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Intermingled mix of manuscript and typescript narratives relating to the ancient stories of Ireland, including incomplete typescript introductions to the subject and a manuscript version of one of these; typescript version of ‘Oisin of Tir na Nog’; incomplete manuscript versions of ‘The Children of Lir; and typescript poems ‘Lament of Deirdre for the Sons of Usnagh’ and ‘Fionnuala’s Lament over Sidhe Finnagha.’ Intermixed with and partly incorporated into the notes are drafts of poems by Reynolds inspired by these legends. In two folders.

Typescript document of German origin entitled ‘Four Kildare-Poems’, containing the poems ‘Hymn’ by Michael Kildare; ‘The Land of Cokaygne’; ‘Satire (on the People of Kildare)’; and ‘A Lullaby’, all written in Old English, and mostly extracted from vol. 2 of Thomas Wright’s Reliquiae Antiquae (1841). Paginated.

Photocopy of ‘St Gobnet of Ballyvourney’ by D. Ó hÉaluighthe, published in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society vol. LVII (1952), pp. 43-61.

Softback drafting book containing extracts in the Italian language from Antonio Viscardi’s book Francesco Petrarca e il Medio Evo [1925]. Also contained in the book are drafts of a letter to the editor of the Irish Times relating to a Mr Fennel’s views on Sweden and the alleged atheism of the Swedish people.

Fragments of text relating to John Donne.

Page of manuscript notes on Robert Herrick, but possibly forming part of a longer narrative.

Page of manuscript notes on Ben Jonson, but possibly forming a part of a longer narrative.

Page of notes relating to Shakespeare and the writing of his play Richard III.

Handwritten notes entitled ‘Tudor Pioneers’, dealing in the main with the sonnets of Thomas Wyatt. Also notes relating to printed anthologies of English poetry published in the 16th century; and notes on Book II of The Golden Treasury [four volumes of poems selected by Francis Turner Palgrave].

Notes on Edmund Burke, originally part of a longer narrative but lacking first pages.