Riddles, epitaphs, lighthearted poetry and other writings, together with the envelope in which they were transferred. Comprises:
- 'W.E.G's thoughts, or Soliloquy in Truro', a poem beginning 'We near the place I once did love'. Undated, 1 sheet;
- Tabulated naval career of Lieutenant C[harles] Okes, Naval Knight, covering 17 October 1800-May 1814. Further details on his life 1814-1860 are given in text format, including his period of residence with his brother Richard Okes at Eton December 1829-December 1830. Undated, 1 sheet;
- Draft [address to the University about elections] in Latin. (Written on the back of a notice of an upcoming meeting of the Board of Commissioners for the execution of the Cambridge Improvement Acts, to be held at the Cambridge Guildhall on 8 July 1851). [1851], 1 sheet;
- A letter to 'Wilder', probably not in Okes' hand, describing family life, travel, theatre, and friends of mutual acquaintance. First page is torn in half. 17 January 1859, 3 sheets;
- Eight line poem upon the marriage of Sir William Vernon Harcourt. [1859], 1 sheet;
- Four separate entries in 2 hands 'On the discussion concerning the Title for Cam. Middle Class', poem beginning 'What a fuss about asses and classes we make'. Initialled R.O. 10 March 1860; 'A Case of Hum Drum', poem beginning 'The Volunteer Bandsmen had promised to play'. Initialled R.O. 9 June 1860; 'Epitaph Composed on King's Bridge', poem beginning 'O'er earthly lights & sounds a change must come'. Initialled W.G.C. 31 October 1863; 'The following words may be supposed to have been spoken by the Clergyman after he had consigned to burial in the snow of the mountain the remains of the travellers killed by falling from the sides of the Matterhorn in Switzerland', poem beginning 'Sleep the long sleep thus shrouded in the snow'. Initialled R.O. Undated. 1 sheet;
- 'Another Riddle', beginning 'If Charity begins at home,/As worldly mortals teach'. Initialled R.O. 19 September 1862, 2 sheets affixed as one;
- 'To Anon', a riddle beginning 'May C.J.E. your *first* discover'. Initialled R.O. 11 May 1865, 1 sheet;
- 'A cup of *cold water* only', poem beginning 'Sweet is the water from the crystal spring'. Initialled R.O. 18 September 1867, 1 sheet;
- Riddle beginning 'Take out my middle and invert it'. (Written on the back of a published page from Dods Parliamentary Companion for 1869.) 21 March 1869, 2 sheets affixed as one;
- Note detailing the removal of an Eton boy from 'Mr. Holt's house' and his accommodation with 'Mrs. Angelo', followed by lines in Latin composed on the occasion by 'Mr. Knapp' together with a translation. Probably contemporary with five paragraphs in Latin on the same type of paper, entitled 'Die Wythamiae feliciter acto Hospes Hospiti' which are initialled R.O and dated 13 August 1870, 2 sheets;
- 'In Memoriam', epitaph beginning 'Wake thee, sad Mother, from thy dream of woe'. The deceased is Tom Berney Ficklin, Sub-Lieutenant on the H.M.S. 'Active' who died of fever at Accroful and is buried 'under a palm tree within the fortress of Cape Coast Castle'. Initialled by R.O. February 1874, 1 sheet;
- Two poems on the topic of examinations at Girton. One begins 'F Whitting, as perhaps you know/Examines for the "little-go" ' and the other begins 'The Provost lately wrote some rhymes'. 13 December 1875, 2 sheets;
- Untitled poem beginning 'Professor Stokes, the papers say/Will be examined by the Tay'. Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819-1903) was an expert witness at the Board of Inquiry into the collapse of the Tay Bridge. 24 April 1880, 1 sheet;
- Two poems about the 1880 election (Gladstone's second victory), one entitled 'Three Statesmen etc.' beginning 'Three Statesmen of three different metals wrought' and the other entitled ' "Lex Talionis", an "Election Tale" ' and beginning 'To Oxford H??st brought a Lawyer friend'. April-May 1880, 2 sheet;
- 'In Memoriam', two copies of an epitaph for Edward O.H. Wilkinson, Lieut. in the 60th Rifles who died 9 February 1881. Begins 'Roll on, relentless river, little heeding'. (One copy is written on the back of a page of 'English Essay IV', on the subject of Hunting, by F.J. Tuck.) 13 February 1881, 2 sheets;
- Celebratory lines on a victory in battle, beginning 'Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!/The battle is done, the Downay has won'. 25 January 1882, 1 sheet;
- Draft letter from Okes to Sir Francis [Hastings Doyle] about Doyle's book and correcting the report therein of an event that occurred at Eton 'in my stable yard adjoining Trotman's garden' involving Gaskell, Gladstone, Hallam, Doyle, Pickering and the Catholic Relief Bill which he claims Francis had misunderstood. (14 October 1886), and letter from F[rances] H[astings] Doyle (1810-88) with envelope, postmarked 5-6 November 1886, in which Doyle was sending a second edition of his book. 3 sheets and 1 envelope.