First line: ‘Thee Mary with this ring I wed’.
(Details of rides, arranged in reverse order of distance.)
On the first page is written ‘1720 | J Henley. A.M.’ Subjects covered include the drinking of healths, Pope’s preface to his translation of the Iliad (6 vols., 1715–20), and his essay on Homer (i. 1–63), hair, judging the quality of pictures, distinguishing orig-inals and copies, handwriting, Thomas Wood’s Institute of the Laws of England (1724), and the plague.
First line: ‘All Hail, Thou Beautiful Auspicious Day’. Subscribed ‘Henley’.
(The list shows the dates on which each tour began and ended, its route, and its distance in miles.)
(Lists of Eddington’s own publications. The titles are arranged under eighteen headings, as follows: ‘Books’, ‘Royal Society’, ‘Proc. Roy. Soc.’, ‘London Mathematical Society’, ‘Philosophical Magazine’, ‘Zeitschrift für Physik’, ‘Rivista Matematica Hispano Americana’, ‘Astrophysical Journal’, ‘Observatory’, ‘British Association Reports’, ‘Astronomische Nachrichten’, ‘Mind’, ‘Scientia’, ‘Proc. Royal Institution’, ‘Camb. Phil. Soc. Proc.’, ‘Nature’, ‘Mathematical Gazette’, ‘Royal Astronomical Society, Monthly Notices’. Some of the titles, e.g. those in pencil on f. 150r, were evidently added after Eddington’s death.)
(The titles of books, poems, etc., are listed in alphabetical order of author. The lists were apparently continued in this second sequence when the pages of the one on f. 134v, etc., became full.)
(The titles of books, poems, etc., are listed in alphabetical order of author.)
(Printed for H. Goreham next the Leg Tavern, Fleet Street.)
The heading continues: ‘Paraphras’d, out of Homer. Iliad. 7.—v. 407.’ First line: ‘What Fury thus, My Lord, transports your Soul?’ Subscribed ‘August. 25. 1709.’ and ‘J Henley’.