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The essay is in Gosse’s own hand, and his name is written at the head and initials at the end. A note at the end of the work reads: 'The whole of this drama was written, in the intervals of school-work, in 10 days. The lyrics were genuinely composed at the points at wh. they are inserted. The pencilled notes & some of the stage directions are in my father's hand. The first draft occupied six days, & was principally written lying on the old sofa in the Boy's Sitting- Room at Thorn Park. The remainder of the time was occupied in revision and transcription. The idea was suggested to me by my dear father, but as I did not seem to respond to it, he was, I believe, equally surprised and gratified when I laid on his table two weeks afterwards'.

The first page at the back of the book has a timetable headed 'Routine', with time set aside for 'Letters', 'D. L', reading aloud, German, Greek, Italian and Latin, and a note of whether Gosse is 'Out', 'At Home', or 'part At Home'. A table is drawn out on the next page for 4-20 November, with headings 'Letters', 'D. L. tr.', 'D. L. com', 'Italian', 'German', 'Greek', 'Latin'; however, only the line for the first day, 4 Nov. is filled in, with entries under Italian-Latin of 'Metastasio. Goethe. Theocritos. Horace'. The next page has a similar table which is completely blank.

The essay is in Gosse’s own hand, and his name is written at the head and at the end. On the front of the slip-case is stamped, ‘ELIZABETHAN FLOWER GARDENS | MSS. | — | EDMUND GOSSE’.

The essays listed below were written by Eddington while at Brynmelyn School, the Quaker school at Weston-super-Mare he attended between 1893 and 1898. They were presented to the Library in August 1945 by Lieutenant-Commander Cyril Alderson Lund, a former member of Trinity, who had found them in a drawer while headmaster of Brynmelyn. Lund also enclosed a letter written to him by Eddington in 1940, probably not long after the discovery of the papers, which, according to Lund, was a response to his inquiry as to ‘how old [Eddington] was when he wrote them’. The plural pronoun, however, appears to be misleading, for Eddington’s letter indicates that Lund sent him only one paper, written in October or November 1896. This was evidently no. 5, which may have been selected as being the earliest dated item. Corresponding holes in the essay and in Eddington’s letter show that they were formerly pinned together.

Research by Dr Florian Laguens has revealed that all these essays were read as part of the Brynmelyn Literary Society, an internal club at Brynmelyn School in Weston-super-Mare, which brought together around twenty pupils each month. The Society’s minutes, which provide a summary of the essays, enable them to be dated.

Only five of the essays (4, 5, 7, 8, and 13) are explicitly dated. After the papers came into the Library they were simply numbered in the order in which they lay, no attempt being made at a logical arrangement. The essays were then arranged in an approximate chronological order based on internal evidence, with the numbering being altered accordingly. The original numbers were as follows: 1 (11), 2(9), 3(10), 4 (12), 5 (13), 6 (4), 7 (7), 8 (5), 9 (2), 10 (3), 11 (8), 12 (6), 13 (1). The two letters and the envelope were not previously numbered. Subsequence research has shown that this new ordering is substantially correct, though a couple of items are slightly out of place.

Note on f. 1r: 'The College feels that it will be a matter of great historical interest in after times to have a record of the names, ranks, & home-addresses of those U.S.A. and Dominion Officers who are its guests during the war. Visitors are therefore requested to enter these (& any other particulars which they may care to record) in this book, together with the date of their visit'.

Note on f. 2 r. 'This book was bought, on the instructions of the College Council... on November 7th, 1942, & placed in the rooms at the north end of the Master's Lodge which were set aside as bedrooms for U.S.A. & Dominion Officers staying in College during the war. Before it was institute three officers had stayed in these rooms. As they had no opportunity to enter their names in the book, they have been entered by the Deputy Junior Bursar'. These three names then follow.

The rest of the book is filled in by the officers themselves; as well as dates of stay, names, rank, and addresses, places of education are often recorded; brief comments of appreciation of Trinity and Cambridge are often added. There is a poem by J. P. Clemenceau Le Clercq, 'A Ballade of Thanks to Trinity College', dated 9-10 Nov. 1944, on ff. 46-47

Typescript thesis for M.A. (London)

The book is substantially the text of the Gifford Lectures delivered by Eddington at the University of Edinburgh in Jan.-Mar. 1927.

Typed copies of circular letters written by Gow and sent to correspondents, mostly former pupils, serving abroad; a book, published in 1945, was made of the letters from 1939-1944. News from Trinity and Cambridge; comments on Gow's Air Raid Precaution work, his reading, and other similar matters.

'I hope you will forgive a letter which resembles a circular. It seemed to me that in these uncheerful times those in foreign parts might perhaps like rather more gossip than they usually get out of my correspondence, and that as the gossip would have to be more or less the same for all, it would be a good thing to duplicate it rather than write it all out separately for different people...' [from the first letter, 8 Sept 1939]

Gow's bookplate at front. Typed copies of circular letters written by Gow and sent to correspondents, mostly former pupils, serving abroad; a book, published in 1945, was made of the letters from 1939-1944. News from Trinity and Cambridge; comments on Gow's Air Raid Precaution work, his reading, and other similar matters.

'I hope you will forgive a letter which resembles a circular. It seemed to me that in these uncheerful times those in foreign parts might perhaps like rather more gossip than they usually get out of my correspondence, and that as the gossip would have to be more or less the same for all, it would be a good thing to duplicate it rather than write it all out separately for different people...' [from the first letter, 8 Sept 1939]

Each letter has a note in Gow's hand at the top recording the number of copies sent out and the date of postage [the typed dates included in the letter denote the date of composition]. Pagination running through for letters from 1939-1944, presumably for the publication of these letters in 1945. Typed list of addresses of correspondents on pp. 269-283, dated Oct. 1943 but with MS corrections and annotations; record of which letters were sent to each correspondent, pp.285-297.

Notes on textual criticism.

Letters largely concerned with family matters. Relatives mentioned include 'your Aunt Orkney' [Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney]; Grace's half-brother Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth and his wife Louisa, née Carteret, whom he married in the span of these letters; Grace's 'sister [Mary] Graham', 'Lady Granville' [Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville], her godmother; her mother Mary, née Villiers, 'unkle' Henry Villiers, and mother's cousin William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin; Lord Carteret [later 2nd Earl Granville] and his wife Frances.

Topics of interest in the letters include April Fools (letter 6, 31 Mar. 1733), pick-pocketing at Bartholomew Fair (letter 13, 28 Aug. 1733), and an attack of smallpox suffered by Grace's sister Betty (letter 17, 8 Dec. 1833, and following).

'E. W. Benson' stamped in gold on front cover, with a small oval containing the words 'Trin. Coll. Camb.' at the foot. Stamped 'Bound by Wilson & Son' on inside front cover; '8. 1920' written beneath in pencil (presumably the date of binding); note of provenance in ink at the bottom (A. C. Benson is called 'Master of Magd. Coll. Camb., as he was by the time of binding, but not at the time of the gift). A label and two letters explaining provenance are pasted to pages of the volume; the thirteen examination papers, from both E. W. Benson's unsuccessful attempt at the Trinity Fellowship examination in 1852 and his successful resit the following year, are then tipped in.

Two copies of printed map, 'Plan of the Town and Fortification of Montreal or Ville Marie in Canada' [London 1759?] used as endpapers at front and back. List of 'Books Lent to Mr Tempest', dated 7 Jan. 1816, on verso of front flyleaf. List of 'Books Lent to Mr Dardis 1804' on verso of following folio.

Alphabetical index of recipes at front of volume. f. 1 headed 'A Collection of Medicinal Receipts. 1713'; another heading, 'S. N. October the 2d 1713 Anno Domini' is on f. 79. The recipes are mostly in the same [18th century] hand, but additional recipes in at least three other hands have been added (on the verso of folios, or on additional sheets bound in, pasted in or loose). One of these, on f. 149v., is headed 'Extract from the Bristol Gazette, November 3rd 1825', showing that the book was used and added to for over 100 years.

ff. 1-5: [General introduction to the works]
ff: 6-7: 'Capitoli generali da osservarsi per l'esecuzione dei lavori stradali'
ff. 8-11r: Account of costs of the work [broken down further, ff. 15-38]
ff. 11v-14: 'Metodo di costruzione'
ff. 15-38: 'Stato circostanziato dei prezzi' [detailed statement of costs]

Dated 'Torino li 27 Gennajo 1822' at end of work.
List of employees of the civil engineering corps of ports and roads in the Kingdom of Sardinia pasted to f. 39r.

This extract covers ff. 1-165 of the printed text in the first published edition of 1834. Extensive alterations and annotations.

Naval logbook recording winds, weather, fleet movements etc.

'? Bishop Ollivant' written on the front cover of the exercise book in pencil; 'No' added above it.

Notebook purchased from F. Dalberg of Copenhagen (see ticket pasted to front cover and loose printed sheet between ff. 27 and 28).

'A. Vansittart, Trin. Coll.' written on first page. Notes on algebra (often with heading 'Deranged Syllabub'), trigonometry, 'Geometric Conics'; book also used from the back in for notes headed 'Variations, Permutations, & Combinations' and 'Continued Fractions'.

'W. K. Clifford' stamped in gold on front cover, with a small oval containing the words 'Trin. Coll. Camb.' at the foot. Stamped 'John P. Gray & Son Ltd', the binders, at the top of the inside front cover; bookplate giving provenance pasted below.

Letter, 8 Oct. 1923, from Lucy Clifford to J. J. Thomson tipped in at front, on headed notepaper for 7 Chilworth Street, W.2. Sir Frederick Pollock thinks Trinity 'would care to possess this MS'; she would be very proud if this were the case, and believes her husband would have been too. Believes it was written in 1877 and published in the Fortnightly Review [in fact, it appeared in the Oct. 1977 of the Nineteenth Century; it later appeared in the collected works edited by Pollock and Leslie Stephen. This is the 'first & only copy'. Describes her husband's usual habits when writing a paper, working through the night with a few breaks to exercise with 'the Indian clubs' and always finishing 'at the last possible moment for publication'. Wishes 'his other MSS. had been saved; but I have no knowledge of them, & even his autograph is very scare owing to the fact that he seldom signed it in full. Hopes Thomson remembers their meeting last year at a dinner given by Mrs Roy Batty [Thomson's sister in law] before a Royal Institution Lecture, and their discussion of Mrs Oliphant's novels.

'XIXth Century' written in blue crayon on first sheet of the essay, perhaps relating to Pollock & Stephen's edition of Clifford's papers, published in 1879; 'R. Young' written in pencil at the top right. 'One of W. K. Clifford's MSS' written in pencil on the back of f. 2. Clifford's name and address (26 Colville Road, Bayswater) on the back of the last sheet.

With bookplate of Daniel Frazer pasted to the inside front cover. Texts of talks given to Free St Peter's Young Men's Association and Congregation; Frequent mention made of Mr. [William] Arnot. Also texts of letters to press etc. Contents:
pp. 1-70: 'Essay. Paper, Pens and Ink... read at meeting of Free St Peter's Young Men's Association... 6th October 1854';
pp. 71-97: 'Day Dreamers of the Day - or John Gough and Teetotalism', described as being 'written early in Spring 1854 and read -with additions to few friends... about mid-summer same year';
pp. 100-154: 'Romanism versus Free Churchism. Popery and the Free Church Contrasted', described as 'The First "Essay" I ever wrote -';
pp. 136-144 [second use of numbers]: 'The Earth - The Work of God - The Habitation of Man', given at Free St Peter's Young Men's Soc., 21 Mar. 1857;
pp. 146-175: 'The Shorter Catechism as an Antidote to Certain Errors of the Day...'
pp. 176-188: 'Young Men's Christian Associations and the Influence of the Pulpit', 'read at annual meeting of Free St Peter's Congregation in City Hall 16 March 1854 [corrected from 1855];
pp. 190-194: 'Truth or Liberty', read at Free St Peter's Young Men's Soc., 5 Jan. 1855:
pp. 195-198: 'The Free Church Schoolmaster's Fund', 'read at Free St Peter's Congregational Meeting in City Hall... 1849-1850? [added in pencil]';
pp. 200-204: 'Education, Should it be National?'
pp. 205-218: 'Moderate "Charity"', 'written soon after the disruption - but never made use of'
p. 219: cutting pasted on, 'The Schoolmasters of the Free Church. To the Editor of the Scottish Guardian', 25 Apr. 1850 ;
p. 220: cutting pasted on, 'Druggists and the Sabbath. To the Editor of the Scottish Guardian, 10 Nov. 1852;
pp. 221-224: cuttings pasted on, 'Druggists' Drudgery', from The Young Men's Magazine: A Monthly Journal, Vol I. No. 8, Aug. 1854;
pp. 225-227: 'The Poor Laws. To the Editor of the Daily Mail', MS;
pp. 228-235: 'Loss of Life in Battle. To the Editor of the North British Daily Mail"', appeared 1 Dec. 1854, MS;
pp. 236-237: 'The Discipline of the Crimean Army. To the Editor of the North British Daily Mail', 24 Jan. 1855;
pp. 237-238: 'The Defence and attack of Fortified Places'; notice of lecture on this subject given by Captain McLaggan to the Young Men's Christian Association, published in North British Daily Mail, 15 Mar. 1855, MS;
pp. 240-258: 'Dr Henry Wilson Cleland';
pp. 260-271: 'The Glasgow Free Church College, and its Professors. To the Editors of the Witness*', 23 May 1856, MS;
pp. 274-276: 'Hugh Miller', read to Free St Peter's Young Men's Society, 20 Mar. 1857;
p. 278: 'Man and His Servants', read at meeting of Y. M. C. Association, 30 Mar. 1863. Text of paper not copied out, and rest of volume blank.

With bookplate of Daniel Frazer pasted to the inside front cover. Sermons delivered between 24 Nov. 1850 and 22 Mar. 1856. Most given by William Arnot; other speakers include Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, and Thomas Guthrie.

Fair copy in an unidentified hand of a verse drama, with a title page with the title only. The play was printed privately in Edinburgh in 1874 under the title 'Borgia: a tragedy, and other poems' by Thomas Brown, of Waterhaughs and Lanfine.

Loose sheet at front of volume: 'Key to Names from Initials' [omits John Henry Ellis].

Mock definition of 'Parallelipiped', '... there be some do clepe this the Regular Bricke', from 'Ben Jonson's English Dictionary' facing title page. Full title given as 'Proceedings of the Blessed Confraternity of the Parallelepided in hebdomadal function assembled. Figure of brick drawn out below title, with the initials of one of the founders of the society - Handley C. G. Moule, Joseph A. Lobley, Duncan C. Tovey, [John] Henry Ellis, Charles B. Davies, John H. I. Oakley - written on each face. Quotations below: 'Of the tale of the bricks ye shall not diminish aught' [Exodus 5.8]; 'As atoms in one mass united mix, / So bricks attraction feel for kindred bricks' [Smith (1812), Rejected Addresses].

This volume contains papers given at meetings of the society in 1864; they are listed on the back of the title page by term and date (including the Long Vacation), with the initials of the author and the running page number. The initials of the original members are also written out on the page opposite, with a note recording an 'Election' in 'October Term', in which Clifford was elected to join the society when Henry Ellis left Cambridge.

Titles of papers given include 'On Hellenolatry', and 'On Organ-Grinding' by J. A. Lobley, and 'Devotional Feelings of a Heathen', by C. B. Davies. A paper given by H. C. G. Moule to the Classical Association at Durham, 26 May 1917 entitled 'The Classics as an influence in education and a joy in life' has been inserted before f. 176. It mentions 'the dear raftered attic in beloved Trinity' where the following paper was first read, and remembers the friends from the society of which he is now the only surviving member.

Title page drawn out in pencil but not yet inked in; the figure of a brick drawn out below the title has not had the initials of the members filled in on each face like the one for Vol. 2. Full title given as 'Proceedings of the Blissful Brotherhood of the Parallelepided ever hebdomadally dissembling'.

This volume contains papers given at meetings of the society in 1865; they are listed on the back of the title page by term and date (including the Long Vacation), with the initials of the author and the running page number (papers sometimes also have their own individual page numbers). Also included is the page number for the 'Keeper of the Archives' Biennial Report', presented on 1 Feb. 1866, and a list of elections to the society during 1865.

Papers are given by John H. I. Oakley, William P. Turnbull, William K. Clifford, Joseph A. Lobley, Duncan C. Tovey, Handley C. G. Moule, William D. Niven, Alfred E. Humphreys. Titles include 'The Saunterer', by J. H. I. Oakley, 'On Practical Joking' and 'On Female Education' by W. D. Niven, and 'On Fairy Tales' by J. Stuart.

With printed article by Rev. C. H. Smyth, 'Three Wordsworth Diaries' Cambridge Review, 19 Apr. 1940, pp. 341-342.

Includes record of a visit to the Lakes in July 1827 and conversations with his uncle William Wordsworth.

Addressed to 'Mrs George Frere, 45 Bedford Sqr'. Judith, Eliza Frere's daughter, seems well and spends much more time in the fresh air. She 'goes for a walk twice a day & does not cough, which is a great comfort'. The letter is signed with initials, 'M. ?h'.