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‘Cum timore et tremore Salutem operamini.’ (Philippians, ii. 12.) Dated at Helmstedt.

The sketch is subscribed ‘urging the sail of your own work. after Hood.’

The sketch is subscribed ‘“You’ve waked me too soon” | “I must slumber again” | after Hood.’ The gravestone behind the rising figure is marked ‘WATTS’.

The sketch is subscribed simply ‘Thursday Dec. 3. 1863’.

(Dated ‘Thursdy | Night 9 oClock’. Docketed ‘March ye 28 1753’, but that was a Wednesday.)

The sketch is entitled ‘Pleasures of Hall. No. 2.’

Twelve lines, beginning ‘Reizt mich nur ihr muntern Wälder’. ‘Symbol. Denke doch an jene Müller, die der [..] setzen lies.’ (The short word or letter after ‘der’ is indistinct.) Dated at Jena.

The sketch is entitled ‘Pleasures of Hall. No. I.’ and subscribed ‘This is a section of a table in Trinity. at Hall time to show an interesting and amusing game daily played by the waiters. the chief merit of wh consists in putting a basket for receiving scraps some distance under ye table and then dexterously shooting lumps of meat gravy &c into it. The excitement is much increased if ricochets or canones[?] are made off any obstacle near.’

(Engraved by Butterworth, Livesey, & Co. The title is ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress, By John Bunyan, with Original Notes by W. Mason, Esqr. In three parts.’ The illustration is captioned ‘Christian rising to glory by faith in the Cross’.)

There are some figures on the bank, several running and one standing still, and two animals, perhaps dogs, in the water. The sketch is subscribed ‘Easier Said than Done’, and ‘Frantic Runner—Pull your left hard!’

Two inscriptions, (i) on the recto, (ii) on the verso. (i) ‘Ὄλα δοκιμάζετε καὶ κρατεῖτε τὸ καλὸν. (1 Thess. v. 21.) Dated at Leiden. Numbered 233. (ii) ‘Infirmi corpore, valente Domino.’ Dated at Franeker.

The sketch is subscribed ‘a scratch four!!’.

Probably sent with the extract on the same page.

The sketch is superscribed ‘The Tragic Muse as a “connecting link on a windy day”–’.

‘Fac ea quae moriens facta fuisse velis.’ Dated at Strasbourg. The last digit of the year is indistinct.

(Signed ‘Cleora’. The salutation is ‘my Dearest Roselinda’. Marked ‘No. 9’.)

Probably sent with the letter on the same page.

Engraved by David Loggan.

The sketch is subscribed ‘a work of supererogation’.

‘Extra Deum nulla felicitas, | Deo adheareat, qui felix esse cupit.’ Dated at Jena.