Item 12.18 - Notebook entitled 'Miscellanea Metrica' kept by John Wordsworth and later used by Christopher Wordsworth

1 vol., c. 217 x 167 x 27 mm. Original pagination from front: pp. 121. Book also used from back in: ff. 1-147 (modern foliation), loose sheet pasted to f. 49

Printed pamphlet, 16 pp., loose at back.

Notes in Latin on classical metre by John Wordsworth at the front of the book. Pencil note to self at back of book: 'Miscellanea Metrica - begin only at the other end'.

Pencil note below this in unknown hand: '(J. W.'s hand). What follows at this end seems to have been written by Chr. Wordsworth in 1843 partly at Harrow'. The majority of the book is taken up by miscellaneous notes by Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885). A privately printed pamphlet entitled 'Observations on certain Questions arising from Chapter XLI of the Statutes of Trinity College, Cambridge, printed by W. Nicol, 60, Pall Mall' is loose at the back of the volume, and there are numerous pages of notes on the topics it contains: 'Whether the Head of House, being an Elector, is eligible to the Professorship', and 'Whether the Head of a House being an Elector, can vote for himself', perhaps evidence that Christopher Wordsworth is the writer of the anonymous pamphlet.

Other material includes biblical notes in Latin, drafts of addresses (some relating to Harrow School), draft letters dated 1843, biblical and classical references etc.

• Ancient Greek
• English
• Latin