| Description | Manuscript volume containing several texts of Ro[bert?] Thomson: (1) London in Ingland: a treatise on foreign exchanges, etc, in London, Ireland, Tunisia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, India, etc, 1619 (25 leaves); (2) The Papists told that a man is able to love God, ex puris naturalibus, etc, c1633 (15 pages); (3) Letter of Lentulus to the Senate of Rome, concerning Jesus Christ (Publius Lentulus, fictitious Governor of Judea, supposed author of an apocryphal letter to the Roman Senate on Christ); (4) Four original poems. |
| CustodialHistory | Part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. |