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Christian Observer (evangelical periodical)
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Copies of essays and verses by Thomas Babington Macaulay
O./15.69 · Item · [19th cent.]
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

Bound in cream. '19' written on front and '15. H[annah?] Macaulay. Feb[ruar]y' on what is now the back.
Table of contents on inside front cover:

  1. Preface to the 14th no. [of the] Christian Observer
  2. Pedro the cruel to King Edward III
  3. The State of Hungary to Maria Theresa
  4. Letter on Dancing
  5. Latin exercise
  6. Essay on Patriotism
  7. Address to the allied Sovereigns
  8. 1st Canto of Olaus, or Mona conquered - Oct. 1808
  9. Conquest of Ireland Book I - April 1814
  10. D[itto] Book II
  11. Hymn
  12. Letter to an Aunt

A note by Margaret Holland below records that these are all copies of early works of Lord Macaulay. The transcriber (probably, by the hand, Lady Knutsford's mother Hannah Trevelyan) has added explicatory notes below some of the works. Two poems are dated in what may be George Macaulay Trevelyan's hand.

 Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poet