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Note by George Macaulay Trevelyan on back flyleaf: 'The other end of this volume is the Commonplace Book of Charles James Fox. This end I have used for letters from (and to) Thomas Babington Macaulay. G. M. Trevelyan, Dec. 1928'. Most of the letters are labelled in Trevelyan's hand, adding details such as publication in George Otto Trevelyan's Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. There are also a few letters from and to G. O. Trevelyan.

For £75, by order of John Bell.

Only 'Division 1' of 'Part I' ('Containing Trees and Shrubs' appears to be listed. Plants are listed according to Linnaean taxonomy, by the number of stamens and pistils.

Includes notes on Hume, Dalrymple, Lord Grey, Ludlow, Rapin, Burnett, Baxter, Voltaire, Harris, Ralph, McPherson, the Apologie De Louis XIV... [Novi de Caveirac], Woodrow, and Granger.

Includes notes on Denham, Racine, Dryden, Quinault, Corneille, Homer, Virgil, Euripides, Horace, Shakespeare, Tryphiodorus, and Seneca.

'Plantago cynops... Celastrus scandens'.

Notes on pages 389-489 of an unidentified work.

Ruled lines with repeated attempts at letter, numerals etc. One whole phrase in cursive, 'ice do be a good boy'.

First sheet blank except for Fox's name. The others have a commentary, with line references, including notes on the text, comments on printed editions, comparisons with Shakespeare etc. The sixth sheet is the cover of a letter addressed to Fox at St. Anne's, Chertsey, postmarked Sept. 1804.