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Keir. - Unable to visit Milnes or Sir Reginald Mo[--?]. Cantos II and III are dedicated to Milnes and Maxwell; saw and admired Canto II in manuscript. Did not request the [Trench/French?] catalogue, 'So the bidding for the Adages suffered some substractionage'. Prescott writes from America with fond memories of England.

Postscript: is inscribing places in his library with mottos 'explanatory or eulogistic of the genus loci'; would like to include Milnes' French quotation but cannot read name of its author, apparently Pixecourt [i.e. Pixerécourt?]; still seeks quotations; adds a Latin one found in 'the Doctor'.

A dissertation on marriage. The title of the work appears at the top of p. 1, with the motto ‘Spes animi credula mutui’ (Horace, Odes, IV. i. 30). At the end of the work (p. 36) is written ‘Fin du Coup d’oeil Sur Le mariage’. The text contains numerous alterations. For further details see the list of contents below. On the spine is stamped ‘Melanges de Bagard. M.S. Autographe.’

CONTENTS

(On a slip pasted to the third flyleaf.) ‘Bagard medecin du roi de pologne | manuscrit curieux’.

p. i: Table of contents.

p. ii: Untitled verses. A translation of Passeroni’s Il Cicerone, Part I, Canto IX, Stanza 43.
8 lines: ‘Souvent au bout d’une semaine | De L’hymen un Nouveau martyr | Avec Sa femme qui le gêne | Mange le pain de repentir. | Tel un Rat que la faim engage | Dans un piege avec art fermé | Maudit quand il Est enfermé | Et La Ratiere et Le fromage’. Subscribed ‘Passeroni Chant IXe’. The translation is evidently by Bagard himself. Draft versions of several of the lines have been struck through.

pp. 1–2: Introduction.

pp. 3–7: I. ‘Du Plaisir de venus Et de l’amour.’

pp. 7–15: II. ‘De L’amitié Et de l’affection.’

pp. 15–20: III. ‘De la lignée ou des Enfans.’

pp. 20–1: IV. ‘De L’alliance.’

pp. 21–2: V. ‘De la fortune Et du Soin de sa maison.’

pp. 23–6: VI. ‘De l’aptitude aux affaires, savoir a l’agriculture[,] Au Commerce, a la cour, au Gouvernement, aux fonctions civiles Et militaires.’

pp. 26–31: VII. ‘De L’aptitude au Etudes Mathématiques[,] Physiques Et critiques.’

pp. 31–4: VIII. ‘De La Santé Et de la longue vie.’

pp. 34–6: IX. ‘Des plaisirs, Comme des voyages, des fêtes, Des presens qui Se font entre amis, des Depenses de Goût Et de plaisir.’