Add MS 51514

(1) Verses by C. J. Fox (partly autograph) and others, including some written in his honour; 1762-1806, undated. English, Greek, French and Italian. ff. 1-63. The contents include:- (a) Copies of verses written by C. J. Fox at Eton, which also appear in Add MS 51512 A, ff. 9b-10, 18b-19; 1762 etc. ff. 1-6. (b) Copies of verses in Italian, most of which also appear in Add MS 47577, ff. 89-104. ff. 24-41. Included are (i) two epitaphs on dogs (cf. art.(c) below). ff. 24-26;- (ii) versions of the poem 'Come, O Dei! il dolce Amore', by C. J. Fox, printed in M. G. Lewis, Poems (1812), pp. 17-18. ff. 28, 29;- (iii) 'Canzonetta' and 'Arietta' by C. J. Fox, other copies of which appear in Add MS 51513, ff. 4, 5. ff. 30, 31;- (iv) lines on 'Pleasure and Desire', by C. J. Fox, the original MS. of which is at Art. (d) below. ff. 31, 32. (c) 'Epitaffio', in Italian, on two dogs, in the hand of Serafino Buonaiuti, being a version of the first epitaph in Art. (b)(i) above. f. 44. (d) Italian translation by C. J. Fox of 'Pleasure and Desire' by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in the latter's Poems (1812), pp. 15-16. Autograph, with an endorsement (f. 47b) by Lewis. Another copy is at Art. (b)(iv) above. ff. 46, 47. (e) Copies of lines by C. J. Fox to his wife, 'How can I at ought repine', another copy of which appears in Add MS 51513, f. 3. ff. 53, 54. (2) Notes on Homer's use of the digamma made by C. J. Fox in connexion with his letters to the Rev. Gilbert Wakefield, 1796-1801, which are now in Add MS 47576, ff. 73-150b (see the note by Gen. Charles Richard Fox at ff. 64-65). ff. 66-71. (3) Notes, in several hands, on Italian paintings, etc.; undated. ff. 72-84.

Includes correspondence and papers of:

Serafino Buonaiuti

Jeffery Ekins

General Honorary Richard Fitzpatrick

Honorary Charles James Fox

Elizabeth Bridget Fox formerly Armistead

Henry Fox

Matthew Gregory Lewis

Henrietta O'Neill née Boyle

Henry Richard Vassall Fox