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Commonplace book containing original and transcribed eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English verse and prose, including references to several theatrical performances.
c.1775-1810
Contains 103 English poems from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, together with some prose pieces and excerpts from dramatic works of the time.
Love and duty reconcil'd, a play.
c.1730-1740
Comprises an anonymous verse drama, perhaps for an amateur country-house production of around the 1730s or 1740s. Its characters include Sir James Lovesworth, Lord Alcidor, Theanor, Sir Charles, Colon...
Collection of poems and songs, most of them apparently by Frederick Forrest or Theodosius Forrest, together with a play, a list of books from a library, and cuttings of published poems
Forrest, Frederick
c.1751-1800
Following three blank leaves, contents are f.4r-v: poem, 'Merit advanced, inscribed to Fredk. Forrest Esq.' signed 'T.S.' or 'T.F.' (perhaps Theodosius Forrest); ff.5r-46r (versos blank): 'The country...