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(Signed ‘Cl[eora]’ (part of the signature is hidden where the letter has been tipped-in). Mary is addressed as ‘Belinda’. Marked ‘no. 29’.)

(Drawn and engraved by George Cooke, under Brayley’s direction. Engraving published by Vernor, Hood, & Sharpe, 1 July 1807.)

‘In hoc Unusquisque nostrum | Viret ut arescat | Adolescit ut senescat | Ascendit ut descendat | Vivit ut moriatur.’ (‘Guido Bituricensis’ (Guy de Fontenay?).) The year has been struck through.

(Signed ‘Cleora’. Mary is addressed as ‘Belinda’.)

‘Id inprimis agendum in vita, ut, quantum possis, Deo placeas, nemini displiceas, neminem timeas.’ Dated at Strasbourg.

(Undated. Docketed ‘Feb [th]e 4–76’.)

(Subscribed ‘[…] and Truth’ (most of the first word is missing). There are four illustrations, captioned respectively ‘Adam in Eden’, ‘The Deluge’, ‘The Nativity’, and ‘The Last Judgment’, around a larger illustration of two women either side of a sun breaking through the clouds, one of the women holding a cross and a cup, the other a bible.)

‘Tempori cedere et Necessitati parere | Semper Sapientis est habitum.’ Six lines, beginning ‘La Vertu Reyne des Mortels’. ‘Symb. Iuvat amare Deum.’ Dated at Strasbourg. Addressed to Joanni Philippo Friderici (dative), presumably Johann Philipp Friedrich.

(Engraved by Woodman & Mutlow from a design by Innes Munro.)

Copy by Henry Thurstan Holland.

The sketch is captioned: ‘The stout old lady never was so shocked in her life & asks anxiously if that is the way the sober young gentlemen after dinner [a word appears to be missing]. The fact is there has been a serious catastrophe—these are bodies & the verdict is accidental Roast Pork’.

Below the heading ‘NOTICE’ is written: ‘The Old Queen of She Bears will perform some of its most astounding feats this afternoon, concluding with its celebrated Fantasia-Cantata-obligato on the Comb. “What no soap!” Vocalist—the laughing Hyena Ably assisted by the little cub “Puddle.” NB Earstoppers and chloroform provided.’

No motto, but a longer address than usual. Dated at Jena. Sealed at the foot.

Copy by Henry Thurstan Holland, signed and dated.

(Two receipts on one sheet, each for £1 10s. for rent from ‘Honstow [Hounslow] Estate’.)

‘Fac ea, quae moriens facta fuisse velis.’ ‘Si vis amari amabilis esto.’ Dated at Halle.

(Receipt for £1 for interest on £35.)

Bény.—On the night of 19–20 March about twenty-five or thirty Chouans opened fire in the Place de la Liberté at Basly on seven republicans, killing three of them, including the commandant.

(Dated 2 Germinal, an 4. The name of the original writer is indistinct. Certified by Lévêque as a true copy.)

The sketch is captioned ‘Esk Hause. Boxing the Compass’.