A collection of verses collated by Katherine Gertrude Robinson.
Detailed Summary:
The papers include:
1. Epilogue spoken after Cupid’s Care, a masque, & the Village Lawyer at (?)Bockhampton: 13 April 1779
2. Chanson faite a Chanteloupe chex M le Duc de Choiseul en 1775 par M de Lille pendant le Ministere de M Turgot
3. Verses by Miss Price on the performance of a Tragedy of the Earl of WArwick, and the Musical Entertainment on Cymon, acted by a party of young ladies at Mr Harris’s in the Close, Salisbury: Nov 1776
4. Mr Jekil on Mr Poore
5. ‘Where Ouze rolls on his swelling tide…’
6. Riddles
7. A heroic charade addressed to H.P. Wyndham Esq
8. The Tear
9. ‘When passions, ungovern’d by reason and art…’
10. The third ode of Anacreon, on Love
11. Verses written by Mr Canning and supposed to be addressed by Lord Boringdon to Lord Granville Leveson: 1790 or 1791
12. Elegy on Billy [corrected to Bidby] Topham, an old superannuated gardener [from Kirby Hall]
13. The 12th of August
14. Fable addressed to my sister, by Louisa M Harris
15. 4 lines on Burke and Ireland, where nature ‘spar’d her venom till she formed a Burke’
16. ‘La noble Caliope…’
17. ‘ROC’ [?Richard Owen Cambridge]: ‘While Olroyd may dream of her beautiful bottom…’ and ‘How drawn by Scotch rebels…’
18. On the modern stile of dress in the years 1794-5, being a parody on Shepherd I have lost my love etc
19. ‘Immitation of Shakespear by Mr Cambridge 1796’: ‘There is a honey moon in things of taste…’
20. To the memory of the Hon Henry Pelham, and of his sister the Rt Hon Lady Sheffield: 16 and 18 Jan 1797
21. My mother
22. How dye do and good bye, by Mr W Spencer
23. ‘A Countess well-known for her treats and her trickings’, preceded by account of background
24. Puns etc on Buonaparte: 1808
25. By Mr William Spencer to Lady [missing] on quitting [ ] Hall
26. Old Rose’s vow to God
27. Lines on the death of Nelson, by the Duke of Devonshire, addressed to Hon Mrs Robinson
28. French verses: Paeodie, and Par Voltaire
29. Toast given on the new administration after Pitt’s death, 1806, and other anecdotes
30. Short paraphrases of a long speech
31. Wife, children and friends, by Mr R Spencer
32. The Lawyer and the Archbishop of Canterbury, being an excellent song to the tune of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury by Walter S[ ]
33. Lines written by Mr Jekyll: ‘I vow to God quoth old George Rose …’
34. Lines written by Capt Morris on the Prince of Wales leaving Lady Salisbury whom he engaged to dance with and taking out the Duchess of Devonshire; also the Nursery of Love; and The Doctor’s Administration
35. Mr Canning’s versification of Mr Whitbread’s speech at Lord Melville’s trial: 1506
36. Games at St Stephen’s Chapel [formation of the Ministry of the Talents after Pitt’s death]
37. Lord Castlereagh and Sir William Curtis