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(Attribution from the National Portrait Gallery Collection, reference NPG D22584.)

Commonplace book with verses (including "Gray's Elegy parodied by W. Benwell") and epigrams (from Porson and Mansel). At the front of the book is A New Common-Place Book, in which the plan recommended and practised by John Locke, Esq. is enlarged and improved, by a Gentleman of the University of Cambridge, Second Edition. Cambridge, 1777.

Biographical sketch; copy of a letter from George III to William Pitt regarding the nomination of Mansel as Master of Trinty, 13 May 1793; notes on Mansel's children; copy of a letter from Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, to Isabella Mansel on the death of her father, 5 July 1820; anecdotes about, and epigrams by, Mansel.

Thanks for his congratulations, pleased that Monks life of Bentley is still progressing

University Arms - Herewith WW 'will receive Bishop Mansel's armorial bearings. It appears, that there is some doubt, which I am unable to resolve, about the proper colours'.