| Description | Including: Miss Metcalfe to Miss Cotton, giving an account of the masquerade at Soho in 1770; Miss Metcalfe to Miss Cotton with account of poet lawyer; Miss Savage, Anne Cotton and Reverend Bennet to Reverend John Affleck, inviting him to Madingley; Anne Cotton and Fanny Pemberton to Miss Savage, in the cryptic manner of Swift; Miss Savage's replies (in prose); Miss Savage to Miss Cotton, August 1720; Miss Cotton, Anne Cotton and Fanny Pemberton to Pemberton, with story of ram; Same to Miss Houblon, recounting reception of lions at Madingley, September 1770; A song by Miss Cotton to Fanny Pemberton, October 1770; Miss Houblon to Mr John Houblon, with account of escape from press gang; Miss Metcalfe to the fireside at Madingley, December 1720; Miss Cotton, Anne Cotton to Mr C. Cotton recounting party at the lions, March 1771; Miss Cotton's commentation upon Mr Hume's marriage with Miss Egerton, by Miss Savage, April 1771; Introduction to a love letter addressed to Sophia Pemberton by Miss Cotton and Miss Metcalfe, January 1772; To Mr --- --- sent with a pair of mourning buckles, by Miss Cotton and Anne Cotton, March 1772; A ballad by Miss Cotton, Miss Metcalfe and Mr Bennet sent to James Hallet[t], esquire, upon his refusing to give the bacon flitch when demanded of him as lord of the Manor of Dunmow, July 1772; Sophia Pemberton to Thomas Pemberton then at Harrow School, September 1772 or 1773; Upon three young ladies mistaking Venus for a Comet, by Reverend Pemberton, 1772 or 1773. Also inserted in the volume are a poem to Miss Linley, a poem Upon Potton Wood, 1809, and a memorandum of the family of Count Einsiedel of Lusatia [circa 1780]. |