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Docketed ‘Idée du Roi de Prusse.’

First line: ‘Ask you, why round yon hallow’d Grave’.

Folios 47–9 are numbered 3–5.

(There is a related note on f. 50v.)

Copy by Henry Thurstan Holland, signed and dated.

Includes notes on Denham, Racine, Dryden, Quinault, Corneille, Homer, Virgil, Euripides, Horace, Shakespeare, Tryphiodorus, and Seneca.

Copy by Henry Thurstan Holland, signed and dated.

Folios 41–6 are paginated 7–16 in red pencil. Folio 40 was apparently the front cover of a booklet.

First line: ‘Ye Solemn Pedagogues, who teach’.

The names, which include those of women, are in three columns, headed respectively ‘Archer Row’, ‘Portugal Row’, and ‘Holborn Row’.

One page is headed ‘Wednesday’s Subjects.’, with columns for ‘Episodes. Elogiums. Parodies. Proems. Preambles. Preliminaries.’ and ‘Orations.’; another is headed ‘Sundays Subjects.’, with columns for ‘Postills’, ‘Sermons’, and ‘Lectures’.

Copy by Henry Thurstan Holland, dated.

These leaves are paginated 17–28 in red pencil.

(A later note, dated 23 Jan. 1909, was added on f. 38v.)

Dated at Chatelaine, (Ferney).

Bay House, Alverstoke, Hants. - Encloses letter from a 'strange rusty old Yarmouth gentleman [William Squire]' about 'Civil-war matters', who has ' curious Papers, which ought to be inquired into!'; since Squire is in FitzGerald's district, asks him to 'bite at the bait and elucidate him a little'