Newstead Abbey.
Queen's Square Place, Westminster. Regrets that the copy of 'Scotch Reform' that he had presented was deficient with proposals for correcting this
Paris. Discusses his emigration to the United States of America
Sackville Street. Discusses the interest on the [Austrian] loan, conspiracy of others against him, plea to Fordyce to influence Pitt
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 clergymanBelmont. - Death of Milnes' father [Richard Slater Milnes]; choice of subject for Cambridge Latin Declamation Prize; Milnes should have the highest English Declamation Prize; envies Milnes' trip to Edinburgh; hopes he will remain at Cambridge until Christmas; right choice of college.
Thanks her for her for letter, informs her that Mr Fox's health improving
Temple. forwards a letter from Mr Campbell
Dorant’s Hotel, (Albemarle Street, London).
(Misdated 1807.)
Dorant’s (Albemarle Street, London).
About attending Porson's funeral.
Discusses terms on which Mr Garnier will surrender his patent, crisis within the government:
Salsette frigate, in the Dardanelles off Abydos.
Cassiobury. Discusses the bye-election at Leominster
(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.)
(Place of writing not indicated.)
Discusses John Horner's health, the excellent harvest and Lord William Bentinck's forces
Upper Brook Street. Forwards an issue of a [philosophy] magazine, is missing issues of July and August 1811.
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.
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].