Note 336 — ANNALS OF THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY. (continued 5)

A very erroneous notice of the collection, written in a singularly depreciatory tone, was inserted in an article in the Quarterly Review, in 1852, vol. xci. p. 217. The writer appears to have confounded the facts connected with Gough's preference of the Bodleian to the British Museum (as told in Nichols' Lit. Hist.), or possibly Douce's, with the totally different circumstances of Mrs. Sutherland's gift, whose husband had left the collection entirely at her disposal, provided only that it were not dispersed.