The collection includes:
1. Lise, conte de Voltaire, 1772
2. La Tactique, vers par Voltaire, 1773
3. Prologue spoken by Louisa Harris, c.1776 [see G1140/2 for copy in her father’s papers]
4. Verses with present of a knife
5. Epitre a Mlle de Knesebeck, by Frederick the Great of Prussia, 1779
6. Chanson par M le Chevalier de Lisle, 1779
7. Song sung to the Empress Catherine II by Mr la Keriviere[?], 1780
8. A Justine: Marquis de Verac to his daughter Mme de la Lisle, 1786
9. A new Ballad by Lord Carmarthen, Secretary of State [on the ennobling of 1st Earl], 1788 [printed from a newspaper]
10. ‘While Britain, roused by Gallia’s frantick pride ….’, spoken by Dawkins at Oxford, 1792, made by Canning
11. Unnecessary lamentations, by Mr Bull of Northcourt, Isle of Wight, 1799
12. On Lord Temple[‘s] Lodge between Alresford and Winchester, and Lord Palmerston at Broadlands, [comparing the buildings], 1799
14. The Political Reptile, from Cobbett’s Register, 1805
15. Epitaph on Haugwin, 1806
18. Lord Castlereagh and Sir William Curtis: parody of Bloack eyed Susan by Mr Dent
20. I Tamigi, by Leucippo Egineo (Italian, printed) with note to 1st Earl from author, ‘an old friend of His Lordship’s Reverend Father, whose instructive works he now reperuses’, 1809
21. Lady Lavington to the Ladies Three, 1810
24. Mrs M Carter to the ‘dearest Lord’, 1812
25-26. Two verses attacking Lady Emma Hamilton: ‘I’ll cheer up my lads and forget all my grief / For your hero’s my slave & I am your chief ….’; and ‘Also hige Emma’s name / First in the roll of shame / Loud let us sing …’
27. Lines addressed to Mr Dowman when Lady Clarges was sitting to him for her picture, designed to be presented to the author (Mr Bull of North Court, Isle of Wight)
28. Easter task, Harris: translation of Isiah 34 into Latin verse
29. Epilogue, Author and Friend: Mr T Robinson and Mr Harris, written by R Own Cambridge (refers to Jacobins and the guillotine)
30. Prologue spoken by Lord Grantham, written by Mr Harris
31. Epilogue spoken by Harris minor, written by Lady Mary Fordyce
32. Reponse de My Lady Montaigu a un homme qui lui reprochait son insensibilite, by Mr Guibert
34. La Petite Curieuse: comte par la Princesse Lignonsky
35. Vaudeville: vers faits par Mme Schnerin a l’occasion de la visite du Prince Henry a Tridenchstledt[?]
41. ‘I do remember an Apothecary …’, written by Revd Mr Madan, Rector of Birmingham
47. Epitaph for the present King of Prussia imagined in a dream [in Latin]
49. Epitre a Nonon, par M le Comte de Schouwalow (printed)