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Below the sketch are the following words, which are evidently being spoken by the tall man to another climber in the distance: ‘Oh yes its all very well to say “Come on.” but there’s no fear of you being snapped in two by the wind’.

(Text only.)

‘Adversa et Virum et Christianum provant.’ Dated at Halle.

(Engraved by John Kennerley from a drawing by William Marshall Craig.)

The man is saying ‘oh do blease cobe add dallow by dose!’, i.e. ‘Oh do please come and tallow my nose!’

There is no caption or other inscription.

(Apparently dated ‘Feb [th]e 1773 | [th]e 3’, with an abortive mark before the last ‘3’.)

The sketch is captioned ‘Rydal Debating Socy. Mr President & Secretary discuss matters of weight & moment. Temp 1. AM.’

‘Non est magnus animus quem incurvat injuria[.] Aut potentior te aut imbecillior laesit[;] si imbecillior, parce illi, si potentior Tibi.’ (Seneca, De ira.) Dated at Berlin.

The sketch is entitled ‘Pleasures of Hall‘, and captioned ‘Novel and ingenious method of carrying beer invented by one of the Hall waiters at Trinity and now apparently adopted by all.’

(Misdated ‘july 27 1705’. Signed ‘Cleora’. Mary is addressed as ‘Roselinda’. ‘Marked ‘No 4’ and ‘Cleoras Letters’.)

(Engraved by Thomas Cecil.)

The sketch is captioned ‘Trin. Coll. Dec 24. 1863 | O Solitude where are the charms | That sages have seen in thy face | Better dwell in the midst of alarms | Than reign in this horrible place’. One of the figures is seated at the very end of an otherwise empty table, the other standing next to him.

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

(Engraving published 17 Sept. 1814.)

Two inscriptions on one slip, (i) on the recto, (ii) on the verso. (i) ‘Mundus Cadaver est, et qui eum amant, canes sunt.’ Dated at Leipzig. (ii) ‘Facere docet Philosophia, non dicere; et hoc exigit, ut ad legem suam quisque vivat.’ (Seneca, Letters, xx. 2.) Dated at Jena. Numbered 344.

Only the directions are present.

The sketch is captioned ‘G.F.C. in an entirely new & original character’.

The sketch is subscribed ‘This is how Herr. I M. Amanabrother who came to Cambridge to read his celebrated paper on Ethnology. made the famous discovery of a race of “Flat headed Indians”.’

(Engraved by Paul Fourdrinier.)

Designed and etched by R. Newton. Published at London on 5 Oct. 1793 by William Holland, 50 Oxford Street. There are a few pencil annotations.