Manuscript collection of songs and poems in a notebook belonging to Laura Russell Howell.
Includes the following songs and poems:
1) 'I cannot stain this snowy leaf...', page 1;
2) 'Pope’s Ode to Happiness', page 3;
3) 'Bright in the mountain’s healthy slope...', page 5;
4) 'Ginny's Night Thoughts', page 7;
5) 'Riddles', page 9;
6) 'Tribulation' by George Wither, page 11;
7) 'Iliad 21.106, 107 on the death of Patroclus' written in Greek, page 12
8) 'The songs we sang at Girton' by C Maynard, 1876, page 14;
9) 'Gaudeamus', page 15
10) 'Girton my Friend' by E Welsh, page 17;
11) 'A white sheet' by E Welsh, page 23
12) 'The Girton Pioneers', page 27;
13) 'Ye Questionists' by E Welsh, page 31;
14) 'Ye Gracious Senate', page 33
15) 'Lament of a Graduate leaving Girton', page 37;
16) 'The College Over' by E Welsh, page 39;
17) 'A song of Degrees' by E Shore Smith, page 43;
18) 'Maids of Girton' by M M Anelay, page 47;
19) 'Farewell Song', page 51;
20) 'Intercollegiate song’ by E Welsh of Girton and A Bulley of Newnham College, page 55;
21) 'Auld Lang Syne', p 63
22) 'Prize Song February 24 1887' by J Wilson, page 67;
23) 'Old Father Cambridge' by E M Leonard, page 71.