Item 15.12F - Album of poetry kept by Hannah More Macaulay

1 small hardback notebook: 39 ff, with MS also on inside front cover; several torn stubs between ff 29 and 30.

Gift of George Macaulay Trevelyan, Nov. 1953.

Index (incomplete) of contents on inside front cover.

Note by Margaret Jean Holland, Viscountess Knutsford on first page: 'Album belonging to my mother Lady Trevelyan as a girl - Hannah More Macaulay - with a number of my uncle Lord Macaulay's poems. Margaret Knutsford Oct/89'. 'ALBUM | HMM' written below that, presumably by Hannah More Macaulay.

Most poems selected are by Thomas Babington Macaulay, but also included are 'Lines by Miss Serle aged 14 years'; 'Lines by Mr [T] Gisborne when his Sis[ter?] Rose tore her Gown'; 'Lines sent by Mr [J.] Stephen to Miss Sykes with a picture of Mr Wilberforce'; 'To an Infant. A Translation', by Sir W[illiam] Jones.

Large number of pages cut out, which according to the index once contained 'Election Squib' by T. B. M[acaulay], 'Verses' by S. T. G.' and part of 'Hymn' by 'N [?] G'.

'Translation of Thekla's Song by H. M. Macaulay' on last but one page. Pencil notes, some crossed out, on last page.

Dates from before Dec 1834, when Hannah More Macaulay married Charles Edward Trevelyan.