NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Our Progress in the Colonies. We cannot resist bringing before our readers the following passage from a letter which accompanied some very interesting communications from Adelaide, South Australia, received by us this week:—
"A lover and a student of all that is interesting or curious in literary antiquity, my position necessarily debars me from all access to original manuscripts, and to such volumes as are only to be found in large public libraries; and also keeps me in ignorance of much that is going on in the literary world. Thus there is a blank in the course of my favourite study which is well filled up by your excellent and interesting periodical. It is indeed a great boon to all situated as I am at a distance from the fountain head of antiquarian knowledge."
Such an acknowledgment of our utility to our brethren abroad, is most gratifying to us. We trust those of our readers who have friends and relatives who are fond of literary pursuits, resident in the colonies, will do them and us the kindness of directing their attention to "Notes and Queries."
V. is requested to say how we can address a letter to him.
W. P. A. The Catalogue of Sir T. Phillip's MSS. is privately printed. There are copies, we believe, at the Bodleian, the Athenæum, and the Society of Antiquaries.
E. B. P. Correct in this supposition.
W. A. The Camden Society could not undertake the publication of the proposed Monumentarium Anglicanum, without neglecting the objects for which it was more immediately instituted.
D. K.'s Query was in type before we received his reminder. We do not acknowledge the receipt of Queries, from an anxiety not to occupy space unnecessarily.
C. W. and B. W. E. are both thanked for the friendly tone of their communications.
X. Y. Z. Hallam's Literature of Europe. The supplemental notes on the Literature of Europe have not yet been incorporated in any edition of that work. They form a separate volume adapted to all the existing editions.
Monumentarium Anglicanum. We continue to receive valuable communications upon this subject, which we shall take an early opportunity of bringing before our Readers.
De H. A private communication awaits this correspondent. Will he furnish us with his address?
Among many communications which we are this week obliged to postpone for want of room, we may mention Mr. Peter Cunningham's Reply to Mr. Foss on the Outer Temple—An interesting paper on The Lay of The Last Minstrel, and many Replies.
Replies Received. Post Conquestum—Quakers' Attempt to Convert the Pope—Statute Sessions or Sittings—Thanksgiving Book—Locke MSS.—Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin—Nullis Fraus, &c.—Meaning of Tye—Apple Pie Order—Lancelot Lyttelton—Villenage—God takes those soonest—Sir H. Slingsby—Inscription on a Clock—Christ's Cross Row—Four Want Ways—Francis Moore—Witte van Hemstede—Dutch Church, Peter Sterry, &c.—Mistletoe—Obeism—San Graal—Cleopatra—Auriga—Shakespeare's Use of Delighted—Dutch Books.
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