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Latin hexameters, lyrics, and pentameters. Including translations from Milton's Paradise Lost; 'Lament on the death of Thomson' [ie Ode on the Death of [James] Thomson, by William Collins]; pieces from Holden's Foliorum Silvula [a collection of English passages for translation into Latin and Greek]; Loss of the Birkenhead [by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle]; and 'Somerville's Chase' [or The Chace, by William Somerville]. Pieces which may be Robert Milnes' own composition are a dialogue between Mopsus and Menalcas [characters from Virgil's Eclogues], and a lyric entitles 'Salve, Alexandrovna', dated 13 Mar. 1874 and presumably written to mark the marriage between the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia and Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.

Corrected draft of a lecture given at the Royal Institution on 31 May 1921; with footnotes.

Accompanied by a letter from F. Pollock to Frazer, 10 May 1920, laid in between pages 42-43 of the manuscript. Pollock writes from 21 Hyde Park Place, W.2., summarising William Somervile's account of hunting and trapping foxes in 'The Chace', and concluding that Somervile's tone suggests that in the second quarter of the 18th century it was 'not yet sacrilege to kill a fox otherwise than with the proper hunting ritual'.