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Not certain which poems are by Rose. Poems begin as follows:

5/40-41: 'One day a lovely vision kept...'
'Oh who so ever thou art...'

5/42: 'Delicate thou art as may...'
'Oh Sir, I was wrath [sic] indeed...'
'Maiden, oh sweet maiden fair'
'I am not wroth my unknown freind [sic]'

5/43: 'Oh, whose is the face I see...'

5/44: 'Here the days are dark & drear...'

5/45: 'You do not all displease me, sir...'

5/46: 'Your face is still and calm...'

5/47: 'I am going far, far away...'

5/48: 'My love/Thou'rt more more lovely than a flower...'

5/49: 'Sir your picture of me's wrong...'

5/50: 'Oh my lovely cynesure [sic]'

Locks of hair belonging to Grace Mary Macaulay, George Campbell Macaulay, and their children Jean, William, Rose, Margaret and Aulay affixed to ff. 9v and 10, each stuck down by strip of paper bearing their initials. Dated 23 Jul. 1886.

Locks of hair of the children of Grace Mary and George Campbell Macaulay attached to f. 121r; their names and ages written beside each lock. Margaret Macaulay's hair has become detached from the page and is in a glassine packet.

With explanatory/covering note by Constance Babington Smith.

With quotation from Plato's Menexenus in an unidentified hand.

Title not given in text; first line, 'Friend, of my infinite dreams...'

Described as being written 'when his [Romanes] health had broken down and he was threatened with blindness'.

With notes on the back identifying places: that on the back of MACR/1/90 reads 'Fort Lockhart: the black wall over the tent to the left is that of the New West hornwork [?] built by your son'.