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Thomas Salusbury says little about his own career, but we gather that he was born in 1761, that he married Sarah, daughter of Bulkeley Hatchett of Lee, co. Salop, that they had no issue, and that he was living in Salusbury Place, Denbigh, in 1807. Benjamin Stillingfleet once conversed with him about natural history, husbandry, and physic. His own remarks on the press cuttings add to the value of the volume as a human docu- ment. On an account of the extent of the British Empire he notes- Prodigious, but the arms are too long for the body in the opinion of T.S.' A cutting relating to The Man of Ross' is headed—' Here is a man for you-Reader, go, and do likewise'. On a cutting of an extract from an inquiry into the effects of ardent spirits upon the human body and mind by Samuel Rush, M.D., of Pennsylvania, he writes — upon my word, Mr. Rush, I fear you have spent your breath to very little purpose for John Bull must have it, let the consequence be what it will ?' Under one recipe pasted in the book he paid a tribute to his father,- The above being in the Hand-writing of the best of Fathers, and as he believes from the general testimony of those who knew him, one of the best of Men, shall be preserved during the existence of the Collector of these Scraps A cutting relating to officers on half pay can probably be regarded as a clue associating him with the Thomas Salisbury or Salusbury who disappears from the Army List in 1832 after figuring as a lieutenant on half pay from 1791. He had held the rank from 6 May, 1783, and had previously been an ensign in the 49th Regiment of Foot since 19 Nov. 1781. He probably died in 1831. Another document in the same consignment from the British Records Association is the original will of his widow, Sarah Salusbury of Denbigh, July 18, 1840. It bears her signature with a black armorial seal of the arms of Hatchett, azure three battle axes, impaled with those of Salusbury, gules a lion rampant crowned between three crescents, and the signatures of John Williams, M.D., and Salusbury Williams, both of Denbigh, witnesses. The principal legatee was Elizabeth Salusbury of Llanwern, Monmouthshire, niece to my late dear husband She was a daughter of Sir Robert Salusbury. A parcel of Salusbury papers just received contains rough pedigree notes of members of the Llanwern family, an autograph letter of the Rev. Charles John Salusbury, with whom the Llanwern baronetcy expired in 1868, and letters to him and to his brother Sir Thomas Robert Salusbury (d. 1835), from Richard Llwyd (' Bard of Snowdon'), John Mont- gomery Traherne, R. Reece, William Cole, and William Chapman. E. D. JONES. THE MYSEVIN MANUSCRIPTS. The Mysevin collection of manuscripts, one of the Library's most notable additions during recent years, was acquired in 1940. It consists of forty-two volumes2 originally assembled by Dr. William Owen[-Pughe] (' Idrison', 1759-1835), lexicographer, antiquary, and litterateur, compiler of A National Dictionary of the Welsh Language, co-editor of The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, and editor of The Cambrian Register and T Greal. The most important portion of the collection is a group of over seven hundred original letters and some copies of letters addressed to Owen[-Pughe] by persons who were promi- nent in the cultural life of Wales and England. Among his correspondents were Owen I The father, Robert Salusbury of Cotton Hall, died in 1776. 2 Now N.L.W. MSS. 13221-62. A catalogue of these manuscripts has been prepared in the Library.