Quatrain: -ink text on paper -loose -9.1 x 7.2 cm -[text] 'Merry(?) by(?) out thy say(?) / or why(?) offered but Sorrow / Thy joys thy was come but a day / Thy self a dream tomorrow'
Lithograph = James Burton, Excerpta hieroglyphica ([1825-1828]) (OEB 135978), plate IV; two hieroglyphic texts of Khnemibre, temp. Darius I, in the Wadi Hammamat, Eastern Desert (TopBib vii.335):
monochrome lithograph
loose
28.0 x 20.8 cm
[on lithograph] 'TABLETS IN THE COSSEIR [ROAD] / PLATE IV / No 1 / No 2' (printed notes, most almost totally faded)
pencil and watercolour (blue, pink, brown) drawing on paper, with sketched musical instrument, wings and left hand, with pricked marks for pouncing technique
'My Lord Duke I inclose according to your request the three italian drawings and three 2 modifications of three designs as well as / and one as a substitute for the arched chimney piece a drawing of the chimney piece at Syon with its modification. If your Grace approves of Syon modification and you / of any of them(?) the working the working drawings could be made either here or in Rome from / the sketches sufficiently indicate the design / the small drawings desire to send to Italy a cast of the / the details
new(?) figure of the boy and the mouldings I would be undertake superintending the casting of the boy and the mouldings'
Letter (continuation): -ink text on paper -loose -11.5 x 18.5 cm -[text] 'the reverse is the figure of the Apteryx and a Wreath to be composed of the plants indigenous to the country.'
[text]: '... good meat and (?) (?) ... wise the day before their ... [ex]cellent cold roast beef whether ...arked difference in the quality ...(?) (?) (?) a letter (?)'