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Manuscript volume, mainly of poetry, riddles and word puzzles, 1773, 1800-1801. Some of the verses have theatrical associations and include To David Garrick esq. Upon Meeting him at Mr Rigby 's House in the Country by C. Austen and Garrick 's Answer; a dramatic poem, Prologue for Venice Preserved by Richard Cumberland, Epilogue to Venice Preserved by William Hanbury and a further Epilogue by Cumberland, performed at Kelmarsh, 1773. Other works comprise a memorial to Rev. Samuel Love, a minor canon of Bristol Cathedral, 1773, and his lines to a robin residing in the cathedral; a copy of Beddgelert [by William Robert Spencer], dated at Dolymelynllyn, 1800; and poems written at Porkington by John Kynaston, 1801. The volume also contains a copy of the retort of George Nugent Reynolds, former justice for Leitrim, to the Earl of Clare, following his dismissal from the Commission of the Peace.

Manuscript volume belonging to L.M. Gore, containing elegies, odes, epitaphs, French chansons, other songs, popular rhymes and prose compositions on generally on romantic or bucolic themes, and on the Napoleonic Wars, 1785-1807. They include unpublished Lines by Mrs [Frances] Grevelle; a eulogy of Isaac Corry by Mrs [Henrietta] O 'Neill; To_'Fanny farewell...' by William Gore; copies of published works by Sir Brooke Boothby, William Cowper, Wentworth Dillon, Samuel Johnson, George Lewis, Richard Mant, Thomas Moore, Dr Thomas Percy, Mary Darby Robinson, 1788, William Roscoe, R. B. Sheridan, Thomas Sheridan, and Esther Vanhomrigh. Other titles comprise Inscription on the Cave in the Wood at Barrrowmount, 1786, To a Favorite Sister on her Birthday by 'An Etonian' [William Gore], To Eliza Gore with a Bouquet, 1797, To Capt William Gore Leaving Ireland, 1805, The Tears of the Cruets on Taxing Vinegar and Salt, 1805, and several other anonymous or unidentified works. Many other items in the volume are associated with the theatre and personalities such as David Garrick, Mrs O 'Neill of Shanes Castle, 1785, Madam Mara, 1795, Mrs Jordan at Drury Lane, 1798, George Baker, 1803, [George] Colman, Thomas Dibdin, 1803, and Robert Elliston, 1804; there is also a prelude to a children 's play, The Desert Island; and Prelude by Richard Cumberland upon Nelson 's death, 1805.