| Description | Collection of poems written in different hands, viz. 'An ode wrote by Col: Mordaunnt in Germany' posted to Edward Willes at Newbold, two poems on the Earl of Warwick sent to Revd Willes at Newbold by Jos. Davie from Trinity College, Oxford in 1785, "An Answer to Lord Byron's 'Fare Thee Well' " written from the point of view of Lady Byron, "The [Atheistical?] Suicide's Spirit" dated 1809, a sheet containing two unnamed poems one on the death of a child and the other 'To my father', a sheet containing poems "To Health", "To Sickness" and a sonnet on sickness, a joking epitaph to "My deceased muse"; a poetical description of a monument to Caroline Guesley and a copy of the inscription on her tomb, an addenda to essays on religion and a sheet containing rough copies of poems. |