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(Declaimed 6 Dec. 1805. The leaves are bound out of order.)

Begins 'I.d like to tell yer abaht a dream what I 'ad the other night...'
Pencil annotations identifying the real life versions of characters throughout, so 'Uncle Andrew' is identified as 'Professor Forsyth', 'daddy Jackson' as Henry Jackson, 'Dolphus' as Adolphus Ward, 'Billy Rakehell the Irishman' as Ridgeway, Arty Wright as 'R T Wright', 'Blood of Jesus Jackson' as '[F. J.] Foakes Jackson', 'the other Arty' as Arthur Shipley.

Other characters referred to but not identified are 'Hoppole Hobson', 'the Master of Porpus', 'Walnut [Walter] Durnford', and 'Alf-a-bob'.

In French.

Hotel Holland, Baden Baden, Germany.

'Published by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates'. Table of attendance by each Fellow at the morning and evening services each day, marked by 'o' or 'x'. with 'Sum Total' recorded at the end.

With note, 'The Secretary in presenting his report for the past week, has great pleasure in announcing to the Public that a new regulation has been "Agreed to" by the Master and Seniors of Trinity College, which requires only Six Chapels to be ipso facto kept by the undergraduates'.

Ranking of Fellows in Classes, as 'the examination of the Fellows is now finished', with the marks being the total number of Chapel services attended.

'In consequence of the "New Agreement", the Chapel Lists will "ipso facto" be discontinued for the future'.

(Pasted to the letter is a sheet bearing a sonnet by Gent to his wife, headed ‘To Martha’.)

Written in French

This appears to be a mechanical copy of some kind of a handwritten document headed ‘A List of Subscribers to a Marble whole length Statue of Sir Joseph Banks Bart. by Chantry (proposed to be placed on the floor of the Hall of the British Museum) under the Patronage of the King’.

(The subtitle of Dibdin’s work, as cited at the head of the prospectus, is A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures and of a Portion of the Library in the Ancestral Residence of George John Earl Spencer, K.G. &c. &c. &c.)

(Undated.)