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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 They include unpublished Lines by Mrs [Frances] Grevelle; a eulogy of Isaac Corry by Mrs [Henrietta] O 'Neill; To_'Fanny farewell...'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.

Manuscript poems and songs, both loose and in small pamphlets, dated between 1794 and 1850, many of which are concerned with Irish life and politics. They include a Funny Club compiled from Irish society (Watermark 1794); Poems for Various Occasions and other verses by William Gore, 1796-1797; an allegorical song on the local mounted militia at Ballinamore (Watermark 1801); items relating to the life and death of George Nugent Reynolds; The Meeting of Eating and Drinking, a parody of Thomas Moore 's Meeting of the Waters; The Counterfeit Presentment of 3 Surgeons, (Watermark 1803); the death-bed prayer of Jane Harriet Gore, 1810; The Burning of Moscow probably by Ralph Gore; verses to William Ormsby-Gore MP referring to him as a champion of women, 1850; known published works; and verses by unidentified authors. Further poems describe travels in Africa, the marriage of a black man and woman in the Northampton Regiment quartered at Carrick-on-Shannon; the attempted assassination of George III [1800]; a coach journey from Bath; and translations of Spanish lyric poems.