Contains the following items:
Buy a Broom, words by IR Planche, music by Henry [Rowley] Bishop [(1786-1855), composer of music to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and Professor of Harmony and Composition at the Royal Academy of Music] (2nd edition, [1830], Goulding & D'Almaine);
Ten songs English, Italian and French, composed by Mrs Battye (published for the Royal Harmonic Institution by Welsh & Hawes). Initialled 'JLB';
'The Joys of Home' and 'The Maiden and the Flower' from Melodies with English words, by W McGregor Logan and Carl Maria von Weber [1786-1826] (Preston);
'The Wedding Day's Return', from Freischutz [first performed, 1821], by W McGregor Logan and Carl Maria von Weber, arranged by IF Danneley (Preston);
There be none of Beauty's daughters, words by Lord Byron [1788-1824], music by Philip Knapton [1788-1833] ([?1818] Chappell & Co);
'Should he upbraid', from Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, music by Henry R Bishop ([?1825], Goulding, D'Almaine & Co). Manuscript annotations 'Miss King, Nov 18, a tribute of regard from her sister';
Isabel! words by Thomas Bayley, music by Henry R Bishop ([?1830], Goulding, D'Almaine & Co);
'Are you angry mother?' from Aladdin, music by Henry R Bishop ([1830] Goulding & D'Almaine);
'Oh! no, we never mention her' from the 3rd vol of Bayly's Melodies of Various Nations, music by Henry R Bishop ([1825], Goulding & D'Almaine);
O'er the valley, o'er the mountain, words by G Darley, music by CE Horn (Willis & Co, London & Dublin);
Cherry Ripe, music by CE Horn ([mid 1820s], Willis & Co, London & Dublin);
Where the Bee Sucks, adapted for two voices by the Rt Hon RG (Goulding & Co, London & Dublin);
The Convent Maid, music by John Parry ([written post 1814], Preston);
My Heart & Lute by Thomas Moore (Power);
'The Light Guitar' from the comic drama Epaulette by John Barnett [1802-90], (4th edition with warning against plagiarism, Mayhew & Co);
Yes! I will leave the festive scene, composed in answer to 'The Light Guitar', by John Barnett ([c.1827], Mayhew & Co);
Time has not Thinn'd, words by Hammond, music by William Jackson (Chappell & Co);
'The Rose of the Valley' from The Invisible Ring by W Reeve (Birchall & Co);
Love & The Sensitive Plant by J Ross (Preston);
'Once I heard a playful lay' from Matrimony by W Ball (Preston);
The Moon's on the Lake, the celebrated song of the MacGregor's Gathering, words by Walter Scott, music by Alexander Lee ([c.1825], Mayhew & Co);
The Merry Pipes are Sounding, a Highland air set to music by Joseph Hart (Mayhew & Co);
Wandering Willie, words by Robert Burns, music by Samuel Smith (Preston);
My Heart is Sair For Somebody, a Scottish ballad set to music by JT Craven ([c.1825] Preston);
'Three Favourite Scotch Songs' from the opera Rob Roy MacGregor (C Wheatstone);
Blue Bonnets Over the Border, an old Scotch air (G Walker);
'The Campbells are Coming' from Rob Roy, Roy's Wife of Alldivaloch and There's Nae Luck About the House (George Shade);
Forsake you I shall never by William Rogers (Preston);
And ye shall walk in silk attire or The Silver Crown, an old Scotch song (Preston);
Amour et Gloire by Felix Blangini (Rutter & McCarthy).