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 They include unpublished Lines by Mrs [Frances] Grevelle; a eulogy of Isaac Corry by Mrs [Henrietta] O 'Neill; To_'Fanny farewell...'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

Volume apparently belonging to Owen Ormsby [pre-1804], containing copies of published poems and letters by Alexander Pope, Abraham Cowley, John Dryden, George Lyttelton and Thomas Parnell; A Recipe for the Vapours by Lord Lansdowne; letters by Countess Castelli to Baroness Treville concerning their friendship, a journey to Paris, Parisian society, fashion and etiquette, and the courtship of the Count de Castelli; other letters by unidentified authors on the subjects of romantic attraction, women and marriage; elegies on the poet 's emotional sensitivity and on separation from 'Celia'.

Exercise book of George Gore (aged 13), 1868, entitled Fairy Tales, containing a story, The Poor Man and his Sons Luck, with an exercise in gothic lettering at the back.

Two manuscripts of a play entitled Valerie, one version in three acts, the other in five acts (Watermarks 1811-1812).

A file of papers concerned with religious subjects which appear to date from the early seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth century. They include sermons; notes of sermons preached by [Thomas] Gatacre, [George] Carew, [Edward] Bentham and others; prayers and reflections on religious matters by Jane Owen [1669x1732]; considerations on appropriate attitudes to death, sin and sickness; arguments of John Frith the martyr; prayers entitled Prayers Out of Ye Christian Life; an essay on Daniel 's vision of the ram and the goat; notes on chapters of the Bible and the interpretation of various theological ideas; and extracts from the works of Bishop [Thomas] Newton.

Accounts of mysterious fires and the deaths of cattle and other farm animals in Merionethshire from an unknown disease [c. 1693]; a copy of Edward Lhuyd 's Parochial Queries [c. 1697]; notes on how the plague spread to Britain [18 cent., first quarter]; and a list of mountains and hills in North Wales and Shropshire, showing their heights in feet [19 cent., first half].

Various undated academic exercises in English and Latin, which appear to date from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Some are based on imaginary scenarios, namely an address to King Malcolm III of Scotland, speculative letters by Henry Harris to Oxford University tutors and the attempted rescue of the Earl of Desmond from the Tower of London, involving a consultation with Dr John Dee. Also included are an essay written from memory after a lecture on the history of Odonoghue, king of Kerry (Watermark 1806); notes on European alphabets, poetry and mythology; and an English translation of Undine, 1836.

Notebook in the hand of Margaret Owen of Penrhos, inscribed 'the Gift of Henry Thrale, Esqr. Streatham', containing mainly anecdotes concerning Mrs Thrale [later Mrs Piozzi], Samuel Johnson, Samuel Pepys, Albert Nesbitt, Charles Burney, Oliver Goldsmith, Handel and others, 1776.

Manuscript catalogue of plays in the collection at Brogyntyn compiled by William Ormsby Gore, dated February 24, 1815, which has a double arrangement. The first part has the plays alphabetically arranged. The second part has the list of authors with the productions of each.

Manuscript ‘Catalogue of Old Plays’ in the collection at Brogyntyn [?c. 1815], which has a double arrangement. The first part has the Plays alphabetically arranged. The second part has the list of authors with the productions of each