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Leather-bound volume with 'Private | Sir C. Trevelyan | No. 46' stamped in gold on front cover. Note in hand of George Macaulay Trevelyan on recto of second flyleaf: 'By Hannah, Lady Trevelyan. This has been used by her son G. O Trevelyan for his Life of Macaulay' to very good purpose. His mother wrote it for his use, but died before he wrote the Life.

This copy is in the hand of G. O. Trevelyan; he also makes notes in the margin.

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.