"THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE CHANCELLOR."
My object being only publicity I was not disappointed by the following reply:?
HATFIELD HOUSE, HATFIELD, HERTS, December 1st, 1886.
"DEAR SIR RICHARD,
"I beg to acknowledge your letter of the 30th of November with enclosure.
"I have, however, no power over the Bodleian Library, and, therefore, I am unable to assist you.
Yours, very truly, (Signed) SALISBURY."
"SIR RICHARD F. BURTON, K.C.M.G."
On January 29, 1887, there was another "Bodleian Meeting," all the Curators save one being present and showing evident symptoms of business. The last application on the list of loans entered on the Agenda paper ran thus:?
V MS. Bodl. Vols. 550-556 to the British Museum (the 7 vols. successively) for the use of Mr. F. F. Arbuthnot's Agent.