificatives, permissions to print letters in the Memoir of Butler, and the original MSS. of Reminiscences of Butler therein included by Miss Aldrich, Rev. Cuthbert Creighton, the Hon. Mrs. Richard Cecil Grosvenor, H. R. Robertson.

A collection of newspaper cuttings, being reviews and notices of the Memoir.

A collection of letters received by H. F. Jones on the publication of the Memoir.