Table of contents at end of manuscript.

On title page: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Vol. 4. Thomas Binns Liverpool 1799.

Binding: half calf over marbled boards. In gilt on spine: Miscellaneous Manuscripts 4.

In English.

Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 100 primarily elegiac or sentimental poems. Such poems include On the premature death of a child; The remembrance; and Elegy on a grandmother; poets represented in the collection include William Cowper, Erasmus Darwin, William Roscoe, Thomas Warton, Thomas Gray, Mary Knowles, and especially Robert Burns.

The volume also contains some non-poetical material, such as tables of census figures in England and Wales; a chart listing the distances between American post towns from Wiscasset to Sunbury; tables of distances on the American post roads; and a prose riddle by Charles James Fox.

Demographic surveys > Great Britain.

English poetry > 18th century.

Postal service > United States > History.