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R./1.73 · Item · 18th c.
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class R

On the fly-leaf are some lines of poetry partly pencilled and then inked over, partly in ink originally. On the fly-leaves at the other end are further fragments in ink and pencil, and one is headed: ‘Plan of a Poem. The Seasons. | Spring. The Visitation, &c.’ Other verses in pencil are on blank pages in the body of the volume, which consists of botanical notes, predominantly on fungi. At the other end is the date 23 Sept. 1793.

Crabbe, George (1754-1832), poet and Church of England clergyman
R./2.40A/9 · Item · 26 July 1813
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class R

(The date is that of the superscription, the direction being ‘Hon[ora]ble | Mrs Byron | Pelham Street | Nottingham’. The note ‘In same case as 1st letter’ has been written on the back in pencil. For the significance of this note see the Archival History of this collection.)

Add. MS a/79/522 · Item · 15 June 1814
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Includes an essay "On Hanno from the Latin of Kluge", possibly by Robert Leslie Ellis?, as well as three sheets written in French, also possibly by Robert Leslie Ellis (Items 502-505). Item 512, written from Morden and dated 15 June 1814, is written to "My dear Ellis", possibly Francis Ellis. Includes a letter addressed to Miss C. E. Marshall, Nile House, Sennen Cove, Lands End, Cornwall.

Letter from Joshua King
Add. MS a/207/161 · Item · 21 July 1814
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Lowick-bridge - Thanks WW for his 'valuable and much esteemed present' [his poem on Boadicea for which he won the Chancellor's Medal for the best English poem].