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(Engraved by Thomas Prattent from a drawing by J. Bowring. Engraving published 1796.)

(Dated ‘oct [th]e [blank] 1767. Docketed ‘Oct | 25 1767’.)

‘Est Deus cui et ego curæ sum.’ Dated at Dresden. The writer’s title is ‘Elect[oris] Sax[onici] Eccles[iastes] Aulicus.’ Cf. f. 53r (i).

(Signed ‘Cleora’. Mary is addressed as ‘Roselinda’. Dated ‘october [th]e 10’. Marked ‘No 8’.)

The sketch is captioned ‘Terrible position of Bumpkins when encountering the following’ above a cutting from a newspaper referring to two recent additions to the Zoological Gardens at Regent’s Park, namely ‘a Derbyan Screamer and two Howling Monkeys from New Granada’.

The sketch is marked only with the month and year.

(Signed ‘Cleora’. The salutation is ‘To my amiable Roselinda’. Marked ‘No. 7’.)

(Engraving published 1 Aug. 1791.)

Two inscriptions on one slip, (i) on the recto, (ii) on the verso. (i) ‘Est Deus cui et ego curæ sum.’ ‘Symb: Prudens simplicitas.’ Dated at Leipzig. Addressed to [Balthasar Friedrich] Saltzmann. Cf. f. 54r. (ii) ‘Non dubitari potest, quin omnes spes vitæ ac salutis in sola Dei religione posita sit.’ (Lactantius, Epitome.) Dated at Ulm, where Müller was rector between 1671 and 1674. See E. E. von Georgii-Georgenau, Biographische-genealogische Blätter aus und über Schwaben (1879), p. 624.

The sketch is captioned ‘Result of climbing Fairfield & dining late. Sept 25. 63 | Rydal.’ Five climbing scenes, four of them falls of various kinds, are pictured.

(Place of writing not indicated.)—Lord George Gordon is sorry to learn that Bremmer is in trouble and in ‘this horrid Bastile’. ‘A little trifle’ is enclosed, and he will assist him further when it is convenient. Encloses a newspaper containing a letter from the writer in French, which Mr Bass, another debtor, will explain to his fellow-prisoners.

(Dated Saturday night. Directed to ‘Mr George Bremmer, Debtor, Newgate.’)

Undated, but presumably published in 1760.

The sketch is captioned ‘This is meant to represent the extremely pleasant condition of one who has been down a “wet grip”’.

‘IsraëL saLVatUs est In DoMInô saLUte æternâ.’ (Isaiah, xlv. 17.) ‘Symb. Matts. V. | [Arabic words] | Mites Gaudebunt.’ (Matthew, v. 5.) Cf. E. Geissner, Disputatio de symbolis von Denck- oder Leibsprüchen (1674), sigs. B2v, B3v, C3r. Dated at Dresden. The chronogram indicates the year MDCLXVIII.

(Undated. The date on the docket, ‘March 1747’, probably represents March 1748 according to the modern reckoning. Cf. the letters on ff. 10r and 55r.)

The sketch is captioned only with the date and ‘7.30. AM.’

Below the caption is a paragraph in Dutch.

(Engraved by Henrik Eland from a drawing by Jan Goerce.)

‘Non potest malè mori, qui bene vixit: et vix bene moritur, qui malè vixit.’ (Augustine.) Dated ‘Dom. 1. post Trinit. 93.’ Probably written at Wittenberg. The writer’s title is ‘in Acad[emia] Witt[enbergensi] Pr[ofessor] P[ublicus].’

Drawn by O’Neil. Engraved by H. Roberts. Published on 10 July 1781 by P. Mitchell, North Audley Street, Grosvenor Square, and J. Fielding, 23 Pater Noster Row.

The sketch is captioned ‘What happens after reading Aristotle his Ethics’. The declaiming man is saying something in Greek, and at the foot is written: ‘NB on the lower row to the left. may be observed the immortal Socrates. his pupils Aristides and Zeno are on his left. behind them are Gorgias and D. Republica the celebrated Epicurean philosophers. Aristotle is to be observed in the background asleep as he ought to be’, and is marked with Fox's initials.

The following quotation has been added on the leaf of the book itself: ‘But I’m afeard | Being in night, all this is but a dream | Too flattering sweet to be substantial. Romeo & Juliet Act. II. Sc. 2.’

Engraved by Record. Removed from a copy of the fourth volume of The Tyburn Chronicle (1768), where this illustration faces p. 125.

(Dated ‘Jan[ua]ry [blank] 1775’. Docketed ‘Jan[ua]r[y] 21 | 1775’.)