Commonplace book,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

Reference
- GB 210 NLW MS 21786E.
Alternative Id.
Dates of Creation
- 1818-[c. 1828] /
Name of Creator
- Frederick North and others.
Language of Material
- English French Latin German Italian Dutch English, French, Latin, German, Italian, Dutch.
Physical Description
- ii, 182 ff. (paginated 1-364; blank from p. 72) ; 325 x 200 mm. Bound in diced russia with gold tooling.
Location
- ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Commonplace book, 1818-[c. 1828], mainly in English with portions in French, Latin, German, Italian and Dutch. The volume contains facetious 'Resolutions for the Preservation of regularity at Shanes Castle during the meeting for the Performance of Cymbeline' by Frederick, Lord North, 1786 (pp. 1-2) (cf. NLW MS 11167B); miscellaneous poems including an apparently unpublished poem by Byron, 'On a Lock of Hair', commencing 'Swear not at all, but if thou must' (p. 13), another two of his poems (pp. 13, 24), poems by R. B. Sheridan (pp. 5, 7, 14) and a number of rhymes by 'Mr. Cowper' [?William Cowper] (pp. 3-4); a famous sermon on malt attributed to Dr John Dod (pp. 8-9); and humorous letters, epigrams, epitaphs, anagrams and charades including two composed by Charles James Fox (pp. 25, 28) and four composed by Professor [Richard] Porson (pp. 28-9, 31, 69). The answers to the anagrams and charades are in Greek orthography written in reverse.

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Acquisition Information

David E. Hughes; Llandudno; Donation (with NLW MS 21785B); 1982

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 21786E.

Other Finding Aids

The contents of NLW MSS 21701-22852 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 8 (Aberystwyth, 1999).