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141: Text of sermon by Richard Brinsley Sheridan on the oppression of the poor, published in New Monthly Magazine, 1828.

The Shiffolds, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking. - He and Bessie went to Bedales recently and saw Julian act the part of Fag in The Rivals; 'he is not a good actor, but his elocution is good and sensitive'. He 'is said to speak verse better than anyone else at the school', and will therefore play the part of the Chorus, Time, in The Winter's Tale, in the next Bedales performance. He also 'did the scenery for The Rivals, on the whole very successfully', especially the two indoor scenes 'with windows opening on views of Bath'; perhaps his scenery for the duel, though 'delightful', was 'almost too pictorial for a scene painting'. He is going up for his entrance examination at Kings next March, specialising in mathematics at least for his first year 'which is rather a new thing in our family'.

Hopes the current 'relatively fine and warm weather' here will last, and that his mother can 'get out into the garden every day'. Expects Aunt Annie is with them at the moment.

Bound volume of 56 poems in different hands with a manuscript title page identifying Charles Boddam as a member of Trinity College Cambridge. Includes poems by [Arnaud?] Berquin, [Christopher?] Butson, [Charles?] Emily ["Verses given up in Trin: Coll Hall Cambridge on the Commemoration Day"], the Hon. Charles Feilding, Charles Fox, [David] Garrick, Dr [John?] Langhorne, Lord Lyttelton, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, [Thomas?] Tickell, Thomas Warton, and Portia Young ["On a Woman of the town who was found dead in the fields"].