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Under the heading is a drawing of two bears climbing stump, and at the foot of the sheet is written: ‘Visitors are particularly requested not to irritate the animals | All manners to be left outside | Signed the “Keeper”’.

First line: ‘I’ve thought the fair Clarissa cries’. The word ‘Purge’ in lines 4 and 16 has been erased—presumably for delicacy’s sake—and replaced with a cross.

Consideration, £63. Witnessed by Hen. Harbin and Thomas Rea. ‘Sealed at the Rummer Tavern in the Strand.’

Copy by Margaret Holland.

First line: ‘A Knife, dear girl, cuts love they say’.

Both leaves are numbered ‘2’.

On classical drama, Voltaire etc.

Chelsea.

(The titles of books, poems, etc., are grouped by author. The heading appears on f. 6r, where the lists were begun.)

Copied by Henry Thurstan Holland and Margaret Holland, signed and dated by Henry Thurstan Holland.

The notice is headed ‘Truth stranger than Fiction!’, and the attributes of the horse are described as follows: ‘Fourteen-and-a-half hands high. Fine lofty action, and a splendid walker. Up to any weight or distance. A truly noble and magnificent animal: perfectly sound and without vice. He will also perform several Curious and Remarkable Feats! Will carry a walking-stick: and has been known to stand on two legs for a considerable time during the performance of a piece of music.’ ‘Enquire of G. Sheltie, Loughrigg Cottage, Rydal.’ ‘Printed by John Garnett, Windermere.’

The two pages are marked ‘See Page 34.’, i.e. f. 34r.

First line: ‘Hot was the hour, when in the shade’.

The first list is headed, ‘My Sermons already written out fair’; the second, ‘Ser-mons, roughly compos’d already, and to be Written out fair’.