In the British Museum, London

Abstract

There is a collection entitled the Berkeley Papers, Additional MSS. 39304–I6 (39312–16 contain nothing by B.), which contains by far the largest and most important part of B.’s manuscript remains. It includes those private papers of the Bishop which passed to his son Dr. George Berkeley, and thence to the latter’s son George Monck Berkeley, with whom the line ended. Southey mentions them in his Omniana (1812, Lond., vol. 1, p. 251, sec. 133): “A journal of his travels in Italy, and many other of his papers, remain unpublished. His grandson, George Monck Berkeley, had he lived, would have given them to the public. I know not what is become of them since the family has been extinct, but of such a man not a relick should be lost”. They passed through the Grimston family to the Rose family. The first public use made of them was when the widow of the Rev. Hugh James Rose (Principal of King’s College, Lond; d. 1838) lent them to J. S. M. Anderson for his Hist. of the Church of England in the Colonies (entry above, 275); see vol. 3, p. 176, n. 10, p. 461, p. 488, n. 23. Rose’s brother, Archdeacon Henry John Rose, later placed them at the disposal of Fraser when the latter was preparing his 1871 ed. of the Works. They were presented to the Brit. Mus. in 1916 by Mrs. W. F. Rose. For further particulars see B. M. Cat. of Additions to the MSS. 1916–20 (1933) and LL, pp. xiff.