“Of English books printed before 1640 there were added during the year 149 items of which six are unrecorded in the Short-Title Catalogue and seven are unrecorded variants of items listed there. This extraordinary total is mainly due to the generosity of Mr. Harold T. White ’97, and his sister, Mrs. Hugh D. Marshall, who presented all the books and manuscripts remaining in the library of their father, William
A. White ’63, not already in the Harvard Library … Among the White books were several English manuscripts of this period including … [an] unusual volume contain[ing] a collection of Elizabethan heralds’ funeral certificates, including those of the wives of Sir Thomas Lucy, Sir Julius Caesar, and Sir Robert Cecil, as well as those of the mother-in-law of Sir Edward Coke and of a cousin of Sir William Cornwallis. The signatures of the survivors mentioned above are all included, together with many others. Bound at the end are several miscellaneous documents, including a long news letter, dated 3 September 1627, giving an account of a sea battle.”
[fMS Eng 728]
From the Accessions Reports, 1941-42
